TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuroscientific Insights Into Management Development
T2 - Theoretical Propositions and Practical Implications
AU - McDonald, Paul
AU - Tang, Yi Yuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2014/10/13
Y1 - 2014/10/13
N2 - Research from the interdisciplinary field of social cognitive neuroscience provides insights as to how managers learn and develop, resulting in theoretical propositions and practical implications. Third-generation management development is applied as a conceptual framework for the organization and presentation of relevant evidence from the neuroscience literature. Neuroscience offers potential to theoretically advance our understanding of management development as well as practically enhance managerial capacity to (a) reflect with a deeper sense of self-awareness, (b) analyze with greater balance across hard and soft data, (c) position organizations within broader perspectives, (d) collaborate interpersonally by establishing relationships that engender egalitarianism and trust, and (e) enact change in a nonlinear manner. Ten propositions are developed linking neurological processes to management development. Practical implications are suggested as well as research considerations for future integration between neuroscience and management development.
AB - Research from the interdisciplinary field of social cognitive neuroscience provides insights as to how managers learn and develop, resulting in theoretical propositions and practical implications. Third-generation management development is applied as a conceptual framework for the organization and presentation of relevant evidence from the neuroscience literature. Neuroscience offers potential to theoretically advance our understanding of management development as well as practically enhance managerial capacity to (a) reflect with a deeper sense of self-awareness, (b) analyze with greater balance across hard and soft data, (c) position organizations within broader perspectives, (d) collaborate interpersonally by establishing relationships that engender egalitarianism and trust, and (e) enact change in a nonlinear manner. Ten propositions are developed linking neurological processes to management development. Practical implications are suggested as well as research considerations for future integration between neuroscience and management development.
KW - Ambidextrous learning
KW - Management development
KW - Social cognitive neuroscience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84911962050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1059601114550712
DO - 10.1177/1059601114550712
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84911962050
VL - 39
SP - 475
EP - 503
JO - Group and Organization Management
JF - Group and Organization Management
SN - 1059-6011
IS - 5
ER -