EVALUATION OF SKILLS DEVELOPMENT METHODS: INTERCULTURAL STUDY OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES

Abstract

Intensive global competition, higher customer expectations and greater focus on quality have resulted in much greater requirements placed upon employees today than decades ago. The challenge has been to internalize a new type of organizational behavior in order to operate successfully under unfamiliar conditions. Professors have to choose the best skills developing methods for students. This paper introduces students’ skills development methods’ evaluation. Authors look for those evaluation’s differences in two older European Union countries Spain and Portugal, one of the newest European Union country’s Lithuania, candidate to European Union, situated in Europe and Asia – Turkey, and then Iran – the Middle East. The empirical research is based on theoretical background and presets investigation of student’s skills, developing factors and differences according to students’ nationality.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.em.17.3.2142