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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Domke-Damonte, Darla J.; Keels, J. Kay – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
In this study, teams in a strategic management classroom were given one of two versions of an assignment related to the development of a team contract: independent individual reflections on desired team behaviors versus team-level reflections on desired behavioral norms. Results of a multivariate analysis of covariance, controlling for gender and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Assignments, Teamwork, Satisfaction
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Bloch, Janel; Spataro, Sandra E. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Critical thinking is an essential component of managerial literacy, yet business school graduates struggle to apply critical-thinking skills at work to the level that employers desire. This article argues for a dispositional approach to teaching critical thinking, rooted in cultivating a critical-thinking culture. We suggest a two-pronged approach…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Business Administration Education, Management Development
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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
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Pope-Ruark, Rebecca; Ransbury, Paige; Brady, Mia; Fishman, Rachel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This case study, an example of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research, explores student motivations to collaborate with both peer teams and community partners in a service-learning course. Written by one instructor and three undergraduates, the article draws on personal narratives, student reflections, and a postcourse student…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Personal Narratives