Development of complex thinking in a professional training process: An approach to business students of a Mexican University

Abstract

This article aims to present an analysis of the development of the level of perceived achievement of complex thinking competency in a group of business students at a university in Mexico. The intention was to identify the scaling of the competency and its sub-competencies during the training process and whether the students have the necessary skills to solve the problems and meet the challenges of their future environments. The study conducted exploratory and multivariate descriptive statistical analyses. The results showed that the participants perceived their achievement of the competency and its sub-competencies highly at the end of their training process and that the students scaled up their sub-competencies considerably.

Keywords:

• Business learning
• complex thinking
• educational innovation
• future of education
• professional education

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the technical support of Writing Lab, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in the production of this work and the support of the Center for Linkage and Professional Development, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara.

Ethical approval

All information provided by human participants has been collected with their consent. The interdisciplinary research group R4C regulated and approved the study’s implementation with the technical support of the Writing Lab of the Institute for the Future of Education of the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The authors acknowledge financial support from Tecnologico de Monterrey through the "Challenge-Based Research Funding Program 2022". Project ID # I001 - IFE001 - C1-T1 – E.