How do we achieve that the Administration students can go from the abstraction that conceptually means to administer?
The problem lies in giving content to this abstraction through a clear and practical connection between what they find in books, which is provided by a teacher trained in practice and the students' own reasoning.
Those that we teach.
Administration at university and post-university level, we often see ourselves in the circumstance of trying to get the student to see materialized abstraction.
That is, if we tell the student in the first contact with the subject to stand up and administer, he / she is left thinking in a panic, how to carry out that task and the questions referring to what, how, etc., begin, which constitutes a group of questions whose answer may only come after clarifying and "materializing" that abstraction.
Why is the Administration abstract in its concept? Because it consists of “getting things done”, and that will no longer depend on a concrete action on a defined objective, but will be oriented to move the organizational machine so that it can answer the questions from the beginning and meet the objectives for which the Organization has been created.
At this moment we turn to give the factual content to the Administration and that is when we allow ourselves to see the reality of the actions and strategies that we use for said objectives.
The student must then take a further step, which is the understanding of the Organization as a System, that is, a set of elements that interact creating a synergy that allows the Organization to fulfill its objective.
The systemic concept of Organization is fundamental to understand that nothing is worth as much as the interrelated whole. In this way, many authors consider that just as the Organization is a system, staff awards should be awarded to the team and not individually, or, going further, not award awards to staff if the Organization did not first achieve.
A very interesting example is the one that the Hindu author Jamshid Gharajedaghi (Systemic Thought-Herrscher) gives us when he says "I can love, but none of my parts can love".
Academic versus pragmatic
Another circumstance that we must highlight in the teaching of the Administration is that there are two marked styles based fundamentally on teacher training.
We have those who have "lived" the Administration, who can take the student from the book to real life from their own experiences and, on the other hand, those who have dedicated their lives to the theoretical-philosophical learning of the Administration and present an excellent possibility to interact with the student from the great authors, the great theories and the great philosophical principles that they can show the students.
My open-ended question would be whether the University should offer teaching based solely on one of the two concepts or achieve balance since the incorporation of the teacher.
