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Professional Ethics & Human Values / September 15, 2021

Why managements prefer to make engineers as managers than non-engineers? / Why engineers find management positions attractive?

Engineers undergo the most intensive technical  training  amongst  professionals.  But still, many of them move to managerial positions early in their career for which they received no training. Organizations  find  it  easier  to  teach  the  business  side  to  engineers  than  teaching engineering to non-engineers. They  also  value  the  quantitative  analysis,  strong  work-ethics,  and  confidence  in […]

Engineers undergo the most intensive technical  training  amongst  professionals.  But still, many of them move to managerial positions early in their career for which they received no training.

Organizations  find  it  easier  to  teach  the  business  side  to  engineers  than  teaching engineering to non-engineers.

They  also  value  the  quantitative  analysis,  strong  work-ethics,  and  confidence  in problem solving exhibited by engineers.

Engineers also prefer the management attractive,  since career in management  offers

Better recognition than technical track.