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Direct linkHazari, Sunil; Thompson, Sandra – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
With the widespread popularity of distance learning, there is a need to investigate elements of online courses that continue to pose significant challenges for educators. One of the challenges relates to creating and managing group projects. This study investigated business students' perceptions of group work in online classes. The constructs…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes, College Students
Yale, Robert N. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Typical business communication courses provide significantly more opportunities for students to hone their skills in writing compared with speaking. This article outlines an impromptu speech assignment and explains a course-level strategy for providing each student with more than 30 significant speaking opportunities during a term. This approach…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Skill Development, Business Communication, Experiential Learning
Kliegl, Julie A.; Weaver, Kari D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Business educators recognize the importance of developing teamwork as an employability skill. However, current methods used to teach teamwork have been met with mixed results from both students and educators. This article integrates research on the importance of teamwork, team development processes, and coteaching through examining a case study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Business Administration Education, Teamwork
Kiddie, Thomas J. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Following Rogers's theory of the diffusion of innovations, the author questions whether youth entering the workforce will act as change agents to evolve primary business communication channels from email to text-messaging. Expanding on research performed in 2009, the author investigates three communication scenarios: scheduling meetings,…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Meetings, Scheduling, Information Dissemination
Guo, Shujie; Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl; Munshi, Debashish – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
The intercultural divides in values, perceptions, and interpretations of concepts have been studied extensively by international business and intercultural communication scholars. Consequentially, much effort in university classrooms is spent on focusing on the differences between groups and on finding ways to "manage" cultural…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Reflection
Bremner, Stephen; Peirson-Smith, Anne; Jones, Rodney; Bhatia, Vijay – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This article investigates student behaviour on collaborative assignments, looking at the relationship between task type and interaction, and considers the implications for task design. Students reported on interactions in a year-long workplace-focussed group communication project, comparing these with interactions on other academy-based group…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Student Behavior, Interaction, Group Activities
Witte, Anne E. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
One business school addressed the "zeitgeist" of the financial crisis by introducing in its inaugural seminar the cultural and ethical values too often absent from the types of transactions students are trained to manage. Drawing from cross-cultural and communication studies, the author tested "serious games"--cultural…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Seminars, Games, Cooperation
Young, Amy M.; Hinesly, Mary D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Organizations are increasingly using social media to improve their internal communication. When successfully implemented, such initiatives can have a dramatic impact on internal efficiency, team collaboration, innovation, organizational alignment, and cultural transformation. This article describes a course offered by the Ross School of Business,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Social Networks, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Design
Chan, Mable – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
The pressing need to bridge the gap between workplace communicative needs and curriculum development of business English courses has been documented in the literature. Through a questionnaire survey of 215 working adults, this study examines (a) the spoken and written needs of professionals in the local Hong Kong workplace, (b) the challenges they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Surveys, Adults
