Essay On Challenges And Performance Of MBA Graduates

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Challenges and performances of MBA graduates in their career.

Introduction

This topic, challenges and performance of MBA graduates in their career, is deeply related with my situation and future since I am going to specialize in business administration. Therefore I predicted it is important for me to understand challenges and performance of MBA. People, including me, consider MBA is beneficial, however severable articles argue about challenges of MBA program itself through evaluating workers who have MBA degree. As a future MBA student, investigation of these topics is going to be highly meaning full for my feature career. Large number of people: domestic and international people, spend time, effort, and money to

(2011). Becoming a leader: Early career challenges faced by MBA graduates. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 10(3), 452-472.

Two authors, Benjamin and O`Reilly (2011) investigate to find out particular challenges MBA graduates encounter. They extend and apply one researcher’s previous work by focusing on the experience of MBA graduates. To study and investigate actual challenges that young managers face in their early career, they collected data from managers in several types of organizations. They performed 60-90 minutes interview for 55 graduates conducting key informant interviewing: research-listing, an ethnographic approach. They found four leadership challenges: managing and motivating subordinates, managing relationships with peers and bosses, developing a leadership mind-set, and coping with setbacks and disappointments. This result indicates and suggests that business school also has challenges in their curriculum. Therefore this study has implication that school should teach students about actual difficult challenges young manager faces currently. This study does not rely on survey but interview due to its amount of time in they spend. It might indicate that they collected more profound information face to face, in actual conversation. This is one main point that I assume this study is more reliable than usual investigation which only conducting

They had five research questions related with influence of MBA program for graduate’s career, income, job promotions, and job performance in long and short-term period. They also examined how MBA point average, gender, ethnic background affect graduate’s career development. To investigate these research question topics; short- and long-term impact of MBA education on their careers, they surveyed over 300 MBA graduates from an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) international-accredited college of business. Consequently, they found positive influence on MBA graduate’s annual income, and job promotion in short and long terms. On the other hand, the survey’s data did not show significant differences current or recent job positions with MBA’s GPA, gender, pre-MBA work experience, and different ethnic background. However, they found tendency that part-time MBA students stay at lower-level position, meanwhile, full-time MBA students promote higher-level more easily and quickly. Although this survey’s result indicates smiler point as other article’s survey result, one different point; part-time MBA student tend to stay lower position, was mentioned clearly. Contradiction between two articles is also good information to my topic as well as same