philosophies of teaching

• Erroneous Learning From the West? A Narrative Analysis of Chinese Mba Cases Published in 1992, 1999 and 2003

The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented transfer of Western management education theories and pedagogies into China and most Chinese MBA programs are now being modeled on their Western counterparts. To gauge the impact of this infusion of Western methods and theories on China's management educational system, this paper has conducted a narrative analysis of Chinese MBA teaching cases published before and after this transfer. The holistic approach to management, prevalent in early Chinese MBA cases and typical of traditional Chinese culture, has largely disappeared and Chinese cases now exhibit many of the same weaknesses and deficiencies that have been documented in Harvard Business School cases.

... the case method puts it, management "philosophies" (Shapiro 1984). To truthfully present the "real b...

• Management International Review
• Band 48 Nr. 5, September 2008

• Work Experience, Work Stress and Hrm at the University**

The aim of this study is to investigate: 1. the well-being (job stress and job dissatisfaction) of academic staff at the University of Antwerp, 2. the specific factors of the work environment who have an impact on employee well-being, and 3. the interaction between HR practices and employee well-being. Suggestions of improvement of the work environment are to be formulated. In order to meet this purpose, a conceptual model was designed, based on the stress model developed in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) (University of Michigan), and on the HR-model of Peccei (2004). The elements most likely to cause job stress, according to the participants, were workload and time pressures, uncertainty, lack of feedback and social support. Further, it appeared that the HR-related job charact...

... by the introduction of market-driven philosophies and growing government interest and intervention i... - different research projects, teaching and service - is the main reason why they experien...

• Management Revue
• Band 17 Nr. 3, Juli 2006

• Management Culture in Romania: Patterns of Change and Resistance

This study examines how far restructuring has involved a change in leadership style and the development of new philosophies and approaches which derive from the Anglo-American model of 'people management'. During the Communist period, Romania experienced a highly centralised system of management. Broader currents of historical and political culture also served to inculcate values of bureaucratic formalism. In transitional times it appears that the management role is being re-defined and management culture is changing. This article seeks to understand these changes in the culture and identity of Romanian management by examining experience in a range of organisations. It also considers how far Anglo-American values of HRM and managing are relevant to a country where the wider cultural and...

... evolved from the authors' involvement in teaching on a management development programme for middle a...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 12 Nr. 3, Januar 2007