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| Souvenir of PSE for Hong Bang |
A
seven-day trip for a study visit in Vietnam started after voting day was over. It
was an obligation for Cambodian people to elect the right political party to
govern their territory. According to the memorandum of understanding between Pour
Un Sourire d’Enfant, Non-Profit Organization of Cambodia (PSE), and Hong Bang
University International (HBU) in Vietnam, the two parties agreed to have an
exchange program. Therefore, the third generation and final year students of
the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration of the Business School of PSE
Institute had a course on Organizational Control taught by Dr. Nguyen Minh
Tuan, a professor of Hong Bang University.
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| Organizational Control Course |
Staying for a week, from the 4th
until the 11th of June 2012, we departed from PSE Institute in the
early morning and travelled for 6 hours in the Mekong Express Bus, and we also
went across three provinces in Cambodia – Kandal, Preyveng, Svayreang, and one
province in Vietnam – Tai Ninh. We arrived there in the afternoon around 4:30
pm, and we had seen so many things along the journey. When the bus stopped in
front of Hong Bang University, we were all greeted with a warm welcome by the delegate
there, named Nguyen Chao Chi, bringing us to the comfortable room in the dormitory
of the university.
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| Visit at Dong Nai Custom |
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| Visit at Dong Nai Custom |
For the course – organizational
control – we learnt, we got a deeper image in our mind about it, and we found
it interesting to learn for our five-day course. We, therefore, understood the advantage
of having a manageable control system, a paramount part in management
functions, which is applied in various business sectors in today’s market;
however, to have a better control system, we need to have some practical and
observational knowledge to understand what the key variables that can have a
greater impact on our business are, and where those key variables are from.
Hopefully, being a good manager, we need to balance our control system not to
use too much tight control and lose control. The more we can balance, the
better the result we can achieve.
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| Dancing Show by Vietnam Students |
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| Ken Dancing Show by PSE Student |
However, even if we learnt a lot
from this course, there were also some troubles we encountered during studying,
too. Because of language, culture, handouts preparation, and noisy environment,
we had some difficulties to catch up the lesson; otherwise, we still persisted
and paid much attention to the lecture. As mentioned about practical and
observational knowledge, we were all brought to visit two places in a special
economic zone in Vietnam – Thanh Thanh, a ceramic manufacture, and an official
custom department in Dong Nai province, which is situated close to Ho Chi Minh
City, about 20 kilometers away.
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| Ken Dancing Show Students |
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| Dancing Show by Laos Students |
As a result, we could compare how
different it was between the theories we had been taught vis-à-vis the real
practical work in the manufacturing chain and the custom department, so that we were
able to learn even more with the real situation to reflect to the theories. Before
leaving, HBU International had arranged a cultural exchange program for PSE
students, and there were so many performances showed by the students coming
from several South-East Asia Countries – Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and also
Japan – to show their own culture to each other.
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| Visit at Dam Sen Park in Ho Chi Minh City |
Thanks to PSE Institute and Hong
Bang University for organizing such a valuable program for the students to
improve their know-how and insight of the theories while seeing the real
practical knowledge to improve our eyesight of the differences between the two
countries. Also, thanks to our first generation of PSE Institute majoring in
Tourism in Vietnam who always intervened in our daily life while being there.
Written By: Mr. Phoeun Sokphan
Last year Sales and Marketing Student
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