AOL - MBA Competency Goals and Reports
College of Business MBA : AMBA. SMBA, EMBA, OMBA
- Critical Thinking Skills: Students will learn conceptual skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
- Interpersonal & Team Skills: Students will develop interpersonal skills to work in a dynamic and diverse team environment.
- Ethics: Students will develop awareness and knowledge of ethical decision-making.
- Business Functions Skills: Students will demonstrate integrative knowledge of business functional areas to solve business problems.
- Quantitative & Technical Skills: Students will learn quantitative and technical skills enabling them to analyze and interpret business information effectively.
- Domestic & Global Environment: Students will develop their knowledge of today's domestic and global business environment (e.g. legal, regulatory, political, cultural and economic).
5-1 Summary Tables AMBA - EMBA - OMBA and SMBA
| Competency | Improvements Process (P) or curriculum (c) and date |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | P-Review critical marketing theories, concepts and tools to ensure students have a solid understanding in the closing the loop round, learners have met performance benchmark. Going forward, We aim to create handouts and infographics for each case explaining important marketing theories in the next round of assessment. |
| Interpersonal and Team Skills | P-Incorporating the recommended actions from the prior assessment, such as formalizing a debate structure for the planned discussions to ensure that all teams are equally prepared to engage fully in this closing the loop round, learners have achieved interpersonal and team skills competency. |
| Ethics | Learners demonstrated performance above the benchmark in ethics in both rounds of assessments. P- In the next assessment round, faculty is recommended to use different cases. |
| Business Functions Skills | Learners did not achieve proficiency in business function skills in both rounds of assessments, including the closing-the-loop round. P In the closing-the-loop round, learners did not show improvement in attaining business function competency. Therefore, ALTF recommends a consultative meeting be held with the Graduate Program Director and participating faculty to evaluate the content and pedagogies covered before the next assessment round. One suggestion is to recommend learners utilize free online tools, such as Kahoot, for spot questions to enhance engagement, aiming to close the loop in the next assessment round. |
| Quantitative & Technical Skills | Learners demonstrated met performance benchmarks in quantitative & technical skills in both rounds of assessments. |
| Domestic and Global Environment | P -Despite the learners' performance being lower in the closing-the-loop round, overall, their performance remains above the benchmark. We are considering providing our learners with a more detailed description of what they have learned from both cultural and business perspectives. This will include integrating social norms derived from their interactions with both business professionals and non-business contacts in the upcoming assessment round. |
| Competency | Improvements Process (P) or curriculum (c) and date |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | P- After incorporating the recommendations from the previous assessment, learners have achieved proficiency in critical thinking competency. The emphasis on case method techniques and in-class exercises plays important roles in the closing the loop round. |
| Interpersonal and Team Skills | P - Incorporating the recommended actions, such as team debate into the closing the loop round, learners have demonstrated proficiency in attaining interpersonal and team competency. Continue with the installments structure to ensure goals and expectations are met. Refine expectations for in-class discussions and participations and continue to encourage students in engaging in thoughtful and reflective discussions |
| Ethics | Learners demonstrated performance above the benchmark in ethics in three rounds of assessments. P- ALTF consulted with the Program Director to assess ethics in a different course, FIN 660 and ACCT 610 in the closing the loop round (AY 21-22 and AY 22-23) to corroborate our results. In the next assessment round, faculty is recommended to use different cases. |
| Business Functions Skills | Learners did not achieve proficiency in business function skills in both rounds of assessments, including the closing loop round. P In the closing the loop round, learners did not show improvement in attaining business function competency. Therefore, ALTF recommends a consultative meeting be held with the Graduate Program Director and participating faculty to evaluate the content and pedagogies covered before the next assessment round. One suggestion is to recommend learners utilize free online tools, such as Kahoot, for spot questions to enhance engagement, aiming to close the loop in the next assessment round. |
| Quantitative & Technical Skills | Learners demonstrated proficiency in quantitative & technical skills in both rounds of assessments. |
| Domestic and Global Environment | P - Learners met the performance benchmark of 80% in domestic and global environment in the first round of assessment. Next assessment will be conducted in AY 23-24. |
| Competency | Improvements Process (P) or curriculum (c) and date |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | P-providing individual feedback after the midterm exam and using cases that are relevant, current, rigorous in addition to other materials such as simulations in the closing the loop round, learners have achieved the performance benchmark in acquiring critical thinking competency. In the next round of assessment, we aim to develop more in-class exercises that require more in-depth analytical thinking and writing. |
| Interpersonal and Team Skills | P - Incorporating the recommended actions such as monitoring the sequences of deliverables help students meet their goals and maintaining the balance between synchronous and asynchronous discussions in this closing the loop round. The leaners 's performance is above the benchmark. That aligns with the program’s re-design of this class to meet the learning goals in an online modality in the next round of assessment. |
| Ethics | Learners demonstrated proficiency in ethics in both rounds of assessments. P- In the next assessment round, we tend to continue in class discussion of various ethical scenarios. |
| Business Functions Skills | P- After incorporating recommended changes, such as administering a more detailed peer review form that better reflects individual contributions, learners achieved the performance benchmark of 80% in business function skills in the closing the loop round. In the upcoming review cycle, instructors should schedule one-to-one meetings with low-performance learners at an early stage and address their challenges |
| Quantitative & Technical Skills | Learners demonstrated proficiency in quantitative & technical skills in both rounds of assessments. |
| Domestic and Global Environment | P - Overall, the leaners' performance remains above the benchmark. Continue to make a stronger connection between conceptual and application of strategic management knowledge in both domestic and global settings in the next round of assessment. |
| Competency | Improvements Process (P) or curriculum (c) and date |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | P-Preview critical marketing theories, concepts, and tools to ensure students have a solid understanding. Besides simulations, course materials will be adopted in the closing-the-loop round taking place in Fall 2023 |
| Interpersonal and Team Skills | P - Learners have delivered performance above the benchmark in both rounds of assessments. We have modified the face-to-face debrief structure to ensure that the simulations help learners meet their goals in the closing-the-loop round. Integrate the assessment of these skills with other computational course content to reinforce learning and development. |
| Ethics | P- Overall, their performance remains at the benchmark of 80%, but there is still room for improvement. We noticed that learners who did not meet expectations all missed the multiple-choice question on the whistle-blowing procedure. Therefore, in the next round of assessment, we will incorporate a brief video showcasing a whistle-blowing case to highlight the correct process. |
| Business Functions Skills | Overall, learners have met the performance benchmark of 80% in business function skills in both rounds of assessments, including the closing loop round. P - Moving forward, to enhance individual participation, a balanced approach of in-class student dialogue will be employed, in addition to alternative participation options such as online journaling/reflections for each session. |
| Quantitative & Technical Skills | Learners demonstrated proficiency in quantitative & technical skills in both rounds of assessments. |
| Domestic and Global Environment | P -Despite the learners' performance being lower in the closing-the-loop round, overall, their performance remains at the benchmark but with more room for improvement. Learners will bring to bear advanced analytical tools such as Tableau to analyze critical inputs and datasets relevant to the strategic framing of business decisions. We plan to train our learners to rely on analytical tools to make business-critical decisions such as segmentation, product offerings, and pricing in the next round of assessment. |
