On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:25:10 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Time was when major corporations came to universities to educate their >managers in the humanities. > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16davis.html?hp > >Now corporations (among others) decry universities wasting students' >time on the humanities.
Chris, I think the critical part of the above article is the following: |The institute was judged a success by Morris S. Viteles, one of |the pioneers of industrial psychology, who evaluated its graduates. |But Bell gradually withdrew its support after yet another positive |assessment found that while executives came out of the program |more confident and more intellectually engaged, they were also |less interested in putting the company’s bottom line ahead of their |commitments to their families and communities. By 1960, the |Institute of Humanistic Studies for Executives was finished. The Corporation, like the Selfish Gene, is only concerned with its own propagation and existence and not any benefits that its components might enjoy. The corporation is not concerned with whether its workers are more thoughtful and reasonable, it is concerned with whether being this way will increase the amount of money and profit it makes. From this perspective, "dumb" workers may be preferred to "smart" workers because "smart" workers may ask awkward questions that make "superiors" or "bosses" look bad (and no boss wants to look bad or be shown up). BP's example in the gulf of Mexico shows that corporations would rather work "cheap" than "smart". -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3144 or send a blank email to leave-3144-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
