Can management educators and scholars become effective managers? : Can managers become effective management educators and scholars?

Fundamentally, this paper argues in favour of the two questions posed in the title, i.e. that management educators and scholars can become effective managers, and also managers can become effective management educators and scholars. This has been supported by some modern, and indeed, “transformational” approaches to the leadership (as opposed to functional management) argument; that we all need to lead initiatives today without having the traditionally necessary title of manager to go with it. Thus, management educators and scholars find themselves effectively managing or certainly leading others through whole programmes of learning requiring new and closely audited processes and procedures. It also argues that many experienced managers can and do turn their attention to the learning and development of other managers in academic environments. It concludes by highlighting the benefits of each to the recipients of the other. The references used are no earlier than the late 1990s.