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In recent years insight (vipassana) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned ... more In recent years insight (vipassana) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned new institutions that present a more secular face. These changes exemplify the development of global Buddhism elsewhere rather than some local, sui generis divergence from international trends. Nonetheless, the unusual prominence of Buddhist migrants in the Australian population has influenced the interaction between traditional and western Buddhists, and thus the emergence of the new trends. In interpreting the transformations in question, we make heuristic use both of Martin Baumann s periodization of Buddhist history, with its characterization of the present stage as global, and Stephen Batchelor s distinction between religious Buddhism and dharma practice. The Australian experience highlights the value of the earlier interaction between migrant and locally-born Buddhists, and the formative effect their later separation has on lay practice. This experience also points to the salience ...

Business History, 2009

... David Crowther ISBN: 978-0-566-08817-9 Corruption in International Business Sharon Eicher ...... more ... David Crowther ISBN: 978-0-566-08817-9 Corruption in International Business Sharon Eicher ... XU SPIRITUALITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY research and teaching interest is in ... He is a recent recipient of the Templeton Foundation Freedom Project Award. ...

How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter... more How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives the context of the imperative for sustainability and related curriculum design issues. A survey of MBA programs in Australia will be reported on in terms of their relevance to sustainability criteria and the capacity to integrate these concerns with curriculum material in the MBA. The dictates of the 21st century call for graduates with an ability to develop reflexivity in action, who can broach both worldviews and have skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads- can it regenerate through an incremental path to integration of sustainability by changing curricula, teaching and learning techniques to enable the active engagement of students with sustainability issues? Or do we acknowledge the contested nature of knowledge creation and argue with Gregory Bateso...

Journal of Management Education, 2015

Critical thinking is widely regarded as a crucial capability for competent management and also fo... more Critical thinking is widely regarded as a crucial capability for competent management and also for any leadership role in society. In this article, we ask, “How do textbooks play a role in the weakness of many management graduates’ critical thinking skills?” Management teachers can find plentiful advice about best teaching practices, yet the critical skills gap remains. We argue that the nature and use of management textbooks intersect and interact with students’ epistemology to support a culture of surface learning, resulting in a failure to develop critical thinking skills. Textbooks reinforce underdeveloped student epistemology through limitations of content and position students as passive recipients of an authoritative version of oversimplified knowledge. In our survey of 30 successful management textbooks, we found the majority of popular management textbooks potentially inhibit, or only weakly support, the development of students’ capacity for critical thinking. The article c...

How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter... more How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives the context of the imperative for sustainability and related curriculum design issues. A survey of MBA programs in Australia will be reported on in terms of their relevance to sustainability criteria and the capacity to integrate these concerns with curriculum material in the MBA. The dictates of the 21st century call for graduates with an ability to develop reflexivity in action, who can broach both worldviews and have skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads can it regenerate through an incremental path to integration of sustainability by changing curricula, teaching and learning techniques to enable the active engagement of students with sustainability issues? Or do we acknowledge the contested nature of knowledge creation and argue with Gregory Bateson...

Each is furthest from himself' applies to all eternitywe are not 'men of knowledge' with respect ... more Each is furthest from himself' applies to all eternitywe are not 'men of knowledge' with respect to ourselves.

In recent years insight ( vipassana ) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawne... more In recent years insight ( vipassana ) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned new institutions that present a more secular face. These changes exemplify the development of global Buddhism elsewhere rather than some local, sui generis divergence from international trends. Nonetheless, the unusual prominence of Buddhist migrants in the Australian population has influenced the interaction between “traditional” and “western” Buddhists, and thus the emergence of the new trends. In interpreting the transformations in question, we make heuristic use both of Martin Baumann’s periodization of Buddhist history, with its characterization of the present stage as global, and Stephen Batchelor’s distinction between “religious Buddhism” and “ dharma practice.” The Australian experience highlights the value of the earlier interaction between migrant and locally-born Buddhists, and the formative effect their later separation has on lay practice. This experience also points to th...

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psycholo... more An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psychology, however, research has yet to provide a critical analysis of its practical application. The current study extends on these critiques by exploring how positive psychology is applied to the workplace by investigating practitioner-based sources including interviews with workplace coaches who use positive psychological interventions and applied published texts. The study draws on Michel Foucault’s concepts of power/knowledge and discourse as a theoretical and methodological framework. Three dominant discourses were identified which illustrate the ways in which positive psychology is applied to the workplace. These include the promotion of its scientific credentials, employing a strength-based approach and using goal-setting and behavioral reinforcement interventions. When applied to the workplace, these discourses psychologize workplace problems, resulting in potentially negative outcomes...

Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in …, 2011

In Australia over the last three decades, secular insight (vipassana) meditation practice has inc... more In Australia over the last three decades, secular insight (vipassana) meditation practice has increasingly drawn away from its Theravadin origins, thus exemplifying a wider trend in western Buddhist circles over the second half of the last century, to loosen ties with their ...

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2012

The purpose of this analysis is to review, through a critical theoretical lens, social psychology... more The purpose of this analysis is to review, through a critical theoretical lens, social psychology applied to work and organisations. In our reading of the applied social psychological literature four key issues emerged. These include the valorisation of a positivist epistemology, an owner ⁄ management perspective on workplace issues, a focus on intra-psychic variables or internal mental states when accounting for organisational problems, and the ignoring of moral and ethical commitments in determining workplace research and practice. Each of these issues is then further analysed in light of insights from the field of Critical Management Studies. This alternative approach to organisational behaviour points to the ways in which applied social psychological theory and practice have the potential to disadvantage workers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology, 2017

In recent years insight (vipassana) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned ... more In recent years insight (vipassana) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned new institutions that present a more secular face. These changes exemplify the development of global Buddhism elsewhere rather than some local, sui generis divergence from international trends. Nonetheless, the unusual prominence of Buddhist migrants in the Australian population has influenced the interaction between traditional and western Buddhists, and thus the emergence of the new trends. In interpreting the transformations in question, we make heuristic use both of Martin Baumann s periodization of Buddhist history, with its characterization of the present stage as global, and Stephen Batchelor s distinction between religious Buddhism and dharma practice. The Australian experience highlights the value of the earlier interaction between migrant and locally-born Buddhists, and the formative effect their later separation has on lay practice. This experience also points to the salience ...

Business History, 2009

... David Crowther ISBN: 978-0-566-08817-9 Corruption in International Business Sharon Eicher ...... more ... David Crowther ISBN: 978-0-566-08817-9 Corruption in International Business Sharon Eicher ... XU SPIRITUALITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY research and teaching interest is in ... He is a recent recipient of the Templeton Foundation Freedom Project Award. ...

How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter... more How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives the context of the imperative for sustainability and related curriculum design issues. A survey of MBA programs in Australia will be reported on in terms of their relevance to sustainability criteria and the capacity to integrate these concerns with curriculum material in the MBA. The dictates of the 21st century call for graduates with an ability to develop reflexivity in action, who can broach both worldviews and have skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads- can it regenerate through an incremental path to integration of sustainability by changing curricula, teaching and learning techniques to enable the active engagement of students with sustainability issues? Or do we acknowledge the contested nature of knowledge creation and argue with Gregory Bateso...

Journal of Management Education, 2015

Critical thinking is widely regarded as a crucial capability for competent management and also fo... more Critical thinking is widely regarded as a crucial capability for competent management and also for any leadership role in society. In this article, we ask, “How do textbooks play a role in the weakness of many management graduates’ critical thinking skills?” Management teachers can find plentiful advice about best teaching practices, yet the critical skills gap remains. We argue that the nature and use of management textbooks intersect and interact with students’ epistemology to support a culture of surface learning, resulting in a failure to develop critical thinking skills. Textbooks reinforce underdeveloped student epistemology through limitations of content and position students as passive recipients of an authoritative version of oversimplified knowledge. In our survey of 30 successful management textbooks, we found the majority of popular management textbooks potentially inhibit, or only weakly support, the development of students’ capacity for critical thinking. The article c...

How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter... more How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives the context of the imperative for sustainability and related curriculum design issues. A survey of MBA programs in Australia will be reported on in terms of their relevance to sustainability criteria and the capacity to integrate these concerns with curriculum material in the MBA. The dictates of the 21st century call for graduates with an ability to develop reflexivity in action, who can broach both worldviews and have skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads can it regenerate through an incremental path to integration of sustainability by changing curricula, teaching and learning techniques to enable the active engagement of students with sustainability issues? Or do we acknowledge the contested nature of knowledge creation and argue with Gregory Bateson...

Each is furthest from himself' applies to all eternitywe are not 'men of knowledge' with respect ... more Each is furthest from himself' applies to all eternitywe are not 'men of knowledge' with respect to ourselves.

In recent years insight ( vipassana ) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawne... more In recent years insight ( vipassana ) practice in Australia has diversified in content and spawned new institutions that present a more secular face. These changes exemplify the development of global Buddhism elsewhere rather than some local, sui generis divergence from international trends. Nonetheless, the unusual prominence of Buddhist migrants in the Australian population has influenced the interaction between “traditional” and “western” Buddhists, and thus the emergence of the new trends. In interpreting the transformations in question, we make heuristic use both of Martin Baumann’s periodization of Buddhist history, with its characterization of the present stage as global, and Stephen Batchelor’s distinction between “religious Buddhism” and “ dharma practice.” The Australian experience highlights the value of the earlier interaction between migrant and locally-born Buddhists, and the formative effect their later separation has on lay practice. This experience also points to th...

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psycholo... more An ever-expanding literature now exists critiquing the theory and philosophy of positive psychology, however, research has yet to provide a critical analysis of its practical application. The current study extends on these critiques by exploring how positive psychology is applied to the workplace by investigating practitioner-based sources including interviews with workplace coaches who use positive psychological interventions and applied published texts. The study draws on Michel Foucault’s concepts of power/knowledge and discourse as a theoretical and methodological framework. Three dominant discourses were identified which illustrate the ways in which positive psychology is applied to the workplace. These include the promotion of its scientific credentials, employing a strength-based approach and using goal-setting and behavioral reinforcement interventions. When applied to the workplace, these discourses psychologize workplace problems, resulting in potentially negative outcomes...

Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in …, 2011

In Australia over the last three decades, secular insight (vipassana) meditation practice has inc... more In Australia over the last three decades, secular insight (vipassana) meditation practice has increasingly drawn away from its Theravadin origins, thus exemplifying a wider trend in western Buddhist circles over the second half of the last century, to loosen ties with their ...

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2012

The purpose of this analysis is to review, through a critical theoretical lens, social psychology... more The purpose of this analysis is to review, through a critical theoretical lens, social psychology applied to work and organisations. In our reading of the applied social psychological literature four key issues emerged. These include the valorisation of a positivist epistemology, an owner ⁄ management perspective on workplace issues, a focus on intra-psychic variables or internal mental states when accounting for organisational problems, and the ignoring of moral and ethical commitments in determining workplace research and practice. Each of these issues is then further analysed in light of insights from the field of Critical Management Studies. This alternative approach to organisational behaviour points to the ways in which applied social psychological theory and practice have the potential to disadvantage workers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology, 2017