Business ethics faculty face a difficult challenge. As stories of corporate corruption continue to grow, the social pressure for universities— and business ethics teachers especially—to “teach students ethics” can be overwhelming, at times. For those who think this pressure is warranted, as I do, it is all the more important to consider how a single course or series of courses can have an impac...

Teaching Law to Business students presents particular challenges. Chief among them is the need to engage students with legal material and a legal method while presenting a context for understanding that is relevant to their program of choice. This paper identifies challenges in the teaching of an introductory Business Law course delivered to first year, first semester students as a required cou...

Managers of businesses worldwide are only beginning to realize the economic and improved decision-making value of discrete-event simulation. In order to accelerate the rate at which business managers employ simulation, such a course needs to be taught to more business students than is currently being done. This, in turn, implies the need for an improvement in the teaching of simulation to begin...

Recent studies have demonstrated that judgments of business leaders’ faces predict their organizations’ financial performance. To date, these predictions have been derived exclusively from the impressions of naı̈ve perceivers. Here, we tested how perceivers’ knowledge and experience in business might relate to their judgments of CEOs’ leadership ability from nonverbal facial cues. In Study 1, bu...

contacts for future opportunities. Ideas and projects are developed in groups to build communication and interpersonal skills, helpful in a future work environment. Guest speakers provide business and industry perspectives on leadership and communications topics. A survey of ALA students indicated job shadowing was the most beneficial activity of ALA and students agreed they were able to demons...

In this paper we describe findings from the literature on cross-disciplinary teaching of mathematics to undergraduates, as part of a review of cross-faculty teaching of science subjects at the University of Technology, Sydney. Disciplinary differences in teaching styles can inform difficulties faced by engineering and business students. The necessity for varied teaching approaches was illuminat...

A survey was carried out among two groups of undergraduate economics students and four groups of students in mathematics, law, philosophy and business administration. The main survey question involved a conflict between profit maximisation and the welfare of the workers who would be fired to achieve it. Significant differences were found between the choices of the groups. The results were reinf...

This paper discusses business games as teaching tools in Technology Management (TM). The discipline’s traditional teaching methods, while appropriate for the dissemination of foundational knowledge, do not provide the optimal platform for students to link abstract concepts and real-world problems. We suggest that business simulation games are an effective way to engage students in TM topics; th...

Difficulty of teaching concepts of business processes and business process orientation using traditional teaching and learning methods is well recognized in the literature. This paper reports on the effectiveness of an initiative that employs ‘ERPSim’, an ERP Business simulation game that uses a simulated and complex business environment supported by industry standard software, SAP. Using this ...

Student evaluations are an important aspect of business pedagogy. Social media-based evaluations, such as RateMyProfessors.com, empower students to evaluate faculty anonymously. A perusal the literature indicates little no prior research conducted on perceptions student usage online evaluations. We posit that embody unique characteristics influence their usage. examine whether use RateMyProfess...