Developing Creativity in Managment Education Through Contemplative Practice

By:
Dr. Colette Dumas
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Contemporary management education emphasizes both rational and sensory knowing. Rational knowing involves calculation, explanation, and analysis, while sensory knowing comes from observation and measurement. Together these form the rational-empirical approach that has set the standard for knowledge across most disciplines. The MBA curriculum most frequently focuses on what our students should know. However, how our students come to know what they know is just as fundamental to teaching and learning. Another way of knowing - contemplation-has been recognized across time, culture, and disciplines as essential to the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, and creativity, yet it remains absent from today's MBA curriculum and pedagogy. I will offer a brief orientation to contemplation, evidence of its value for contemporary management education in general and its value in fostering creativity in particular, and a range of exercises that can be applied in the MBA classroom.


Keywords: Creativity, Contemplation, Management Education, Mindfulness
Stream: Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning
Presentation Type: Virtual in English
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Dr. Colette Dumas

Professor, School of Management, Suffolk University
Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Dumas is a professor of Organization Behavior at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is also the Director of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk University. She teaches, conducts research, publishes, and consults in the areas of organizational behavior, change leadership, and creativity and innovation in organizations.

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