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NCPP recognises DCU students

The National Centre for Partnership and Performance has recognised a team of DCU Business School (DCUBS) students for their insightful study into the future of work in Ireland.

The Centre sponsors an annual prize for the best group project based on the theme ‘The Future of Work: Options, Opportunities and Issues for the Graduates of 2010-11’.

The aim of the competition is to encourage students to reflect critically upon the workplace of the future and the specific prospects and challenges this holds for students upon graduation.

The 2008 winning project, which was chosen from almost 50 entries involving more than 250 students, was submitted by Fiona Devitt, Fiona Aherne, Elaine Butler, Craig Grehan, Kevin Lawler, Fiona Nilan and Don Cummins.

The competition is open to students taking DCU Business School’s ‘Skills for Success’ course, an elective module open to first-year business students, first-year nursing students and second-year accounting and finance students.

So how do the students envisage the workplace of the future? According to group member, Fiona Devitt, the difficult economic environment will require innovative approaches to personnel management. She said:

"I believe graduates are going into challenging times. However, this is the time for innovation. Business leaders can now see that the way things have constantly be done, is not necessarily the most efficient way. Top Quality Management is what I see in the future, where business leaders work with their workforce to come up with the best working methods. Future graduates will be that high quality workforce."

Pictured at the prizegiving ceremony in DCU recently are (left to right):
Don Cummins, Craig Grehan, Edna Jordan (NCPP), Fiona Aherne, Fiona Nilan, Elaine Butler, Dr. Aoife McDermott (DCUBS) and Fiona Devitt

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