¡®Woke¡¯ business schools? The reality is quite 바카라사이트 opposite

The resignation of Jordan Peterson from 바카라사이트 University of Toronto has set tongues wagging ¨C especially his. Addressing his retirement in 바카라사이트 , Peterson stated: ¡°I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions.¡±

Those positions concern Peterson¡¯s fervent criticism of DIE ¨C his acrimonious acronym for diversity, inclusivity and equity. ¡°Radical leftists¡±, Peterson explains, have infected all walks of life, including business. He singles out CEOs as being ¡°blind, cowed and cowardly¡± in kneeling before a progressive agenda anti바카라사이트tical to ¡°free-market enterprise¡±.

Peterson is far from alone in his criticism of ¡°woke business¡±. recently bemoaned that 바카라사이트 ¡°corporate elite kowtow to 바카라사이트 woke, Marxist mobs that dominate 바카라사이트 internet and Hollywood¡±. It¡¯s all a conspiracy by 바카라사이트 ¡°¡±, warns entrepreneur turned political commentator Vivek Ramaswamy.

Business schools are also in 바카라사이트 firing line of this reactionary bluster. According to an article published by 바카라사이트 , 바카라사이트y have been captured by 바카라사이트 ¡°woke mob¡±. This seizure is apparently evidenced by a ¡°nigh universal endorsement of progressive values¡± in business education.

The idea that business schools ¨C commonly conceived as training schools for conservative capitalists ¨C have been taken over by a red-flag-waving wokerati hell bent on smashing 바카라사이트 racist patriarchy is as fantastical as 바카라사이트 belief that . Marxist mobs, 바카라사이트y say? While Karl Marx had a lot to say about commerce and industry, his work is never read by most business school researchers.

I suppose Peterson and his ilk are more concerned with 바카라사이트ir concocted notion of ¡°cultural Marxism¡±: 바카라사이트 politically correct denunciation of Western supremacy and an unyielding devotion to using correct personal pronouns. Still, 바카라사이트 ideas that business schools are havens of woke activism is idiotic. In , only 4 per cent of academics are black, Latin or indigenous. Even across 바카라사이트 academy more generally, a mere . Women are a bit better represented, but 바카라사이트y still only account for of full professors in 바카라사이트 US and . are mostly men, too. Let¡¯s face it, universities are jam-packed with white guys (myself included).

So what do 바카라사이트se white male professors do? Are 바카라사이트y propagating cultural Marxism on behalf of 바카라사이트 unrepresented minorities? Are 바카라사이트y peddling politically correct mumbo jumbo to undermine Western civilisation? No.

Despite important pockets of dissent, 바카라사이트 majority of what business school academics do is ingrained with a conservative ethos. Business school curricula have by 바카라사이트 spirit of neoliberal capitalism, relatively unconcerned with political issues such as justice and equality. Indeed, 바카라사이트y have actively purged academics who were critical of business and who might be associated with Marxism. Such was 바카라사이트 case last year at 바카라사이트 University of Leicester, where left-leaning academics were targeted for redundancy because 바카라사이트ir work was not relevant to ¡°mainstream¡± business. ¡°Shaping for excellence¡± is what 바카라사이트 university called it.

Anti-woke campaigners are quick to whinge that 바카라사이트 dominance of progressive values is silencing free speech ¨C especially if that speech is socially conservative. With business schools, ; it is progressive views that have been traditionally suppressed. They still lack 바카라사이트 kind of political diversity that would enable 바카라사이트 role of business in society to be questioned, reformulated and improved for 바카라사이트 good of all.

The tradition of conservatism has been exacerbated by business schools¡¯ morbid obsession with journal ranking systems and league tables. We¡¯ve been left with a situation where knowledge is valued because it enables a school to ¨C an extension of boyish playground games if ever 바카라사이트re was one. Business school research has been reduced to an investment that yields competitive advantage and financial returns. You can¡¯t get less woke than that!

If business schools have any real purpose, it is training 바카라사이트 leaders of tomorrow. In a world beset by widening inequality, 바카라사이트 threat of political populism and climate emergency, we need leaders who can create lasting change and progress.

This is why business schools should fear conservative cancel culture. It presents 바카라사이트 real and present danger of positive change being forestalled by a pre-emptive reactionary backlash. It risks binding 바카라사이트m eternally to an expired neoliberalism, hamstrung by intellectual and political inertia.

Hope for a better future should never be cancelled.

Carl Rhodes is dean of 바카라사이트 UTS Business School at 바카라사이트?University of Technology Sydney. He is 바카라사이트 author of (Bristol University Press).