Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 27, 2009). Advisor: Barbara Levin; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-286).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-174).

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 113-119).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-137). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119). Also available in print.

During the second half of the 20th century there has been both a burgeoning intellectual interest in business and management as a topic and an exponential growth in the formal study of business and management as an academic subject. Indeed by the end of the century it was estimated that worldwide there were 8,000 business schools and more than 13 million students of business and management. In addition, it was estimated that worldwide annual expenditure on university level business and management education had reached US $15 billion (The Global Foundation for Management Education, 2008). However, despite this there is a lack of clarity regarding both the scale and the nature of the influence that academic scholarship exerts over managers. Accordingly this research study has sought to investigate the appropriation of ideas, theories, concepts and models by management practitioners. The thesis has reviewed and evaluated the two most obvious, most established and most influential potential explanations. These were diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1962) and fashion theory (Abrahamson, 1991 & 1996; Abrahamson & Fairchild, 1999). It has been concluded that whilst both these potential explanations provided important insights, neither was able to provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation for this research study. Accordingly, a much broader range of pertinent scholarship was reviewed and evaluated. This included, but is not limited to, the scholarship that is associated with learning by adults (Dewey, 1933; Bartlett, 1967; Schank & Abelson, 1976; Mezirow, 1977). Although this additional scholarship provided a further range of potential explanations, the extent to which any of these would be found within the particular setting of management practitioners remained unclear. In addition, the literature review highlighted a number of unresolved debates regarding issues such as (i) whether management was a science or an applied science; (ii) whether it was a craft or a profession; (iii) whether in reality there were fashionable trends in management practice or whether in fact such practices were remarkably stable; and (iv) whether management theoreticians, gurus and consultants actually exerted significant influence over management practitioners. The literature review also highlighted methodological concerns relating to the use of citation analysis as a proxy for primary information regarding managerial practice. Hence, this research is situated in a gap which is delineated by the unresolved issues that are associated with both diffusion theory and fashion theory; the applicability of the broader range of scholarship to a management setting; the unresolved debates within this field of interest and the need to obtain primary information relating to management practice, rather than being dependant upon citation analysis. The research study has utilised qualitative data and inductive reasoning to examine these matters and the overarching research philosophy has been that of realism (Ritchie & Lewis, 2003). Ultimately, 39 semi-structured, recorded interviews were undertaken using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1954). Collectively these interviews lasted for 35 hours and obtained information relating to 160 critical incidents. The verbatim transcripts of the interviews totalled 350,000 words. A case study analysis of this data was undertaken to examine the decision making of the interviewees in relation to some of their most challenging managerial situations. This analysis concluded that for the ‘generality’ of these interviewees; theory played little, or no, overt part in their decision making. The data was also subjected to a content analysis using a bespoke compendium of 450 ‘terms’ that represented the development of theorising about management over the whole of the 20th century. This analysis concluded that the influence of the 20th century’s management theoreticians over these interviewees was weak. Finally, the possibility that any such influence might be a covert, rather than an overt; phenomenon was examined using both the insights of intertextuality (Allen, 2000; Bazerman, 2004) and the framework analysis technique (Ritchie, Spencer & O’Connor, 2003). This analysis demonstrated that the discourse, dialogue and language of these interviewees could be indexed to four domains; (i) the theoretical; (ii) the conceptual; (iii) the tactical; and (iv) the practical. The intertextual indexing outcomes were corroborated both by substantial extracts from the verbatim interview transcripts and by three unrelated strands of scholarship. These were (i) adaptive memory systems (Schacter, 2001); (ii) the realities of management (Carlson, 1954; Stewart, 1983; Mintzberg, 1989) and (iii) the role of concepts and conceptual thinking in nursing (McFarlane, 1977; Gordon, 1998; Orem, 2001). On this basis it has been concluded that management can be characterised as a conceptual discipline; that in its essential nature management is at least as conceptual as it is either theoretical or practical; and that managers appropriate concepts and ideas, rather than theories and models per se.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2016-05-10T18:09:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Roberto Teixeira Junior.pdf: 2232470 bytes, checksum: 3e87999e1f8946dc0030d5687bd498e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-10T18:09:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Roberto Teixeira Junior.pdf: 2232470 bytes, checksum: 3e87999e1f8946dc0030d5687bd498e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / Since the 90s Brazil has been implementing educational evaluation policies on a large scale. In higher education, we had the Institutional Assessment Program of Brazilian Universities (PAIUB) in 1993, the National Examination of Courses (ENC) in 1995 and the National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES), in force since 2004. Before that, there were specific initiatives diagnostic of higher education with the specific purpose of understanding the landscape of universities in the country: Atcon Plan, Meira Mattos Commission, July 1968 Commission, University Reform Assessment Program (PARU), National Commission for Revision of Teaching Superior (CNRES) and Group Executive for Restructuring of Higher Education (GERES). The SINAES is an assessment policy aimed to map the higher education in three dimensions: institutional assessment, course assessment and students assessment. This study is in the second dimension - course assessment - and the question is: Does SINAES has taken effect upon the management teaching? This is a bibliographic research that mapped masters and doctoral?s texts, published in 2004 - 2014 in order to investigate whether some research addressed the effects of SINAES the course upon teaching management. Among the 101 master and doctorate?s texts and 32 paper, only one deals with this topic: "Sinaes: quality indicators courses in higher education and social reproduction". Author: Leandro Berchielli. University: Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP). Date: 2012. Berchielli argues the SINAES caused no improvement in management courses for him searched. Starting from the principle that all public policy takes effect, we argue the SINAES have rather taken effect, but not those recommended by the institution's policy, namely to promote the improvement of the courses. According to Berchielli, SINAES just contribute to legitimate and reproduce the separation of social groups, it is also true that this result, despite its anti-democratic feature, is an effect too. The management teaching, despite being which has the largest number of students in Brazil, needs to more studies and researches, mainly in its intersection with the assessment policies. The small number of studies in this field, in some way, can demonstrate us the State?s intentions about this course. / Desde os anos 90 o Brasil vem implementando pol?ticas de avalia??o educacional em larga escala. Na Educa??o Superior, tivemos o Programa de Avalia??o Institucional das Universidades Brasileiras (PAIUB) em 1993, o Exame Nacional de Cursos (ENC) em 1995 e o Sistema Nacional de Avalia??o da Educa??o Superior (SINAES), em vig?ncia desde 2004. Antes disso, houve iniciativas pontuais de diagn?stico da educa??o superior com a finalidade espec?fica de compreender o cen?rio das universidades no pa?s: Plano Atcon, Comiss?o Meira Mattos, Comiss?o de Julho de 1968, Programa de Avalia??o da Reforma Universit?ria (PARU), Comiss?o Nacional para Reformula??o do Ensino Superior (CNRES) e Grupo Executivo para Reformula??o do Ensino Superior (GERES). O SINAES ? uma pol?tica de avalia??o orientada para mapear as institui??es de ensino superior (IES) em tr?s dimens?es: avalia??o da institui??o, avalia??o do curso e avalia??o do estudante. Este estudo se situa na segunda dimens?o ? avalia??o de curso ? e pretende responder ? quest?o: o SINAES t?m produzido efeitos no curso de Administra??o? Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliogr?fica que mapeou trabalhos de mestrado, doutorado e artigos publicados nos anos de 2004 a 2014 a fim de investigar se alguma pesquisa tratou dos efeitos do SINAES o curso de Administra??o. Dentre as 101 obras de mestrado e doutorado e 32 artigos, somente 1 disserta??o trata deste tema. Tal disserta??o ? ?Sinaes: indicadores de qualidade de cursos no ensino superior e reprodu??o social? ? de Leandro Berchielli, defendida na PUC de S?o Paulo em 2012, argumenta que o SINAES n?o provocou melhoria nos cursos de Administra??o por ele pesquisados. Partindo-se do princ?pio de que toda pol?tica p?blica produz efeitos, argumentamos que o SINAES t?m sim produzido efeitos, por?m n?o aqueles preconizados pela institui??o da pol?tica, qual seja, promover a melhoria dos cursos. Se ? certo que o SINAES, como argumenta Berchielli, est? mais a servi?o de legitimar e reproduzir nas IES a separa??o dos grupos sociais, ? certo tamb?m que este resultado, em que pese sua fei??o antidemocr?tica, tamb?m ? um efeito, ainda que indesejado por n?s. O curso de Administra??o, apesar de ser o que det?m a maior quantidade de estudantes do pa?s, carece de mais pesquisas na sua intersec??o com as pol?ticas de avalia??o. O pequeno n?mero de estudos neste campo, de alguma forma, tamb?m pode nos sinalizar tend?ncias do que o poder p?blico quer, e o que n?o quer, para esta ?rea.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003. / "A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Bibliography : leaves 314-323.

The article describes a teaching innovation proposal for the IT service management course that is currently taught at the Liberal Arts and Humanities school of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The innovation consists of a new teaching method based on a board game (designed as a “serious game”) as the main learning strategy.  The update addresses the need to create didactic situations for a competence-based approach to teaching in the aforementioned course. Its development involved research, testing (on both recently graduated students and current students), and other enhancements. The resulting proposal is versatile, sustainable in the long term and can be also used in management education in other specializations. / El presente artículo describe una propuesta de innovación para la enseñanza del curso Gestión de Servicios de Información dictado en la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Esta innovación consta de una metodología de enseñanza, apoyada en un juego de mesa (diseñado bajo el concepto de “juego serio”) como principal recurso de aprendizaje. La innovación propuesta responde a la necesidad de crear situaciones didácticas para la formación basada en competencias en el curso antes mencionado, y su desarrollo involucró un proceso de investigación, pruebas (con egresados recientes y estudiantes actuales) y ajustes de mejora. El resultado ha sido una propuesta versátil y sostenible en el tiempo, con potencial de poder utilizarse también para la formación en gestión de otras especialidades.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DanielaCT_DISSERT.pdf: 820450 bytes, checksum: 54c20ec40c5da26d39bd463ef3602f93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-06 / Analyze the work of the school manager who now faces the changes experienced in school management for the last two decades. We propose that there have been changes in school management that have generated a larger number of activities to be developed by managers, causing both the intensification of work and a greater involvement of professionals in the financial-administrative dimension of their work in opposition to the political and pedagogical dimension. This study has a historic-critic approach. That is why we performed semi-structured interviews with school managers of the city schools in Natal RN, BR as a methodological procedure. We also analyzed the literature as well as the documentation relevant to this subject. From the study it was possible to conclude that changes in the field of school management and also teaching have led to an intensification of work of school managers and that such changes have not been followed by corresponding improvement in working conditions and teaching career of these professionals. They, as a rule, are considered by controlling agencies and by the school community as the primarily responsible for the school condition and for creating actions or projects that may improve the institutional objectives and results, including even the maintenance of the institution. Moreover, the growing number of administrative activities represents for obvious reasons extra work for these managers, who, when trying to cope with the growing bureaucratic situations, end up misplacing other political and educational aspects of school work, which may undermine the final purpose of school itself. We stress that we must broaden the discussions on the functions of the school manager, so that this worker can actualize a pedagogical project more committed to an emancipatory nature, despite all the challenge in keeping the school running in often-precarious conditions / Analisa o trabalho do gestor escolar frente ?s mudan?as vivenciadas na gest?o escolar ao curso das duas ?ltimas d?cadas. Parte do pressuposto de que t?m ocorrido mudan?as na gest?o escolar que geram uma demanda maior de atividades a serem desenvolvidas pelos gestores, ocasionando tanto a intensifica??o do trabalho quanto um envolvimento maior desses profissionais na dimens?o financeiro-administrativa de seu trabalho em detrimento da dimens?o pol?tico-pedag?gica. O estudo foi realizado em uma abordagem hist?rico-cr?tica. A metodologia utilizada foi a realiza??o de entrevistas semiestruturadas com gestores escolares da rede municipal de ensino do munic?pio de Natal/RN, bem como a an?lise da literatura pertinente ? tem?tica e an?lise documental. Conclui que as mudan?as ocorridas no campo da gest?o escolar e do trabalho docente t?m induzido a intensifica??o do trabalho dos gestores escolares e que tais mudan?as n?o t?m sido acompanhadas de correspondente melhoria nas condi??es de trabalho e na carreira docente destes profissionais. Estes, via de regra, s?o considerados pelos ?rg?os gestores e comunidade escolar os principais respons?veis pela escola e pela implementa??o de medidas ou projetos que busquem a melhoria dos objetivos e resultados institucionais, incluindo-se a pr?pria manuten??o da institui??o. Outrossim, a crescente demanda de atividades consideradas administrativas acaba por implicar sobrecarga de trabalho para estes profissionais gestores, os quais, ao buscarem o cumprimento das crescentes demandas burocr?ticas, acabam por secundarizar outros aspectos pol?ticos e pedag?gicos do trabalho escolar, o que pode comprometer a realiza??o da atividade fim da escola. Destaca que ? preciso ampliar o debate em rela??o ao trabalho do gestor escolar, afim de que este profissional possa efetivar uma atua??o mais comprometida com um projeto pol?tico pedag?gico de cunho emancipat?rio, a despeito do desafio de manter a escola funcionando em condi??es muitas vezes prec?rias