An important objective of MIQOLS is to develop educational programs for managers related to management and quality-of-life issues. All educational programs are typically customized to the needs organizational clients and are frequently administered on site or a neighboring conference facility. Examples of educational programs offered by the Institute include:
Educational and training seminars related to federal and state government:
- Ethics in public administration
- Leaders in government
- Accountability in revenue management
- To measure quality of life of certain constituencies to guide public policies
Educational and training seminars related to local, regional, and municipal governmental bodies:
- How to measure community quality of life for community development
- How to measure neighborhood quality of life for neighborhood development
- How to measure housing well being for housing development
- Planning for sustainable development at the community level
- How to develop community programs to materialism
Educational and training seminars related to business organizations:
- Business ethics
- Planning of change in a turbulent environment
- Long-term strategic planning
- Measuring corporate performance to be accountable to the organization's stakeholders
- Corporate social performance
- How to measure the quality of work life in your organization
- How to develop quality-of-work life programs in your organization
- How to recruit and retain people of high integrity and character
- How to measure customer satisfaction and well being
- How to develop products, services, and programs that can enhance enhance customer commitment
- Training a sales force to achieve sales while being ethical at the same time
- How to develop marketing communications campaigns that do little harm
- How to make pricing decisions that are effective in the long run
- How to develop a channel of distribution with little or no conflcit among channel members
- Ethics in marketing research
Educational and training seminars related to non-profit organizations:
- Ethics in the management of non-profit organizations
- Social advertising
- Social marketing
Educational and training seminars related to travel and tourism organizations:
- How to measure leisure well being
- How to develop travel and tourism programs that can enhance the quality of life
- How to assess the costs and benefits of tourism on a host community
Educational and training seminars related to health care organizations:
- How to measure health care's contribution to community quality of life
- How to measure the effectiveness of health care on the elderly
- How to develop health care programs that can enhance health-related quality of life
Educational and training seminars related to media organizations:
- How to assess the impact the effect of television viewership on quality of life
- How to assess the contribution of media programming on community quality of life
- How to develop media programming that can enhance the quality of life of a particular audience
Educational and training seminars related to institutions of higher education:
- How to measure college students' quality of school life
- How to measure quality of work life of college faculty and staff
- How to develop extra-curricula programs that can enhance students' quality of school life
- How to develop management programs that can enhance the quality of work life of faculty and staff
