Evaluates the relative merits of approaches to measuring corporate and competitive performance: financial, stakeholder, admiration, reputation, and corporate logic models. Promotes a holistic framework for selecting appropriate measures that considers strategic success in terms of values, environment, and resources. (SK)

Describes two initiatives developed by Sears that were designed to align career development with business goals: goal cascading, in which individual performance goals were used to determine needed skills and knowledge; and proactive career planning, a guide for career management developed when the corporation underwent significant organizational…

Discusses organizations shifting from affirming diversity to affirming similarity in workforce training. The DiverSimilarity principles include creativity and adversity in diversity, conformity and compatibility in similarity, diversity within diversity, similarity across diversity, and managing diversity by managing diverSimilarity. (MMU)

Identifies the top 50 companies in terms of the amount spent on training and development, the number of hours of training per employee, and percentage of payroll spent on training. Profiles the top five plus four additional companies selected by the magazine's editors. (SK)

The Ford Motor Company invested in transformational leadership to change itself. Programs center around core principles: adopt a transformational mindset, use action learning, leverage the power of electronic tools, integrate work and life, and generate business impact. (JOW)

The world is being shaped by corporate pressures for globalization from above and by efforts to build a globalized civil society from below. Challenges for adult education include articulating a coherent philosophy, fostering global solidarity and social cohesion, increasing access to learning, reconceptualizing "good work," and…

Review of literature on sociocognitive frameworks for organizations, organizational learning, and knowledge management indicates the importance of an integrative approach to learning and knowledge in organizations. Particularly important are corporate vision, organizational context, and management action. (Contains 89 references.) (SK)

Focuses on the growth of the United Kingdom company Ingenta in the United States. Highlights include a new partnership with Gale Group related to their InfoTrac databases; indexing and full text coverage; standards; and other Ingenta acquisitions. (LRW)

This review focuses on intellectual capital and its relationship to information professionals. Discusses asset recognition; national practices and the acceptance of intellectual capital; definitions of intellectual capital; measuring intellectual capital, including multiple and single variable measures; managing intellectual capital; and knowledge…

Interviews with 48 consumers found that they desired moderate to high levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Precontemplators (n=16) did not base purchasing on CSR and contemplators (n=11) only moderately. The action group (n=8) had stronger beliefs about CSR but did not always purchase accordingly. Maintainers (n=9) practiced socially…

Of 74 Fortune 250 companies surveyed (30% responses), 51 had diversity training programs; length of training had no impact on level of backlash; some issues having more impact included programs being substituted for affirmative action or focused on productivity. Backlash was unaffected by inclusion of diversity goals in managers' performance…

Examines who publishes today's children's books, how they create brands, and how their attempts at synergy influence children's books and reading. The article illustrates the corporate construction of readers through the marketing of children's literature, considering the prevalence of corporate mergers and the impact of media conglomerates on the…

Shows how the need for diversity programs is escalating. Describes corporate practices such as affinity groups, redefinition of corporate values, forms of bias, steps for effective programs, and ways in which the events of September 11, 2001 affect diversity training. (SK)

Web-based training, WBT, is a relatively new application of instructional design in any organization. Advances in technology may tempt WBT designers to use the fastest or the latest technological features possible, but if content and intent are obscured and instructional effectiveness sacrificed, the WBT becomes another neglected eye-catching, yet…

Environment reporters have been criticized for allegedly having an antibusiness bias. This study, based on a series of regional surveys including 364 U.S. environment reporters, found the journalists commonly used a business or economics framework for their stories. The reporters used some business organizations as sources more often than some…