Human Resource Management for Organizational Sustainability

CHAPTER 10

Management Education for Developing a New Generation of Managers to Lead Responsibly

Steve Kempster, Emma Watton and Philippa Chapman

Introduction

Management education can play a significant role in creating a new generation of leaders, leaders who embrace the notion of responsible leadership in themselves, their teams, and their organizations. This chapter outlines two programs from the UK that demonstrate this. The alumni from these programs inspire new ways of thinking not only within their organizational groups but through broader, global communities of practice that connect fellow graduates from the programs. We shall offer the notion of using these connections to form a crowd-sourcing, evidence-based approach to management education ...