This paper examines whether or not US‐style management education is beneficial to society and presents a review of recent events, which suggest that management education must be improved. Two principal approaches to management education and resulting practice are presented and framed...

Purpose – Proposes to call for inclusion of alternative conceptual perspectives in decision making theory and practice. Design/methodology/approach – Adopts a conceptual approach drawing on a diverse range of theories, and applying an illustrative example. Findings – Finds that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reacquaint researchers and practitioners with Barnard's contributions to understanding of the moral conditions that underlie the authenticity of organizational leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies Barnard's insights on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to update and expand a model described in a previous paper by the author (Holian, 2002), which categorised practices, skills and preferences of practising managers and management consultants. Design/methodology/approach – A case study and qualitative...

Purpose – This paper aims to look at some of the implications of organisational psychopaths for organisations and corporations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper defines organisational psychopaths as being those psychopaths who exist at an incidence of about 1 percent of the general...

Purpose – Although there is a growing emphasis on the importance of spirituality in the workplace, the majority of calls for leaders to consider the spiritual dimension fail to offer assistance in a meaningful way, and in a language to which leaders can relate, with the challenges of doing...