An Oil and Fats Manufacturing Company: Assessing Human Resource Needs for Corporate Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 097282012199811
Author(s):  
Roziana Shaari ◽  
Azlineer Sarip ◽  
Zul’ Idham Md Noh
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
First Year ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Senior Manager ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
Resource Needs

Nikolai Asia Pacific in Johor Bahru Malaysia is a leading manufacturer of vegetable oils and fats. The Senior Manager of Human Resource and Organization Development (HROD) had concerns about employees at managerial levels. He felt that they were not playing their role in championing organizational changes being made for improvement in performance. He expected the managers should be able to foresee the struggles the organization will face in the coming years and initiate changes even when everything seemed to be going well. This case presents an opportunity for first-year undergraduate students to understand needs assessment for training and non-training interventions for managers of an organization. The case discusses issues of performance discrepancies among managers despite the various initiatives taken by the HROD department. In order to emulate reality, the event that led the HROD to take action has been recorded in the case study. The identified gaps will prompt learners to identify tools and approaches necessary in such a situation.

scholarly journals Fostering creativity understanding

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 574-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Boulocher-Passet ◽  
Peter Daly ◽  
Isabelle Sequeira
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Fostering Creativity ◽  
Survey Responses

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encourage initiatives to train large cohorts of undergraduate students for creativity understanding. The authors describe a case study of a creativity exercise developed within a corporate setting that accommodates a large cohort and discuss the results of empirical research on this teaching experience at a French Business School. The authors reflect on the transferability of this exercise by other educators to similar educational contexts and the usefulness of training future managers to a structured creativity methodology to be exploited in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – A case study explains the features of the exercise. Hard data on students’ perceptions and motivation/satisfaction prior to and after the creativity exercise was collected through an internet self-completed survey instrument. In total, 245 pairs of survey responses from first-year students were analysed using prototypical analysis, paired samples t-test and content analysis. Findings – The exercise proved an effective tool to help large cohorts of undergraduates to better understand that creativity is a managerial competence that can be trained. The authors particularly underlined the need for fluidity in the organisation of the exercise; use of a clear creativity process and methodology; the necessity to involve an external creativity consultant; and the importance of the chosen topic being non art related. In the workplace, this understanding of creativity methodologies will enable future managers to support, promote and manage creativity endeavours. Originality/value – This paper encourages initiatives and provides insights into the difficulties of training large cohorts of undergraduate students for understanding the concept of creativity.

scholarly journals Students as partners in e-contents creation: A case study exploring student-staff partnership for learning and student engagement using digital applications for co-creation of e-learning materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Nurun Nahar ◽  
Duncan Cross
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Enhanced Learning

In order to enable learners to take control of their learning needs and actively contribute in their learning processes, educators can partner with students in various reciprocal student-staff partnership (SSP) settings where students can be co-creators, co-producers, curators, or co-deliverers of the curriculum. Our project, undertaken to enhance the curriculum as part of a teaching qualification, places emphasis on educators partnering with first-year undergraduate students over e-content creation within an existing module, using readily accessible digital applications in order to promote active learning in students and improve student engagement. In this case study, we evaluate the extent to which SSP, as an approach to the creation of e-learning materials using digital applications, enhanced learning and student engagement in an existing module. Our student partners perceived SSP to be an excellent platform for learning, actively engaging in the classroom, and developing skills such as communication and digital literacy. However, they expressed some concerns about overcoming the traditional hierarchies within our SSP initiative

scholarly journals Using Hybrid Problem-based Learning (HPBL) Approach to Enhance Libyan EFL Students’ Engagement with English Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Eman Fathi Baresh ◽  
Suraini Mohd Ali ◽  
Ramiaida Darmi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Efl Students

This article explores how the Hybrid Problem-Based Learning (HPBL) approach can improve the Libyan EFL learners’ performance in English language speaking. The paper employed the case study research design in which qualitative data through observation and interview were collected and analysed thematically. The participants involved in the study were 30 first-year undergraduate students in one of the Libyan public universities. The study was conducted in the period of 9 weeks. The course was conducted alternatingly between traditional and PBL lessons. The PBL lessons were based on 7 steps of Schmidt, Dauphinee and Patel (1989). At the end of each PBL lesson, students presented their possible solutions for the problem presented in a form of oral presentation (OP). It was found that after undergoing the HPBL process, the speaking ability of the learners improved in fluency, grammar, comprehension, vocabulary, confidence level, intonation skills and pronunciation. It is, thus, concluded the HPBL approach is a worthwhile alternative for English lecturers for the transformation of the stagnant approach to the teaching of English language in the Libyan EFL context.

Developing a research-led practice: A case study examining the information needs and behaviours of first year undergraduates at the University for the Creative Arts

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
First Year ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Arts students access information and find inspiration through a cornucopia of resources both within and outside of the library. Informed by creativity theory and information needs studies, this case study set out to identify the needs and behaviours of first year undergraduate students at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. The use of multiple collection techniques captured rich data and provided an insight into ways of enhancing outreach both in the physical environment and online.

scholarly journals Revealing shifts from mastery of knowledge to problem solving in assessments of a tertiary physics programme

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alan Cornell ◽  
Kershree Padayachee
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Code Theory ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Good Grasp ◽  
Legitimation Code Theory

There is an increasing pressure on lecturers to work with two goals. First, they need to ensure that their undergraduate students have a good grasp of the knowledge and skills of the intellectual field. In addition, they need to prepare graduates and postgraduates for careers both within and outside of academia. The problem we address in this paper is the way in which assessments may reveal a shift of focus from a mastery of knowledge to a work-focused orientation. We examine this shift through a case study of physics and the sub-discipline of theoretical physics as intellectual fields. The evidence is comprised of assessment tasks given to students at different points of their studies from first year to doctoral level. By examining and analysing the assessment tasks using concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), we demonstrate how the shifts in the assessments lead students incrementally from a pure disciplinary focus to one that enables them to pursue employment potentially both within and outside of academia. In doing so, we also highlight the usefulness of LCT as a framework for evaluating the preparation of science students for diverse workplaces.

scholarly journals Sudoku puzzles for practicing SI prefixes: A case study with Turkish undergraduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1065-1077
Author(s):  
Handan Urek
Keyword(s):  
General Chemistry ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
Biology Teaching ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Before And After

The purpose of this study was to develop two Sudoku puzzles for undergraduate students which can be utilised in the context of introductory physical science courses in order to assist them to practice SI prefixes. For this reason, SI prefixes for decimal multiples and submultiples were addressed in two separate puzzles. To test the puzzles, a case study was conducted with 20 biology teaching students studying their first year in a state university in Turkey. Data were collected with the help of a questionnaire posed to the students before and after the application of the puzzles. According to the results, 18 students (90%) completed the puzzles successfully. In addition, the students agreed that solving the Sudoku puzzles made contributions to them in terms of practicing SI prefixes. It is recommended that the Sudoku puzzles developed in this study might be used efficiently for all undergraduate students taking courses such as general chemistry and physics.   Keywords: SI prefixes, educational games, Sudoku puzzles, introductory science courses.

scholarly journals When Average Is Not Enough: A Case Study Examining the Variation in the Influences on Undergraduate Debt Burden

AERA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 233285841986015
Author(s):  
Dominique J. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
First Year ◽  
Time To Degree ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
Income Ratio ◽  
Undergraduate Debt

In an era of increased accountability for colleges and concerns about an affordable education, it is useful to understand whether students can adequately manage the debt burden they hold after leaving higher education. In 2015, Texas called for cumulative undergraduate debt to be 60% or less of public institution graduates’ first-year earnings by 2030. I investigate the student-level characteristics that are associated with a debt-to-income ratio above 60%. The data come from five cohorts of undergraduate students who attended Texas public 4-year institutions. I find that if sanctions were attached to the cumulative debt goal, historically disadvantaged groups of students and institutions that serve these students likely would be disproportionately affected by this type of accountability goal even after controlling for prior income, parental education, major choice, and time to degree. Policy implications are discussed.

Gloria Jean's Coffee in Malaysia

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmat-Nizam Abdul-Talib ◽  
Samshul-Amry Abdul-Latif ◽  
Norhayati Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
First Year ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Expansion Plan

Subject area Franchise, strategic management, food and beverages, Malaysia. Student level/applicability First year undergraduate students of management courses. Case overview This case study explores the strategies employed by franchisor Gloria Jean's Coffees (GJC) in reestablishing its market presence in the Malaysian coffee market. GJC recently underwent an exchange of ownership. Under the new leadership, the company decided to appoint a new strategic master franchisee in Malaysia to see a section of its expansion plan in the ASEAN region reestablished. The selection of a suitable and well-connected master franchisee is very important for reestablishing presence and brand name development. The deteriorating position of GJC's brand name in Malaysia prior to the appointment of a new master franchisee created a unique situation requiring an in-depth evaluation and examination of unseen but highly related critical factors. In-depth and “behind-the-scene” examination on efforts made through the implementation of business and marketing strategies to reestablish its brand and presence in Malaysia; given demanding market challenges and intense competitions. Expected learning outcomes After carrying out this exercise, students are expected to be able to: understand how business start up grows in foreign markets; identify the basic issues of international franchising and how the system works; analyze the various factors of considerations prior to internationalization; and evaluate strategies undertaken by company in establishing its market in foreign countries. Supplementary materials Teaching note.

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