Sadly this is what you get for allowing personnel time off to do MBAs
. If they do their own MBA part time and using distance learning (respect to the individual) then it gets worse. My contacts in industry say an MBA is valid for only 3 - 5 years unless you use the teachings on a daily basis and keep up to date with developments. We allow people to do them and then post them into arenas where the teachings are:
a. Not applicable
b. Out-of-date by the time they get in a position to implement them
c Discredited and dumped by industry (just like open plan and RAB)!!
But then persuading someone who has studied long and hard to get an MBA that it is out-of-date is very difficult.