Open Book Management in the Education of Managers

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Open Book Management, which leads to ownership culture, is rightly referred to as a new management philosophy. In fact, it is based on different anthropological assumptions. Traditional management is based on the idea of homo oeconomicus, which is best reflected in calling the human aspects of management: human resource management. In contrast, Open Book Management (OBM) seems to be based on the idea of the human being as a person, responsible and free to make choices. Anyone who knows at least a little bit about OBM knows how successful this philosophy is. Its successes, however, are not reflected in the role it plays in management education and research. If you click OBM in Google, you get about 6160 results. If you click TQM, you get 236 000. Even a tool like Balanced Score Card has 8260 entries.

The main purpose of this group is to offer mutual support and exchange of experiences in introducing OBM to management schools and courses and carrying on OBM relevant research. Eventually this should lead to creating more and more open book companies. According to OBM practices I propose two numbers to measure the group's success. One the "Google number" mentioned above. The second the number of school courses and programmes devoted to OBM, which will be registered as the Group's database. But according to other OBM practices I propose to discuss the relevance of the proposed numbers as well.