Describes business administration education based on the New Environmental Paradigm of biosystems, balance, and interdependence. Provides syllabus, lesson plans, and partially annotated bibliography of 102 books, articles, periodicals, videos, and electronic media. (SK)

Surveys employees (N=16,603) who had used a large multinational company's employee assistance program (EAP), adult dependents who had used the EAP, employees who had not used the EAP, and adult dependents who had not used the EAP. Findings indicate that EAP users viewed the EAP more positively than nonusers. (Author/MKA)

Offers a checklist to ensure that business/education partnerships are really partnerships and not just an advertising ploy. (Author)

Provides an annotated list of books and videos to help school librarians find additional sources of funding and to help with more formal fundraising. Includes a list of corporate sources of grants, sources of fundraising projects, and a sidebar with advice to grant seekers. (LRW)

Although commercial funding supports much continuing medical education, there is a public perception that funders may influence physician behavior. Solutions include having multiple grantors for continuing education activities, establishing clear standards for grantor behavior, and prohibiting commercial support for related social activities. (SK)

Describes Leadership Connections, a mentoring program that links corporate employees with high school students to give them first-hand knowledge of what the working world expects and gives them a head start on a few skills. Offers tips on starting a corporate mentoring program and a list of Web resources. (JOW)

Recruiters must be prepared for the up-and-down cycles of the job market. A consistent recruitment program with management support is important. Describes aspects of recruitment efforts at Arthur Anderson--Americas, where early identification of candidates and behavioral-based interviews are utilized. (MKA)

Discusses how UNext, a provider of online business courses, seems to have the academic and financial capital to be a dot-com survivor, but that customers aren't flocking to buy. (EV)

Interviews with 10 administrators in 9 long-term care facilities revealed a commitment to staff continuing education and recognition of the escalating need, but also an emphasis on individual responsibility. Lack of fiscal and human resources and diversity of staff hampered the ability to provide continuing education. (SK)

Describes how Owens Community College established a corporate relationship with John Deere and Caterpillar. Provides a detailed partnership startup check list. (JOW)

Discusses the issue of time and time management in France, explaining that many outsiders are frustrated at the way the French behave in the workplace and noting that time is not always money in the French workplace. Discusses monochronic versus polychronic cultures, looks at France's differing notion of time, and describes a French manager's…

On the one hand, contemporary corporations want people who are geographically, culturally and temporally remote to work together to generate new knowledge and accomplish routine work--they want to generate multi-disciplinary, globally dispersed communities of practice. On the other hand, they need to exert some control over this divergent,…

This article reports how the Ready to Learn program, which has helped transform children's educational television over the past decade, faced scrutiny after it aired a controversial topic. The Ready to Learn program attracted unusual attention when one of the shows it helped get on the air, "Postcards from Buster," drew criticism from…

The growing ability of private colleges and universities to use a high level of annual endowment spending in support of current operations has been a source of financial strength during much of the past two decades. More recently, however, declining endowments at most colleges have raised concerns about declines in the availability of …

The study investigates learning as knowledge-creation processes on individual and collective levels. The processes were examined in an ethnographic study, conducted in a metal industry company over a four-year period. The empirical study suggests that conflicts and crises experienced on individual level were some kind of incidental starting…