Organization Management Journal
Abstract
This capstone course extended the classroom to include practitioner-focused research projects and presentations to senior-level campus management. The course served as a student learning laboratory for experiencing working-world settings, problems, and expectations, using the controlled environment of a college human resource management office, working with the Director of Human Resource Management. Learning outcomes included 1) effectively using multiple business communication skills, 2) applying quantitative and qualitative reasoning for problem solving to integrate, synthesize and apply complex information for addressing practical problems; 3) experience in adapting to a real-life, changing environment, and 4) making management decisions that reflected the dynamic interrelationships of the major functions of business to achieve the mission of the organization. Finally, students reported a heightened sense of task identity, personal commitment to their college and their education, and a legacy of contribution for their role in helping shape human resource management policies for college governance.
Recommended Citation
Peters, Theodore D. and Yanagi, Jeffrey S.
(2006)
"A Strategic Management Learning Laboratory:
Integrating the College Classroom and the College Human Resource
Management Environment,"
Organization Management Journal: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj/vol3/iss1/6