Proceedings of Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2011 Management Curriculum between Theory and Practice Josip Mesaric Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia mesaric@efos.hr Joze Kuzic Monash University, Melbourne, Australia joze.kuzic@monash.edu Zdravko Dovedan University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia zdovedan@hotmail.com Abstract The boom in business schools and schools of management in the European and world formal and informal educational area on the one hand and poor, sometimes even catastrophic, effects of managerial practice on the other hand, initiate the necessity to reviewing the existing general management curricula. Curricula of many educational institutions with long tradition in manage- ment education have undergone this process recently, as well as those institutions that have de- signed their curricula recently and under socio-economic conditions that were significantly dif- ferent from contemporary conditions. The analysis of general management curricula in twenty business schools and schools of management at bachelor level and twenty eight schools at gradu- ate and master level indicated that there is no generally accepted management curriculum. Fur- thermore, curricula have been developed in different contexts and from different starting points and different ends and means. By analysing general characteristics of managerial knowledge, we have researched curricula through some existing models and approaches to their development (curriculum as BOK to be transmitted, curriculum as a product, curriculum as development and process). Starting with specificities of managerial education and the approach to curriculum de- velopment, we have introduced a new model for curriculum design through multidimensional prism. This model can be used when analysing and revising the existing general management cur- ricula. Keywords: general management, curriculum, integrated model, hexagonal prism model. Material published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. Permission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage AND that copies 1) bear this notice in full and 2) give the full citation on the first page. It is per- missible to abstract these works so long as credit is given. To copy in all other cases or to republish or to post on a server or to redistribute to lists requires specific permission and payment of a fee. Contact Publisher@InformingScience.org to request redistribution permission. Introduction Significant changes have occurred in the European education area, especially in the higher education area during the last decade. The ultimate goal of these changes (the Bologna Declaration) is to harmonise knowledge and to promote the mobility of stakeholders (educators and learners), which resulted in consid-