Connecting Rationality and Spirituality in Business Education

The paper argues that there is an imbalance in business, management and leadership education between providing abstract concepts and opportunities for personal growth. Connecting rationality and spirituality in higher education is necessary if we want to prepare students for the complexities and challenges of organisations. Kopatsy’s model of Intellectual Capital illustrates how crucial it is to cultivate right morality in society. Business education has a responsibility to provide safe environments and opportunities for students to connect their rational thoughts with their conscience and embody their “true self”. The paper gives an example of how introducing techniques from voice therapy and drama enable students to look beyond the rational. By engaging with the true self students discover dormant qualities in themselves and start moving towards their purpose, meaning, universal connectedness and spirituality

Trust

The paper begins with the account of a focus group discussion of Hungarian female managers who demonstrated high level of trust. The author explores the nature of trust and looks at works and research findings in different disciplines. In psychology Erikson’s findings on human growth and development are discussed. Representatives of Eastern and Western philosophy are quoted to highlight the underlying differences of thinking in relationship to trust. The impact of cultural heritage and the influence of the environment on trust add further dimensions to the argument. In conclusion it is suggested that management education could be a platform for further research and exploration of trust in individuals and organisations

Spatial flocking: Control by speed, distance, noise and delay

Fish, birds, insects and robots frequently swim or fly in groups. During their 3 dimensional collective motion, these agents do not stop, they avoid collisions by strong short-range repulsion, and achieve group cohesion by weak long-range attraction. In a minimal model that is isotropic, and continuous in both space and time, we demonstrate that (i) adjusting speed to a preferred value, combined with (ii) radial repulsion and an (iii) effective long-range attraction are sufficient for the stable ordering of autonomously moving agents in space. Our results imply that beyond these three rules ordering in space requires no further rules, for example, explicit velocity alignment, anisotropy of the interactions or the frequent reversal of the direction of motion, friction, elastic interactions, sticky surfaces, a viscous medium, or vertical separation that prefers interactions within horizontal layers. Noise and delays are inherent to the communication and decisions of all moving agents. Thus, next we investigate their effects on ordering in the model. First, we find that the amount of noise necessary for preventing the ordering of agents is not sufficient for destroying order. In other words, for realistic noise amplitudes the transition between order and disorder is rapid. Second, we demonstrate that ordering is more sensitive to displacements caused by delayed interactions than to uncorrelated noise (random errors). Third, we find that with changing interaction delays the ordered state disappears at roughly the same rate, whereas it emerges with different rates. In summary, we find that the model discussed here is simple enough to allow a fair understanding of the modeled phenomena, yet sufficiently detailed for the description and management of large flocks with noisy and delayed interactions. Our code is available at http://github.com/fij/flocComment: 12 pages, 7 figure

Relaxed sector condition

In this note we present a new sufficient condition which guarantees martingale approximation and central limit theorem a la Kipnis-Varadhan to hold for additive functionals of Markov processes. This condition which we call the relaxed sector condition (RSC) generalizes the strong sector condition (SSC) and the graded sector condition (GSC) in the case when the self-adjoint part of the infinitesimal generator acts diagonally in the grading. The main advantage being that the proof of the GSC in this case is more transparent and less computational than in the original versions. We also hope that the RSC may have direct applications where the earlier sector conditions don't apply. So far we don't have convincing examples in this direction.Comment: 11 page

Az emberi toke atertekelodesenek szuksegessege

A humán eröforrás vagy az emberi töke szókapcsolás mára már teljesen beépült a szókincsbe nemcsak az angolszász országokban, hanem világszerte. Ha megpróbáljuk a kifejezés értelmét keresni általánosan az emberek menedzselését, irányitását, vezetését, a rendelkezésre álló munkaerö kihasználását értjük emberi tökén. Ma még kevéssé tartozik a fogalom értelméhez az ember értékeinek kiteljesitése, az ember teljes, harmónikus személyiséggé való növekedésének elösegitése. Ma még kevés helyen tartják Covey (1992) és Millman (2000) szellemében a belülröl ( azaz az egyén lelkéböl kiinduló) kifelé tartó növekedés a hosszutávu vállalati siker egyetlen lehetséges utjának. Ez az irás arra tesz kisérletet, hogy nagyvonalakban visszatekintsen a gyökerekhez, az ember és töke fogalmának összekapcsolódásához és kiemeljen néhány sarkalatos kérdés, mely a jelenben egyre élesedö, kutatók és gyakorlati szakemberek között egyaránt zajló vitákban és utkeresésben csucsosodik ki. Az irás fókusza az angolszász világ, hiszen a gyökerek ide vezetnek és mert a szerzö a témával kapcsolatos viták ismeröje és aktiv résztvevöje Nagy-Britanniában. A tanulmány nem kiván sem átfogó sem objectiv képet festeni, sokkal inkább vállalja a szubjektiv, egyéni vélemény kifejezését azzal a céllal, hogy elgondolkoztasson, hogy pár dolgot megkérdöjelezzen és hogy remélhetöleg gondolkodásra, eszmecserére inspiráljon. Az irás a következö egyszerü szerkezetet követi: Mult - avagy az emberi töke fogalmának kialakulása Jelen - mit ér az ember Jövö - a lélek és a lét egyensuly