Acquiring Competencies Through Teamwork Activity

Abstract

Employability is a crucial aspect of the European Higher Education Area. Thus, the overriding aim of curricula is the integration of knowledge (specific competencies) and personal/ occupational skills (generic/ transversal competencies). The teamwork competency is important in achieving the goal of graduate employability. Applied to the case of the financial management subject at the University of Extremadura (Spain), this study analyses the assessments of a group of students and a group of teachers of the use of teamwork activity in the acquisition of knowledge and generic competencies. The findings, both for students and teachers, lead to recommend that the centres quality committees advise the use of teamwork in subjects which do not yet apply this learning methodology.

Corporate governance and financial performance: Reframing their relationship in the context of climate change

“…Although the sign of the association between climate performance and FP is unclear from past empirical evidence (Busch & Lewandowski, 2018;Velte et al, 2020), several studies contrast a positive impact of climate performance on both market-based (Iwata & Okada, 2011;Lee et al, 2015) and accounting-based (Gallego-Álvarez et al, 2015;Ganda & Milondzo, 2018;Perez-Calderon et al, 2021).…”