¶ … programs have their supporters and detractors. The first and most obvious objection to getting an MBA is its expense. More and more undergraduates have student loan debt, and piling debt upon debt in a weak economic environment can be dangerous. However, most MBA programs require or at least expect students to have some sort of work experience before embarking upon the program. Students thus have hopefully accrued some savings. They also are likely to have a good idea of what they want to study in the program and their future goals, given their experience in their desired specialty. Unlike law schools, which have been criticized as holding pens for recent graduates without a clear career direction, to apply to an MBA program, a student must make a persuasive case for his or her potential to succeed in a hands-on field. High grades and strong scores on the MCAT are not enough -- students must have demonstrated a commitment to business. Additionally, because of the practicality of the degree, employers often offer tuition reimbursement programs. Employers assume some or all of the debt themselves, in exchange for the opportunity to get a more qualified employee with enhanced skills. Supporting the pursuit of an employee's MBA can be an ideal to way to get employees to make an enhanced contribution to the organization through their new skill sets, and build stronger bonds of institutional loyalty. Going to work at the same time as studying is one answer to the objection that being in school will result in a loss of income and work opportunities, as well as incur debt. There are even executive MBA programs and online programs that allow busy people to get degrees during the weekend. For workers without generous employers, some programs offer scholarships to qualified candidates. A final way to minimize debt is to go into a joint undergraduate BA-MBA program, which may enable the student to gain his or her MBA within 5 years. This will further reduce the cost of spending more time in school, as well as reduce admissions fees and the costs...
Despite the recession, salaries for MBA graduates are trending upward: compared with post-MBA salaries in 2006, 2008 salaries averaged $104,000, an increase of 9% according to BusinessWeek (Lavelle 2008). In 2009, "consistent with previous years, the average starting salary employers planned to extend to recent MBA graduates in 2010 nearly doubled the average starting salary offered to undergraduate students… employers still value the MBA and the business skills it brings with the new employee…[and] offer people with MBAs significantly higher salaries than those with just undergraduate education. This premium, which we continue to see year after year, reflects the high value companies place on the skills and abilities people develop in business school " versus undergraduate business programs (Burns 2011).
According to Malfaro, just a single year of English is not essentially sufficient to effectively make the initiative to reading and writing. (Tozzi, 1998) Supporters give an instance of a study undertaken in the year 1991 approved by the National Academy of Sciences mentioning that the children who have are able to speak a foreign language are able to comprehend English more quickly and perform better educational development on the
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Social Psychology: Matrix Management Corporations are consistently seeking ways to improve their overall organizational performance and consumer's perceptions of their quality service and innovativeness. Over the last several years, the matrix structure of management, where an employee has a direct report manager but also is influenced and heavily directed (and sometimes funded) by another manager/organization has become a major organizational trend. Matrix management is rapidly becoming popularized and adopted by corporations
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