加拿大商学院管理类课程教学方法的实证分析

An Empirical Analysis of Business Course Teaching Methods at a Canadian Business School

商学院主要培养应用型专业人才,这些人才需要具备很强的职业能力,比如公众演讲能力、语言表达能力、独立决策能力、以及团队合作能力。加拿大一些顶级商学院在培养这种应用型专业人才方面有很多成功的经验。本文就以加拿大的一所商学院为例初步分析了该学院管理类主干课程的授课方法,并且通过对这些课的《课程简介》中的数据进行分析发现了不同的教学方法在培养学生的不同能力方面所起的不同作用。最后借鉴该学院先进的教学方法对我国商学院教学提出几点建议。

Business education is, to some extent, unlike academic studies; it is aiming at offering our society ready-to-work graduates with critical thinking ability and individual decision making competence, as well as strong team working experience. Since some Canadian business schools have some successful stories on how to educate business students with those competences, we here take one Canadian business school as a case to probe their teaching methods by analyzing the grading scheme of 8 management related courses.