Release Date: 2026-01-26

School of Economics and Management Holds Series of Seminars on Implementing the OBE Concept (Human Resource Management Chapter)

Recently, the Human Resource Management Teaching and Research Section of the School of Economics and Management, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, successfully held a teaching and research activity themed “Implementing the OBE Concept and Optimizing the Support of Professional Courses for Program Training Objectives”. The activity aims to further improve the teaching quality of the Human Resource Management Program through in-depth discussion and practice, and ensure the high-quality achievement of program training objectives.

The activity took place from 12:30 to 13:50 at noon on January 22, 2026. It was presided over by Teacher Ding Gang, Director of the Human Resource Management Teaching and Research Section. Many teachers including Dai Wenbin, Zhang Guomin, Ji Wei, Wang Wei, Zhang Hongxia, Wang Ying, Guo Ning and Pang Mingxiu participated actively. At the beginning of the event, Director Ding Gang led all faculty to collectively study the 2025 Talent Training Program for the Human Resource Management Program, focusing on interpreting program training objectives, graduation requirements and the structure of the curriculum system.

After thorough discussion, the Teaching and Research Section confirmed the training objective of the Human Resource Management Program: to cultivate high-quality innovative talents adaptable to the modern industrial development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Graduates shall possess an international vision, solid theoretical foundation in human resource management, digital skills and innovative practical capabilities to meet the development demands of the digital economy. In the session reinforcing the OBE (Outcome-Based Education) concept, teachers further clarified the principle of “student-centered, outcome-oriented and continuously improved”. They stressed that curriculum design shall closely revolve around training objectives and guarantee the correspondence between teaching sessions and graduation requirements. The establishment of this concept lays a solid foundation for subsequent curriculum system optimization and teaching method improvement.

During the activity, combining industrial trends and teaching realities, teachers analyzed in depth the opportunities and challenges facing program development. With the rapid development of the digital economy and artificial intelligence technologies, human resource management is undergoing digital transformation, and courses need to integrate the cultivation of skills such as data analysis. Meanwhile, regional economic development has growing demand for interdisciplinary HR talents, making interdisciplinary curriculum design (covering psychology, law, information technology etc.) particularly important. Nevertheless, challenges remain for program development, such as the gap between students’ practical ability and corporate requirements, and insufficient mastery of emerging technologies among some faculty members.

Targeting these issues, teachers spoke actively and put forward multiple improvement measures. For instance, Teacher Dai Wenbin pointed out that the course Recruitment and Competency Assessment can further strengthen its support for program training objectives by introducing AI interview simulation tools and adding practical university-enterprise cooperation projects. Teacher Zhang Hongxia proposed that the course Employee Relations Management should strengthen cooperation with legal aid institutions to carry out “practical drills on labor disputes” and cover emerging business forms such as flexible employment and remote work. Teacher Ji Wei emphasized that the course Training and Development needs to deepen cooperation with enterprises to obtain training plans from various types of firms and enhance students’ practical capabilities.

In addition, the activity identified major existing problems including limited practical teaching resources, lagging faculty competence upgrading, and lack of dynamic monitoring of students’ ability development in courses. In response, the Teaching and Research Section proposed action suggestions such as deepening integration of industry and education, strengthening faculty capacity building and perfecting the curriculum evaluation mechanism. Plans include co-building an “HR Practice Workshop” with well-known local enterprises and introducing real project cases; regularly organizing faculty to attend industrial training and encouraging teachers to take temporary posts in enterprises; standardizing formative assessment contents and scoring rules, and establishing a reporting mechanism for curriculum objective achievement analysis reports.

The successful holding of this teaching and research activity has not only deepened teachers’ understanding of the OBE concept, but also clarified paths for courses to support training objectives. It lays a solid foundation for continuously optimizing the curriculum system and teaching methods and ensuring the high-quality fulfillment of program training objectives. In the future, the Human Resource Management Teaching and Research Section will continue to uphold the principle of “student-centered, outcome-oriented and continuously improved”, and cultivate more outstanding human resource management talents for society.

Source: School of Economics and Management

Writer: Ding Gang

Three-Round Review and Three-Round Proofreading: Li Wenfu, Liu Tong, Yu Liyan