Multivocal Management Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Case for a Post-humanist Approach
20 Nov 2024
12:30 -13:30
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Room W2.01 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Organisational Theory and Information Systems Seminar
Speaker: Professor Saku Mantere, McGill University
About the seminar topic
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) develops rapidly, we enter a new era in management and organisations.
This will not only shape the core tasks of management in the future, but it will require a reconceptualisation of managerial identities and roles in business school pedagogy. I will outline 3 pedagogical stances – the transhumanist, critical humanist, and post-humanist – with dramatically different understanding of the human subject and its relation to technology, and implications for management education.
I will argue that a multivocal business school, embracing all 3 pedagogies, is ideal for nurturing managers’ identities and self-conceptions in the evolving technological context.
Speaker bio
Saku Mantere is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management. His research focuses on strategic organisations; on questions such as what it is that makes organisations strategic and how strategic management affects organisations.
He is particularly interested in strategic change, middle management agency and strategy discourse, as well as in methodological issues in management studies, such as the practice of qualitative research and reasoning in theorising about organisations.
His work has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organisation Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Organisation.
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