Changing conceptions and practices of management: Professional learning from an MBA experience by distance education
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Distance Education
- Vol. 14 (2) , 232-259
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0158791930140206
Abstract
This ethnographic study of a management learning experience by distance education analyses participants' changing conceptions and practices of management using the notions of professional empowerment, integration, odysseys and personal transformation. The study reveals the nature, extent and processes of professional empowerment and personal transformation. It also attempts to illuminate the contribution that the MBA program by distance education and ongoing workplace experience made to the processes of empowerment and perspective transformation. MBA participants are seen to be negotiating different stages of the empowerment/ transformation process. Different stages are seen to demand different empowerment/ transformative strategies, and to contain different forms of barriers to professional empowerment. The sobering possibility of participants experiencing professional disempowerment is highlighted in the study.Keywords
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