In August the military will begin a special combat training program for managers of civilian firms to promote the exchange of management experience with the private sector, defense officials said yesterday.
The program will enable managers of private businesses to experience field training, from field tactics to maneuvering large groups of people, giving them a general taste of the leadership and decision-making skills peculiar to the military.
It is to be launched in August at the army academy in Kaohsiung County's Fengshan township.
Participants are to be limited to business managers now taking Executive MBA (EMBA) courses at National Taiwan University (NTU), which yesterday signed an academic cooperation agreement with the military's National Defense University (NDU).
The program is to allow only 40 participants.
An official with the NDU, who declined to be identified, said Minister of National Defense Tang Yao-ming (
"Tang is to hold a discussion with the participants after the completion of the program. The chiefs of the three services are also to join the discussions. Tang expects to brainstorm with the participants from the private sector," the official said.
"If the program is successful, it will be expanded over the next few years. We plan to introduce similar programs in the navy and air force as well," he said.
The combat training program is just part of the coursework that NDU is to offer NTU under their academic cooperation agreement.
In return, the NTU is to open in September a special EMBA course for high-ranking defense officials, said to include mostly generals.
The academic cooperation deal between NDU and NTU, which formally began yesterday, took only six months from idea to commencement, a defense official said.
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