A LEGO® Serious Play activity to help teamwork skills development amongst business students

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Natalia Martin-Cruz ◽  
Adrian Martin-Gutierrez ◽  
Miguel Rojo-Revenga
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Play Activity ◽  
Teamwork Skills

The Teacher-Student Journey: Program-Wide Teamwork Skills Development and Evaluation in the Medical Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Patsie Polly ◽  
Jia Lin Yang ◽  
Nicole Jones ◽  
Thuan Thai ◽  
Annie Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skills Development ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teamwork Skills

Study of Team Management and Performance with Linear Regression: A Empirical Study Based on 12 Step Method

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-176
Author(s):  
Jian Yu ◽  
Weichu Xu ◽  
M Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Business Students ◽  
University Student ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Step Method ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Teamwork Skills ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Teamwork skills have becoming an important asset that employees can bring into an organization. How to make employees work with other team members and make team effective is an important issue in business education. In order to make sense which factors in team management will help improve team performance, we try to design a test among students. In this paper, we focus on using 12-step method to help business students acquire their teamwork skills and improve their team performance in class, and propose and examine several hypotheses on the relationship between 12-step and their impact on team performance with a dataset collecting from university student teams. The results show that initial sharing, continuous sharing and feedbacks are positively associated with team performance, but expectation, equity and celebration are negatively associated with team performance. The findings provide some insights about how to apply different steps in different environments, and show that some measures and steps should be paid more attention in training in a firm or other organizations.

Impact of Industry Guest Speakers on Business Students' Perceptions of Employability Skills Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Riebe ◽  
R. Sibson ◽  
D. Roepen ◽  
K. Meakins
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Qualitative Responses ◽  
Guest Speakers

This study provides insights into the perceptions and expectations of Australian undergraduate business students (n=150) regarding the incorporation of guest speakers into the curriculum of a leadership unit focused on employability skills development. The authors adopted a mixed methods approach. A survey was conducted, with quantitative results analysed using SPSS allowing comparison of mean values between items and the identification of any statistical difference by student demographics. A thematic approach using inductive coding was applied to analyse the qualitative responses to open-ended questions. The results indicate that an appropriately briefed, qualified, interesting and engaging guest speaker plays an important role in active learning by exposing students to the ‘real world’ of the workplace and can reinforce the significance of key employability skills for future career success. The results also indicate that students' experience of guest speakers may be influenced by cultural factors and learning styles, with differences between the perceptions and expectations of domestic and international students with regard to certain factors. The paper has practical implications for those organizing the implementation of guest speaker programmes in HEIs and for the guest speakers themselves.

Generic skills development and satisfaction with groupwork among business students

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 472-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T.T. Teo ◽  
Naomi Segal ◽  
Adam C. Morgan ◽  
Peter Kandlbinder ◽  
Karen Y. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Generic Skills

scholarly journals Team Skills: Comparing Pedagogy in a Graduate Business School to That of a College of Pharmacy Professional Program

10.28945/3733 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabra E. Brock ◽  
Zvi G Loewy ◽  
F. Ellen Loh
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pharmacy Profession ◽  
Teamwork Skills

Aim/Purpose: To measure the change in team skills resulting from team projects in professional and graduate school courses, a pilot study was conducted among students in two courses in a graduate school of business and one in the pharmacy school of the same institution of higher learning. This pilot study evaluated (a) students receiving training and practice in working as part of a classroom team were able to translate the formal training into the belief they had improved routine team interactions and experienced benefits from the intervention, and (b) determine whether changes in perceived team skills acquired by graduate business students differed from those of pharmacy school students. Background: This pilot study examined the usefulness of adding a teamwork skills module imported from a graduate school of business to increasing team skills in a pharmacy curriculum. Methodology: Thirty-five students (22 in a graduate school of business and 13 in a school of pharmacy) took a survey comprised of 15 questions designed on a 5-point scale to self-evaluate their level of skill in working in a team. They were then exposed to a seminar on team skills, which included solving a case that required teamwork. After this intervention the students repeated the survey. Contribution: As the pharmacy profession moves to be more integrated as part of inter-professional healthcare teams , pharmacy schools are finding it necessary to teach students how to perform on teams where many disciplines are represented equally. The core of the pharmacy profession is shifting from dependence on the scientific method to one where team skills are also important. Findings: The small size of the pilot sample limited significance except in the greater importance of positive personal interaction for business students. Directional findings supported the hypothesis that the business culture allows risk-taking on more limited information and more emphasis on creating a positive environment than the pharmacy culture given its dependence on scientific method. It remains moot as to whether directly applying a teaching intervention from a business curriculum can effectively advance the team skills of pharmacy students. Recommendations For Practitioners: Educators in professional schools such as pharmacy and medicine may find curricular guidance to increase emphasis on learning teamwork skills. Recommendations for Researchers: Researchers are encouraged to explore cross-disciplinary exchanges of teaching core business skills. Impact on Society : The question is posed that as pharmacy schools and the pharmacy profession integrate more into the business of pharmacy whether this difference will close. Future Research: A full study is planned with the same design and larger sample sizes and expanding to include students in medical, as well as pharmacy classes.

scholarly journals Development and Evaluation of Team Work Skills Through the Preparation of Group Assignment Coursework Using Meeting Minutes

2018 ◽  
pp. 1231-1238
Author(s):  
Hamdi Rahman Bin Mohd Yaacob ◽  
Mohd Sirajuddin Siswadi Siswadi Putera Mohamed Shith ◽  
Muhammad Yusri Bin Yusof @ Salleh ◽  
Paiz Bin Hassan ◽  
Amin Bin Che Amat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Team Work ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Group Assignment ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Valid Evidence ◽  
Teamwork Skills ◽  
Diploma Program ◽  
Group Member

In the management of an organization, meetings are an important mechanism for a leadership to achieve organizational objectives, in particular as a democratic decision-making and feedbacks observationmechanism. In ensuring the meeting serves its function, the progress of the meeting is documented in the meeting minutes. As a result, the leader is able to easily gain members’ commitments and assuring that the meeting progresses in tandem with the goals outlined. This qualitative study aims to investigate the use of meeting minutes through the adaptation of teamwork skills development model as teamwork skills development mechanism, in preparing assignment of Islamic education professional courses offered to Part 3 students of the diploma program at Universiti Teknologi MARA Perak Branch. The study employs library research, interviews and observations as research instruments. Library research is done by collecting data on previous studies pertaining to teamwork skills elements to develop a guided minutes of meeting template as instructional material for teamwork skills development. Observations are conducted on both process and result of the application of the minutes of meeting template during the preparation of student workgroup assignment. Selected informants are interviewed to generate their perspectives about ideas, opinions and experiences pertaining research topic. As the result of the study, it’s found that the minutes of meeting as a recognized validated document by all meeting member functioned as an early alert system for educator in detecting free riding tendencies of a group member, as well as become a valid evidence for evaluation members contribution towards team performance.

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