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Saxton, P. V. – Training Officer, 1975
The article discusses the Insurance Industry Training Council's development, its purpose, and goals in training since its inception in 1968. (BP)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Foreign Countries, Insurance Companies, Insurance Occupations
Peer reviewedBajtelsmit, John W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
A validational procedure was used, which involved a matrix of intercorrelations among tests reresenting four areas of Chartered Life Underwriter content knowledge, each measured by objective multiple-choice and essay methods. Results indicated that the two methods of measuring the same trait yielded fairly consistent estimates of content…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Insurance Occupations, Multiple Choice Tests
Hanson, Keyte L. – Training and Development Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Instructional Programs, Insurance Occupations
Download full textRosen, Anita; Lynch, Margaret E. – 1987
This booklet is intended to help students gain a broad understanding of the meaning, characteristics, organization, products, and functions of the insurance industry. The following topics are discussed: the concept of and need for insurance; basic principles of insurance (risk assessment, insurability and insurable interest, determination of…
Descriptors: Contracts, Financial Services, Financial Support, Health Insurance
Peer reviewedBarnes, Sue; Michalowicz, Karen Dee – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1994
Describes the qualifications and work of an actuary and the history of statistics. Contains reproducible student activity worksheets focusing on actuarial data. (MKR)
Descriptors: Insurance Occupations, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Wash, Pat – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1975
The growing concern for safety in both the workplace and in consumer products will create many new jobs through the mid-1980's--especially in private industry. The largest number of safety professionals are safety engineers; others include fire protection engineers, industrial hygienists, loss control and occupational health consultants, and…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Engineers
Brosseau, Beth – Training, 1974
The new J. Carlton Smith Educational Center, training center of Southwestern Life Insurance Company, Dallas, Texas, utilizes a 3,600 square feet facility and employs a wide range of methods to make life underwriting training fast and interesting. Multimedia instruction is the key to their effective educational programs. (MW)
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Institutes (Training Programs), Insurance Companies, Insurance Occupations
Peer reviewedBlau, Gary – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1988
Tested specific hypotheses regarding apprenticeship socialization strategy, using sample of new insurance company employees. Found perceived quality of intern-assignment manager work relationship to have important direct and moderating effect on intern work outcomes. Quality of work relationship was significantly positively related to intern met…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Apprenticeships, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedLautzenheiser, Barbara J. – Business Education Forum, 1977
This personal account of how the author became a top executive in her job as an actuary includes a discussion of the educational and personal qualifications needed for the job. She notes that success in any job requires a good education, hard work, and a good attitude, and that one should determine if the level of attainment aspired to is…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Employment, Females, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedde Raadt, J. D. R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Examines the process of information transmission in adaptive, viable organizational systems. Beer's viable system model is used to explain a system's information requirement at each time of the adaptation process, the source of this information, and the effect of information transmission on a system's cohesion. Four hypotheses are stated and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Transfer, Insurance Occupations
Peer reviewedGoby, Valerie Priscilla; Lewis, Justus Helen – Business Communication Quarterly, 2000
Examines how listening is perceived by people in Singapore involved in insurance. Finds that all categories of respondents apart from students ranked listening as more important than writing or speaking; and all categories of respondents consider insurance agents to possess less than the desired degree of listening competence. Shows how each group…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Law, Kian Aun – International Education Studies, 2008
This paper deals with a case study of Management Development (MD) practices at Malaysian Assurance Alliance (MAA). The aim of this research is to investigate how a large Malaysian insurance corporation developed and integrated MD initiatives with current organizational needs and tasks. Attempts were made to map and categorize the MD initiatives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Management Development, Corporations
Insurance Educator, 1995
These two issues are designed to provide secondary school educators with a greater knowledge of insurance and access to teaching materials regarding insurance and to provide students with information about insurance and insurance careers. The following feature articles are included in the newsletters: "Life Insurance: Why and When People Buy…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Careers, Consumer Education
Insurance Educator, 1997
This Insurance Education Foundation (IEF) newsletter provides secondary educators with a greater knowledge of insurance and access to teaching materials. It also provides students with insurance career information. The newsletter is intended for secondary educators who teach insurance in any subject. Substantive articles contained in this issue…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Driving While Intoxicated, Educational Resources, Fire Protection
PDF pending restorationRigolot, Carol, Ed. – 1977
Life insurance executives, university administrators, faculty, and young humanists held a conference to determine how these young humanists might serve business and how business organizations might help alleviate the current crisis in academia. The topics discussed were the following: "The Situation in Academia Today"; "What Has Been Done to…
Descriptors: Business, Career Change, Career Opportunities, Career Planning
