The School of Management of ISLA is now a signatory and member of the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative.
Based on the principles of sustainable development, we are now part of a community that believes that all people have the right to live with dignity and to fulfil their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to achieve theirs. Responsible management education seeks to develop people who help their organisations create inclusive prosperity while promoting freedom, justice and peace in regenerative and resilient natural ecosystems.
To be responsible is to be mindful of the impact and the time. Responsible decision-makers look forward and backwards while living in the moment. Looking forward, they are responsible not only for current and future generations, but for all life on the planet. Looking back, they are accountable for their actions, those taken and those avoided.
So, with enthusiasm, we have joined a worldwide community of like-minded educational institutions to promote the project's aims and aspirations, document the initiatives developed, share the lessons learnt, and help each other meet our challenges.
The PRMEs are developed around seven principles, centred on responsible management practices.
- Purpose - To promote responsible management education by fostering inclusivity in a world of dynamic and vibrant ecosystems.
- Values - Putting organisational responsibility and accountability to society and the planet at the heart of our actions.
- Teach - Transforming our learning environments by integrating responsible management concepts and practices into our curriculum and pedagogy.
- Research - Studying people, organisations, institutions and the state of the world to inspire responsible management and education practices.
- Partner - Involving the community, people, organisations, governments, civil society, and universities to promote responsible management education and practice.
- Practice - Our governance and operations adopt responsible and accountable management principles.
- Share - Sharing our successes and failures with the community, fostering collective learning, dissemination of values and common goals.
