For many professional doctorates, especially in the business and management domain, the epistemological focus is on work-based learning, in particular, that there be recognition that learning can be acquired in the midst of practice and dedicated to addressing the problem at hand through...

There appears to be a need to jump-start ethical inquiry in organizational culture, and the engine to do so may well be reflection. Reflection is the fundamental key that unlocks theory from practice in the work setting. Further, as people reflect on their experience and bring these reflections...

As a manager of professionals, how often have you wanted to ask your professionals: "are you with us or agin us?" Few would question the technical expertise offered by the professional, but loyalty is a different matter. Some professionals march to a different drummer. Sometimes their efforts...

In this article, the author introduces the leadership approach known as “leaderful practice,” an alternative to the traditional trait-based approach of individual leadership. Leaderful practice is shown to sustain an ethical infrastructure based on democratic principles. It is democracy not...

This article begins with the presumption that action learning has not made as deep an impact in promoting participatory social change as its supporters may have hoped for, but nor has its cousin action modalities, such as action research and action science. These action strategies have evolved...

This paper takes a whimsical look at the state of pedagogical delivery in management education over the last 40 years, and concludes that the long tradition of what the author refers to “spoon-feeding in management education” is unlikely to end anytime soon. His case is built on...

It is axiomatic that people who have a say in the vision underlying any endeavor will be more committed to carrying out that vision than those who are simply given the vision. Indeed, if the vision is handed down, no matter how empowered an employee may be in carrying it out, it may be...

This article takes the view that formal educational programs often miss opportunities to use the rich experiences of working managers to produce both learning and knowledge. Two alternative pedagogical approaches, action learning and action research, are proposed as contributing to management...

The application of facilitation in organizational life has become so popular that it has been co-opted in some quarters as a basis for defining the managerial role. Although it has attributes that can be applied to human interactions across and within organizations, its practice is delimited...

This article endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for our organizations known as quot;leaderful practice.quot; Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as quot;being out in front.quot; It is submitted that in the 21st Century...