IS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT A PROFESSION

1. Is business management a profession? Why or why not? Do some external research in answering this question.　　　　(Business education has the potential to be a powerful influence in making business managers more accountable to the society they shape. Whether they went to business school or not, most managers in large organizations are impacted by individuals trained by business schools, the ideas that are diffused through business school publications, the cases taught in executive education programs, and the general tone set business schools set about the purpose of management and the relationship between corporations and society. For all these reasons, business schools themselves have the responsibility to make management a profession.)According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, management is a profession. In addition to the concept of an administrative manager, the Occupational Outlook Handbook list a variety of specific types of management positions, such as management analysts, management consultants, management development specialist (such as human resource managers). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), administrative services managers held about 247,000 jobs in 2006 with 12% expected in the nextten years. The majority of jobs identified by the BLS, shows that about 65 percent worked in service-providing industries, including Federal, State, and local government; health care; finance and insurance; professional, scientific, and technical services; administrative and support services; and educational services, public and private. The remaining managers worked in wholesale and retail trade, in management of companies and enterprises, or in manufacturing.