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- Projeto de Simulação Empresarial: a experiência no ISCAPPublication . Silva, Paulino; Bertuzi da Silva, RuiEste artigo descreve um estudo levado a cabo no Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto – Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISCAP-IPP), no curso de Licenciatura de Contabilidade e Administração nas unidades curriculares de Projeto de Simulação Empresarial (PSE) I e II, no ano letivo de 2012/2013. Este estudo tem como base um inquérito efetuado a 60 alunos em PSE I e a 60 alunos de PSE II. O inquérito tenta aferir a perceção dos alunos para questões sobre competências gerais e específicas, consideradas importantes para os gestores e contabilistas no presente. Os resultados transmitem que os alunos reconhecem que a frequência das unidades curriculares permite o reforço e melhoria das competências adquiridas ao longo do curso. Estas conclusões corroboram os de Adler e Milne (1997) que nos dizem que os alunos concordam que a aprendizagem orientada para a ação ajuda na melhoria das suas competências e conhecimentos.
- The Entre4Future projectPublication . Silva, Paulino; Mesquita, Anabela; Bertuzi da Silva, RuiThis paper presents some of the results already achieved in the European project titled "Simulation for Entrepreneurship - ENTRE4FUTURE". Seven organizations from six different countries participate in this project. Organizations are from two different groups. We have a group of five educational organizations from Romania (project leader), Portugal, Spain, Austria and Denmark. The second group is constituted by two affiliates of chambers of commerce of Romania and Cyprus. The purpose of ENTRE4FUTURE is the exchange of professional experience in matters relating to teaching methodologies, with the curricula of the business simulation and the methodology used in the business simulation courses as an effective method in entrepreneurship for education among young people, the use of the innovative technologies in the business simulation courses between two levels of education - high school and university. The project had its start in 2014 and the end will be in 2016. By this time some results have already been achieved, which passed through the creation of the project website, the reports of the three meetings already held, the presentation of a new curricula for the business simulation courses and a first draft of the Good Practice Guide "Simulation for entrepreneurship".
- The Importance of the Competences Learned in the First JobPublication . Bertuzi da Silva, Rui; Silva, PaulinoThis paper presents the results from a study conducted about the importance in the first job, of learned skills acquired at Business Simulation (BS) courses from the degree of Accounting and Administration at ISCAP / IPP. BS courses are part of the curriculum of the Accounting and Administration degree since 2003 and are an alternative to the internship to have access to the National Chamber of Accountants. In these courses, some important skills for the accountant profession are taught. These skills and competences are in line with the ones that are defined by some of the most important international organisations in this area. One of them is AICPA - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants – that defined a set of core values and core competences that Certified Public Accountants must have to perform their job [1]. This research had a qualitative approach in which semi-structure interviews were conducted to BS former students that had already started their first job. The interviews followed a structure that intends to understand some important topics, such as learned and not learned (but important) skills and competences, and strengths and weaknesses of the courses. From previous studies, we obtained information from the students’ perception of general and specific skills and competences before entering the job market. The results obtained over the last years were very favourable in terms of the skills learned and the methodology used. BS courses are provided in a simulated business environment with a learning by doing approach. The present study intends to complement and reinforces in practice the results obtained previously, since the interviewees are no longer students, but professionals. The results demonstrate that former students value in their job learned skills during BS courses, such as teamwork, communication skills, time planning and management. As they have contact with other ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, they also pointed out the need to change the non-user-friendly software in BS courses. Nevertheless, they admit the most important in BS courses learning activities were not the means (software and hardware), but especially the aims (the acquired skills and competences).
- Using a Change Management Game to Improve Human Resources Management SkillsPublication . Silva, Paulino; Bertuzi da Silva, Rui; Elger, MartinIn a very changing business environment in which mergers and acquisitions are frequent, it is fundamental for a manager to know how to deal with these happenings. It is recognized today that employees are the best asset of enterprises, and so it is fundamental to maintain them motivated especially during transforming situations. Change Management is about facts in the context of business management and administration. The focus lies on items that are not measurable and not documentable in the business world. Nevertheless, these items have a very important important impact in connection with the strategic change process of a company and their staff members. In this paper we present some lessons learned from the experience of the use of a Change Management Game at ISCAP/IPP, as a result of a partnership with Cooperative State University Baden- Württemberg, a German University. For this study, a qualitative research approach was in place, since we used qualitative methods, mainly observation and semi-structured interviews. ISCAP/IPP is a business school of higher education that provides diverse programmes of studies in business areas: accounting and management, marketing, international commerce, business communication, secretary management, etc. Nevertheless, students miss some skills related with the human resources management, which can be improved through this learning experience. There are some important issues that participants need to consider in a company change process, namely national and regional differences, company specific differences, staff functions, visible things (such as room design), not visible things (such as strategy), invisible barriers of the employees towards the change and the new, published and public opinion about the company and its staff, hidden agendas, and outside presentations. The participant team, which has the function of Change Managers guides and instructs the organisation through the different phases of the change process. The Change Management Game includes 5 phases of change: 1) Attention; 2) Motivation; 3) Qualification 4) Commitment; and 5) Internalization. In each phase participants use interventions in order to improve the level of commitment of employees. The interventions of each phase have a higher ranking focus than the individuals which have to take part. Thus before each phase of the game the team has to discuss which interventions will be applied. Afterwards the individuals who fit to the planned interventions and/or who have to take part are put in them. It is the aim of the participants to bring almost all types of human personality within the organisation to personal action in the change project. Participants need to be deeply engaged to participate as active and effective persons to perform adequately the new tasks. At ISCAP-IPP we used the Change Management Game having a multicultural and interdisciplinary background for several editions, having the participation of students from different areas of studies and from several countries, including Portugal, Germany, Romania, Lithuania, France, just to mention a few. Feedback from students so far, was very positive, as they consider to participate again in a similar experience if they have the opportunity.