The Predictive and the Inferential

Abstract

This chapter provides a theoretical basis for the relevance of professional doctoral education as a mechanism of harnessing the transferable agency of those equipped experientially for leadership in times, which can neither be predicted or reflected upon in terms of workforce utility and purpose. The last three decades have witnessed doctoral education undergo an emergence of programmes geared towards the practical application of knowledge within workplace contexts, so that the creation of knowledge is both needs led and purposeful in outcome and potential impact.