Imagining Management Education as Projective Test: Insights, Possibilities and Potentialities

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A projective test is a personality test constructed to reveal elements of a person’s unconscious subjectivity through her response to ambiguous stimuli. Projective tests can be contrasted with objective tests in which an individual’s response is evaluated relative to a correct answer or universal standard. In addition to a discussion about the meaningfulness of the metaphor of “management education as a projective test,” through engagement in an experiential exercise and dialogue, participants will explore how they might employ this metaphor to reimagine their pedagogy, curricula, and ways of interacting with students to facilitate those students’ ability to be effective and ethical managers.

Author(s):

thomas r. king    
Providence College
United States

Matthew Eriksen    
Providence College
United States