Title: Using movies to teach management principles as a pedagogical tool: a case study

Authors: Kalpana Kataria

Addresses: Department of Commerce, Bharati College (University of Delhi), C-4, Janakpuri, New Delhi, India

Abstract: In the age of artificial intelligence, it has become a challenging task to engage students' attention in the classroom. There are many pedagogies to teach management principles, but using movies as a pedagogy to teach management principles will make students learning more effective and will help with retention of learning over a long period of time. By introducing this technology, faculty would be tech-savvy and would be able to prepare the subject in a systematic manner. This paper focused on the importance of movies as an available resource to teach core management principles. For the present study a popular Bollywood movie 'Guru' was selected because of its popularity and easily availability on different platforms. By using a systematic literature review approach, the present paper reviewed the articles published from 1996 to 2023 along with the articles movie 'Guru' used as a sample to teach management principles. This study revolves around core management principles, which had been categorised into broad categories. There are many movies that can be introduced as a pedagogy to teach other areas of management challenges and strategies to overcome them.

Keywords: movies; films; efficiently; management; principles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2025.145428

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2025 Vol.18 No.2, pp.216 - 227

Received: 31 Aug 2023
Accepted: 06 Sep 2023
Published online: 01 Apr 2025 *

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