Improving PhD processes in management

Author

Steenhuis, Harm-Jan ; de Bruijn, Erik J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage., Eastern Washington Univ., Spokane, WA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 June 2010

Firstpage

691

Lastpage

696

Abstract

One of the factors that can influence the economic status of countries is the education of the workforce. Improvements in education can positively impact economic growth. This paper is oriented on one program in particular, i.e. a PhD program in Industrial Engineering and Management with an emphasis on international issues. This program started in 1990 and recently more challenges with the quality of the research of PhD students were observed. This paper offers an exploratory analysis to determine key issues in the PhD program. It was concluded that many of the required skills should already be present in PhD students at the beginning of the PhD program in order to successfully complete it.

Keywords

economics; education; industrial engineering; management; PhD processes; economic growth; economic status; education; industrial engineering; industrial management; international issues; workforce; Education; Educational programs; Engineering management; Humans; Industrial engineering; Innovation management; Scholarships; Technological innovation; Testing; Writing; Graduate education; scholarship of teaching; teaching and learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6565-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6566-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2010.5492736

Filename

5492736