Action planning intervention to identify how to improve selection processes for internships

Authors

  • Juan A. Marin-Garcia Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5416-3938
  • Eduardo González Schneider Electric
  • Myriam Carrasco Schneider Electric
  • Daniel Ros Schneider Electric

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/wpom.v7i2.6549

Keywords:

Internship, action research, recruitment, industrial engineering, operations management

Abstract

In this research into participatory action research, by a team formed by researchers and people in charge in various areas of several multinational companies, we reflected on the advantages and disadvantages of internships and we proposed a procedure for companies to improve the recruitment and selection of industrial engineers, while strengthening relationships between the university and companies, attracting students’ interest, improving their professional competences and providing evidence for their students’ real learning to degree managers at the same time.

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Author Biography

Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de València

ROGLE - Departamento de Organización de Empresas

ResearcherID A-4069-2011

Scopus Author ID 14024595300

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Published

2016-12-21

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Marin-Garcia, J. A., González, E., Carrasco, M., & Ros, D. (2016). Action planning intervention to identify how to improve selection processes for internships. WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management, 7(2), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.4995/wpom.v7i2.6549

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