A Case for Learning Assessment: A Response to Evans' Critical Linkages

Abstract

In this discussion, Paul Bobrowski reviews the challenges facing management education and its link to business practices. While he and Evans agree that business linkages is an important yet not-well-understood concept for both practitioners and business educators, the two authors differ on how learning outcomes and interdisciplinary integration within management education should occur.

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Paul M. Bobrowski

Paul M. Bobrowski is the director of the executive MBA program and an associate professor of operations management at the school of management at Syracuse University. His primary research areas include scheduling, project management, and quality management. In 1989, Bobrowski's research was recognized with the receipt of the Stanley T. Hardy Award for the article making the greatest contribution in operations management. His classes specialize in manufacturing planning and control and total quality management.

Currently, Bobrowski is a member of the steering committee for the New York State Quality Award, and is a senior examiner for the award. His work has appeared in Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, National Productivity Review, and others. Bobrowski is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Operations Management and the Quality Management Journal.

Prior to his work at Syracuse, Bobrowski was an assistant professor at Oregon State University. After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy, he was an engineer and manager for nine years in the U.S. Air Force's systems research and development. He worked on the F-16 and the Navstar Global Positioning System, a space-based navigation system.

Bobrowski earned a Ph.D. in business from Indiana University. He may be contacted Syracuse University, 212 School of Management, Syracuse, NY 13244-2130; 315-443-3006; Fax [phone]; E-mail: [email protected]