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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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Stratton, Micheal T.; Julien, Mark – Journal of Management Education, 2014
Encouraging students to actively engage with course material is an ongoing challenge for many management educators. One common tactic is to use various technologies that allow tech-savvy Millennial Generation students to take a more active role in their learning. In this article, we describe an innovative group project that challenges students to…
Descriptors: Groups, Student Projects, Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Schultz, Jennifer L.; Higbee, Jeanne L. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This purpose of this paper is to summarize the principles of integrated multicultural instructional design (IMID; Higbee, Goff, & Schultz, in press; Higbee, Schultz, & Goff, 2010) and present specific strategies for incorporating IMID in management education. The primary goal of IMID is to promote the integration of multicultural content…
Descriptors: Management Development, Instructional Design, Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education
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Qiao, June Xuejun – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: This study is intended to investigate the current status of corporate universities in China. It aims to explore the processes and practices of corporate universities in China, and discover the issues and challenges involved in building and running a corporate university in China. Design/methodology/approach: The heads of 11 well-known…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Teaching Methods
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Gibb, Allan – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
This paper explores the role that action learning might play in micro and small enterprise development. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses upon the distinctive characteristics of smallness and ownership and their implication for management development processes in the owner managed firm. In particular the impact of personal…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Values, Management Development, Business Education
Whitley, John – Canadian Training Methods, 1973
Article outlines the benefits of an organized induction program for manpower development. (GB)
Descriptors: Industrial Training, Labor Force Development, Management Development, Student Projects
1999
This document contains two reports from a poster session on new ideas and models in human resource development (HRD). The first presentation, "Two-way Customer-Service Provider Cycle" (Harriet V. Lawrence, Albert K. Wiswell), discusses a two-way supply cycle model that illustrates relational issues in customer service, including needs…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "The History of Human Resource Development in Taiwan from 1949 to 1999" (Christine M. Kuo, Gary N. McLean) finds that, contrary to the belief of most Taiwanese scholars that HRD (human resource development) in Taiwan is a new field, the roots of HRD in that country originated in the 1950s.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Training, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "Knowledge Management and Knowledge Dissemination" (Wim J. Nijhof), presents two case studies exploring the strategies companies use in sharing and disseminating knowledge and expertise among employees. "A Theory of Knowledge Management" (Richard J. Torraco), develops a conceptual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Corporate Education, Educational Needs
2001
This symposium on executive and management development consists of three presentations. "The Role of the Chief Learning Officer: Implications for Human Resource Development (HRD) Theory and Practice" (Robin Lackey) reports findings that suggest a need for a clarification of the role of these leaders and have led to the identification of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Education
1999
The first of the three papers in this symposium, "Conflicts that Arise in Small Group Facilitation: A Descriptive Study of Accounts, Actions, Outcomes, and Assessments" (Judith A. Kolb, William J. Rothwell), contains self-report verbatim accounts contributed by facilitators and the results of a literature review on small group conflict.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Practices