Behavioral Coursework in Business Education: Growing Evidence of a Legitimacy Crisis

By S. Rynes, C. Trank, Anne Lawson, R. Ilies. 2003

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How relevant is the MBA? Assessing the alignment of required MBA curricula and required managerial competencies. (2009, background): “Unfortunately, as others have noted (Rynes et al., 2003), there may be significant institutional, social, economic, and political reasons for the misalignment of MBA content with actual managerial work.”
Importance of Soft Skills for Education and Career Success (2012, background): “Probably that is why, as suggested by Rynes et al [7], the business students’ attitude towards behavioural courses, with substantial coverage given to soft skills development, is usually negative together with their reluctance to register for such courses.”
Intelligence Vs. Wisdom: The Love of Money, Machiavellianism, and Unethical Behavior across College Major and Gender (2008, background): “Can colleges and universities make vicious students virtuous or stupid students wise (Colson, 1999)? With a legitimacy crisis, faculty can not afford to throw out the baby with the bath water but need to make low-priority ‘‘warm and fuzzy,’’ nonquantitative behavioral, ethics courses more relevant t”