The University of Tennessee [UT] at Knoxville initiated the innovative dual degree program in the fall of 2001. Its focus is to integrate the skills and knowledge of students studying both engineering and business, and to direct those skills to product development. It permits students, in 23 months, to obtain a Master of Business Administration [MBA] degree and a Master of Science [MS] degree i...

The first universities of applied sciences (German: Fachhochschulen) were established between 1969 and 1971 in western Germany to offer students a university education, but – compared to scientific universities – with a clearer focus on the application of the major course concepts in the real world, be it enterprises, public institutions, non-governmental organizations or whatever.1 Though a lo...

At Thunderbird, our library patrons include many different types of key constituents. We constantly strive to reevaluate how, when, and where this diverse group of patrons acquire knowledge so that we can provide them with the instruction and skills that they need to be lifelong learners and users of technology. Students must learn both the value and the skills of locating information in an ele...

The main objectives of the study are to examine moderating role of emotional intelligence between personality traits and employability in the students of Malaysian public universities. The data were collected from (380) business students by applying stratified random sampling. The SEM and CFA Technique has adapted to examine relationship between personality trait emotional intelligence and empl...

T multi-objective multi-stakeholder decision modeling methodology is an effective way to describe and aid context-rich idiosyncratic organizational decision making situations that traditional single attribute decision methodologies can not tackle. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to teach students this methodology as a decision making tool to analyze real-life decision problems u...

A recurring problem when teaching Business Process Orientation (BPO) is the difficulty students have connecting conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge. Literature suggests that one solution is to combine different forms of learning, such as hand-on exposure to enterprise resource planning (ERP) together with traditional teaching. This article presents a three step teaching case designed ...

There is consensus among curriculum developers of Business Schools that along with technical knowledge students should also be trained to acquire soft skills. Communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving are mentioned by some authors as the most important skills for professionals of the 21 century to be successful. Students must perform learning activities app...

This study investigates the impact that software utilization may have on students’ knowledge acquisition of the accounting cycle, a fundamental concept in business. Differences in knowledge acquisition are examined between three groups of students: those who completed a business case 1) manually using the traditional pencil and paper approach, 2) using software, and 3) first manually and then u...

Policy shifts toward fostering community inclusion of persons with disabilities have brought community attitudes (including attitudes of professionals) into sharper focus as a cause for concern. Using a social distance scale, this study examined the attitudes of cohorts of occupational therapy and business students toward persons with psychiatric and other disorders. Contrary to expectations, o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate sleep patterns and problems of university business students. PARTICIPANTS Undergraduate Chinese business students in Hong Kong. METHODS Self-reported questionnaires were completed during class lectures and through online system. RESULTS Of the 620 participating students (mean age 19.9 years), sleep duration was significantly shorter during weekdays (6.9 hours) tha...