Why is MBA a good choice?

The master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is one of the most valuable postgraduate degrees in the world, specialized in business and management principles. MBA degree is now a target for many people after several years of working as it can benefit them in many different ways. The program includes variety of subjects like business management, corporate finance, marketing which give students a general overview and a strategic vision about the development of businesses.
At first, MBA degree is the key for you to increase your salary as well as advance in your career. According to some researches, salaries of MBA graduates are often halves as much as others; moreover, top positions in big corporations normally belong to MBA holders.
Secondly, MBA courses are designed to train students about management skills and give them a full picture of the operation of a business, so after the program, students can even set up their own business and can run it by themselves.
Besides, during the course, students also have a lot of opportunities to visit and work with companies that can help them gain more working experience as well as a good relationship with companies, classmates who may become their partners in the future.
Business administration is the core of every company; so that MBA holders can work for any companies in different industries. It gives students a wide range of work choices. That’s why MBA programs are becoming much attractive to graduated students.

Studying - A life-time process

Education is one of the important keys to one’s success. Normally, everybody has to experience twelve years at elementary and high schools before entering to another four years at university. Graduation from colleges, universities, however, is not an end to your study but it is just the beginning of a new and more challenge stage.
After-university trainings are often under two forms, through formal courses or informal training outside classes. Some careers like teaching, doctoring, and engineering require people to enroll in classes every several years as these areas change everyday with a lot of new inventories, so that in order to not to be left behind, people have to study hard to update new information about their areas. Moreover, formal courses also help people to improve and complete their understanding to advance in jobs.
However, most of the knowledge you get from teachers is just in theory, and it may be far different from what it is in the real world. That’s why besides academic training, people also have to improve their working skills and get more hands-on experiences. Furthermore, enrolling classes takes a lot of time and money, and it will become a problem when you have family and need more time for your family.
On the other hand, when you reach advanced level, self-study will be more efficient as it is not just issue about inputting information any more but you have to research and think over new things from what you have learned. At that time, you can learn from other sources such as from professional journals, from conferences or from a net work with other professors.
Education is a life-time process. If you don’t want to go backward, you have to study; however, the way and the form of studying may vary flexibly during every stage of your life. It’s not necessary to take a course but you can study by yourself, study from other people around you like your colleagues, your friends and so on.

Is employee's actions outside the workplace the concern of the organization?

Everybody has to be responsible for his own behavior. However, the way one is punished for his mistakes depends on what his fault is and how serious it is.
Working life and normal life are two important aspects of one’s life. To some extent, these two factors are separate to each other. If one is an employee of a company, everything he does in the working hours is judged and graded by the company or by his boss to be specific, regardless of his action occurs outside or inside the workplace as the company has to take responsibility for its employees’ mistakes. However, after working time, the employee is not an employee any more, but only be himself, so that he, not the company, will be liable for all of his acts.
Moreover, if a person can fulfill well his duties at work and do not let his personal issues affect the quality of work, there’s no reason for the company to intervene deeply to his own life. In the company’s point of view they also don’t want to lose a good staff due to something that is not related to its business.
Furthermore, it will be nightmare for people if their company can fire them for what they do after work. It will become a 24-hour working time, not 8-hour any more, as a result, it will put more pressure on staff, and reduce their productivity.
However, on the other hand, every employee is a representative of a company, so that the bad behavior in public places to others may ruin the firm’s prestige. In this case, he should be penalized for what he has caused.
In conclusion, it should be a clear distinction between a person’s working and normal life. A company has the right to discharge its own employees, but only for their mistakes in work or for something they make after work that damages the company’s reputation, income…not for every of their behavior outside the workplace.

Rely on yourself or ask for help?

There’s a lot of factors that effect people’s personal and professional life, some factors can be controlled but others may not be able to control by the people themselves so that one should rely on oneself, not on others, but in some situations they have to ask for help from other people
Personal life of a person includes many things like their health, their family, their friends, and making choices about traveling, buying car, houses…People can take care of their health by keeping away from smoking, drinking, by exercising…but cannot avoid unexpected accidents like car accident, murder nor affected by hereditary diseases like cancer…
The situation is similar in the relationship between one and their friends, their family which play a very important role in one’s life. You’ll be a very happy person if your friends, your family always stand by your side and support you. However, it is not a trouble-free relation as no one can guarantee that your beloved ones will never betray on you. You can choose your friends but not your family, and even with a friend you choose, there’s nothing guarantee that the connection will last forever. It’s not just from your side but also need the other side’s sincerity to form a strong relationship.
Professional life is other side of one’s life. In your professional life, you can choose the job, the career you like but not the teachers. Your grade at school not just reflects only your effort, but sometimes it also counts on the teacher’s point of view which may be very different from yours. It’s the same in your working life. You can choose your desire job and company, but your success does not just rely on how hard you work but partly depends on your boss.
In general, it is very good to be independent and just rely on yourself; however, you may have to ask for other people’s support sometimes. Your success comes largely from yourself as well as your own effort and partly from external’s factors like people, unexpected events which are not under your control.

Self-interest or fear?

Motivation is the reasons for people to get involved in some specific activities. When people are motivated, they can work better and achieve higher results. The incentives to work of different people are also not the same, and even for one person, the drive for their work changes during times.
People go to work for the job they chose as they like it, and they feel happy doing it. However, others may do things for the benefits it brings back to them, for example, workers go to work everyday just for living, for money, not because their love for it. Moreover, even with your dream job, after a long time working you may get tired and bored with it, at that time, you go to work just because you have to do it or you will lose your monthly salary, lose your high position in the company and even lose your house.
Self-interest is not the only incentive for people to work, fear is also a very good force that motivate people; for example, students come to class and do homework everyday not only because they love studying but also because the scare of failing the class or getting bad grades which is not good for their future career.
Besides, there are also some feelings other than self-interests or fears like angry, respect or sympathy that lead people to work. When a person gets angry, they are full of energy and can use that energy to fight, to do housework, or to shout at others. Another example is the volunteers, they join the work because they like it, they want to do it rather than they benefit from it.
There are many drives push people to work, some are positive like the love and desire to work; others are negative like their self-interest, fear or angriness. However, no matter what the reasons are, if a person can lead it to good and meaningful work, it is fine.

Highly-skilled employees - good or bad?

Human resource plays a very important role in the success of businesses, especially highly-skilled employees who are ambitious, self-motivated, and self-sufficient.
High-qualified people, who have been well trained in both theory and practice can adapt very quickly to the work as they have experience in how to operate the work in the most efficient way. These people can make the work runs smoothly with high productivity. Moreover, ambitious workers may push a competition among staff that can make everybody tries their best to get promotion or they will be left behind.
Besides, all the bosses wish to have self-motivated and self-sufficient employees who can work independently without needing anybody push them. Their well-educated and hard-working will help to improve the quality of work as well as to save the time of supervisor keeping an eye on them.
However, these people also bring a lot of headache to employers as they are too outstanding, it will be very costly to keep them for your company and they are even not loyal to any boss because every company needs them. On the other hand, their knowledge is so grounded; they may not listen to others’ opinion even their supervisor’s advices. These people are able to work by themselves and don’t need support from anyone else which is very good, but in some cases, team working is required, for example, in a surgery or in some big projects that one person cannot handle all.
In general, although there are still some shortcomings remained, these employees are valuable resources for the company. To some extent, their talent and their motivation to work can make up for what are seemed to be shortcomings.

Crisis management

Issues and crisis management are two different kinds of management methods; however, people often cannot distinguish these two methods. So what is issues management and what is crisis management, and how they are different from each other? Well, issues are the public disputes that affect the operation; they are any trends, conditions either internal or external with continuous and significant effect on operation. And issues management is the management of these changes as well as discontinuous things. The difference between issues management and crisis management is that issues management tries to manage the issues and get them go your own way before they spread out and become crisis; whereas crisis management tries to deal with the issues after they have already expanded. The job of issues managers is to collect, and evaluate information in order to anticipate any implicit issues and response to them in a quick and proper manner before they get out of hand. In other words, we can say that issue management is proactive management while crisis management is reactive management. Once issue management fails to handle the issues, the issues will go out of control and become crisis. At that time, the job of crisis management is to cope with the crisis and solve all the problems arising due to the crisis. These problems are totally avoidable with a successful issues management. That’s why it is said that crisis management is failed issues management or crisis management is the consequence of a failed issues management.