Redesigning an Undergraduate HRD Program With Stakeholder Guidance

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Beyerlein ◽  
Trez Jones ◽  
Kelli Peck Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Faculty Advising ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Work World ◽  
Program Change ◽  
Adaptive Pattern

The Problem Curriculum for students of human resource development (HRD) has evolved every decade and must continue this adaptive pattern to match the workplace. However, little research seems to be available to guide development of undergraduate HRD programs. Fewer than 100 publications seem to have addressed HRD curriculum. Of that group, few have focused on the undergraduate level. Consequently, this article provides an overview of the process of transforming the undergraduate curriculum for students at a major southwestern university to adapt its fit to the changing work world. The Solution The article summarizes the process steps, the curricular changes, and the framework for continuous curriculum change for an undergraduate HRD program. Change may be incremental and continuous or punctuated by major redesign efforts. The latter require input from all stakeholders to generate a curriculum that is relevant and engaging. Details of the design process from the current case can guide other programs working on redesign, including the decision-making process, the rationale, and the choices about courses to include or modify. The Stakeholders The procedure for preparing the plan for the curricular changes involved a wide range of stakeholders, including current students, faculty, advising staff, and alumni. Each group provided unique inputs from diverse perspectives which were integrated into the final plan. The outcome of the redesign work affected members of all the groups, such as the increased relevance of coursework for the students, the graduation of more qualified students for employers, and the empowering effect of involving faculty.

scholarly journals Building capacity through open approaches: Lessons from developing undergraduate electrophysiology practicals

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Erin C. McKiernan ◽  
Lucía Medina Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Research Capacity ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Similar Resource

Background: Electrophysiology has a wide range of biomedical research and clinical applications. As such, education in the theoretical basis and hands-on practice of electrophysiological techniques is essential for biomedical students, including at the undergraduate level. However, offering hands-on learning experiences is particularly difficult in environments with limited resources and infrastructure. Methods: In 2017, we began a project to design and incorporate electrophysiology laboratory practicals into our Biomedical Physics undergraduate curriculum at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. We describe some of the challenges we faced, how we maximized resources to overcome some of these challenges, and in particular, how we used open scholarship approaches to build both educational and research capacity. Results: We succeeded in developing a number of experimental and data analysis practicals in electrophysiology, including electrocardiogram, electromyogram, and electrooculogram techniques. The use of open tools, open platforms, and open licenses was key to the success and broader impact of our project. We share examples of our practicals and explain how we use these activities to strengthen interdisciplinary learning, namely the application of concepts in physics to understanding functions of the human body. Conclusions: Open scholarship provides multiple opportunities for universities to build capacity. Our goal is to provide ideas, materials, and strategies for educators working in similar resource-limited environments.

scholarly journals A survey of methods for evaluating mini-publics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeuchi Ayano
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Decision Making

AbstractPublic participation has become increasingly necessary to connect a wide range of knowledge and various values to agenda setting, decision-making and policymaking. In this context, deliberative democratic concepts, especially “mini-publics,” are gaining attention. Generally, mini-publics are conducted with randomly selected lay citizens who provide sufficient information to deliberate on issues and form final recommendations. Evaluations are conducted by practitioner researchers and independent researchers, but the results are not standardized. In this study, a systematic review of existing research regarding practices and outcomes of mini-publics was conducted. To analyze 29 papers, the evaluation methodologies were divided into 4 categories of a matrix between the evaluator and evaluated data. The evaluated cases mainly focused on the following two points: (1) how to maintain deliberation quality, and (2) the feasibility of mini-publics. To create a new path to the political decision-making process through mini-publics, it must be demonstrated that mini-publics can contribute to the decision-making process and good-quality deliberations are of concern to policy-makers and experts. Mini-publics are feasible if they can contribute to the political decision-making process and practitioners can evaluate and understand the advantages of mini-publics for each case. For future research, it is important to combine practical case studies and academic research, because few studies have been evaluated by independent researchers.

scholarly journals Beyond Post-Tonal: A Broader Approach to the Fourth Semester Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
World Music ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Musical Interests ◽  
Broad Overview

In this article, I argue for organizing the undergraduate curriculum around topics that are applicable to a wide variety of repertoires. Doing so allows students to continue to learn the central concepts and skills that theorists seek to impart via the core curriculum but through a wider variety of musical styles and traditions. Pairing this approach to the curriculum with a wide range of musical activities and projects that extend beyond analysis to include improvisation, arranging, performance, composition, and research helps students connect the content to their own instruments, degree programs, and musical interests. I describe my application of this philosophy towards curricular reform within the context of a fourth semester course on twentieth-century music, where twentieth-century music was treated as a broad category encompassing post-tonal and avant garde music alongside jazz, popular, and world music. This article presents a broad overview of the course, discusses the successes and failures of this approach, and offers some suggestions for how it may be implemented and adapted for various teaching contexts.

scholarly journals RAZVOJ LJUDSKIH RESURSA KAO PREDUSLOV ORGANIZACIONE USPJEŠNOSTI / HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AS A CONDITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Željko M. Radosavac
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Wide Range

Contemporary business conditions do not impose only need for adjustment of the organization but also the need for adjustment of employees. Human resources, manifested through individual knowledge, skills, individual qualities and achievements, is the basis of competitive advantage of organizations and the main resource for the survival, the growth and development of modern organizations. Treating employees as a decisive factor for the success of organizations, it follows that their primary duty is to provide, maintain and develop the best people through the wide range of human resource activities. Thus, Human Resource Development, designated as a key activity for achieving the projected goals of the organization, can be defined as a set of systematic and planned activities appointed by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands. Employees are increasingly accepting the reality that education becomes their responsibility in order to develop their full working potential and to ensure self employment opportunities. On the other hand, encouraging educational programs, organizations strive not only to meet the business needs for education of employees, but also their interests, creating and developing the climate of continuous learning and dissemination of knowledge in all areas. To what extent will the organization attach importance to certain practices that guide and encourage staff development depends on its current situation, activities, goals and adopted development strategy. Adequate choice, the assignment according to their abilities and affinities, continuous training and education, are generally accepted methods without which the development of employees is not possible. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) estimates that U.S. organizations spent $134.1 billion on employee learning and development in 2008, and $125.9 billion in 2009.Human resource managers in large organizations ranked training and development as the most important functional area they had to deal with because HRD programs must respond to job changes and integrate the long-term plans and strategies of the organization to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources. Combining different methods and approaches, and referring to all employees in the organization, training and human resources development become a tools for achieving change and the effects they produce are becoming a far-reaching and strategic.

IT in Manufacturing and Logistics for SCM and OP in SMEs

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hung ◽  
Yao-Wen Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Wide Range

This analysis focusses on the effects of Information Technology (IT) and how it significantly affects the Supply Chain Management (SCM) in logistics and manufacturing-Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Apart from that, our purpose is to evaluate how IT affects the Organizational Performance (OP) in the enterprises. Irrespective of the fact that IT cannot be applied in every enterprise, the findings in this research are based on the statistical analysis which shows that a wide-range of workforce in the modern age has adopted the initiative considering the complexities of SCM and mostly to maximize OP in the enterprises. This research was done based on the analysis of SMEs in logistics and manufacturing sector in India. The sample used to conduct this research makes it valid to draw assumptions that managers and CEOs are responsible for coordinating enterprise operations in SMEs. The evaluation in this research shows that the workforce is obliged to formulate strategies to allow employees to enhance their competency of IT. In that regard, the findings are essential for the enhancement of the decision-making process, SCM and OP.

An Empirical Examination of Evaluation’s Presence in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-310
Author(s):  
John M. LaVelle ◽  
Nina Sabarre ◽  
Haley Umans
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Public Colleges And Universities ◽  
Top 40

Evaluator education programs have developed to help support the growth of professional evaluators and improve evaluation practice. Empirical research has described where and how evaluation is taught at the graduate level of education, but little is known about the undergraduate level. This study empirically explores how, if at all, evaluation is taught at the undergraduate level by systematically analyzing the publicly available curricula of the top 40 public and top 40 private universities in the United States. Findings demonstrate that 470 evaluation-specific and associated courses were offered across public colleges and universities (335 courses offered) and private colleges (135 courses offered). However, among these 470 courses, the extent to which evaluation is taught varies from a specific method of systematic inquiry to a tool used for assessment or judgment, or minor topic within a broader subject. Implications for the field are discussed.

Laboratory Modules for Reinforcement of Concepts Taught in Undergraduate Tissue Mechanics Course

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozan Akkus ◽  
Allison Sieving
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Tissue Mechanics ◽  
Stress And Strain ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Strength Of Materials ◽  
Musculoskeletal Tissues ◽  
State Of Stress ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Holistic Understanding

Tissue mechanics is one of the key courses of the Biomechanics subtrack of the undergraduate curriculum. The aims of the course include: 1) To understand the concepts of stress, strain, viscoelasticity and how these concepts apply to musculoskeletal tissues. 2) The ability to infer the state of stress and strain at a given point in a biological structure under torsional, axial, bending and other types of loads. 3) To understand the anatomy of musculoskeletal tissues. Accomplishment of these aims requires a holistic understanding of statics, strength of materials and microanatomy of connective tissues. Conveying this wide range of topics in one class is a major challenge and most textbooks on this subject lack depth either in engineering or in physiology. The purpose of this abstract is to describe the benefits of the integration of theory with experimental practice for bridging the difficult topics of statics, strength of materials and tissue anatomy within the framework of undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum.

scholarly journals A Multitier Approach to Estimating the Energy Efficiency of Urban Passenger Mobility

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10263
Author(s):  
Daniel Neves Schmitz Gonçalves ◽  
Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira ◽  
Mariane Gonzalez da Costa ◽  
George Vasconcelos Goes ◽  
Tássia Faria de Assis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Energy Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Motorized Transport

As society has experiences new modes of mobility in recent years, cities have planned to increase their energy efficiency as a way of reducing environmental impacts and promoting economic development. However, governments face difficulties in establishing mechanisms to determine the best actions in the management of urban mobility regarding energy efficiency and to elaborate a ranking of cities based on energy efficiency in order to better allocate resources. This is due to the complex nature of obtaining a wide range of activity and energy data from a single municipality, especially in data-scarce regions. This paper develops and applies a model for estimating the energy efficiency of urban mobility that is applicable to different contexts and backgrounds. The main contribution of the article is the use of a multitier approach to compare and adjust outputs, considering different transport configurations and data sets. The results indicate that variations in vehicle occupancy and individual motorized transport rates have a significant impact on energy efficiency, which reached 0.70 passenger-kilometers/MJ in Sorocaba, Brazil. However, as the use of electric vehicles increases in this city, this scenario is expected to change. Additionally, the method has been proven to be an important mechanism for benchmarking purposes and for the decision-making process for transport investments.

Telecardiology and its settings of application: An update

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Molinari ◽  
Martina Molinari ◽  
Matteo Di Biase ◽  
Natale D Brunetti
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Implantable Devices ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Coronary Syndrome ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure ◽  
The Impact

Among the wide range of medical specialties in which telemedicine has been successfully applied, cardiology can be considered as one of the most important fields of application. Through the transmission of clinical data and the electrocardiogram, telecardiology allows access to a real-time assessment (teleconsultation) without any need to travel for both patient and cardiologist. This review discusses the impact of telecardiology in different clinical settings of application. Pre-hospital telecardiology has proved to be useful either in the clinical management of remote patients with acute coronary syndrome or in supporting the decision-making process of general practitioners. In the setting of in-hospital telecardiology, most of the applications refer to real-time echocardiography transmissions between rural small hospitals and tertiary care centres, particularly for the diagnosis or exclusion of congenital heart disease in newborns. Finally, many trials show that post-hospital telecardiology improves outcomes and reduces re-admissions or outpatient contacts in patients with heart failure, arrhythmias or implantable devices.

Government and Private Industry Programs: An Overview

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-273
Author(s):  
Mary M. Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Work World ◽  
Policies And Programs

Surveying a wide range of company policies and programs on alcohol and other drug abuse, the author interviewed such divergent types of employer as a law enforcement agency, an electronics manufacturing company, a public transportation authority, a life insurance company, an insurance brokerage house, and a bank. Some of the private firms and public agencies have long-standing and successful alcoholism programs. Others, while they have had problems with alcoholism on the job, have handled such cases individually and have established no formal alcoholism program. All have had some experience with the use of other drugs among employees—in varying degrees—and all expect this problem to become more widespread as more young persons enter the work world. Approaches to the use of our legal drug—alcohol—and the illegal drugs are varied and may be helpful to other employers seeking to establish effective programming.

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