of postgraduate education in the
development of managerial competence and
potential. Their core thesis is that
historically at least, management education
and development has been broadly focussed
on academic provision referring in large part
to academically defined and academically
derived organisational issues. Conversely,
they argue that fewer attempts have been
made to focus on managerially defined and
managerially derived issues and concerns. In
this respect they urge an examination of
what is taught, who teaches, what pedagogy
is employed and, perhaps most significantly
of all, what is learned and how it is evaluated.
In terms of what is taught, they proffer that it
may well be limited simply by what skills and
knowledge are available in the business
school and how discipline focussed they are.
Teachers and demonstrators in business
schools are often career academics