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Online MBA ForumTuesday, August 22, 2006MBA in Control
Hmmm, this journey is really good - it lasts around 6 days, and every day I find that I've got new themes to think about. Although I started to think about my MBA consultancy idea today, I found that it wouldn't come into focus. Instead I was thinking about my own PhD, which is about management by relationships in a knowledge economy.
This idea is that control is a very difficult if not impossible task to do with knowledge workers - they know too much about their own areas to take control from someone who doesn't have as much knowledge. I've made it work in life, and now I want to know why. But I'm confronted by the fact that most managers do the control bit as if it was the whole of the job. My line of thought at the moment is how you deconstruct some of this control stuff in a program such as an MBA. # posted by Mary @ 2:18 PM
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You’re thinking along exactly the right lines: whether this becomes part of an MBA program doesn’t to me matter. In my day job I’m an expert in the markets for one specific metal. In fact, the expert, globally. There’s no point in someone trying to "manage" me, to insist that I spend a certain amount of my time working on particular tasks, or that I work in a specific way. It’s entirely redundant as I know more than anyone else in my speciality.
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However, a decent MBA program would, I think, be trying to teach the students that this is actually the point of the knowledge economy. The aim in hiring is to get the experts. The manager’s job is to identify and attract them at first, then having caught them, to empower them to produce their best work. Control as a function of management is dying: empowerment is the new reason for the very existence of a managerial class. Very interesting piece in The Register on this: women over 50 appear to have the best skill set for managing in this sort of economy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/23/women_bosses/ # posted by failingeconomist : 7:50 AM
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