What UK graduate employers think they want and what university business schools think they provide
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University of Chester ; Auckland University of Technology ; University of ChesterPublication Date
2009-02-20
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This paper evaluates the increasing focus on the development of students' competencies and skills for management, in university business schools. The debate suggests that deeper understandings, concerning the role of managers are being sacrificed at the hands of an instrumentalist/technicist agenda focusing on competencies and skills. The paper adds to the discussion by scrutinising and applying theory from the literatures of occupational practice, knowledge and learning. Data is presented from sixty four job advertisements stipulating the competencies and skills required of applicants and which illustrate the premium put upon personal practice knowledge. By taking a critical management perspective students can begin to understand the social context and power-based nature of management practice in the workplace. While universities may try to further fulfil the 'narrow', industry-led, competency focus, early indications suggest that universities may possess a good deal of freedom in designing pedagogies supportive of a critical agenda.Citation
International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 3(3), 2009, pp. 275-289.Publisher
Inderscience EnterprisesAdditional Links
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=90Type
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This is tha authors' PDF version of an article published in International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy© 2009. The definitive version is available at www.inderscience.comISSN
1478-14841741-8135
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1504/IJMCP.2009.023339
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