Article written by Charles Handy exploring management education reform. Handy begins the article establishing certain truths about educating managers that have remained prevalent. According to Handy, first, educating the manager is dependent on an alliance between the manager, his employing organization, and the school. Second, learning has to take place in one environment and be put to work in another. Third, the learning process necessitates understanding the learning needs of experienced adults. Handy proceeds to discuss how business schools tend to be normative rather than socializing institutions, differing from other professional schools and therefore having different outcomes their students. He ultimately concludes that the individual needs to be involved in the selection of the appropriate education program, particular business schools need to move as far towards methods of learning by discovery as constraints will permit, and that organizations need to pay more attention to th
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