Managers, Theory, and Practice: On What Do We Base Experienced Reflection?
本文评论明茨伯格的《管理者而非MBA》一书，探讨MBA教育对管理实践的影响，并主张在商业教育中融入伦理理论等跨学科价值元素。
This article comments on the book Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, by Henry Mintzberg. Professor Mintzberg's latest effort regarding the development of corporate managers focuses on how contemporary Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs have both augmented and hurt the practice of management. In Managers Not MBAs, he advances the argument that managing is not instinctual, it has to be learned, too, not just by doing it but by being able to gain conceptual insight while doing it. Mintzberg reflects on the nature, design, and pedagogy of traditional MBA programs and how management development should be taught in such a way as to reflect discussions of critical facets of qualitative education, individual behavior, self-direction, and interpersonal behavior of adult education. His approach to the development of managers is less pedagogical, perhaps more andragogical, in terms of his advocacy of self-reflection on individual management experience. These, of course, reflect organization theory of practice, but on his account should also incorporate interdisciplinary theory. Further, Mintzberg states that the theoretical ideas found in the social and political sciences present interesting considerations for management development. This article argues that specific interdisciplinary theory, inclusive of value-based elements found in ethical theory, should also be used to inform business education in light of a global market.