Functions, roles and behaviors: teaching the managerial job

Article Abstract:

Critics have attacked the functional approach to managerial duties as misleading and limited in scope. While these show the approach's limitations, the functional approach is still an effective tool for educating students and trainees because it is simple, understandable and flexible in application. Lecturers should inform their students of these limitations and stress that managerial job models merely outlines the work involved and that management techniques are developed as one progresses on the job. The functional view should only be used as a backgrounder for the more experienced managers.

Methods, Management training

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The nature of managerial work: a comparison of 'Real Managers' and traditional management

Article Abstract:

A comparison of Henri Fayol, a pioneering theorists on management, and a recent study, 'Real Managers,' shows that the bases of management have changed very little over time. Fayol posited five basic elements of managerial work: planning, organizing, coordination, command and control. 'Real Managers' takes Fayol's ideas and restates them in modern terminology, but the basic ideas remain the same. The de-emphasis of general management coursework can be traced to the recycling of classical theories rather than developing new effective methods for teaching management.

Analysis, Corporate governance, Curricula, Business schools

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The management experience of management professors: evidence and implications for management education

Article Abstract:

A study on the managerial experience of management professors is discussed. Some 2,000 membersof the Academy of Management in the US and Canada were the subjects of the study. The data collected was compared with data gathered in a 1977 survey on the managerial experience of management professors. Results of the study indicate that management professors today have lesser managerial and business experience. Fewer teachers also have doctoral degrees from business schools.

Research, Business teachers

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