Following their high commitment to the principles of responsible management education (PRME), CEEMAN and UN Global Compact PRME are sponsoring a Survey on Poverty as a Challenge for Management Education.
Poverty issues are becoming increasingly important in times when we all are rethinking the role of business in society and therefore the role of management education in embedding social responsibility and sustainable development in the mindsets of future leaders. Poverty eradication is closely related to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Globally, business faculty have developed – or are thinking of developing - interesting and innovative ways to teach and connect students to the issue of global poverty. A CEEMAN Survey on Management Education and Poverty Reduction, carried out in autumn 2008, found faculty innovation in this area. The CEEMAN Survey also found that that fighting poverty is a legitimate management education topic.
To date, though, there have been few efforts to systematically capture state-of-the-art curricular and pedagogical innovations developed by business faculty on the topic of poverty reduction. The current Survey on Poverty as a Challenge for Management Education aims to do just that. Survey results will become the platform for further discussion, collaboration and innovation on this topic.
Thus, we invite you and colleagues from your network to participate in The Survey on Poverty as a Challenge to Management Education. It can be accessed at the following URL:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/
Survey closes on 31 May 2010
(Please note that if you are unable to directly link to the survey by clicking on the above URL, then we suggest that you either cut-and-paste the URL into a new browser window or retype the URL.)
The survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete and was designed by Al Rosenbloom, Dominican University, USA, and Milenko Gudić, IMTA Managing Director, CEEMAN, Slovenia. Each and every response to the survey counts.
The results of the survey will be presented in the 2nd Global Forum for Responsible Management Education on 23 June 2010 in New York, USA, and distributed through major international associations. They will also provide input for the future work of the UN Global Compact PRME Working Group on Fighting Poverty.
