Engineering Education Meets Organizational Science: Toward Best Practices for Strategic Change
Engineering Education Meets Organizational Science: Toward Best Practices for Strategic Change
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工程教育与组织科学的结合：迈向战略变革的最佳实践
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2021
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通讯作者：
O. Pierrakos
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J. Pappas;O. Pierrakos
这篇创新实践全文探讨了如何实施组织科学的最佳实践来加强工程教育中的战略变革举措。近四十年来，转变组织文化一直是工程教育的优先事项，但系统的变化并不容易实现，长期目标仍然难以捉摸。女性和未被充分代表的少数民族的毕业率和行业参与率停滞不前，对建立包容文化产生了影响。此外，在工程课堂上，持续难以缩小研究与实践之间的差距表明，教师文化抵制变革，或者没有准备好迎接变革。这样的文化是不可改变的吗？或者我们目前的干预方法可以得到改进吗？我们对计划和管理变革到底了解多少？组织科学的最佳实践能否帮助催化我们所寻求的变革？为了研究这种可能性，简要回顾了工程教育的变化状况，并将其与管理组织变化的两套有影响力的通用最佳实践进行了比较。这些实践被纳入工程教育环境中使用的六项良好实践原则。
This Innovative Practice Full Paper explores how implementing best practices from organizational science can strengthen strategic change initiatives in engineering education. Transforming organizational culture has been a priority in engineering education for nearly four decades, but systemic change has not come easily, and long-standing goals remain elusive. Stagnant graduation and industry participation rates for women and underrepresented minorities have implications for establishing cultures of inclusion. Further, continued difficulty closing the research-to-practice gap in the engineering classroom points to faculty cultures that are resistant to, or unprepared for, change. Are such cultures immutable, or could our current interventional methods be improved? How much do we really know about planning and managing change, and could best practices from organizational science help catalyze the transformations we seek? To investigate this possibility, the state of change in engineering education is briefly reviewed and compared to two influential sets of universal best practices for managing organizational change. These practices are incorporated into six principles of good practice intended for use in engineering education contexts.