PRESENTATION OF THE TRACK 

Presentation and objectives

The managerial sciences are rooted on Philosophy, more particularly on political philosophy.

Philosophy helps in : - Asking the right questions, - Raising the right problems - It helps making clear the relations between efficiency – short-term – and sense – long term ; 

- It helps in looking for long-term orientations, visions, projects, strategies in an uncertain world. The demand is increasing in companies for structuring together both short-term and long-term perspectives and for acquiring competences when it comes to make sense of business in a human world.

The Management and Philosophy track gives the opportunity to make clear the roots of modern sciences, and particularly the managerial ones.

On the other hand, taking into account that the more demanding theories involve an understanding of their relations to practice, and that such an understanding cannot not be at once theoretical and practical, the practical consequences of the theoretical approach of the roots of managerial sciences on the basis of the understanding of the main issues of political philosophy are crucial. Such practical consequences concern the Managers’ posture or attitudes (in French, the “savoir être”). 

The track aims at providing with some key concepts and takeaways concerning posture or behavioral skills. These skills concern particularly the short term / long term tension, daily decision-making, genders, the increasing complexity of our world.