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Wright, April L.; Middleton, Stuart; Greenfield, Geoffrey; Williams, Julian; Brazil, Victoria – Journal of Management Education, 2016
Evidence-based management (EBMgt) is a growing literature stream in management education which contends that management decision making should be informed by the best available scientific evidence (Rousseau, 2006). Encouraged by the success of evidence-based practice in the field of medicine, advocates of EBMgt have increasingly called for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Business Education
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Miller, Richard J.; Maellaro, Rosemary – Journal of Management Education, 2016
Experiential learning alone does not guarantee that students will accurately conceptualize content, or meet course outcomes in subsequent active experimentation stages. In an effort to more effectively meet learning objectives, the experiential learning cycle was modified with a unique combination of the 5 Whys root cause problem-solving tool and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Reflection
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Sachau, Daniel A.; Naas, Patricia A. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
The Consulting Challenge is a yearly case competition in which teams of graduate students respond to a request for proposals (RFP) for consulting services. The case and RFP are based on a problem that a host organization has experienced. Over 3 days, students meet with representatives of the host organization, analyze data, prepare a proposal for…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Graduate Students, Theory Practice Relationship, Consultants
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Chavez, Carolyn I.; Ferris, William P.; Gibson, Lindsey A. – Journal of Management Education, 2011
The authors developed this experiential exercise to aid students in learning how others perceive them as well as how they perceive others and, ultimately, to begin to help them identify the origins of such perceptions. The exercise's goal is to explore how participants may make inaccurate perceptions of others and how they might pierce through…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Listening Skills
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Aguinis, Herman; Branstetter, Steven A. – Journal of Management Education, 2007
The authors use proven cognitive and learning principles and recent developments in the field of educational psychology to teach the concept of the sampling distribution of the mean, which is arguably one of the most central concepts in inferential statistics. The proposed pedagogical approach relies on cognitive load, contiguity, and experiential…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Undergraduate Students, Educational Psychology, Experiential Learning
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Peterson, Tim O.; Lunsford, Dale A. – Journal of Management Education, 1998
Explains Edward De Bono's six thinking hats, different perspectives on a problem. Shows how to apply the technique to case studies in management classes. (SK)
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning, Interaction, Management Development
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Miller, Janice S. – Journal of Management Education, 2004
This article describes a problem-based learning (PBL) project that incorporates active learning into an organizational behavior (OB) course. It describes a six-step process for designing a course around problems that students identify in their work, school, or personal lives. In addition to researching an OB concept to address their problem,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving