PT109.S3.Q25

PrepTest 109 - Section 3 - Question 25

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We are in a new industrial revolution that requires management trainees to develop "action learning" from real experience within business and industry, rather than getting tied up with theory and academia. ████████ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ████ ██ ████ ██████████ ████ ████ █████ ███████ ████████ █████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ███ █████████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ████████████ █████ ███████ ██ ████ █████ ████████████ ████████ ███████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ████████ ███████ ██████ █████ ████████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ████ █████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████████

Summary

Business schools should let executives set the curricula for management training courses. Why? Because when it comes to management training, academia is too theoretical and out of touch with the needs of the business world.

Notable Assumptions

In her premises, the author focuses entirely on why academia is failing management trainees and then jumps to the conclusion that executives should be setting curricula. But she’s only looking at one half of the equation—she says why academia needs help, but she doesn’t say why executives, specifically, are the ones to provide that help. The author must assume that executives can bring some kind of educational value that academics don’t provide.

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25.

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a

Academics in business ███████ ████ ██ █████████ ████████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████████

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Academics in business ███████ ████ ████ ████ ████████████ ██████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ████████

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Academics are not ███████ ██ ████████ █████████ ████████ ███ ████████ ██████████ █████████

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Academic training outside ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ████ ██ ████████ ██████ ████████ ████████

e

Today's business executives ████ ████████ ███████ ████ ████████ ████ █████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █████

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