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Business schools are one of the most established segments as part of the business and educational worlds that their objectives are seldom a subject of reflection, especially for instructors. Rey in his article offers some assessment of the evaluation of business worlds that extends beyond viewing them as possess a technical and economic function toward an account of their responsibility in executives and managers’ socialisation process and coupled with their ideological commitments. Grey commences by exploring a pervasive silence in many business learning institutions that seems to be some of its actual functionality in the real world’s economy. Grey (2002) raises concerns about the entirety of the business schools’ institutions instead of specific subjects, teaching ethos or curricula. As a result, his article investigates the silence of business leaning institutions concerning his ideology and socialization, and this goes forward towards the issue of giving a voice as a replacement to the silence which in effect implies the development of a more critical methodology to management learning (Grey, 2002). He focuses narrowly on pedagogy, especially concerning organizational subjects considering that he is an instructor and he is well vast in this field. It is where most of the extant literature ion critical management Education emerges.

Exploring business models worldwide, it is evident that there is a considerable consensus about the content and dormant of business education. In essence, there is an apparent business school model, and it is international. The individuals who find fault with what many busies instructors are doing should think more concerning refinement and adjustment s as opposed to radical reconstruction. Even as the pedagogical and content emphasis may be different, there most prevalent methodology is quantitative analysis. Simultaneously, some learning schools employ a case teaching and other stress social responsibility for the move towards shareholder profitability (Grey, 2002). In essence, such issues are variations and variables within shared theoretical and conceptual discourse and framework.

The education is also concentrated on the private sector. In the contemporary era, business schools are similar in various ways but are different from public administration, government, education or politics. Many business schools also concern the private sector as a less problematic entity. Firms may also be classified based on the employee numbers, size, geographic scope, market capitalization, among others, but may still be seen as comparable (Grey, 2002). The primary issue here is that business schools supply individuals who are technically equipped to control, monitor, and manager better due to their management and business administration, which makes them hired in organizations to turn results around and perform better while contributing to the economic competitiveness of the community. Such an opinion is adopted by business learning institutions and compounded by governments and MBAS employers (Grey, 2002). This is the orthodox account and implication of these learning institutions, and its primary critics also endorse this issue. However, there is less evidence that shows that MBA graduates are exemplary relative to the non-MBAs or that economies or organizations perform exemplarily due to their existence. Besides, there has been a pervasive proof that the opposite may be right. For instance, many countries such as Germany who have used less of Management education appears to have less suffered relative to those countries that have adopted it such as the United Kingdom and United States (Grey, 2002). Part of management education’s implication revolves around culturally contingent historical and social factors and not in its economic responsibility.

In some instances, individuals argue that the negative assessment of Business and Management education. However, in itself, such disputation is correct. For at the epicenter of the challenge of the technical and economic case of ME is the fact that its efficacy to performance and cannot even in doctrine be established. One primary reason behind this argument is that there is no undisputed way of explaining and defining what effective management entails (BBC, 2018). Notwithstanding the positivist believes, there is simply no manner in which individuals can design the kinds of controlled experiments that allow management to be disjointed and set as an independent variable from a company or that would permit demonstrable causation (Grey, 2002). Besides assuming that MBA graduates are more effective relative to non-graduates, the fact that the most competent and ambitious managers might be predisposed to take the management degree means that the same managers have a high chance of becoming effective anyway.

In the contemporary era, business schools encounter at least four major problems. First, the emergence and establishment of the accreditation and rankling bodies has caused many of them to adopt an undifferentiated and short-term “me too approach”. Second, various prestigious institutions have been criticisms for their less concentration on ethical decision-making (Kaplan, 2018). Third, the change toward more scientifically robust research has caused faculty focusing on concerns that might not be entirely important in preparing their learners to the professional market (Kaplan, 2018). Fourth, the digital revolution and the emergence of MOOCs, artificial intelligence and SPOCSA raisers concerns on the very ideology of knowledge and information transmission itself.

All the developments happen in the context of intense financial pressure forcing many business schools to acknowledge larger student numbers to increase competition due to globalization, the trend of new players and digitalization (Kaplan, 2018). Central Supelec or Sciences Po as an example of many engineering schools and political science are not offering programs in management and business. Besides, companies commence their corporate universities such as Apple University. The evolutions are so fundamental that they initiate a new fourth era in business history (Kaplan, 2018). Its potential starting point is in 2012, which is also believed to be the year of MOOC.

In the coming years, Kaplan (2018) argues that developments in this arena will be crucial. First, the reduction in public funding will leverage private financing, especially in those learning institutions boosting a considerable base of alumni. As a result, business learning institutions will be forced to focus on a student-such as extracurricular activities such as sports, student clubs, and trips. It will open the primary elements of obtaining satisfaction and creating a long-term connection with alumni (Kaplan, 2018). Besides, differentiated position will help companies and corporate partners comprehend why they should fund one business school relative to the other.

Second, the transmission of information and knowledge through traditional lectures will also become an exception due to higher digital transformation in education .many learners will evolve from the conventional passive consumers to active-co-producers. Most of them will need reasons to attend physical classes such as teamwork, coaching sessions and in-class discussions (Kaplan, 2018). Third, brand building in many business learning institutions will also become vital shortly. Students and Alumni will need to protect their reputation and act as brand ambassadors, particularly in a social media setting (Kaplan, 2018). The school faculty will also need to remain simple to be captured by the press, prompting them to develop the right image in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility since they are expected to capture a firm stance.

In conclusion, business schools’ primary objectives are to implement an exemplary education level and offer practical attributes and skills necessary for top managers and leaders for successful and effective management in various organizations. Most ME aims at providing graduates with the required competencies, knowledge and skills needed for them to develop and implement business techniques of institutions and companies. However, there is an increasing concern among business schools critics that sometimes, successful managers do not need to go through an ME course. However, an exploration of various business schools implies that most learning institutions possess the same conceptual frameworks. There need for many learning institutions to revolutionize in the wake of changing technology and digital platforms.

References

Kaplan, A. (2018). Happy Birthday to 200 Years Of Management Education. Retrieved from: https://theconversation.com/happy-birthday-to-200-years-of-management-education-102367

Grey, C. (2002). What are business schools? On silence and voice in management education. Journal of management education, 26(5), 496-511.

BBC (2018). Business Schools. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b48r9v