Exploring MBA student perceptions of their preparation and readiness for the profession after completing real-world industry projects

Witt, Christine; Sandoe, Kent; Dunlap, Joanna C.; Leon, Kendall

doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2019.02.003

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“…Student application of these stress management techniques to multiple life domains extends prior findings in management education research. For instance, earlier research shows how students used learning from classroom capstone projects to launch new businesses (Witt et al, 2019; Wysong et al, 2022); developed new professional skills through case-based learning (Burke-Smalley & Mendenhall, 2020); used new leadership skills from professional development (Reyes et al, 2019); and transferred the value of transnational business educational experiences to future employment (Buchanan & Bharadwaj, 2022). Our results show that many students could recognize stress, alter their response, and then endorse learning these techniques to those working around them.…”

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Stress Training in the Classroom: Evidence of Learning Transfer and Psychological Gains

Flinchbaugh,

Moore,

Gandhi

2023

Journal of Management Education

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Stress is ubiquitous in life and creates a need for effective responses in any domain. In this exploratory study, our goal was to understand better how business students learn and use stress management techniques in the classroom context and how this learning applies to different domains. We used thematic coding and textual analysis of weekly student journal reflections about their use of different stress management techniques over 12 weeks. Moving beyond their use of stress techniques in the classroom, students’ comments suggest that their broad use of tools, led to improved well-being (i.e., increased positive affect, reduced stress, and negative affect) beyond the classroom into other life domains. An analysis of student statements further showed increases in their present-focused cognitive orientation, the key dimension of mindfulness, over time. Their heightened present-focused cognitive orientation seems to stem from their practice of the deep breathing stress management technique. Thus, the results suggest that an explicit focus on students’ stress reduction in the classroom may have important implications for how educators can better prepare students for addressing stress and improving psychological and cognitive gains through applied learning across multiple life experiences.

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Stress Training in the Classroom: Evidence of Learning Transfer and Psychological Gains

Flinchbaugh,

Moore,

Gandhi

2023

Journal of Management Education

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“…When examining the teaching-practice gap, management researchers have looked at a variety of different experiential and cocurricular activities that can be used to develop students’ professional skills. For example, scholars have examined the learning benefits associated with internships (Carson & Fisher, 2006; Narayanan et al, 2010), service learning (Godfrey et al, 2005; Yorio & Ye, 2012), international study trips (Hallows et al, 2011), and field projects (Ayas & Zeniuk, 2001; Witt et al, 2019). Other studies have examined how cocurricular activities like case competitions can help business students develop professionally relevant skills such as oral and written communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills (Sachau & Naas, 2010; Umble et al, 2008).…”

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Cocurricular Learning in Management Education: Lessons From Legal Education’s Use of Student-Edited Journals

Theeke

Hall

2021

Journal of Management Education

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In this essay, we draw on insights from U.S. legal education’s century-long experiment using student-edited journals as a cocurricular learning tool, to develop the argument that management education should consider introducing a new category of student-edited, practitioner-oriented journals. Student-edited journals are potentially well-suited for management education because they encourage students to learn professionally relevant skills and to develop a greater understanding of research and its role in professional education. Enlisting students to help edit practitioner journals could also benefit business professionals by increasing the availability of practitioner-oriented research. In doing so, management education can use this cocurricular learning activity to help break down barriers between research, teaching and practice. This essay contributes to the management education literature by furthering the conversation about the role that cocurricular learning plays in fostering evidence-based management.

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Developing Industry-Ready Business Analysts: Guiding Principles for Effective Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a BPM Course

Evans,

Kaur,

Fernando

2023

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Exploring MBA student perceptions of their preparation and readiness for the profession after completing real-world industry projects

Cited by 10 publications

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Stress Training in the Classroom: Evidence of Learning Transfer and Psychological Gains

Stress Training in the Classroom: Evidence of Learning Transfer and Psychological Gains

Cocurricular Learning in Management Education: Lessons From Legal Education’s Use of Student-Edited Journals

Developing Industry-Ready Business Analysts: Guiding Principles for Effective Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a BPM Course

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