In recent times turmoil in the global market system has led us to question our static belief in market dynamics and the strong focus on individualism. In terms of management education, this has also challenged the role of higher education and the benefit for our society. Further, much of today's management education, which is mostly organised on an individual country basis, lacks international perspectives and has little interest in fostering international competences. This is a crucial point since having intercultural skills and intercultural qualifications is becoming increasingly important in terms of management employability as well as for scientific careers in an ever more globalised world. While international issues are increasingly included in curricula on a content level, action-oriented international approaches remain scarce. In light of this context, this paper introduces the Ethical-Critical-Intercultural-Interdisciplinary (ECU) framework that links teaching goals, interventions, structural elements and competence levels and explains how it can be used to improve management education. The framework is intended to be a means for reflecting on how to implement intercultural aspects into university education in a structured way. Its application for fostering ethics, interculturality and reflection in management education is expounded in this article. In doing so, a large number of approved practices are presented to stimulate further experimentation in developing intercultural sensitivity. © P.I.E. PETER LANG s.a. All rights reserved.
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