Education
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Educating practice?
"Mintzberg asserts that conventional MBA classrooms overemphasize the science of management while ignoring its art and its craft, leaving a distorted impression of its practice. We need to get back to a more engaging style of management, to build stronger organizations, not bloated share prices. This calls for another approach to management education, whereby practicing managers learn from their own experience. We need to build the art and the craft back into management education, and into management itself." (http://www.henrymintzberg.com/mangnotmba.htm)
Project Management education may suffer from the same illness as Mintzberg has diagnosed for conventional MBA programs.
This is thus a call for educational innovativeness to make education relevant!
References
- Bennis, W. G. och O'Toole, J. (2005) How business schools lost their way. Harvard Business Review, 83(5), 96-104.
- Ghoshal, S. (2005) Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4(1), 75-91.
- Mintzberg, H. (2003) Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco.
