The Role of Communication in Managerial Education from University. Comparative Study

AbstractThe communication process and its importance to organization and to managerial activity is a particular concern for the author of this work, concern embodied in research carried out by a long period of time. A questionnaire designed this year has been applied in two universities from Transylvania (Romania) in order to capture the perception of Business Administration master students on the quality of communication in their training. The study on the first of the two universities (UN) highlighted distinctive issues between teacher-student communication at different specializations (finance, accounting, management). Analysis of the responses to questionnaires applied to management specialization within the second university (UM), allowed us a comparison regarding the perceptions of students – future managers – in the two cases. The objective of the current study is to use the findings of this comparison in establishing ways to improve communication in the education process, for the development of Management master students in the investigated faculties

ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE – A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

This paper presents a theoretical vision of the authors on the context in which individual competences operate and develop, as well as competence at the organizational level. The concept is based on the logic of economic and social life, on the study of bibliography and on previous researches made by the authors. The model is designed, in this case, on the example of an organization from the tourism industryorganizational competence, processes system, roles and jobs, talent management, tourism company.

Communication Improvement within the Education Process and Emotional Intelligence Development

Both the authors’ previous experience and the devoted literature highlight the particular role of teacher-student communication for the quality of graduates’ professional development and education. The research presented herein is based on a sociological survey conducted in a large university from north-west Romania, on more than 600 Economics Master’s students.The chief goal of our research is to determine efficient ways to improve the student training provided by the master programmes in Economics, by means of a better stimulation on the part of the teachers, a more efficient teacher – student communication, a better quality of the teaching materials employed and a greater relevance of the educational content for the particular area of specialisation pursued.After an initial review of the material resulted from the sociological survey, we continued to analyse the results in relation to the tiers of the communication process, the role of groups in the learning process and of the education process in the development of emotional intelligence.Within the current phase of our study, the underlying hypotheses are:(1) The training of Economics and Business Administration students provides them with opportunities of professional specialisation, while developing skills and abilities useful in everyday life.(2) The students’ training in Economics also entails an implicit educational process, which supports the development of their emotional intelligence.(3) Multiculturalism bears manifold benefits, both in terms of specialist professional training and on graduates’ attitudes and behaviour in the social life.This study allowed us to validate the hypotheses and to draw some interesting conclusions for the education of students enrolled in the university surveyed

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Labour Market Orientation and Career Development

Our study is part of an ample research project on the students of a University of the Central West part of Romania. For this particular paper, our aim was to underline the correlation between the level of school training and a series of skills of the young people who took part in the study (such as labour market orientation, interaction with the managers of the employer company and with the company owner, in order to find an advantageous job, to undergo advanced training and to develop their career), meaning the connection between the global intelligence (useful for the school training) and the emotional intelligence. We took into consideration the research in the specialised literature and our previous studies as well as an analysis based on a sociological survey. The survey was conducted on a sample of 518 students, most of them in their second year of Master Degree studies. The questionnaire that contained 38 questions was conceived by the authors, the data was processed with an SPSS software and the results obtained are presented in tables and explained throughout the paper. The conclusions consist of the authors’ considerations regarding the existent connection (in the presented case) between the general, global intelligence of the subjects, manifested through their school results and their emotional intelligence, as well as a portrait of the representative person for the studied community

Communication Quality and Professional Competence – Evidence from a Romanian Business School

AbstractCommunication within the educational process stands as one of the determinant factors for students’ professional development. This paper aims to assess the economic students’ perceptions regarding both the quality and utility of courses and other means of study that will enable their professional competences and their future career development. Thus, we have conducted empirical research among students from several masters programs taught at one of the biggest business schools in Romania. We included in our sample graduate students from three majors: finance and banks (two masters programs), accounting (three masters programs), and management (two masters programs). The students were asked to express their views through a questionnaire that addressed several issues, such as the quality of courses taught, the quality of laboratories and seminars, the correlation between courses and laboratories, the different methods of assessment, the effort implied in each case, and the efficiency of their results. The findings of our study could be used by of the university to further improve the educational process within the business school and to help increase students’ professional development

Student satisfaction and perceived skills: any link to employability?

International audienceThe present study aims to determine the perceived satisfaction of students enrolled in a tourism undergraduate program and to assess the impact perceived skills have on their intentions regarding future careers. This is a quantitative study based on the analysis of primary data gathered through a questionnaire. A sample of 114 students in their second year of study from the biggest university in Romania completed the questionnaire. The data collected were analysed using descriptive analysis, ANOVA and regression analysis. An ANOVA test and post hoc Tukey test were therefore used to determine differences in the means and variance of satisfaction, with the grade levels and course attendance set as the independent variables. A regression analysis was then conducted to identify the connections between perceived skills and the future career path of tourism students. The results show that students do not perceive satisfaction differently according to their grade levels, although there may be a relationship between levels of satisfaction and class attendance. Optimism was found to predict whether students would be interested in starting a business, while attitudes towards leadership and networking were found to predict whether students wished to pursue a management career

Contextual Report of the Central and Eastern European Region

We will explore ecumenical collaboration for the sake of mission in the 21st century in this region. In this sense, we will consider ecumenical relations, theological education, migration and diaspora, and present challenges, and will try to identify the vision of the future. We will do this by focusing on four countries from the region as critical studies: the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Serbia