Research On The Development Of Corporate University In Foreign Context

Corporate university brings a revolution, the birth of which breaks the monotony mode in corporate human resource development. Corporate university has been developing for nearly a hundred years and from the emergency of the corporate university, the connation has changed profoundly in various history period. It has now transformed from an educational institute into the strategy center and it has passed the training and development stage.In the end of the 20th century, corporate university appeared in China and the total amount is over 100 at present. However, compared with the corporate universities abroad, the Chinese counterparts are far behind in the mode of developing talent, scale and the strategy role of the corporate. This dissertation is engaged in the research of the corporate university in the foreign context and aims at exploring the connation of the term and its function as well as the role it plays.Meanwhile, the dissertation analyses the curriculum of the corporate university which is of great significance for the corporate and finally, the dissertation is supposed to provide valuable suggestions to for promoting the development of the corporate university in China.This dissertation consists of four chapters.Chapter one introduces the background of the research and the connotation of corporate university. In this chapter, the difference of corporate university and traditional training is summarized.Meanwhile, the literature review is included in this part as well.Chapter two declares the methodology which is adopted in this dissertation, including the purpose and the content of the research.Chapter three analyses the development of corporate university in foreign countries. The change of the connotation of corporate university is addressed and it focuses on the function, the curriculum system and e-Learning in foreign corporate universities. The forth chapter reviews the current situation of corporate university in'China and proposes a few constructive suggestions to the development of Chinese corporate universities based on the philosophy, function, curriculum and e-Learning practice of foreign corporate universities.