[推荐]一些关于MBA的文章

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有很多朋友，尤其是有工作经验的朋友希望读MBA。

希望此贴的文章能给大家带来一些启示。

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Southampton, 09/04/04

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1. Mintzberg 看管理教育

Henry Mintzberg 加拿大McGill 大学的教授，当代管理理论名家，尤其是在对managerial behavior的研究方面，高。

战略方面，Henry 的书，必看。所以我在首贴，转载了一些CNN对H. Mintzberg的问题和回答。

CNN: What should be the goal of management education?

MINTZBERG: To create better managers who create better organizati##被过滤## who create a better world.

我的理解：管理教育的目标是创造更好的管理者，这些管理者能创造更好的组织，而这些组织能创造更好的世界。我翻译得不好，但是可以看出来，管理者、组织和社会的关系。

CNN: Can management be taught?

MINTZBERG: No you can enhance the characteristics or qualities of peoples who are managers you cannot create managers in the classroom. You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

我的理解：管理是不可被教授的，经理人是不可能在教室里面被创造出来的。管理教育职能增强人们的“质量”。经理人和非经理人对于管理的理解和接受能力是不一样的，管理、管理实践是针对经理人或者说，管理工作者。（本人的观点上面理解）

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-4-9 20:18:48编辑过]

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CNN: You are very critical of MBAs?

What I have against MBAs is the assumption that you come out of a two year program probably never having been a manager -- at least for full-time younger people MBA programs -- and assume you are ready to manage. Not only do you assume it, but also the schools tell you that and this is dead wrong. The impression left of management in MBA programs is distorted. In fact the MBA programs are very effective at business training at giving people an understanding of business functi##被过滤## even creating enthusiasm for business. But they give a distorted impression of management precisely because the people studying for the younger programs are not managers. And MBAs are largely orientated towards analysis and analytical kinds of things but that is one kind of management but it is not a small part.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft -- meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. But MBA programs are so weighted towards the analytical side that people come over as what I call calculating managers and I think they're causing problems everywhere.

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同意斑竹的理解，不过稍做改动。

我想冥梓博格相表达的是如果对管理者进行培训，那么目的就是培训出一位能够更好的组织公司的运作流程的好的管理者。什么算是更好的组织公司运作流程呢？就是能让公司这个整体比以前更好。

很明显冥梓博格认为管理者是天生的，他学要具备管理者所特有的气质。不是所有人都能够被训练成为一名管理人员，而这类训练课程也只能使那些有管理者潜力的人更加老练成熟也就是上个问题的''好管理者''。这类培训课程却无法使一名科学家成为一个管理者。

关于MBA，我不太同意冥梓博格的看法，MBA还是非常helpful的，不过是需要找所好的学校去学习。