The Master's of Business Administration model includes skills, functions, and strategy and focus on traditional "management"; formal knowledge acquired may be unrelated to practical experience. The certificate in management model focuses on competencies, disaggregation, managers, and experiential, work-based learning but may ignore a…

The author discusses the value of design as a management tool. He argues the importance of using the project method to teach design to managers. (CH)

Computer simulation is an ideal framework to encourage decision making, active learning, and motivation. Appropriate software should be judged in terms of realism, relevance, complexity, interface, administrative efficiency, and use of microcomputers. (SK)

Small business education in Britain is underdeveloped in relation to other areas of management education. The underdevelopment is a product of the oversimplified stereotype of the small business manager held by many trainers and educators. (JOW)

A survey of 59 business schools in 28 countries and case studies of 10 European institutions revealed current trends in management education and faculty development; faculty development policies, practices, and needs; and human resource issues. One conclusion was that many schools teach staff development policies and practices that they do not…

Implementation is a more important management problem than design of marketing strategy. Business schools must rethink both content and teaching methods to address this issue. (SK)

Hungarian business education in a restructuring era faces such challenges as underemphasis on corporate finance/accounting and overemphasis on bookkeeping, lack of status for marketing in the curriculum, and isolation of subjects with little practical application. The goal of sustainable development is a possible focus for business administration…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and disseminate the ideas and attitudes of using self-directed management programs for post-graduate students. The author argues that self-direction in designing management courses is not usually popular with staff and administrators attempting to run traditional programs. (MEAD Subscriptions, CSML,…

Four types of Master's of Business Administration (MBA) offered at the University of Bath (England) are (1) full-time program; (2) executive MBA, to prepare working managers for promotion; (3) Malaysian executive MBA, in collaboration with the Malaysian Institute of Management; and (4) British Airways open MBA, an evening program for airline…

Using a computer-mediated conferencing system, 18 British business administration students conducted a thoughtful, in-depth discussion of business ethics. Some attitude change took place, but difficulties arose in technical problems with access to the system and varying levels of computer skill. (SK)

Management education programs at Glasgow Caledonian University introduced Development Centres, involving students in self-assessment, career counseling, and development planning. Students viewed the centers positively as a means of bridging theory and practice, concepts and skills. (SK)

The last few years have seen developments in the academic treatment of operations management which both broaden the subject to include a much wider range of industries in the nonmanufacturing sectors and place the operations function in a more strategic context. (MEAD Subscriptions, CSML, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England) (SSH)