Abstract
Teaching in universities, especially in management schools, is today orientated to solving-problems and operational skills’ development, short-term productivity gains and to a vocational perspective. This represents an impoverishment of a deeper learning, an obstacle to the development of competences in a broader and integrative sense and the absence of a critical thinking practice. These are important tools to enhance in students and future managers, as specific social actors, abilities to act in a conscious, autonomous and long-term efficacious manner in society. This essay’s objective is to problematize the role that sociology could assume in the overcoming of that impoverishment, namely within the curricular unit of organizational behavior in two ways. First, teaching the social and macro dimensions that contribute to explain organizational structuring and behavior. Secondly, enhancing reflexivity and contextualization on the practices and discourses of all social actors involved and disassembling the dominant ideological, naturalized and simplistic individualized view on the reality of labor, employment and organizations. This is especially relevant in hospitality management studies because the dominant discourse about hospitality organizations hide, under a hegemonic paradigm of naturalized and individualized explanations, the macro-social dimensions of its organizational culture, work conditions, employees’ behaviors, management styles and market labor.
Highlights
The main issue that we are dealing with is the role of sociology in higher education, especially in the organizational behavior curricular unit within management studies, with particular emphasis on hospitality management
An integrated and problematic approach to the various topics that usually appear in the curricular unit of organizational behavior is rarely exercised, and there is a huge absence of the second dimension of the role that we ask for sociology in higher education, namely the promotion of reflexivity, contextualization and problematization of truths given as unquestionable
Our goal was to discuss and, present some proposals concerning the role that sociology can play in the teaching and training of future hospitality managers, within the framework of the curricular unit of organizational behavior
Summary
The main issue that we are dealing with is the role of sociology in higher education, especially in the organizational behavior curricular unit within management studies, with particular emphasis on hospitality management. The present essay’s goal is to contribute to the discussion about deep learning [2], critical thinking, pedagogies [3,4] and competences in a broader sense [5], and to problematize relevant theoretical subjects and some operationalization strategies when teaching organizational behavior for management students These tasks should be seen as important for promoting an effective, autonomous and conscious social practice. We will present the dominant view about hospitality management produced by schools and hospitality organizations It is in this articulated reflection and in the defense of the need to include such problematized contents in the curricular unit of organizational behavior that we establish the particular role that sociology can have here in achieving deep learning
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