From: Conna Condon [mailto:
gandolf@cyberverse.com]
Bob,
I would be most interested if you measured the importance of
learning teaming skills ... and if you measured learning conflict
resolution skills separately that would be awesome.
Please let me know when the publication will be available.
Thanks
Conna Condon
DBA candidate Nova Southeastern U.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cornesky" <
TQM1BOB@aol.com>
> In my experience the faculty do a good job in training and educating
> students. When one examines most curriculums by quality finction
deployment
> (QFD), one will find that there are a number of educational
> competencies
that
> are embedded within most outcomes.
>
> In the graduate management programs at Southern Wesleyan University
> (SWU)
we
> measured 1) perceived importance of each competency for success in the
> workplace, 2) the perceived level of mastery that should be required
> for
each
> competency, 3) the subjective level of difficulty for mastering each
> competency, 4) how strongly each course addressed the terminal
competencies
> throughout the curriculum, 5) the relative importance of each course
> in
the
> curriculum, 6) if there were sufficient learning experiences for the
students
> to master each competency, and 7) the relative overall emphasis of
> each competency in the curriculum. Some of the findings are proving to
> be very interesting. We will be submitting our results for publication
> and will
give
> sufficient detail so that the QFD technique can be adopted and
> employed at other schools. Enuf said--management is both and art and
> science.
>
> Most sincerely yours,
> Bob Cornesky
>
tqm1bob@aol.com
> or
bcornesky@swu.edu
>