Please join us for a dialogue on bringing focus to the social purpose business in society into the classroom.
Session #246
Building Better Lives through Business Schools: The Role of Humanistic Pragmatism and Relational Learning
This workshop is focused on advancing the shift toward human well-being as the primary objective for management learning and practice. Traditional notions of CSR perpetuate the idea that business concerns are separate from social concerns. To challenge more deeply the role and purpose of business in society, this session is designed to provoke questions on both the nature and the method of inquiry in the Business School learning environment: what questions we ask, and how we set about answering them. Putting human well-being at the center of management education invites us to re-consider the social purpose of business across all disciplines in the curriculum. In this interactive workshop, participants will practice a process of 'moral education through conversation', which brings the social role of business to the fore. We draw together threads from three areas of work: humanism, pragmatism, and ethics of care. Humanism emphasizes the objectives of preserving human dignity and advancing the well-being of each person within a thriving biosphere; pragmatism inspires a conversational, pluralist approach to making lives better; an ethic of care allows us to enact a relational learning space where we work through these challenges with a focus on preserving the caring relation between ourselves and others. Using a dialogic framework built on these three ideas, participants will work through a pair of real scenarios drawn from our research, and together we will consider the potential for moving past CSR to a focus on well-being, care, and better lives for all.
Barry Colbert, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Elizabeth Kurucz, College of Business & Economics, University of Guelph, Canada
Jessica Nicholson, College of Business & Economics, University of Guelph, Canada
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