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Gardner, Timothy M.; Romney, Alexander C. – Management Teaching Review, 2023
Employee empowerment yields positive outcomes for employees, managers, and organizations. Yet, too many employees feel disempowered at work, and managers, while wanting to empower employees, often do not know how. Contributing to this state of affairs is the lack of published, high-fidelity exercises explicitly designed to instruct students on how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Empowerment, Classroom Techniques, Labor Force Development
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Sharabi, Moshe – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the influence of the human resource (HR) manager on the quality of service in an academic college, and the human resource management (HRM) outcomes of the process. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relates to a customer satisfaction survey. More than 120 questionnaires were completed by the…
Descriptors: College Environment, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Participant Satisfaction
Wheelahan, Leesa; Moodie, Gavin; Billet, Stephen; Kelly, Ann – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Degrees in technical and further education (TAFE) are relatively new, but are likely to grow as a consequence of government policies that both seek to increase the percentage of Australians holding a bachelor degree and create a more unified tertiary education sector. There are ten TAFE institutes authorised to offer higher education in five…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Adult Education, Quality Control, Interviews
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Bhengu, Theo; Cele, Nhlanhla; Menon, Kirti – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
Value for money as one of the principles of quality assurance in education has often been perceived and significantly misconstrued as placing emphasis on financial efficiency. This mechanistic view of "value for money" in South Africa has been given impetus by what Melck (2001) calls managerial practices and what Cele and Menon (2006)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Educational Administration
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Norcini, John J.; Mazmanian, Paul E. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2005
Physician migration is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that is intimately intertwined with medical education. Imbalances in the production of physicians lead to workforce shortages and surpluses that compromise the ability to deliver adequate and equitable health care to large parts of the world's population. In this overview, we address a…
Descriptors: Patients, Physicians, Migration, Global Approach
US Agency for International Development, 2009
The 2009 Worldwide Education and Training Workshop brought together over 375 members of the international development community to share best practices in addressing the growing challenges in the field of education for social and economic development. This paper presents synopses of the presentations delivered during the workshop.
Descriptors: Economic Development, Workshops, Social Development, International Studies