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How can business benefit from executive learning in the workplace?
How can business benefit from executive learning in the workplace? The Open University model of executive education is wholly innovative as it integrates real work and real projects…
Business gains competitive edge by investing in talent. This means recruiting the right people at the right time but business also reaps rewards by investing, and retaining, existing talent within the organisation.
In 2011, 32 per cent of businesses fell short of recruitment targets after complaining that graduate skills levels often “did not meet their requirements”.
This is clearly an issue for business, universities and government. The OU believes that practice-based learning is at the very heart of how higher education can help to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical aspects of learning.
OU research into flexible learning has provided us with a deep experience of bringing together work and learning, and we are confident of the impact of this upon students and their employers. In fact, over 71 per cent of OU students work full or part-time during their studies.
“Education wedded with the practical application of the knowledge a student gains continues to work well for my business and our talent. We derive huge commercial value from this approach,” says James Cullens, HR Director, Hays plc.
“The OU have worked with us to design the eLearning and discussion groups, facilitate them around the globe, and support us as we embed this new approach, providing both challenging and helpful feedback along the way,” adds Karen Reilly, Management Development
Manager, Reuters.
Accreditation and professional qualifications that are tied to organisations are increasingly important to many businesses. They recognise that people want to continue to develop and continue to build up transferable qualifications.
The Open University Business School has led the way in the sector by developing professional qualifications specific to each client by incorporating training from the organisation and supplementing it with OUBS modules as a good way of continuing to help people learn and develop. This can also give an alternative way to build up points that are transferable. Practice-based learning and courses provide the scaffold to implement the learning gained from academia.
How can business benefit from executive learning in the workplace? The Open University model of executive education is wholly innovative as it integrates real work and real projects… Business gains competitive edge by investing in talent. This means recruiting the right people at the right time but business also reaps rewards by investing, and retaining, existing talent within the ...
Open University Business School is a superbrand
The Business Superbrands survey is produced by The Centre of Brand Analysis on behalf of the Superbrands organisations. Its league tables are based on the opinions of a panel of experts, and 1,600 businessmen and women from across the UK.
The latest ranking places the OU Business School fourth in its category, after London School of Economics and Political Science, Cranfield School of Management and London Business School, but ahead of other prestigious business schools including Imperial College, Warwick, Henley and Oxford SAID.
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The Open University Business School has been listed among the top four Business Superbrands for Executive Education in 2012. The Business Superbrands survey is produced by The Centre of Brand Analysis on behalf of the Superbrands organisations. Its league tables are based on the opinions of a panel of experts, and 1,600 businessmen and women from across the UK. The latest ...
Webinar for HR professionals on distributed leadership
This webinar is aimed at Human Resources professionals and will explore what Distributed Leadership can achieve within an organisation, and also the challenges in developing people to become Distributed Leaders.
Presenters are Richard Holti , the OU's senior lecturer in organisational change and development, and Francis Cattermole, lecturer in professional development.
More details on the hour long event (and signup information for those able to attend) can be found here.
The OU's Business Development Unit (BDU) is running its first ever webinar, Have traditional leadership models had their day? at 2:15pm today Thursday 8 December. This webinar is aimed at Human Resources professionals and will explore what Distributed Leadership can achieve within an organisation, and also the challenges in developing people to become Distributed ...
Broadcaster Evan Davis gives inaugural lecture as OU Professor
In his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School, the presenter of Radio Four's Today programme said economists are currently polarised between those who think austerity is being pursued too far and too fast, and those who think we need to maintain austerity in order to get growth. But this argument is not the most important one.
Instead we should be focusing on how the UK economy has been re-oriented towards different sectors over the last 30 years, and whether this re-orientation process has gone too far.
"Not everybody is going to be in the creative industries, a pharmaceutical laboratory worker, a university teacher or a skilled engineer," he said. "And there is a huge regional mismatch between where the old jobs were, and the new jobs are."
Evan built on arguments in his recent TV series Made in Britain, one of a number of OU/BBC series which Evan has presented. They include Business Nightmares, about commercial disasters, and Radio Four's The Bottom Line, a business discussion series which also has a huge international TV audience on the BBC World Channel.
Hear Evan's lecture Reflections on the British economy in full, and explore further, on OpenLearn.
Economist and broadcaster Evan Davis tackled the great debate raging among British economists between austerity and growth – and turned it on its head. In his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School, the presenter of Radio Four's Today programme said economists are currently polarised between those who think austerity ...