To build trust with employee and gain their loyalty as the key to success

Employees are your most valuable assets. Organisations are highly dependent on employees' loyalty and expect their trust in the organization as a key ingredient factor. A successful company needs employees trust and who are loyal to what it stands for and to what it’s trying to achieve. Therefore, to ensure the sustainability and competitive advantage of an organization in facing the challenge of success, it is advised that employers examine several approaches that can be taken to win loyalty and build their trust and see the benefits and significant impact on the organization in the future. it is a step forward in creating organizational solutions and success

Nurturing net generation graduates with global skills

The total enrolments in more than 20,000 universities and tertiary education providers around the world are in the range of 200 million students. One in five students are enrolled in technology related disciplines. Various surveys reiterate that only a fraction of graduates are suitable for careers in the world of hyper-connected economies and competitive businesses with supply chains spanning the world. Universities irrespective of where they are functioning are facing new challenges, opportunities and expectations. They are being assessed, benchmarked and compared frequently by third parties with considerable impact on reputation, student enrolments, and resources. Tertiary institutions are on the cusp of enrolling a Net generation of students, who have diverse learning aspirations and needs compared the earlier generations. The emerging scenario requires the tertiary education to be reimagined in terms of the way a) the students are developed to possess global skills and values, b) faculty members are prepared to inspire students, c) curriculum and pedagogy are tailored to the needs of 21st Century workplaces and jobs, d) scientific research and innovation are carried out, and e) entrepreneurship is facilitated at the universities. This manuscript is based on authors’ own experiences during the rise of world-class universities in Singapore, and close interactions with several tertiary institutions around the world. The reimagined higher education will enable future graduates to build liveable and resilient societie

Designing A Module In Entrepreneurship For Product Design Students

Creative problem-solving has been identified as one of the most critical future-proof skillsets we can develop in our society. When educating future designers, entrepreneurship skills are now considered essential; however, designers find it difficult to establish themselves as entrepreneurs. Therefore, graduate designers are increasingly in need of these skills to complement their creative ability. This paper offers information to academic institutions looking to implement entrepreneurship modules in existing design and creative programmes. The paper seeks to understand the entrepreneurship skills required for product design graduates through a case study. Current teaching practice is described, and interviews and co-design sessions with relevant stakeholders are conducted to inform future entrepreneurship education for product design students. From these findings, a module descriptor entitled ‘Entrepreneurship for Designers’ was created for an existing programme and delivered through both practice and theory. This module is intended to provide an understanding of the entrepreneurship process and to offer students the confidence to pursue design-related ventures post-graduation

Piloting a Portfolio of Experiential Learning Activities for International Business Students

The paper reflects on the practice of implementing a portfolio of experiential learning activities in workshops involving undergraduate students in an international business management module. The aim of the workshops was to bridge the gap between theory and practice and steer students toward an inductive and collaborative learning experience. The paper presents a series of nine activity-based workshops designed to reinforce theoretical concepts taught during lectures. Based on qualitative data from the module evaluation questionnaire, we found that the workshops significantly improved students’ learning experience, as well as enhanced their engagement with the module. This paper provides practitioners with practical materials and insights which can be immediately applied to teaching international business in a classroom environment. Moreover, by implementing a portfolio of experiential learning activities that provides a wide range of opportunities for students to experience first-hand real-world challenges, this approach is expected to aid their learning process at a crucial point of their academic careers

Practice-based engineering design for next-generation of engineers: A CDIO-based approach

In recent years, practice-based learning has been establishing itself as a new norm in higher education: an enabler to foster knowledge, skills and innovative thinking in young learners. Conceive, design, implement and operate (CDIO), a well-established pedagogical methodology, offers many opportunities for education providers seeking to best achieve this practice-based learning within various educational environments. Case studies of engineering programs that made use of the CDIO model provide illustrations of how the ideas were put into effect in actual projects. This paper draws on a CDIO-based design case study where students were requested to solve a real engineering problem; in order to explore the great potential of such a teaching and learning paradigm in practice settings. Some first-year mechanical, biomedical and product design engineering students studying at the Canterbury Christ Church University were set a design brief by a Ford Motor Company tier supplier, to design a high security lock for commercial vehicles which works on both sliding and rear hinged slam doors. The project had twelve engineering groups, each with three or four students sharing responsibility for separate project design and engineering roles: including design sketches; computer-aided modelling; engineering material investigation; finite element analysis; computer-aided manufacturing; prototyping; project reporting and company presentation. In order to analyse the effect of incentives on the underlying motivation of learners, a cash prize was secured via the Engineers in Business Fellowship (EIBF) organisation, to be shared between the winners selected by the industrial partner after a detailed study of benefits, manufacturability and potential innovation. This paper documents the findings of collected qualitative and quantitative data as part of this project-based case study, and furthermore, reflects on the effectiveness of CDIO implementation on the depth of students’ knowledge and level of practical engineering learning. The objective here is to evaluate the individual and collaborative learning processes that occur among a group of students as they use CDIO active learning tactics. The analysis reported in this paper can serve as a foundation to illustrate how educators may better prepare their students for joining the workforce of the future, by using an active learning approach that provides more weight to practical than theoretical knowledge

The Boston University Photonics Center annual report 2015-2016

This repository item contains an annual report that summarizes activities of the Boston University Photonics Center in the 2015-2016 academic year. The report provides quantitative and descriptive information regarding photonics programs in education, interdisciplinary research, business innovation, and technology development. The Boston University Photonics Center (BUPC) is an interdisciplinary hub for education, research, scholarship, innovation, and technology development associated with practical uses of light.This has been a good year for the Photonics Center. In the following pages, you will see that this year the Center’s faculty received prodigious honors and awards, generated more than 100 notable scholarly publications in the leading journals in our field, and attracted $18.9M in new research grants/contracts. Faculty and staff also expanded their efforts in education and training, and cooperated in supporting National Science Foundation sponsored Sites for Research Experiences for Undergraduates and for Research Experiences for Teachers. As a community, we emphasized the theme of “Frontiers in Plasmonics as Enabling Science in Photonics and Beyond” at our annual symposium, hosted by Bjoern Reinhard. We continued to support the National Photonics Initiative, and contributed as a cooperating site in the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) which began this year as a new photonics-themed node in the National Network of Manufacturing Institutes. Highlights of our research achievements for the year include an ambitious new DoD-sponsored grant for Development of Less Toxic Treatment Strategies for Metastatic and Drug Resistant Breast Cancer Using Noninvasive Optical Monitoring led by Professor Darren Roblyer, continued support of our NIH-sponsored, Center for Innovation in Point of Care Technologies for the Future of Cancer Care led by Professor Cathy Klapperich, and an exciting confluence of new grant awards in the area of Neurophotonics led by Professors Christopher Gabel, Timothy Gardner, Xue Han, Jerome Mertz, Siddharth Ramachandran, Jason Ritt, and John White. Neurophotonics is fast becoming a leading area of strength of the Photonics Center. The Industry/University Collaborative Research Center, which has become the centerpiece of our translational biophotonics program, continues to focus onadvancing the health care and medical device industries, and has entered its sixth year of operation with a strong record of achievement and with the support of an enthusiastic industrial membership base

EU–originated MOOCs, with focus on multi- and single-institution platforms

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