Management and administration go hand in hand. As a management student, I have to be involved in administrative duties before I get to the job market. Management calls for proper communication and leadership skills as well as the ability to influence other people below me. Personally, I would love to pursue a Management career at Starbucks, one of the leading coffee shops in the United States. I believe that Starbucks is a well-established company with good leadership that will add value to my career. As a management student, I believe that there are certain important links missing in my pursuit to become an effective manager in future. To begin with, the internship that most management students engage in are totally unrelated to their careers. As an intern, I was given sales tasks in the company I interned in rather than administrative challenges. I wanted to test myself as a leader and see whether I could take the challenge of guiding people to change and taking a place at the forefront of the organization. This did not happen, and I feel like I am not ready for my career because I have not tested myself to see where my challenges lie as a future manager (Bass, 284).
Personally, I believe that practice makes perfect. Practicing for my future management career through an internship will make me more marketable and attractive in the job market. Internship for all management students should be relevant to their future management careers to produce individuals who are not only competitive but also knowledgeable about their profession.
The change that students of management need, relies on the school of management's strategies and the push for change by management students. The later need to know the importance of practicing on what they want to pursue ads their future career through their internship periods. The internship period is a time for self-exploration, and a time to determine and individual's strengths and weaknesses. An irrelevant internship to one's future career does not provide room for such exploration. The same leads to half-baked professionals in the management field of studies. Secondly, the internship period is usually too short and should be prolonged a little bit so that the experience one gets is polished over and again (Bass, 287). The need for change at the management school in Denver is, therefore, urgent and needs to be worked on by both the students and the members of the faculty.
In the pursuit of this change, there is a need to create an urgency amongst the management students and the body concerned with student internships. This urgency can be effectively created through capturing the complaints on the management students at Denver. These complaints should be delivered then to the student's body concerned with internships. The affected students, I included, must register all their complaints as members of the faculty so that the school of management can come with a better way to address. The image or audio of students complaining will act to create the urgency for the change in the management school. (Kotter and Cohen, 106).
After creating the urgency, I will build up a team together with the school management and some of the students concerned. This team will act, as the guide through the changes will be directed. The vision of what the management students aspire for will be communicated through this team. A constant communication must be adhered to so that everyone involved in the change process is on the same page regarding the change.
Making abrupt career changes in the school of management will come with its number of challenges. At the organizational level, some students and staff may respond with defiance and unwillingness to correspond to the changes. Some of them may take a longer time to acknowledge the need for change in the management department. Change comes with anxiety and fear of what lays a head. This anxiety may lead to resistance. The University, however, has to do everything to ensure that they produce marketable individuals who are ready for the job market. Both the students and the body concerned with internships for the management students have to rise to the occasion and recognize the urgency of the situation before responding to it. At a personal level, as a management student with aspirations to become a manager in future, I am faced with the challenge of ensuring that even people who do not want the change get to embrace it. I have to come up with innovative ways to bring up the change without causing unnecessary tension amongst the students and the bodies concerned.
The changes made have to be monitored consistently to prevent incidences where the change wears away after some time. Monitoring future internship trends for management students is necessary to ensure that the change does not only last for a short time. Consistency in carrying out the change will ensure that the University produces individuals who are knowledgeable and are ready to make a difference in the job market (Kotter and Cohen, 194).
Works Cited
Bass, B.M. From transactional to transformational, learning to share the vision. Organizational Dynamics. 1990.Print.
Kotter, John P and Dan S Cohen. The Heart Of Change. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. Print.
