Subvert the MBA: The Maverick Management Master Mintzberg and IMPM

Author: Peng Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The first monograph in China to systematically introduce Mintzberg's IMPM theory. MBA programs believe that management skills can be acquired through knowledge learning, while IMPM emphasizes the refinement of experience. The main innovation of IMPM lies in breaking down the boundaries between various management disciplines and designing courses based on the five mindsets of a manager. IMPM particularly emphasizes introspection, where book concepts are mutually verified and supported by personal management experience, thereby creating many ways to extend management education beyond the classroom. Henry Mintzberg is a key figure in the Managerial Roles and one of the most important scholars in the field of management and strategy today. As a recipient of the 2000 Academy of Management's Distinguished Contribution Award, Mintzberg has been a fierce critic of the prevailing MBA education model: MBA programs educate the wrong people with the wrong methods for the wrong reasons. As a result, he issued a groundbreaking declaration: to completely reform traditional MBA education. Together with Professor Jocelyn at Lancaster University, UK, he co-founded a radically different management education model called IMPM, which is hailed as the third-generation management education model. With the successive participation of European business schools, Indian Management Institutes, Kobe University in Japan, and others, IMPM has now formed an international alliance. The main innovation of IMPM lies in breaking down the boundaries between various management disciplines, i.e., not arranging courses based on specialized fields such as marketing, finance, or human resources, but designing them according to the five mindsets of a manager. At the same time, IMPM particularly emphasizes introspection where book concepts are mutually verified and supported by personal management experience, thereby creating many ways to extend management education beyond the classroom, such as reflective essays, exchange visits, field trips, and entrepreneurial activities. This book attempts to provide a comprehensive introduction and evaluation of Mintzberg's management education ideas, enabling people to fully understand the basic concepts and methods of this new management education model.