Varying Management
I am beginning to wonder how applicable the forms of management we are learning will be in industry. It seems obvious to me that very few things are applicable across the board. Managing a retail firm would be very different from managing a restaurant or hotel. Is management something that can even be learned? There are many successful managers in the world, but how much of their success can actually be traced back to formal education? I tend to believe that good managers are simply people who were born with the ability to adapt and solve problems.
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Posted by: Erin Christmas
Posted on: November 6, 2005 10:18 PM
I sometimes feel that a lot of what we are learning is very general and that can be frustrating. But I think that the course is designed to be so. Keep in mind, this class is required for basically all under graduate majors in WSOM, so having in-depth readings and assignments might feel like a waste of time to say, an accounting major. Instead, this class is a broad look at what management consists of to see if management is really a field a person is interested in or for a person who’s not a management major to just get the basics. I do agree though that being a good manager is a skill that does not necessarily require a lot of formal training. However, what I am getting the most out of this class is different people's opinions and ways to approach situations.