The MBA through Women's Eyes
通过对16位女性MBA的访谈，发现她们在MBA学习中面临权威集中、回避不确定性、内外向学习方式冲突及分析式与情感式认知差异等四类紧张关系，指出传统教学法窄化了学习机会，并解释了女性教师价值被低估的原因。
Disquiet about the fitness and future of management education prompts this exploratory study of the MBA experience from women's points of view. Interviews with 16 women MBAs yield findings that are broadly consistent with research suggesting that women prefer to learn and be taught in ways which depart from traditional MBA approaches. In particular, interviewees identified four sources of tension in their educational experience: centralization versus decentralization of authority in the classroom; defenses against admissions of uncertainty and ignorance; learning by looking outwards or inwards; and knowing by analytical replication versus imaginative and emotional engagement. Several implications for management education are drawn. Knowledge that is delivered through traditional pedagogues is accepted as legitimate, while understanding gained through alternative processes is viewed as inferior or lower-order. Some learning strategies are devalued, particularly those women have often preferred. Both men and women suffer from the resulting narrow array of learning opportunities. Secondly, this research helps explain why women teachers, when judged against traditional norms of equating dominance with authority, are often valued less. It is concluded that institutional experimentation with a wider range of learning and pedagogical strategies would better equip managers when working with diverse contemporary workforces, and would also help them build wider repertoires for learning and understanding.