美国是高度重视培训企业管理人才的国家。美国一方面通过高等学校大量培养企业管理人才,另一方面又通过多种途径对在职企业管理人员进行培训提高。目前,管理人才培养成了美国发展经济必不可少的组成部份。美国管理教育的发展已达到空前的规模,全国现有665所工商管理学院,有1200多所高等院校开设管理专业。此外,每年还有数以万计的企业在职管理人员参加学习、进修。美国是世界上最早开展企业管理人员在职培训工作的国家。早在1931年,美国麻省理工学院就率先举办了为时一年的青年管理人员在职讲习班。第二次世界大战即将结束时,哈佛大学管理学院应联邦政府教育局的要求,为复员的原军事部门管理人员举办了七期讨论班,随后于1945年将这一培训形式正规化,这就是今天的“哈佛高级管理人员讲习班”。此后,美国各校纷纷效仿,特别是五十年代后期,发展极为迅速。至1976年,美国已 The United States is a country that places great emphasis on training its management personnel. On the one hand, the United States has trained a large number of enterprise management personnel through institutions of higher learning, and on the other hand, it has also conducted training programs for its in-service enterprise management personnel in various ways. At present, the management personnel training has become an indispensable component of the U.S. economy. The development of management education in the United States has reached an unprecedented scale. There are currently 665 business administration schools in the country and more than 1,200 colleges and universities have set up management major. In addition, there are tens of thousands of in-service management personnel attending study and training each year. The United States is the first country in the world to carry out on-the-job training for business executives. As early as 1931, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States took the lead in holding a one-year in-service seminar for young managers. Towards the end of World War II, the Harvard School of Management, at the request of the Department of Education of the Federal Government, held seven seminars for former demobilized managers in the military sector and subsequently formalized the form of training in 1945, which is Today’s Harvard Executive Workshop. Since then, various schools in the United States have followed suit, especially in the late fifties, where the development was extremely rapid. By 1976, the United States had