Sensing: The elephant in the room of management learning

This conceptual paper examines reasons why analytically educated learners may be reluctant to engage in sensory-based learning. Sensing is indispensable for constructing knowledge and should employed on par with the intellect, particularly today’s complex uncertain context. Yet, we have observed learners’ reluctance sensing attempted understand it. Our theoretical contribution illuminates underlying causes of this phenomenon, thus furthering study fields individual learning management practical prompts researchers, learners, educators, managers think more systematically about ways overcome openly bring into practice intellectual processing. With help phenomenal theorizing, presented exploratory identifies following common barriers learners: corporate social norms against evidence, discomfort outside one’s comfort zone, inadequate vocabulary sensory experiences, lack awareness, preference sequential reasoning, mistrust dismissive attitude, denying (or not admitting to) use sensing.