Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
by ucaetano on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:01PM
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> Engineers have the technical skills to look into basic financial and budgeting, and there are financial planning guys involved in big projects to do the really in depth stuff if required.
If by "technical skills" you mean "being able do to math", you're as far away from finance as "pressing keys on the keyboard" is from "coding".
You don't need a degree to be an engineer, and you don't need a degree to be in "management". But that's not the point.
As for the power dynamics stuff, firms in other professional fields do it all the time, and they don't seem to care about MBAs at all.
Lastly, a lot can be learnt on the job too. Maybe, statistically, engineers are more unlikely to show interest in this stuff, and that makes an MBA a "signal" that this person is interested in management.
It's a bloody expensive signal though, and it just saddens me that my career options and advancement might be limited because of it.