Journal of Cleaner Production ( IF 11.1 ) Pub Date : 2018-11-16 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.135 Rosanna Cole , Brent Snider
During modern times of economic and political turmoil, we ask how we should be educating current and future business leaders to navigate periods of global turbulence. The paper suggests that firstly, undergraduates (future managers) and executive MBA students (current managers) need sustainability embedded in their management education because both groups believe that the global supply chain practices have contributed to global turbulence and that sustainable supply chain actions could help to reduce that turbulence. Secondly, that exposure to supply chain sustainability examples in management education increases global awareness and empathy in current and future managers. Thirdly, it is suggested that a gender balance is required for improved sustainability decision making. Lastly, it is found that direct facilitation by an instructor is not required for threshold learning and that it can occur exclusively through self-reflection. The overarching contribution of the paper is that rather than viewing economic, environmental, social and political turbulence as external factors that managers must simply navigate, supply chain sustainability education enables managers to connect how their global supply chain decisions can either intensify or reduce the turbulence.
中文翻译:
在动荡的时代进行管理:可持续发展的管理教育对现在和将来的企业领导者的影响
在现代的经济和政治动荡时期,我们问我们应该如何教育当前和未来的商业领袖,以度过全球动荡的时期。该论文建议,首先,本科生(未来管理者)和高级MBA学生(现任管理者)需要将可持续性嵌入他们的管理教育中,因为这两个群体都认为,全球供应链实践已助长了全球动荡,可持续供应链行动可以帮助减少湍流。其次,在管理教育中对供应链可持续性范例的了解增加了全球对当前和未来管理人员的认识和同情心。第三,建议需要性别平衡以改善可持续性决策。最后,我们发现,阈值学习并不需要教师的直接协助,而只能通过自我反省来实现。该论文的主要贡献在于,供应链可持续性教育不是将经济,环境,社会和政治动荡视为经理必须简单应对的外部因素,而是使经理能够联系其全球供应链决策如何加剧或减少动荡。