As mentioned earlier (in my No 4 teaching philosophy), I always concern about the impact of my action to the stakeholders. To me, I am not only teaching them; I am also educating them to be a better person in their lives. Throughout my experience as an academician, I have taught the following courses:
Undergraduates
1. Operations Management Seminar
2. Quality Management
3. Production Operations Management
4. Management Science
5. Research Methodology
6. Management Information System
Postgraduates
1. Operations Technology Management
2. Supply Chain Management
3. Lean Logistics and Supply Chain (Visiting Professor)
In addition to the coursework, I supervise students for the final year projects, practicum, master by research, DBA, as well as PhD level. All these teaching and coaching have definitely impacted those students somehow in their academic lives. Some students are still contacting me long after their graduation to seek advice on teaching other students. So, it is a lifelong learning that generate the chain of good deeds. You past your teaching to others to teach other students. This brings me to the belief of what I call as “invisible rewards”.
Sometime we forgot the concept and the power of invisible rewards because we tend to look for the visible one. We put higher values on the materials things like money, car, house, position, vacation and so on. We expect when we do something, we want back something visible in return. I am not saying they are not important, in fact, they are. However, the invisible rewards are equally important too. So, what are these rewards? It is a simple concept. When we do good deeds, we will be rewarded in this world and/or in the hereafter. If we don’t get them in this world, Insya Allah we will get it later. It is never a waste by doing good deeds. Everything counts! It is like investment to a better world in the future. If we all have this concept in mind, we will be happy persons to contribute (berbakti) to the world. This is in line with UUM Motto, ILMU, BUDI BAKTI (Knowledge, Virtue, Service).
Back to the topic of impact of teaching, invisible rewards are one of the impacts of being an academician. In addition to the chain of good deeds that I mentioned earlier, the spill over effects would be Happy, Healthy and Open-hearted (Redho) individual (H2O). Like water, this kind of “H2O” is essential to everyone’s body and soul.