Henry Mintzberg (2004, P. 9), in His Plea for Business Experience to Precede Management Education, Said, "Trying to Teach Management to Someone Who Has Never Managed Is Like Trying to Teach Psychology to Someone Who Has
Henry Mintzberg (2004, p. 9), in his plea for business experience to precede management education, said, "trying to teach management to someone who has never managed is like trying to teach psychology to someone who has never met another human being." Submit a paper to discuss whether this is a reasonable description.
Reference: Mintzberg, H. (2004), Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Many times we can read in the business literature that the leader or the manager is someone who can be constructed during the learning process. Making of the manager is a subject of numerous articles giving the faith to the people who want to take on management as their main job. But is it really so? In most cases the process of constructing the manager starts at the business schools. The theories are discussed, case studies are resolved with optimum scenarios but it does not mean that the graduates are the ready managers. Mintzberg is giving the examples of the reasons why people want to achieve MBA – there is almost no mention of the management. In most cases MBA is a meaning of getting out of management than getting into it. It is a way of getting high positions or starting up own businesses but not the way to manage better or be the manager . In my opinion the management is all about accepting the responsibility but in business schools there is not much mention about it . In many cases the MBA is a way to accept high position with a high salary but not the responsibility as the last financial crises proved . Managing is so closely related to life , to the context of the job and the company .It constitutes a separate , ever changing universe which can be in most cases hard to describe not to mention taught . For the management students it is difficult to imagine the real
Many times we can read in the business literature that the leader or the manager is someone who can be constructed during the learning process. Making of the manager is a subject of numerous articles giving the faith to the people who want to take on management as their main job. But is it really so? In most cases the process of constructing the manager starts at the business schools. The theories are discussed, case studies are resolved with optimum scenarios but it does not mean that the graduates are the ready managers. Mintzberg is giving the examples of the reasons why people want to achieve MBA – there is almost no mention of the management. In most cases MBA is a meaning of getting out of management than getting into it. It is a way of getting high positions or starting up own businesses but not the way to manage better or be the manager . In my opinion the management is all about accepting the responsibility but in business schools there is not much mention about it . In many cases the MBA is a way to accept high position with a high salary but not the responsibility as the last financial crises proved . Managing is so closely related to life , to the context of the job and the company .It constitutes a separate , ever changing universe which can be in most cases hard to describe not to mention taught . For the management students it is difficult to imagine the real