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Jackson, Nicole C.; Halbert, Austin – Management Teaching Review, 2021
With greater demand for business educators and students to focus on 21st-century skills, project-based learning (PBL) has become increasingly important. The PBL method complements existing curriculum by enabling direct transference of course concepts into real-world application. Despite known benefits, some management educators may shy away from…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Management Development, Business Administration Education
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Melnychenko, Anatolii; Akimova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of professional competences development in public management and administration university programmes and the possibilities of implementation of international experience in Ukraine. Using the methods of comparative and system-functional analysis, synthesis and generalisation, the authors concentrate on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Administration, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies
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Joffe, Avril – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2019
This paper discusses the pedagogical responses of the Wits University Cultural Policy and Management Department to the needs of our students in the postcolonial context of South Africa. It reviews the challenges experienced by our postgraduate students and the resultant innovations in both curriculum design and learning and teaching practice.…
Descriptors: Management Development, Activism, Public Policy, Strategic Planning
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Mackey, Hollie J. – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2015
Leadership preparation programs are in transition as scholars seek to determine more sophisticated approaches in developing leaders for the increasing demands of accountability policy. This critical conceptual analysis focuses on leadership preparation for the socialization of school leaders. It is intended to reframe current perspectives about…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Leadership Training, Socialization
Stanton-Nichols, Kathleen; Hatcher, Julie; Cecil, Amanda – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
Strategies to institutionalize service-learning are well documented (Furco 1996; Holland, 2000). Using Kecskes (2009) Community-Engaged Department Rubric we evaluated service-learning institutionalization within a school at a metropolitan campus. As a result, we propose adding an additional dimension, social return on investment. This added…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Metropolitan Areas
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Nalborczyk, Sarah; Sandelands, Luke – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
This account examines the action learning process adopted by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., embedded in the organization through the in-company Emerald Academy. In case study format, the paper emphasizes that in order to align learning with organizational objectives joined up thinking and practice is needed beyond the learning and development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Organizational Objectives, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes
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Crawford, Megan – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article examines how novice principals reflect on the adequacy or otherwise of their preparation. It looks at data drawn from the International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP), and in particular a questionnaire of principals up to three years in post, in Scotland. The principals find much about their preparation has helped them gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expectation, Novices, Beginning Principals
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Hammer, Sara Jeanne; Green, Wendy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
While there appears to be broad acceptance that university graduates must have the capacity to think critically in an increasingly complex, information-rich world, there remains a gap between aspiration and teaching practice in many faculties. We examine this issue through our experience of designing assessment to develop critical thinking in a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Management Development
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Bush, Tony – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Succession planning has become increasingly important because of the shortage of headship applicants in England, and in many other countries. Leadership development is a central part of any succession planning strategy. This article compares the findings from two longitudinal studies, in England and South Africa, where the governments are seeking…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Leadership
MacTavish, Murray D.; Kolb, Judith A. – Online Submission, 2008
This in-depth case study utilized grounded theory methodology to discover how a large privately-owned manufacturing firm in Northeastern USA develops values-based leaders, particularly from minority populations. Over 18 months, interviews with 35 leaders from five levels explored the perceived influence of the environment on leaders' behaviors and…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Case Studies, Values Education, Interviews
Rifai, Rana; Waight, Consuelo L. – Online Submission, 2006
This study explored the involvement of 15 training and development (T & D) professionals during mergers and acquisitions (M & A). The study found that T & D professionals are highly involved in orientation and management training and organization development related activities such as communication and diagnosis and blending of organizational…
Descriptors: Management Development, Organizational Development, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture
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Rigg, Clare; Trehan, Kiran – Gender and Education, 1999
Reflects on the experiences of running a critical management-development program with managers from diverse backgrounds, presenting six case studies of black women. Provides insights into gendered power relations in these studies using a feminist pedagogy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Blacks, Case Studies, Females
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Middlehurst, Robin – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
Creating a new generation of leaders and managers has been the task of the innovative U.K. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Management Development
Eversole, Barbara A. W.; Gloeckner, Gene; Banning, James H. – Online Submission, 2006
Differential adoption of work/life programs by organizations was investigated by studying chief executive officers. A grounded theory was developed and differential adoption explained by the way CEOs made decisions. Implications for work/life program managers include suggestions for persuading CEOs to adopt work/family programs. The study adds to…
Descriptors: Management Development, Family Programs, Decision Making, Adoption (Ideas)
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Adams, Jean; Morgan, Gareth – International Journal on E-Learning, 2007
This article develops the concept of "second generation" e-learning as a new paradigm for thinking about online learning. Whereas "first generation" approaches have been effective for developing technical skills, the same approach has not proven effective for developing management soft-skills (e.g., in the field of leadership education). The…
Descriptors: Management Development, Online Courses, Research Methodology, Program Development
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