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CMBE Community Values

Below are the values that CMBE subscribers are encouraged to adopt through their practice and leadership.

Collaborative and part of a community practice
  • Be collaborative with peers, students, and external stakeholders (such as universities and businesses)

  • Help build, and participate in, a community of practice; and share knowledge which helps advance the development of other educators

  • Have an impact in our communities to raise the bar of knowledge and excellence across the community

Student-centric
  • Hold the student at the heart of business and management education and be student-centred

  • Challenge and enable students

  • Understand the needs to students (in all their forms and contexts)

Challenging and responsive
  • Recognise their ongoing development as a commitment to lifelong learning]

  • Be self-critical and self-reflecting

  • Challenge themselves and others in the community to develop excellent practice and pedagogy

  • Be agile, adaptable, and responsive to changing circumstances, and to new methods, tools and knowledge

Respectful and responsible
  • Conduct themselves with dignity, fairness, respect and integrity

  • Champion business and management education that is free from discrimination and which promotes equality, diversity and inclusion

  • Be supportive of the community of business and management educators and its development

  • Be considerate of the environment and mindful of sustainability

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