Up Close and Personal: Building Foundations for Leaders' Development Through the Personalization of Management Learning
通过研究国际MBA中一个与心理治疗师合作的个人发展选修课,揭示了管理学习个性化如何将潜在的退行体验转化为个人学习与成长的素材,为领导者发展奠定基础。
Courses that aim to foster reflection and personal development in the service of leaders' development are increasingly popular within MBA curricula and executive education portfolios. We explore the process through which these courses enrich their institutional context and enhance students' ongoing development and practice of leadership. Through an inductive, qualitative study of the Personal Development Elective, an offering within the leadership curriculum of an international MBA that gives students the option to work with a psychotherapist, we develop a model of how the interplay between the regressive and holding features of an intensive management program foster the personalization of management learning. The personalization process, we posit, allows management education to provide the foundations for leaders' development by transforming potentially regressive experiences into material for participants' personal learning, experimentation, and growth.