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Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's national study of undergraduate business education found that most undergraduate programs are too narrow, failing to challenge students to question assumptions, think creatively, or understand the place of business in larger institutional contexts. Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education examines these limitations and describes the efforts of a diverse set of institutions to address them by integrating the best elements of liberal arts learning with business curriculum to help students develop wise, ethically grounded professional judgment.
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.
This book is as a primer on the business-related aspects of student affairs that practitioners should understand. The author discusses a variety of skill sets to equip student affairs practitioners-educators with the means to analyze circumstances, alter environments, invest in structures and programs, and lead campus progress.
Co-published with the Oxford Philosophy Trust, this is the second volume in a landmark series from the Oxford University Centre for the Study of Values in Education and Business. Volume II emphasizes the conflicts and issues associated with training in applied professional fields. The physician-patient relationship, management issues, business decision-making, the training of psychologists, and the teaching of ethics to medical students are among the areas examined.
Assessing the current state of writing instruction for the business world as well as promising developments of theory and practice in this expanding field, this book contains 14 articles by nationally known leaders in this teaching specialty. The first section of the book, looking at the writing process as it applies to professional writing, consists of: (1) "Rhetorical Problem Solving: Cognition and Professional Writing" (L. Flower); (2) "Arranging Business Prose" (J. Selzer); (3) "What Classical Rhetoric Has to Offer the Teacher and the Student of Business and Professional Writing" (E. Corbett); and (4) "Interactive Writing on the Job: Definitions and Implications of 'Collaboration'" (B. Couture and J. Rymer). Articles in the second section discuss writing as practiced in corporations, government, the law, and academia: (5) "Writing in Organizations" (J. Redish); (6) "Understanding the Writing Context in Organizations" (L. Driskill); (7) "The State of Legal Writing: 'Res Ipsa Loquitur'" (G. Gopen); and (8) "Writing by Academic Professionals" (D. Dietrich). The third section, on teaching professional writing, contains the following articles: (9) "Use of the Case Method in Teaching Business Communication" (J. DiGaetani); (10) "Building Ethos: Field Research in a Business Communication Course" (D. Lauerman); (11) "A Critique of the Rhetorical and Organizational World of Business Communications Texts" (B. Gallagher); and (12) "The Teaching and Practice of 'Professional Writing'" (C. Knoblauch). Articles in the final section survey professional writing programs: (13) "What's Going On in Business and Management Communication Courses" (M. Munter); and (14) "The Professional Writing Program and the English Department" (J. Brereton). (SR)