Through this project sequence:
- You complete self-assessments to identify perceived gaps between your current skill levels and those you need to achieve your goals as a business professional.
- You demonstrate skills in communication, ethical decision making and critical thinking.
- You develop understanding and appreciation for issues of diversity and social responsibility and examine business perspectives around culture, ethics, leadership, and planning.
Areas of Coverage
Project 1-1:
Personal and Professional Skills
By focusing on multiple assessments of yourself, both personally and professionally, you better understand your own ethical framework and leadership capability. You demonstrate your writing and oral communications skills. Also, using gap analysis, you assess your personal and professional experience and prior learning to develop an individualized learning map for the program.
Project 1-2:
Sensitivity to Diversity
Explore your personal habits, beliefs, and values associated with different dimensions of diversity in order to develop an appreciation for diversity within the culture of your firm. Consequently, you examine the firm's beliefs about diversity and the culture and policies it implements to support those beliefs and contrast your own personal values with the firm's values.
Project 1-3:
My Work Environment
Assess the current status of your firm using Balanced Scorecard dimensions and use this information to develop an assessment of your firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to its history of ethical decision-making and its approach to diversity.
Project 1-F:
Me in My Business Environment
Explore the purposes and motivations of your firm as a multi-faceted organization, analyzing the firm within an industry in relation to its current business sector. You then perform a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis to assess the firm in terms of its competitors, performing this analysis from your own perspective in an operating unit within the firm within the industry.
At every stage in the PBBA program you are building your experience-based professional resume, not just logging grades on an academic transcript.