It enables students in other disciplines to become more knowledgeable producers, consumers, and investors. It was this course and no other that the human resources development department at The Prudential chose to begin its program. We have made management skills an important part of our curriculum. Our required organizational behaviour course now incorporates exercises to develop managerial skills such as leadership, decision making and teamwork. The instructor does not lecture but coaches the students by providing feedback about their performance and suggestions for improvement.
Students can then apply what they have learned to other group situations in university and beyond.
This course will be given next at The Prudential. The missing component was coaching, without it they were merely repeating their mistakes. It would be comparable to a parent giving a child lots of money for skis and lift tickets but nothing for lessons. Courses that emphasize teamwork skills also teach humility. A completely analytical management and economics program may leave students with the misleading impression that problems of cooperation and motivation among human beings are as tractable and unambiguous as a problem set.