The ATA Carnet System.(business)
International trade is a significant driver of globalization. The
Carnet system provides a useful vehicle to showcase goods to Potential
foreign buyers, and to assure their safe and prompt return . . .
Coercing Addicted Employees into Treatment: Legal
Implications.(business)
Addictive employees represent several challenges for their
employers. While employers will want to help individuals get help, they
have to be careful how they do so. Company-sponsored treatment . . .
Managing Reindeer Games: Coping with the Dilemmas of
Superior-Subordinate Fraternization Outside the
Workplace.(business)
"Reindeer games" -- outside activities where some, but
not all, employees interact with superiors -- can have more dangerous
implications than you might think. While they can foster . . .
The Just Workplace: Developing and Maintaining Effective
Psychological Contracts.(business)
Employment relationships are governed by "psychological
contracts," each party's beliefs about what it is entitled to
receive, and obligated to give, in exchange for the other party's
contribution. . . .
From the Editor.(business)(Editorial)
Is there a more appropriate way to celebrate the first promising
days of Spring than to read a few articles written by lawyers advising
us how to avoid legal problems in the workplace? What's that? . . .
So You Want To Be a Consultant: Some Tips on How To
Prepare.
This article addresses the skills and attributes necessary to have
a successful consulting career. Specific advice is given to professors
on how to prepare students for the consulting industry. . . .
Educating Students To Be Lifelong Learners.
Educating students for the future requires education that is
up-to-date with industry trends and requirements, links theory to
practice, engages students in deep learning and provides a . . .
The Ultimate in Student Investment Clubs: Putting Your Money
Where Your Mouth Is.
Universities are constantly seeking ways to better equip their
students for the ever-changing and demanding business world of tomorrow.
This paper discusses one such innovative idea in the area of . . .
The Role of Adjuncts: a Bridging the Dark Side and the Ivory
Tower.(the business world and the academic world)
Part-time faculty appointments are now established as a permanent
feature in US. higher education. The question is not whether there
should be adjunct/acuity but, rather, what the conditions should . . .
The Changing Face of Business Education: Challenges for
Tomorrow.
Three enduring trends promise to shape the economic landscape of
tomorrow: international integration; innovations in information
technology; and the diversification of the American labor force. . . .
Educating Today's Students for Tomorrow's Business
World.(Brief Article)
This special issue, devoted to Educating Today's Students for
Tomorrow's Business World, consists of five articles written by
both practitioners and academicians. "The Changing Face of . . .
Designing Post-Crisis Messages: Lessons for Crisis Response
Strategies.
Each year, organizations recognize the need to learn from crises.
Unfortunately, too many of these organizations overlook some important
lessons and ignore ways to improve their crisis learning . . .
Timing Is Everything: The Optimal Time To Learn from
Crises.
Crises are important opportunities for learning. We argue, however,
that this post-crisis opportunity is time-sensitive. There are three
phases that organizations tend to go through once a crisis . . .
Why Organizations Don't Learn from Crises: The Perverse
Power of Normalization.
This article builds on a case study of a 1987 ferryboat wreck to
illustrate how a ferry company, faced with one of the biggest crises of
its history, engaged in tactics that made learning extremely . . .
Exploring the Failure To Learn: Crises and the Barriers to
Learning.
Organizational learning from crisis is explored. Trust,
scapegoating and organizational culture -- significant barriers to
organizational learning -- are examined. Also, the importance of . . .
The Paradoxical Nature of Crisis.
There is an ancient wisdom etched into the vocabulary of the
Chinese. The written characters for the terms "threat" and
"opportunity" are identical. Crisis itself may be either
threat or . . .
Developing the Three Levels of Learning in Crisis Management: A
Case Study of the Hagersville Tire Fire.
The three levels of learning from crises are behavioral,
paradigmatic and systemic. Based on a case analysis, the first two
levels of learning are integrated into the organizational structure; . . .
Crisis Learning -- Lessons from Sisyphus and Others.
Introduction
In Ancient Greece there was a King of Corinth, Sisyphus, who was
renowned as the cleverest human who had ever lived. He was so clever
that he even once outwitted Zeus himself--who in . . .
Accountability: Measuring Mentoring and Its Bottom Line
Impact.
Mentoring is a valuable tool for developing leadership talent, and
it can have a bottom-line impact. To evaluate a mentoring program, a
five-step process is recommended: 1) establish baseline . . .
Similarity and Attraction in Business and Academic Environments:
Same and Cross-Sex Mentoring Relationships.
Introduction
At a corporate cocktail party the proud mentor shows off her
protege to her colleagues. As she introduces her rising star, her
protege follows her lead in smiling and moving through . . .
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