Arts in Management Education: Creative Exercises Using Poetry, Literature, Music & Film Art Based Exercises for Management Education

Scholars who have used different art forms in their teaching, research and practice, as a way to explore, experience, understand, and re-imagine various management topics, will share their expertise and offer demonstrations to train peers. These immersive experiences promote reflection and critical thinking, and go beyond the dry analytical theories that tend to be divorced from practice but are currently dominant. This workshop offers: 1. Presentations by a panel of their individual expertise in using the arts in the strategy, sustainability, organizational behavior and ethics class rooms, to share why and how they pursue this work and its impact. 2. Direct experience with the art forms, poetry, literature, music, and film to understand its soft power, with participatory and contemplative reflections as a community. 3. A dialog and question and answer session to share resources and build connections for future work. This workshop builds on four year of previously offered PDWs, the Contemplative Art Salons, where hundreds of attendees were trained in the use of arts. Now, we share how these exercises have worked in creating memorable classroom experiences for a variety of different subject areas and students. Art is an important form of self-expression and social commentary, it engages people, captures the zeitgeist, entrains or challenges assumptions. Artistic creation and experience influence what we see, notice, think, and decide to do subsequently. This work humanizes management and inspires creativity to develop managers who are better prepared to work collaboratively for the common good.