A Deeper Malaise: Rejoinder to “The Menace of Misinformation: Faculty Misstatements in Management Education and Their Consequences”

Abstract

Giacalone and Promislo’s essay on the menace of misinformation usefully discusses problems arising from faculty misstatements. However, it falls short of identifying a deeper malaise in management education where a lack of critical and reflexive consideration of the nature of truth and the use of empirical facts; of the role of values and ideologies; and of the nature and objectives of management education leads to an impoverished educational practice that does not empower but instead limits learners. Successful management education that unequivocally and uncompromisingly places the learner’s independence, self-responsibility, and self-formation at its heart will have little to fear from the unintended mistakes and the unavoidable misinformation that will always be part of any educational practice.