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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by einhverfr on Monday June 10, 2013 @05:33AM (#5853246)
One of the obvious benefits to promoting floor workers which is not covered in the article is that the former floor workers know the work realities. One of the biggest sins of hiring MBA's for management is that they don't know the floor realities and therefore they get an analytical view of the business which is simplified in the wrong ways.

One solution might be to hire MBA's as floor workers for a minimum of a year before promoting them to management. However, with student loans being what they are, that is not feasible today.

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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by eru on Monday June 10, 2013 @05:39AM (#5853261)
You could send your former floorworkers to get an MBA, instead.
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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by swalsh on Monday June 10, 2013 @08:37AM (#5853903)
Target does something like this, when I worked in the corporate office it was a pretty regular thing to send employees to work in various parts around the store to get a feel. Though it was typically only for a week.
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