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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"MBA students"”.
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Computer support of collaborative case based learning by MBA students
Many UK MBA programmes adopt a collaborative approach to the Harvard style of experiential case based learning. Within such programmes there is widespread use of computers but it is not clear how this improves student learning. Research on computer support of collaborative learning in other …
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Assessing determinants of social entrepreneurial intentions among MBA students in Windhoek
… entrepreneurial behaviours especially among students. Using stratified random sampling, A sample size of 136 MBA first year students were selected from a population of 148 with 109 responses. Quantitative data was collected using structured questionnaires distributed using the internet for …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
The raison d'être for MBA programs is to prepare students to lead and manage effectively in the real world. An overview of the unique challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
The raison d'être for MBA programs is to prepare students to lead and manage effectively in the real world. An overview of the unique challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA …
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Perceptions of factors from MBA students at small regional universities that enhance, improve, and impact individual behavior as measured by environmental working scales
… between the perceptions of Master of Business (MBA) students in regional universities toward the above-mentioned factors that improve, impact, and enhance their behavior toward organizational goals as indicated by each area’s impact on the work environment scale. Research will consist of a …
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Clones in the MBA Classroom: Understanding the Relationship Between Culture and MBA Students’ Attitudes Toward Socially Responsible Business Leadership: A Mixed Methods Cross-National Study
… and views of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students from three distinctive cultural clusters regarding the factors that support CSR. The findings, gleaned from 290 surveys and three focus groups, indicate that these MBA students have almost identical motives toward CSR, which are …
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Perceptions of MBA preparation : new Master of Business Administration graduates, their employers, and higher education faculty
… of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students and recent MBA graduates with those of employers of recent MBA graduates and MBA faculty regarding the skills, competencies, and experiences needed to be successful in their new graduate jobs. The researcher gathered stakeholder …
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MBA quality: An examination of stakeholder perspectives
… of the ongoing debate regarding the quality of MBA programmes in the UK and contextualizes and articulates the concerns regarding the quality of MBA programmes emanating from within and outside the teaching profession. The MBA environment in the UK is examined in detail and both typologies of …
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Can the reflective practice of action learning enhance criticality in MBAs? : A Bourdieusian analysis of organizing learning sets in the Pakistani business schools
… be established as a self-sustaining feature of MBA education. The study informs about the cultural conditions shaping the reflective practice of Pakistani MBA students in action learning by challenging their taken-for-granted assumptions and encouraging habits of critical thinking. However, with …
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Cybersecurity education for military officers
… education. Current methods used to educate students about cyber, including annual Navy Knowledge Online training, are perceived to be ineffective. The Naval Postgraduate School developed an All hands pilot cybersecurity course with the objective of increasing military officers' cybersecurity …
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A framework that supports the acquisition of reflexive competence in a MBA : South African perspectives
… acquisition of reflexive competence, exist for MBA students. The study used a dominant – less dominant design. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used in the dominant qualitative phase to explore the views of the CHE, business schools in Gauteng, and various medium to large organisations …
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Cultural Metacognitive Processes: Psychological Mechanisms Promoting Intercultural Effectiveness
… executives, 360 degree multi-rater surveys with MBA students as well as experimental designs with lab and crowdsourcing participants.
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Enhancing business school engagement through a gamified experience in non-pedagogical contexts - a human-centered design approach
… from insights gained from a case study involving MBA students and staff at the MIT Sloan School of Management, this paper proposes that gamification, known for its efficacy in pedagogical settings, can also improve engagement and productivity in non-educational learning environments. This …
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The behavioral theory of contract
… a condition of their employment are compared to MBA students' interpretations of the enforceability of a similar clause. MBA students with considerably greater educational attainment and employment opportunities are found to be significantly more likely to believe that they could escape the …
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Not so black and white: Different races, different discrimination
… fluency). Across 3 studies with undergraduates, MBA students, and adults online participated as hiring managers and evaluated a series of applicants for a position described in a fake job ad. Findings show that that racial groups stereotyped as foreign (e.g., Asian, Hispanic, and Arab Americans) …
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Strength matters : tie strength as a causal driver of networks' information benefits
… We use a survey vignette experiment and ask MBA students about their likelihood of relaying job information via strong ties (to friends) or weak ties (to acquaintances), holding constant the structural locations spanned by the tie and job seekers' fit with the job. The results support the …
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Building Manager Communication Competencies in Canadian MBA Programs
… gap, the research question was “How can Canadian MBA programs, equip managers with advanced communication competencies that will enable them to build trust, engagement and drive change in a complex business context?” The two objectives for this study were to: (1) identify which communication …
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An investigation into factors influencing student decision to pursue graduate Business Education
… for career advancement is a reason that affect students to choose attend graduate business education and lastly, establish to what level is student’s choice of graduate business education influenced by institutional infrastructure. The study used a quantitative approach. Questionnaires were …
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Three Essays on Brand Management in the Business-to-Business Context: Brand Identity, Brand Culture, and Brand Essence
… a sample of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students, I examine the relevance of brand functions in more detail. In Essay 2, I use a dyadic dataset with matched buyer-seller dyads to examine the causes and effects of perceptual congruence and incongruence of brand culture strength on the …
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Emotional contagion in leader-follower interactions
… negative affect on leadership behavior, using MBA students (n = 42). Leaders in the positive affect condition exhibited better leadership behavior than leaders in the negative affect condition. Study 2 tested the subsequent impact of leader affect on follower outcomes (n = 200). The proposed …
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