A Pedagogy of Managerial Behavioural Science: a Reconsideration

Fred Massarik
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Chapter 8 in Developing Managers for the 1980s, 1981, pp 126-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper largely stands as a response to a cry for help. It is a cry often uttered by graduate student and incipient researcher, and not uncommonly it appears subvocally among skilled practitioners and trained scholars. The cry takes a variety of forms. It may range from the ingenuous desperation of doctoral students preparing for their ‘big exams’ in management or business administration. It may be formulated silently in the process of outlining a research proposal, and it may spring forth as a rash of pencilled notes as a consultant faces a complex engagement with a corporate client. Its essence may be stated as follows: ‘How can I know it all?’, or, perhaps with somewhat greater sophistication, ‘What must I really know?’ The answer to the former is, as reflection quickly shows: ‘No way!’. To the latter, however, one may formulate purposeful answers….Such answers, however, must transcend evasions, conscious or (more often) unaware, but embedded deeply in the scholars’ or practitioners’ manner of addressing the tasks at hand. Two positively intercorrelated styles of evasion may be identified: (a) retreat to method, and (b) retreat to neatness.

Keywords: Behavioural Science; Personal Style; Managerial Behavioural; Substantial Commitment; Functional Field (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04230-2_8

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