So your saying MBA's teach zero skills save for vocabulary necessary to enforce bureaucratic segregation? I guess you can say the same thing about law.
I don't see the same thing happening at my company though. Concepts discussed at the management level are usually communicated in a way any layman can understand.
No, the skills are a part of the vocab too, so to speak. Accounting, for example, has definitions as well as methods. If your department uses MatLab then trying to get the other department that only uses Excel is going to be hard. It's not just 'software' issues either. The ethos, the rounding of fractions of a cent, knowing when to run an internal audit, how to deal with Janet's crappy way of writing 9 and 4, all those little tricks and 'common sense' things need to be sussed out in a huge bureaucracy. Multiply this over hundreds of different fields of work, states and nations and you see why a training course that is not just 1 weekend long is needed.
I don't see the same thing happening at my company though. Concepts discussed at the management level are usually communicated in a way any layman can understand.