Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contradict past and present perceptions of excellence in business education, and to present excellence as a primary element for future business education in an era of new challenges for global management. Design/methodology/approach – The approach, by...

Purpose – Managers’ willingness to proceed with right action can be diminished by the need for approval and feeling the negative emotions that often accompany ethical challenges. This paper seeks to describe Balanced Experiential Inquiry (BEI), a learning activity designed to help managers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a model of thinking for managers that is readily applicable in their situation and which will foster effective decision making. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines some of the thinking challenges facing contemporary business...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic approach to understanding the challenges facing executive teams in making good decisions and propose a simple framework for addressing these challenges. Design/methodology/approach – Having identified Groupthink as a useful...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how representation is conceptualized in Jewish culture, and how this relates to management. More specifically, it seeks to discuss the banning of images and what can be learned from this in the field of management. Design/methodology/approach –...

Simulation is a powerful analytical technique that plays a role in the development of managers′ problem‐solving and decision‐making skills as well as those skills related to effecting organisational change and dealing with the dynamics of organisational behaviour. An overview is presented...

In a growing atmosphere of mistrust of many transnational corporations, there is a recognized need for holding them accountable. The world community has often been betrayed by corporations which make decisions affecting the lives of many, but concentrate the power of decision making in the hands...

Argues that managers may rely too heavily on cognitively based decision‐making processes in an attempt to appear rational, logical and objective. However, the quality of decision making may be enhanced by also recognizing the legitimacy of an affective dimension of decisions, i.e. an ability...

The aim of this paper is to look beyond the application of quality management controls, assurances and standards which have already been widely addressed in the quality literature. Instead, the focus is on quality in management performance, particularly in relation to effective decision making...