Mission & values
Mission Statement
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is an international academic school of
management that aims to make an important contribution to professionalising
management and encouraging entrepreneurship.
The school realises this mission through rigorous and relevant scientific
research and by offering a wide range of high-quality management courses with a
specific European dimension. We welcome students, managers and organisations
from all over the world.
The Vlerick Values
To accomplish our mission, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School applies the following basic values:
- Synthesis
- Sense of Entrepreneurship
- Integrity and Autonomy
- Respect for Diversity
- Customer Orientation.
These values are applied to our training and research programmes, to the internal activities and behaviour of our employees, and to everything that we do: We apply internally what we teach as part of our programmes.
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SynthesisVlerick Leuven Gent Management School’s added value can be found in the productive interaction between scientific knowledge and practical management experience. Clients will find the School a professional partner for discussion and will be able to further develop their own ability to synthesise during meaningful dialogues with lecturers, researchers and fellow students. They can rely on the School fulfilling its role as watchdog with regard to new management theories and concepts, as well as to the best practices from within the corporate world. The School commits itself to synthesising its research and training activities and to developing forward-looking and relevant management models. An interdisciplinary approach is essential for this. |
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Sense of EntrepreneurshipVlerick Leuven Gent Management School wishes to share with its clients its belief in the value of the sense of entrepreneurship. The community can expect the School to play an active role in encouraging a sense of entrepreneurship and innovation. It wishes to be a central meeting place for entrepreneurs and researchers to discuss a unifying theme. Internally as well, the School creates an environment that encourages innovation. In order to realise this, employees are given the necessary freedom and means to develop breakthrough innovations, which may arise from individual creative minds and talents as well as from effective teamwork. |
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Integrity and AutonomyVlerick Leuven Gent Management School is convinced that integrity is a fundamental value for every organisation as well as for that organisation's management. The community can expect the School to contribute to the development of an ethical conscience in all its activities and in its relationship with all its stakeholders. To achieve this, we pay particular attention to the social responsibility of managers and organisations. As a scientific institution, for example, we actively take part in the debate on corporate responsibility and corporate social responsibility. We have also incorporated this theme in our course activities. You should clearly sense that we acknowledge and apply a coherent and explicit value system in every contact with the School. Freedom of expression is of vital importance for an academic institution like ours. Vlerick cherishes its autonomous position and approaches its environment in an objective and unbiased manner. |
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Respect for DiversityVlerick makes maximum use of the richness provided by the diversity of its clients. For its part, the School wants to guarantee its clients an environment that respects and promotes diversity. In turn, this should increase their ability to deal with diversity. |
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Customer OrientationStudents, participants, organisations and the community can rely on the School to take their desires and needs as a basis for the development of educational programmes and the definition and execution of research projects. Empathy for the client is the fundamental attitude of the School's staff members. |
