TY - CHAP

T1 - Management Education for Sustainability

T2 - Deriving learning formats from competence requirements

AU - Hesselbarth, Charlotte

AU - Buhr, Maike

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

PY - 2015/8/24

Y1 - 2015/8/24

N2 - The increasing demand for a sustainable development of society and corporations created the new profession of sustainability managers, which has given rise to the growing importance of management education for corporate sustainability. This chapter aims to link competence requirements of sustainability managers to different formats in a blended learning concept by analyzing experiences from the Lüneburg MBA program in sustainability management. A T-matrix is proposed based on the MBA professor’s assessment of several learning formats and their potential contribution to competence development. The results highlight the strengths of particular face-to-face and online learning formats with respect to different competences of sustainability managers. In addition to the high relevance of informal learning and formats to foster subject-specific competences, the chapter also emphasizes that a mixture of learning formats, including interactive learning processes and feedback is essential for effective competence development.

AB - The increasing demand for a sustainable development of society and corporations created the new profession of sustainability managers, which has given rise to the growing importance of management education for corporate sustainability. This chapter aims to link competence requirements of sustainability managers to different formats in a blended learning concept by analyzing experiences from the Lüneburg MBA program in sustainability management. A T-matrix is proposed based on the MBA professor’s assessment of several learning formats and their potential contribution to competence development. The results highlight the strengths of particular face-to-face and online learning formats with respect to different competences of sustainability managers. In addition to the high relevance of informal learning and formats to foster subject-specific competences, the chapter also emphasizes that a mixture of learning formats, including interactive learning processes and feedback is essential for effective competence development.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Learning formats

KW - Blended Learning

KW - Competence profile of sustainability managers

KW - Master of Business Administation (MBA)

KW - Higher education for corporate sustainability management

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942931531&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-100367-1.00002-0

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-100367-1.00002-0

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-08-100367-1

T3 - Chandos information professional series

SP - 21

EP - 49

BT - Sustainability in Higher Education

A2 - Davim, J. Paulo

PB - Elsevier B.V.

CY - Waltham

ER -