by CaosManagement n.43
It 'time to abolish the Master in Business Administration?
For love of country do not speak Italian managers of schools, which are outside people who do not know that Napoleon lost at Waterloo or that Libya was a colony Italy, which often can not distinguish between it (the verb to have) and a (preposition), applauding thrilled if someone says that the crisis does not exist and is just a psychological fact, that seem to be made with cookie-cutter, his head shaved , with their arrogance, their dress blue, the tie of Marinelli and their latest fashion phone for use with a crash in the first class of the red arrow.
speaks instead of the important debate that is taking place internationally on the MBA, Masters in Business Administration.
E 'also led to a new term: "MBA clone" (Dan Herman). Many managers attend the same courses, studying the same books, read the same newspapers and the same journals, attend conferences and take up the same to the same conference. In this way, take the same attitude and towards the same vocabulary of business. MBA become the clone. Of course, not everyone becomes a clone and Dan Herman MBA offers a questionnaire to see if it has become and a series of suggestions for "declonizzarsi. Some suggestions are absolutely unacceptable, such as to abandon the long-term strategy, not to confuse objectives and strategy, while others should be discussed in more detail as to leave the market segmentation for contextual segmentation, or give up the vision. Henry Mintzberg criticizes the MBA. Here here part of a recent interview with CNN:
CNN: What should be the goal of the MBA?
MINTZBERG: Create the best managers create better organizations that create a better world.
CNN: The management can be taught?
MINTZBERG: No, you can improve the quality or characteristics of the manager, the manager can not create in the classroom ..... What you can do is teach management to someone who is not a manager, as you can not teach surgery to a surgeon who is not. .............. What I have against the MBA is that you come out of an MBA program for two years, never having did the manager, and I assume that you are ready to assume responsibility for managing. Not only presume, but it's the same school that assures you, and this is deeply wrong. ........ I consider the management, the management, such as arts, crafts and science. This is a practice that is based on art, craft and science and there is a lot of craft in the sense of experience that involves intuition, creativity, vision, and there is the use of science, technology and analysis . But MBA programs are so oriented primarily towards the analytical part that is outside what I call "Calculating managers" and I think they are causing problems everywhere .................... ............... In the schools of management is very important to the case study. They are based on the fact to read twenty pages of a company of which you probably have not heard about and the next day you go in the classroom to talk about it. So we are training people who think, give me twenty pages of the report and I give the strategy. ............... There is no experience, no one has ever met the client has never been in the factories, the products do not know, nobody knows anything. And they're all talking about what the company is required to do, because they have spent a couple hours the night before reading the case ....................
Ray Williams in an article for the Sounding Board, the Vancouver magazine Board of Trade, rileva che per la maggior parte i programmi delle scuole di business sono orientati alla teoria ed utilizzano gli strumenti tradizionali: case studies, lezioni, film e discussioni. Il problema, secondo Ray Williams, è che i docenti di queste scuole sono scelti non sulla base della loro esperienza di leader o manager, ma sulla base delle ricerche pubblicate.
Kelly Holland in un articolo sul New York Times rileva che le scuole di business sono troppo teoriche e con pochi contatti con il mondo reale, agli studenti si insegna come affrontare problemi complessi con soluzioni semplici e rapide, l’unico obiettivo è quello di massimizzare il valore delle azioni, senza nessun riferimento all’etica ed ai problem sociali.
Rakesh Khurana also think that business schools make managers whose sole aim is to increase shareholder value and, therefore, are merely agents of the property, with everything that comes from this idea.
In an article in the London Times, Philip Broughton is much more fierce and says that if Robespierre guillotined reborn and look for people from those who could start after his name the initials MBA: This category of bankers, financiers and consultants destroyers of value has done far more damage than any other category of persons. Broughton also points out that if we make a list of the most important entrepreneurs in recent history, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Michael Dell, Richard Branson, Lakshmi Mittal, we do not find a single MBA. But if we look at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers from HBOS, we find the fingerprints of many MBA.
Lynda Gratton expected, very optimistically, that students will bring about change in business schools. His opinion is that those who enroll in these schools are now facing an MBA to know, for sources outside academic circles, there are other business models, more egalitarian and that there are those she identifies as "social entrepreneurs ".
This note of optimism is based on the fact that the spread and easy access to information about companies is now a fait accompli in countries where there is transparency and where the media are indeed free from political constraints or even ownership. We hope that this can happen here too.
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