The future international manager: a vision of the roles and duties of management

The professional standing of business management is questionable
today. In comparing business management with the more
traditional professions of law and medicine, we can find the
former wanting. This book presents the desired professional
profile of international managers working in the challenging
context of the twenty-first-century ecological, economic, and social
reality. The future international manager is defined as a reflexive
practitioner, who is committed to environmental sustainability,
exercises social responsibility, works with sensitivity toward
gender and diversity issues, harmonizes information communication technologies with processes and organizational culture, applies holistic perspective in problem solving, cooperates with social and political actors, and is engaged in progressive entrepreneurship.
Unless future international managers demonstrate that they
serve the common good in their daily practice, the legitimacy
and moral standing of the business profession remain questionable.
We hope that "The Future International Manager" contributes to
changing the business profession for the better.