عنوان

Self knowledge and personal change :

شماره

TLets633249

عنوان اصلي

Self knowledge and personal change :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Fox , Stephen

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

the reported experience of managers in part time management education

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Manchester

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1987

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Manchester

امتياز متن

1987

متن يادداشت

MBA type programmes have grown apace in the U.K. since the 1960s. As demand for full-time MBA coursesbegins to level off, part-time executive masters courses are the fastest growing form of mastersprogramme in business schools. The participants on such courses are in both worlds of academia andbusiness and might be thought to bridge the gap between both these worlds, which are often said to betoo far apart.The purpose of this thesis is to report the experience of part-time management education at masters levelfrom the manager-learners' point of view. Longitudinal field research was carried out over a two yearperiod with a group of part-time MBA students. While they were concerned to learn accountancy, marketing,finance, strategy, organisational behaviour, statistics and more, the researcher was concerned to learnhow they socially constructed this learning experience. The perspectives of symbolic interactionismend ethnomethodology inform the analysis which examines member's interactional practices for managingto survive the course.Part I outlines the history of management education and development in the U.K. focussing upon the debateOver the MBA qualification. It also reviews some of the work in the fields of educational research,evaluation research and the sociology of education, which indicates the need for basic ethnographicresearch in the field of management education.Part II discusses the methodology and perspective of the field research including the researcher'sautobiographical reasons for adopting the approach used.Part III contains the substantive chapters which describe and analyses the part-timers' experience of theprogramme. The first two chapters in this section broadly set the scene, aspects of which are examinedin closer detail in subsequent chapters. Throughout, the perspectives of symbolic interactionism andathnomethodology are drawn upon for the purpose of enriching the insights into and analysis of themanager-learners' experience.Part IV concludes by discussing some of the methodological issues arising from the field research - fromthe practical to the perspectival - and some of the substantive issues concerning the members' socialconstitution of everyday life on the course.It is contended that educational research in the area of management education and' development has not beensufficiently concerned with understanding the experience and point of view of management-learnersundergoing management education. The present thesis advocates ethnography as a suitable method forelucidating manager-learners' experience of, in this case, part-time masters level management education.See'

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Fox , Stephen

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Manchester

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y