With the breakdown of trust in business, managers tend to be losing legitimacy. Thus, so as to regain the public trust, Khurana and Nohria (2008) state that management should become a true profession in the same way as law and medicine. The authors purport that, so as to regain the trust of the society, the business leaders should look beyond their responsibilities towards the shareholders and omit their role as institutional custodians. That means that it is important to make management profession, where true professions do have codes of conduct and consequences being taught as part of education necessary of their members. According to Khurana and Nohria (2008), enforcing educational standards and the code of ethics can help in stimulating creativity. The main problem involved in writing the code is reaching a broad consensus on the aims and purposed of management. With the codes, the professional institutions can forge a social contract with members of the society. The profession can promote to ensure that then members are worth of the trust and will not only be competent in performing tasks entrusted to them, but they conduct themselves with high integrity and standards. The authors state that a profession that has well-functioning institutions of discipline can curb misconduct because the moral behavior is an integral part of the identity of professionals. The authors believe that codes help define implicit social contract among the members and through establishing a standard of inclusion, they do create and sustain a feeling of mutual obligation that the members have towards one another and the profession.
Based on the article, the author provides an excellent discussion on why management should become a true profession. The authors clearly explain why the manager should be a professional as their status is similar to that of lawyers and doctors as it is their obligation to contribute to the societys well-being. The authors tend to provide an excellent explanation and also use examples to indicate why management is the same as the law and medicine professions. However, despite their discussion, I hold a different view on why management should not be considered a profession.
Whether management is a profession or it is not, it is essential that managers should demonstrate professionalism just like lawyers and doctors since their level of responsibility in the society are the same. However, I tend to disagree with the authors claim that we should make management a true profession. Management is not a profession. While a professional tend to be a specialist, a manager is normally a jack of all trades and also a master of none. When considering the manager, their role is normally general, indefinable, and Văn phòng luật sư vĩnh phúc variable; thus, resists the standards and the certification that a true profession does demand (Heskett, 2005). Learning about management usually takes place in the minds of students instead of the content of the program modules. In my view, management should not be considered as a profession because it is the learning beyond the classroom that tends to feed the practice of management. In medicine, we do not expect an unqualified individual to perform a successful brain surgery; however, in business, the successful businesses are normally run by people even without MBAs. MBAs and other degrees may be necessary so as to generate better managers; however, suggesting that an MBA is a requirement so as to be a manager is ridiculous.
Reference
Heskett, J (2005). Should business management be regarded as the profession?
Nohria, N & Khurana, R (2008). Its time to make management the true profession. Harvard Business
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Article ReviewWith the breakdown of trust in business, managers tend to be losing legitimacy. Thus, so as to regain the public trust, Khurana and Nohria (2008) state that management should become a true profession in the same way as law and medicine. The authors purport that, so as to regain the trust of the society, the business leaders should look beyond their responsibilities towards the shareholders and omit their role as institutional custodians. That means that it is important to make management profession, where true professions do have codes of conduct and consequences being taught as part of education necessary of their members. According to Khurana and Nohria (2008), enforcing educational standards and the code of ethics can help in stimulating creativity. The main problem involved in writing the code is reaching a broad consensus on the aims and purposed of management. With the codes, the professional institutions can forge a social contract with members of the society. The profession can promote to ensure that then members are worth of the trust and will not only be competent in performing tasks entrusted to them, but they conduct themselves with high integrity and standards. The authors state that a profession that has well-functioning institutions of discipline can curb misconduct because the moral behavior is an integral part of the identity of professionals. The authors believe that codes help define implicit social contract among the members and through establishing a standard of inclusion, they do create and sustain a feeling of mutual obligation that the members have towards one another and the profession.
Based on the article, the author provides an excellent discussion on why management should become a true profession. The authors clearly explain why the manager should be a professional as their status is similar to that of lawyers and doctors as it is their obligation to contribute to the societys well-being. The authors tend to provide an excellent explanation and also use examples to indicate why management is the same as the law and medicine professions. However, despite their discussion, I hold a different view on why management should not be considered a profession.
Whether management is a profession or it is not, it is essential that managers should demonstrate professionalism just like lawyers and doctors since their level of responsibility in the society are the same. However, I tend to disagree with the authors claim that we should make management a true profession. Management is not a profession. While a professional tend to be a specialist, a manager is normally a jack of all trades and also a master of none. When considering the manager, their role is normally general, indefinable, and Văn phòng luật sư vĩnh phúc variable; thus, resists the standards and the certification that a true profession does demand (Heskett, 2005). Learning about management usually takes place in the minds of students instead of the content of the program modules. In my view, management should not be considered as a profession because it is the learning beyond the classroom that tends to feed the practice of management. In medicine, we do not expect an unqualified individual to perform a successful brain surgery; however, in business, the successful businesses are normally run by people even without MBAs. MBAs and other degrees may be necessary so as to generate better managers; however, suggesting that an MBA is a requirement so as to be a manager is ridiculous.
Reference
Heskett, J (2005). Should business management be regarded as the profession?
Nohria, N & Khurana, R (2008). Its time to make management the true profession. Harvard Business
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