Business and management education

Purpose – The conducted research aimed at estimating the technical efficiency of didactic activity in the group of universities of technology in Poland using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. Research methodology – The measurement was based on the model of directional distance function with undesirable output under variable return-to-scale and output-oriented (DDF BadOutput-V-O). Findings – The research allowed to group universities in 2010 and 2015 into three categories, i.e. efficient universities and universities above and below the average efficiency. It has been shown that it is justified to use alternative models of efficiency measurement covering different perspectives. The application of the model from a financial and employment perspective showed significant differences in performance levels in some cases. Research limitations – This study only looks at universities of technology, so the future study should be extended to other universities and comp...

Authors study the nature of insolvency both from the legal point of view and scientist position as well as updating tendencies of an insolvency of enterprises in recent years. The subject of the study has been selected company’s survival potential that is analyzed with financial ratio analysis using bankruptcy prediction models. Considering research results, authors identify models that are applicable to a particular industry. Authors put primary metal industry (NACE 24) for the study. The aim of the paper is to investigate the survival potential of enterprises by testing existing parametric models of insolvency forecasting and assessing their potential for use in the economic conditions of Latvia. During the investigation has been reviewed the concept of the financially healthy company and its relation with the main success development factors.

This paper outlines an experiential learning exercise designed to improve business students' ability to apply flexible leadership. The exercise is a two-step process for which students complete a simulation and then write a self-reflective essay. Two mixed-methods studies were conducted to investigate the overall learning experience and changes in students' ability to apply flexible leadership. The findings showed that students perceived the simulation as being satisfying and engaging, realistic and immersive, easy to use, and valuable for teaching work-related skills. After completing the simulation and self-reflective essay, students' perceived ability to apply flexible leadership improved significantly, and they also showed improved self-awareness of their use of flexible leadership.

The Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme is a global educational qualification with different forms of values for individuals and organisations and varying degrees of attractions from persons and companies in developed and developing countries. Therefore, many factors motivate individuals and organizations to choose MBA programmes. This research utilised a survey research method, with a research instrument developed from relevant extant literature, to isolate the major factors determining students’ choice behaviour towards MBA programmes in the Nigerian university system. The research reports that the major factors determining students’ choice behavior towards MBA programs include quality-related, information-related, and convenience-related factors. The limitations associated with the research relate to its cross-sectional nature, in addition to the usual limitations associated with the survey research method used in this research. In addition, the combination of MBA ...

The article analyses the good practice of Finland, which reconstructed the path changing towards building innovation-based economy, and Denmark, where the several programmes for network building and enhancement of collaboration between entrepreneurs as well as entrepreneurs and research institutes were introduced successfully, in order to make recomendations for development of economic environment in Latvia. The authors consider, that in the case of Latvia, at first, the government must take action in order to establish the macro-level environment that enables conditions for innovative self-renewing systems as well as introduce schemes that would facilitate knowledge spillover and commercialization, promote business activities of academic staff and researchers, as well as formation of networks and clusters.

The Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme is a global educational qualification with different forms of values for individuals and organisations and varying degrees of attractions from persons and companies in developed and developing countries. Therefore, many factors motivate individuals and organizations to choose MBA programmes. This research utilised a survey research method, with a research instrument developed from relevant extant literature, to isolate the major factors determining students’ choice behaviour towards MBA programmes in the Nigerian university system. The research reports that the major factors determining students’ choice behavior towards MBA programs include quality-related, information-related, and convenience-related factors. The limitations associated with the research relate to its cross-sectional nature, in addition to the usual limitations associated with the survey research method used in this research. In addition, the combination of MBA students from both private and government-owned universities is likely to pose some limitations. Also, focusing on students from only one country (Nigeria) presents external validity limitations. The research has practical implications for administrators and regulators of business programs in the Nigerian university system, in addition to organizational decision-makers interested in sponsoring their relevant staff for MBA programmes in the Nigerian university system. The research has social implications about the different cohorts of students interested in MBA programmes in the Nigerian university system.

¨Formación ética transversal en la currícula universitaria. Emprendimos el caminoS ilvia Martino-Universidad Austral I SEMINARIO IBEROAMERICANO SOBRE MODELOS DE DOCENCIA E INVESTIGACION EN RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL EMPRESARIAL Formación ética transversal en la currícula universitaria. Emprendimos el caminoM artino, Silvia [email protected] UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL-Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales-Sede Buenos Aires. CADS. Centro Austral de Desarrollo Sostenible -¨Formación ética transversal en la currícula universitaria. Emprendimos el caminoS ilvia Martino-Universidad Austral

The Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme is a global educational qualification with different forms of values for individuals and organisations and varying degrees of attractions from persons and companies in developed and developing countries. Therefore, many factors motivate individuals and organizations to choose MBA programmes. This research utilised a survey research method, with a research instrument developed from relevant extant literature, to isolate the major factors determining students’ choice behaviour towards MBA programmes in the Nigerian university system. The research reports that the major factors determining students’ choice behavior towards MBA programs include quality-related, information-related, and convenience-related factors. The limitations associated with the research relate to its cross-sectional nature, in addition to the usual limitations associated with the survey research method used in this research. In addition, the combination of MBA ...

Purpose – the purpose of this article is to review a quasi-experiment study examining whether business students’ math anxiety is reduced after participating in mandala coloring activities. Research methodology – the research methodology integrated quantitative methods including independent t-tests and ANOVAs in a non-random convenient sample of 106 undergraduate students in 2018 in Texas, United States. Findings – results from the one-way ANOVA and t-test analyses revealed that anxiety levels differed across groups, such that after coloring a pre-drawn mandala, math anxiety was significantly reduced in comparison to the control (doodling) group. Paired sample t tests also demonstrated that when comparing the anxiety levels at the baseline and post-treatment, math anxiety was reduced after performing both the pre-drawn and free-coloring mandala activities. Additionally, an independent sample t-test and a two-by-two factorial ANOVA demonstrated that males experienced a significant red...

In 2009 we presented a paper at the EAD conference in Aberdeen, UK, that, recognising a growing impetus in supporting designers’ input into business ventures, called for a collaborative design and business education providing a new platform of communication and expertise. A module from the BA (Hons) in Global Business and Design Management at Regent’s College was used to explore this question. Two years on we have developed our initial premise into a more in-depth focus on the experiences and processes that our business students go through in order to explore new opportunities using design thinking. Business students often perceive this as making them very uncomfortable, however this is also the time where both strategic thinking and design thinking can come together to contribute to generation of new ideas.

The initial approach to the delivery of the module concentrated on providing students with a series of tools from both the business and design domains. However further investigation of the student learning experience showed that, to develop students ‘creative confidence’ (Kelly, 2010) it is important to focus much more on facilitating their journey and fostering their decision-making at those critical points within the zones of discomfort. Therefore, this paper considers how undergraduate business students can be better helped to create truly innovative and viable business opportunities in an era of multiplicity and open creativity.

The paper draws on roundtable sessions with design and business academic and professional community, interviews with students as well as experience gained from teaching the module in order to substantiate the analysis. The paper concludes with a consideration of the appropriateness of current teaching methods and the implications of providing students with a ‘route map’ to help them integrate, in a much more productive way, design and strategic thinking in order to respond to the ever changing user needs and business context.

Although business and management education research has made great strides over the last decade, concerns about the area's legitimacy and attraction of new scholars continue to require attention. One of the obstacles that may impede the area's progress is a lack of knowledge of the influential works that may be useful in determining the nature and magnitude of potential contributions. Using Harzing's Publish or Perish and a broad list of search terms related to business and management education, we generated an initial list of 100 highly cited articles published since 1970. Fifty-eight of the 100 articles were published in or after 2000. After noting the most highly cited articles, their journal outlets, and their influence patterns with other highly cited articles, we conclude the article with potential research questions regarding development of research streams, the relative influence of new journals, and efforts to attract and increase the influence of business education scholars .

The purpose of this study is to examine and explain the effects of simultaneous among Work Family Conflict, Teamwork, and job satisfaction of the Performance Officer Office of Kendari Basarnas. To examine and explain the effect of Work Family Conflict on the Performance of Kendari Basarnas Office Employees. Test and explain the effect Teamwork on the Performance of Kendari Basarnas Office Employees. To examine and explain the effect of Job Satisfaction on the Performance of Kendari Basarnas Office Employees. The population in the study are all the employees of the Agency Sar National Kendari, which overall is an employee of domestic civil (PNS), which amounted to as much as 114 Employees. Measurement of data in this study using a Likert scale. Mechanical analysis of the data used in the study is that the analysis of the data statistics descriptive and statistical inferential namely analysis regression linear multiple by using software SPSS version 20. Based on the results of the analysis of the data, the results showed that Work Family Conflict, Teamwork and Job Satisfaction effect positive manner together against the performance of employees. This means that the increase in Work Family Conflict, cooperation Team and Job Satisfaction is simultaneously have positively contributed to the improvement of the performance of employees. Work Family Conflict has a positive effect on employee performance. This means that the increase in the Work Family Conflict of employees is described as having a positive contribution to improving employee performance. Teamwork has a positive effect on employee performance. That is an increase Teamwork employee has a contribution that is significant to the performance of an employee. Job satisfaction has a positive effect on employee performance. Meaning Satisfaction Work that either give contributions that positively on the improvement of the performance of employees.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to identify the profile of academic research on blended learning in the world and propose a research agenda for the topic.

Theoretical framework: Recent literature has reported good results in both student performance and satisfaction in blended learning (Dziuban et al., 2004). However, there is still much to investigate and learn about BL because it is a recent development.

Design/methodology/approach: We analysed the profile of international publications on blended learning in management and business from 2001 to 2021. We identified when, who, where and what was published on the subject, singling out the authors and journals with the greatest impact based on the h-index and CiteScore (Scopus), as well as exploring the cooperation between countries.

Findings: The volume of research has been increasing over the past twenty years, although there are only a few authors, institutions and reference journals contributing to the topic’s consolidation and the countries conducting the most joint research in co-authoring networks account for the largest volume of publications, authors and impact journals.

Research, Practical & Social implications: We suggest a future research agenda and highlight the contributions made to executive and management education.

Originality/value: The results indicate that the number of publications is growing, and the management and business area is the one that contributes the most, with the countries that produce in co-authorship also providing the most publications.

Purpose – the purpose of this article is to review a quasi-experiment study examining whether business students’ math anxiety is reduced after participating in mandala coloring activities.

Research methodology – the research methodology integrated quantitative methods including independent t-tests and ANOVAs in a non-random convenient sample of 106 undergraduate students in 2018 in Texas, United States.

Findings – results from the one-way ANOVA and t-test analyses revealed that anxiety levels differed across groups, such that after coloring a pre-drawn mandala, math anxiety was significantly reduced in comparison to the control (doodling) group. Paired sample t tests also demonstrated that when comparing the anxiety levels at the baseline and post-treatment, math anxiety was reduced after performing both the pre-drawn and free-coloring mandala activities. Additionally, an independent sample t-test and a two-by-two factorial ANOVA demonstrated that males experienced a significant reduction in their math anxiety than the females did after performing the mandala coloring activity.

Research limitations – the study used a convenient sample, self-reported items, and a math anxiety measurement. Also, the findings found short-term evidence of math anxiety.

Practical implications – the findings of this study suggest that business statistics instructors who integrate a mandala coloring activity in anxiety-provoking undertakings may help to reduce their students’ math anxiety.

Originality/Value – This study is the first to investigate mandala coloring to reduce math anxiety in business students. Unlike previous studies that focus on anxiety in general, this study examines the benefit of mandala coloring on students’ math anxiety.

For global business and design management to thrive in a consensual learning environment there are various pedagogical approaches that can be applied. In particular, following designers from their native design environments in search of non-native environments can offer insights into applied pedagogy in both business and design education.
Thus, this paper explores how experiencing the value of design management in practice can assist the business degree learner to overcome pre-conceived boundaries created in their native business environment and reconstruct new boundaries in order to define a new native environment.
Woven throughout the study is the aim of ‘futuring’ students’ knowledge of design management to deepen intellectual curiosity, therefore encouraging the development of a learning and research culture. The paper draws on an evaluation of teaching and learning methods applied on design management modules, which are part of the BA (Hons) Global Management degree at Regent’s College, London, UK.

There are several teaching methods a teacher can use in delivering lesson content, as a result of this, this study examined the Effect of Co-operative and Discussion Teaching Methods on Business Studies Students in Academic Performance of Lagos State Secondary Schools. This study is a quasi-experimental design. The population for this study was all public junior secondary schools in Lagos State. Simple random sampling techniques was adopted to select 20 sampled schools while 220 students were sampled across the sampled schools. This study used a researcher-designed instrument titled Teaching Method Questionnaire (TEQ) and Business Studies Achievement Test (BSAT) adapted from Lagos BECE business studies examination of 2014. The findings of this study revealed that Co-operative teaching method had significant effect on the academic performance of Business Studies students in Lagos State Secondary School. Discussion teaching method had significant effect on the academic performance of Business Studies students in Lagos State Secondary School. There was significance difference in academic performance of students taught business studies using Co-operative teaching methods and those taught using discussion teaching method in Lagos state Secondary School. There was significance difference in the academic performance of male and female students taught business studies using Co-operative teaching method in Lagos State Secondary School. There was significance difference in the academic performance of male and female students taught business studies using discussion teaching method in Lagos State Secondary School. Based on the findings and conclusion of this study, it was recommended that The school administrator, head or principal should endeavor to allocate enough instructional periods to teachers in order for the business studies teacher to be able to utilize different teaching approach having the individual difference of their students in mind.

Since the introduction of the concept of BELF (English as a business lingua franca; Louhiala-Salminen et al., 2005) it has inspired a number of researchers in applied and socio-linguistics, in business communication in particular, and recently also in the discipline of international management (e.g. Piekkari, Welch & Welch, 2014). The concept of BELF was developed to grasp three imperative qualities that make it distinct within the ‘umbrella discipline’ of ELF (English as a lingua franca): its domain of use (international business), the role of its users (professionals), and the overall goal of the interactions (getting the job done and creating rapport).

The six categories of Bloom's taxonomy are not just a scheme of classification, but are a hierarchical organization of cognitive processes according to levels of complexity for the development of expected cognitive objectives. This paper aims to report the experience of planning the educational objectives, instructional activity, assessment and their alignment to develop competences using Bloom's taxonomy in a university located in the São Paulo region, Brazil. This is a descriptive study with the use of action research as research design. This paper describes four steps of development: (1) engaging and training professors; (2) aligning Bloom's taxonomy to competences; (3) formulating educational objectives for competences; and (4) planning instructional activities and assessment criteria. Previously, Bloom's taxonomy had not been used to develop competences in a business undergraduate curriculum. This was the gap found in the literature and the contribution of this paper. The results showed that the students' average scores improved and that they all recognized that the taxonomy enabled them to apply the acquired knowledge in new situations to help to solve problems. The professors clearly saw improvements in the students' performance as well as their higher levels of engagement.

Purpose: The demand for accountants is increasing from time to time because of the increase in the complexity of the business environment. Higher education institutions are responsible for producing well qualified and ethical accountant required by different organisations. Specifically, Technical and Vocational education and Training (TVET) colleges play a great role in training middle and lower level accountant in Ethiopia. However, academicians, practitioner and employers are raising concern on the excellence and significance of training given in TVET colleges. The objective of this research is to evaluate the education and training in accounting offered by public and private colleges in West Oromia region, Ethiopia. Research Methodology: This study used the cross-sectional survey to obtain the opinion of the trainee, trainers and college deans on how TVET in accounting program is performing about each of the components of CIPP model and identify the knowledge and skill gap as com...

This study investigates all available literature related to critical thinking in business education in a survey of publications in the field produced from 1990-2019. It conducts a thematic analysis of 787 articles found in Web of Science and Google Scholar, including a specific focus on 55 highly-cited articles. The aim is to investigate the importance of critical thinking in business education, how it is conceptualised in business education research, the business contexts in which critical thinking is situated, and the key and more marginal themes related to critical thinking outlined in the business and business education literature. The paper outlines six key areas and topics associated with those areas. It suggests future directions for further scholarly work in the area of critical thinking in business education.

The purpose of this paper is to examine ways entrepreneurship is taught and learned across all levels and all industries academically or commercially in a uniform, systematic, and applied way worldwide. The case study included a pilot one-year incubation program, which successfully guided eight multi-industry startups for 12 multi-cultural participants. The results were compared to two independently conducted worldwide surveys, gathering data about incubation and acceleration landscape and challenges (20 respondents) and the general potential market interest in a program, similar to the pilot study (547 respondents). The study contains the pedagogical and the managerial approach to startups and entrepreneurship, thus it can be identified as interdisciplinary.

The aim of this article is to present two models for teaching business ethics: ethics of business and ethics for business. In the article, I defend the thesis that business ethics taught in corporations (ethics for business) is not a simple continuation of academic instruction (ethics of business) and should not be treated as such. To justify the foregoing thesis, I refer to both theoretical and empirical research carried out by business ethicists, as well as to my own experience as an academic teacher. Taking into consideration the differences that occur between the two models of teaching business ethics, and also the threats associated with implementing ethics programs in companies, I conclude that in-company business ethics instruction does not constitute a continuation of academic instruction.

Purpose – Purpose of current study is to explore, impact of workplace environment i.e Physical Environmental Factors and Behavioral Environmental Factors on employee productivity (EP) through mediating role of employee health (EH). Research methodology – This study adopted questionnaire survey method and data was collected from 250 employees working in software houses in Pakistan. Data has been analysed using SPSS and AMOS software. Reliability and correlation analysis was performed by using SPSS while; path analysis was performed using AMOS. Findings – Results revealed that one unit variance in PEF incorporates 35% change in EH, 33% change in EH is caused by one unit increase in BEF and one unit increase in EH leads to 80% increase in EP. Physical and Behavioural Environmental Factors are positively affecting EH and EH is positivity affecting EP. Results of the study revealed that: employee health is mediating the relationship between workplace environment factors and employee perf...

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So, it's almost unbelievable when you think 50% of people that agree to pay a price for a business don't actually buy it. And I want to jump into why that is, and more importantly, how can you can make sure that doesn't happen to you. So first of all, when the biggest reason that I see that deals don't close is usually when the numbers drop off a cliff.

And the reason that happens is because the entrepreneur is trying to do too much. So as running a business as an entrepreneur takes a lot of work, and when we sell a business, we're partners for a short period of time. I talk a lot about our 147-day selling process and a lot of times it works in that time. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer, sometimes or even faster. But the number one thing when we're selling your business is to let us do our job as you have to do your job and make sure the numbers are still going on the same trend line that they were. If you're growing at 3% a month. The this time can be the absolute most important time for you to do it. Not only because you get paid the best. What that means, for example, let's say, you're selling your business on earnings and you're getting a multiple of five times earnings. When you sell it, you're actually getting paid six times on every sale you ever make, which means you're getting paid once in the cash and five times you're earning is when you sell it.

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This article presents the findings from a research project on the Polish model of Hoshin Kanri identified in Japanese subsidiaries operating in Poland. It begins with an overview of the basic models of the method described in literature. Next, the findings of the project are presented. They were established on the basis of the first, quantitative stage of research conducted in over 50 enterprises of this kind and focusing on the awareness and practical application of Japanese management methods. The case studies permitted to develop a meta-model of the method typical of Japanese companies operating in Poland.

The last decades' serious organizational scandals that mainly stem from corruption and conflicting interests but also from bribery, favoritism and other wrongdoings have accentuated the need for finding instruments for achieving more ethical organizations and management. Ethics management is particularly important in the public sector because public employees and holders of public office are responsible for increasing wellbeing and providing common good for all citizens. Only accountable management striving for integrity through ethical practices and decision making will guarantee ethical organizational behavior. In spite of increasing research on ethics in general and ethics management in particular, increase in organizational scandals indicates that there is knowledge gap concerning ethical instruments that help to solve ethical problems. The aim of this paper is to shed light on ethical theories and instruments, and wrongdoings in public sector organizations. The main questions are; why is there so much wrongdoing; how can it be reduced; and how can more ethical organization and management be achieved. This is a review paper aiming to provide a review of ethical theories and instruments and discuss serious wrongdoings and the role of ethics in the public sector. The paper contributes to the fields of management and organization, ethics, and public management.

The paper focuses on the issue of project management education as the tool of positive influence on the success of project implementation in corporate practice. The aim of the authors is to identify the ways of training project managers, project team members and top management members in project management on the basis of interviews with human resources managers of metallurgical companies in the Czech Republic. Based on the findings, recommendations of appropriate measures are formulated at the end of the paper to improve the situation in the area of project management education in metallurgical companies.

Globally the apparatus of formal business education is over 150 years old. It has witnessed phenomenal growth over this period. The trained managerial manpower produced by the business schools has led the industrial sector successfully as reflected in the growing contribution of industry in the national income. Despite this critical and obvious role of managerial talent in optimum utilization of different factors of production, and consequent improvement in productivity and efficiency, of late, business education sector has witnessed waning of interest both from industry as well as students. There appears to be growing scepticism from all stake-holders about raison d’être of business schools. India is no exception to this global trend. This has put business school fraternity in a mode of soul-searching and innovation. Industry will be a key contributor to the realization of the dream of India becoming a developed country. And this is possible only when industry is in the hands of able leaders and managers. In this light, this paper is an attempt to study the paradox that why there is a decline in this sector despite a positive demand-supply gap in the market for managerial talent. Both a diagnosis and a prognosis have been offered based on inferences drawn from market data, other studies, reports and expert opinion.

This journal is an interdisciplinary form for educators who wish to improve the quality of instruction through the use of computers and how to implement it effectively into instruction. This forum also aims to provide a platform for exchanging ideas in new emerging trends that needs more focus and exposure and will attempt to publish proposals that strengthen our goals.

In a world of supercapitalism, the tensions between business and public interests are expected to rise, thereby calling corporations to assume new roles in society. In response to this trend, corporations will be in demand of an innovative kind of leadership exercised at all levels by a new breed of ethical, reflective and creative decision-makers. Among the qualifications involved in developing the leadership skills of these decision-makers, the MBA stands out as a world’s leading one. However, empirical research conducted in English and French business schools indicates that MBA curricula are not typically designed to provide participants with a broader understanding of leadership that could fully engage them in their learning experiences. To improve this situation, MBA lecturers and curriculum developers need to broaden their educational agenda by means of a reconceptualisation of leadership studies. Drawn from the empirical findings mentioned above and the work of Barnett on criticality, this paper proposes a pedagogical framework for leadership studies that involves three levels of leadership criticality combined with the three domains of critical beings. The objective is to provide a basis for the development of appropriate learning activities that will encourage MBA participants to strive towards developing themselves as critical beings namely, to think and act in such a way that the societal imprint of corporations will be more ‘attuned’ with the ideals of democracy, social justice, and sustainable development.

Business history can be a valuable, even critical element in teaching international management – not only at elite institutions and at postgraduate level, but at universities of applied sciences and in undergraduate education, too. It is specifically relevant for programs with a focus on Europe. Students should be given a chance to discover common and connected pasts of European enterprise. The article offers a rationale for curriculum integration and discusses case selections and teaching methods for non-historians. Five exemplary themes are presented: East India companies, financial market bubbles, telegraphy, the Suez Canal, and the emergence of airlines.
Zusammenfassung
Unternehmensgeschichte kann ein wertvoller, sogar kritischer Beitrag in der Vermittlung des internationalen Managements sein – nicht nur an elitären Einrichtungen und im Master, sondern auch an Fachhochschulen und in Bachelor-Studiengängen. Besonders relevant ist sie für Studiengänge mit Fokus Europa. Studenten sollten eine Chance erhalten, die gemeinsame und zusammenhängende Vergangenheit europäischer Unternehmenstätigkeit zu entdecken. Der Artikel begründet die Integration ins Curriculum und diskutiert Fallauswahl und Lehrmethodik für Nichthistoriker. Eine exemplarische Auswahl von fünf Themen wird gezeigt: Ostindienkompanien, Finanzmarkt-Blasen, Telegrafie, der Suezkanal und die Entstehung von Fluggesellschaften.

Purpose – Purpose of current study is to explore, impact of workplace environment i.e Physical Environmental Factors and Behavioral Environmental Factors on employee productivity (EP) through mediating role of employee health (EH). Research methodology – This study adopted questionnaire survey method and data was collected from 250 employees working in software houses in Pakistan. Data has been analysed using SPSS and AMOS software. Reliability and correlation analysis was performed by using SPSS while; path analysis was performed using AMOS. Findings – Results revealed that one unit variance in PEF incorporates 35% change in EH, 33% change in EH is caused by one unit increase in BEF and one unit increase in EH leads to 80% increase in EP. Physical and Behavioural Environmental Factors are positively affecting EH and EH is positivity affecting EP. Results of the study revealed that: employee health is mediating the relationship between workplace environment factors and employee perf...

The need to incorporate and develop Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within university programs is necessary for future leaders, managers and entrepreneurs. Within the framework of CSR and stakeholder theory the paper contributes a comparative case study that utilizes curriculum and in-depth interview analysis to illustrate not only the similarities and differences in the CSR programs, but how social responsibility is taught in a Mexican and Canadian University context. The main findings are: the CSR program in Mexico is perceived as a strategic management tool that adds value to the organization and does not pay any special attention to the globalization phenomena. Whereas in Canada, social responsibility is founded on ethics, attention to the different stakeholders in a globalized environment is emphasized and the strategic importance of CSR is widely accepted. The paper provides academics and researcher insight into exploring how universities can further facilitate students as stakeholders in considering social responsibility as important and necessary to ensure CSR sustainability in practice.

The Discussion Method produces significant student learning outcomes. In a time where we are only beginning to witness artificial intelligence’s disruption of work and the economy, these learning outcomes are crucial to personal and professional success. This paper begins by tracing the role of the Discussion Method within the liberal arts tradition, and by extension the Confucian tradition. Second, this paper examines how the Discussion Method lost its value in higher education as a consequence of the employability problem. In this section, the employability problem is defined as a two-fold misunderstanding among students and parents regarding the purpose of education and how to prepare for the workplace. Third, this paper reframes the purpose of the Discussion Method in an integrated curriculum for preparing students to achieve personal and professional success. Also, in the third section, student generated data serve as evidence to support the argument that (1) discussion-based c...

Purpose – Purpose of current study is to explore, impact of workplace environment i.e Physical Environmental Factors and Behavioral Environmental Factors on employee productivity (EP) through mediating role of employee health (EH). Research methodology – This study adopted questionnaire survey method and data was collected from 250 employees working in software houses in Pakistan. Data has been analysed using SPSS and AMOS software. Reliability and correlation analysis was performed by using SPSS while; path analysis was performed using AMOS. Findings – Results revealed that one unit variance in PEF incorporates 35% change in EH, 33% change in EH is caused by one unit increase in BEF and one unit increase in EH leads to 80% increase in EP. Physical and Behavioural Environmental Factors are positively affecting EH and EH is positivity affecting EP. Results of the study revealed that: employee health is mediating the relationship between workplace environment factors and employee perf...

Purpose – This research discussed ethics, shared values, university image, and trust as factors of student loyalty. This investigation is performed to discover aspects that influence loyalty. Student loyalty factors were previously researched, but the bulk of the research covered only major loyalty factors such as shared values, trust and university image, but overlooked university ethics as a student loyalty determinant. Research methodology – This study is fundamentally a quantitative study using the methodology of survey research. The information is evaluated using AMOS by means of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM). Findings – The results show how the image of the university, the ethics and the shared values of the graduates positively influence the trust, which affects loyalty. Research limitations – Regarding the limitations of the study which also reconfigure lines of future research, it is important to note, in the first place, the geographic...

The idea of creativity is becoming more and more relevant and is ob­served in various fields, such as contemporary economics, technology and science. This article is based on the creative ecology theory which has emerged from the creative economy theory developed by economist John Howkins. According to him, it is fundamental to understand the current crisis in the natural environment and economy, and the balance of creativity and control required in our response. The article is based on three research questions: 1) what are the fundamental prin­ciples of creativity and the process of sustainable creation; 2) how can one de­velop high quality ideas and turn them into reality; 3) is it possible for the reckless consuming society to share sustainable creative products and how could this be achieved. Creative economy is a rapidly growing sector of world market. Howkins (2010) uses the creative ecologies theory to analyse human creativity and abilities to create. Creative ecology is pres...

Persistent concerns about college graduates' foundational skills for workforce preparedness compels educators to continue exploring ways to address them. Although effective communication is widely regarded as essential for entry-level professionals, which skills matter most may vary. Employers' satisfaction with communication skills also shifts over time. This study compares regional employers' and undergraduate business majors' satisfaction with given communication skills and their perceptions about various skills' importance. Results showed students rank importance and satisfaction similarly, and students' satisfaction with their skills exceeded employers'. Regressions showed student satisfaction with specific skills predict their perceived importance. Implications for curriculum development are discussed.

It is axiomatic that educators hope that students use their skills to improve their communities. “Doing good” in the world outside of academia can often translate into “doing well” in academic work. This is the philosophy of Business Anthropology training at the University of Minnesota. The Business Anthropology course combines academic work and real-world problems in business and public service arising in the Greater Twin Cities community. Students visit local corporations that employ anthropologists and anthropologically trained researchers in the local area. These are often the high points of the semester as students see how employees close to their own age use ethnography effectively in business. This paper outlines five recent research projects in business anthropology in partnership with business and industry in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region