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- Title
Socializing Our MBAs: Total Immersion? Managed Cultures? Brainwashing?
- Authors
Leavitt, Harold J.
- Abstract
The article discusses several different approaches taken to the socialization of business education, focusing primarily on the Management of Business Administration (MBA) degree. Most MBA faculty and administrators don't have much concern for the attitudes, beliefs, and values that students are learning and taking with them in their management careers. The article presents a discussion on the intellectual issues related to teaching principles and methods. Although it is the function of educators to discover better ways to manage and teach those ways to their students, they are also responsible for encouraging imagination and autonomous individuality. The author notes that more intense educational efforts are required in the areas of "inner directedness" and "other orientation." The themes of individualism vs. collectivism and freedom vs. control are discussed.
- Subjects
MASTER of business administration degree; BUSINESS education; SOCIALIZATION; TEACHER attitudes; GRADUATE study in education; GRADUATE education; SOCIAL learning; VALUES (Ethics); BUSINESS teachers; INDIVIDUALISM; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology); BUSINESS students; AUTONOMY (Psychology)
- Publication
California Management Review, 1991, Vol 33, Issue 4, p127
- ISSN
0008-1256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/41166677