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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Online MBA Apprenticeship

I was talking to a group of business people earlier this week about how they can recruit the right people for their business. We talked at length about the ways in which graduates need to spend time working in jobs after they gain their qualifications, in order to absorb the work ethos that they need in order to be useful to their employers. We also talked about the value of graduate qualifications.

When we discussed MBA graduates, one employer said that he had noticed how much more effective his latest MBA recruit was. This graduate had studied an online MBA while working at a junior management position. The employer said that in his opinion this was as good as if not better than an apprenticeship, allowing the graduate to combine theory and practice over a long period of time. In his opinion this person was really likely to make senior management because of his pragmatic and practical approach to management.

# posted by Mary @ 1:16 AM  
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I wouldn’t say this surprises me all that much. It was Robert Townsend in "Up The Organisation"(published in 67 or 69 I think) who pointed out that the traditional MBA was trained to do two things. Be the CEO or CFO. All they ever did from getting their MBA until one of the top two jobs opened up was wait on the company dime.

Yes, OK, perhaps he was being just a touch cynical about MBAs.

But if you’ve now got people doing a useful job while they study an MBA program (whether online or part time) they’re likely to be a lot more useful to the company in those intervening years. They will actually have some experience of how companies really work to underly their textbook studies.
# posted by failedeconomist : 9:35 AM
 
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