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From earliest documentation, business operations have traditionally been regarded as skills that ware passed from one trade member to another. A good example of this was Charles Dickens’ 1843 description of Ebenezer Scrooge’s training under Mr. Fezziwig. As is evident in Dickens’ text, teaching a business trade typically took the form of an apprenticeship. A young man/woman would become apprenticed to a journeyman/woman or master of a trade or skill for a set period of time. During that period, the apprentice would learn the skills of the trade through close observation, intense coaching and repetitive practice. Once the apprentice satisfied the master’s requirements, the apprentice assumed the mantle of journeyman and was considered to be an expert in the skill s/he had just been taught. The journeyman status also allowed the student to take on apprentices of his/her own, thereby spreading the skills to carefully selected newcomers. In this educational capacity, the journeyman served as a trainer and mentor to the apprentice. Teaching emphasis was on the acquisition and perfection of the skill or trade being taught. Mentoring was geared toward establishing the new journeymen in a career of their own. |
