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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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Kemery, Edward R.; Stickney, Lisa T. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
We describe a multifaceted, multilevel approach to teamwork learning and assessment. It includes teamwork knowledge, peer and self-appraisal of teamwork behavior, and individual and team performance on objective tests for teaching and assessing teamwork in an undergraduate business program. At the beginning of this semester-long process, students…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students, Teamwork, Student Evaluation
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Ingols, Cynthia; Shapiro, Mary – Journal of Management Education, 2014
In 2006, our School of Management began the serious path of assessing both the "hard skills" (such as accounting, finance, and strategy) and the "soft skills" (such as leadership, team work, and ethics) of our MBA Program. The data generated from examining the "soft skills" that we want students to learn within our…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Skills, Graduate Students
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Schaefer, Rebecca A. Bull; Palanski, Michael E. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
This article describes an in-class exercise designed to demonstrate the concept of emotional contagion. Empirical research has found that leader emotional displays at work relate to various member work attitudes and performance. However, students may have a difficult time understanding how and why emotions can influence organizational outcomes.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Psychological Patterns, Interpersonal Communication, Affective Behavior
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Farmer, Kevin; Meisel, Steven I.; Seltzer, Joe; Kane, Kathleen – Journal of Management Education, 2013
The Mock Trial is an experiential exercise adapted from a law school process that encourages students to think critically about theories, topics, and the practice of management in an innovative classroom experience. Playing the role of attorneys and witnesses, learners ask questions and challenge assumptions by playing roles in a trial with…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Critical Thinking, Legal Education (Professions), Teaching Methods
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Chavez, Carolyn I.; Ferris, William P.; Gibson, Lindsey A. – Journal of Management Education, 2011
The authors developed this experiential exercise to aid students in learning how others perceive them as well as how they perceive others and, ultimately, to begin to help them identify the origins of such perceptions. The exercise's goal is to explore how participants may make inaccurate perceptions of others and how they might pierce through…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Listening Skills
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Van Buren, Harry J., III; Hood, Jacqueline N. – Journal of Management Education, 2011
The course discussed in this article uses an integrative approach in presenting the concept of social capital and power to Executive MBA students at a large public university in the southwestern United States, where a majority of the students are members of non-dominant racial, gender and ethnicity groups. The article describes the theoretical…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Business Administration Education, Graduate Students, Power Structure