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    Posted 02-10-2002 15:19
    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
    >