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A disconnect has long existed between what is typically taught in management education programs and what real-world organizations seek in their leadership candidates, particularly regarding interpersonal skills. Primary complaints from the business community revolve around issues of curriculum relevance and delivery methodologies that do not facilitate the transfer of skills learned in the classroom to the workplace. A review of the literature yields very few examples of business programs that have added courses, or topics within existing courses, that address interpersonal skills. We describe a graduate-level course designed to intentionally develop interpersonal skills to meet the needs of local hiring managers, maximize organizational outcomes, and enhance leaders' career opportunities. The course is delivered via active, experiential instructional methodologies to facilitate the transfer of new knowledge and skills to the workplace. A pre- and post-test comparison of students' results on a competency-based behavioral model of emotional intelligence showed an increase in students' scores, indicating that the course has been effective in developing students' practical interpersonal skills. This article describes the fundamental design and delivery elements of this successful leadership course that can be replicated and implemented at other universities to more effectively align what students learn with what organizations need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to address the issue of executorial title in Indonesia regarding the latest regulations in fiduciary whether it is still relevant to the development of increasingly advanced information technology. The number of fiduciary disputes in the Supreme Court brings out the fact that fiduciary regulation still does not fulfill the needs of the parties involved. With regard to that matter with the issuance of the Constitutional Court’s Decision Number 18/PUU-XVII/2019, the executorial title of the fiduciary certificate seems to be dwarfed. It is important that we identify and address the issues of fiduciary guarantee which are related to the regulation of the governance system in utilizing technology to facilitate and provide protection for investors to make the atmosphere of investment in Indonesia more interesting. The methodology that will be adopted in conducting this study would be a normative legal analysis of all laws and regulations regarding fiduciary guarantees that will provide insight to society and the government, especially stakeholders who are involved in the fiduciary guarantee agreement. We hope to recommend through this paper that specific legislation be created to improve the social and legal protection of business people in order for them to be able to conduct safely and freely business activities in the investment climate of the financial industry which has the potential to boost the Indonesian economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the study is to examine the agribusiness companies' demand for employee competence and how these competences comply with universities' curricula. The survey consists of a structured questionnaire that was administered to 427 managers of agribusiness companies in Albania. This research has provided an assessment of the profile of necessary skills required by the agribusiness firms. Results indicate that universities' curricula do not comply with the set of skills and behaviors that is sought after by employers in this sector. This study examines the gap between universities' curricula and the businesses' needs for human resources' competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The challenges for higher education to meet the demands of professionals in the sub-region of eastern Antioquia, Colombia. The aim of this research was to establish training requirements at higher education level in the sub-region of eastern Antioquia, Colombia. The research entailed a review of existing literature, which was then contrasted with qualitative studies of businesses operating in productive sectors such as information and communication technologies (ICT), agro-industrial sectors and airports, ports and air terminals. The research showed that although most higher education programs were adequate, they failed to meet the emerging labour demands required by the productive sectors in the region. The key challenge for new study programs is the use of ICT for improving business productivity. In this sense, training programs should therefore embody a transdisciplinary approach that helps to improve production processes, enable the design of tailor-made programs, reduce production times, and facilitate process optimization and automation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the work-life 'balance' challenges of those who work in organisations that operate beyond standard hours. The concept of work-life articulation is utilised to examine the experiences and practicalities of attempting to reconcile the, often competing, demands of employment and family life. Qualitative research was conducted in two private sector businesses and one-third sector organisation in the UK during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. The findings reveal increasing competitive pressures, efficiency drives and work intensification. 'Business needs' are prioritised over care responsibilities, and in the private sector organisations there is declining flexible working with a reassertion of the management prerogative. This article contributes to current debates over work-life 'balance' and highlights variable, changeable and unpredictable working time arrangements that permeate non-standard hours, which creates additional complexities and challenges for family time schedules and routines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how key external and internal policies can impact on the internal policies of a University in the UK. It explains how the internal structures can be changed to meet the policy demands and how the need to meet those demands can lead to the development of an innovative pedagogy to broaden engagement with the business community, to offer work-based learning to employees within small to medium-sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The objectives of the case study are to review the key external policies and drivers for change and how these led to internal policy and structure changes. The paper reviews past practice in the university around employer engagement, how this is affected by the external changes and identifies opportunities for change offered through the availability of external project funding. The key requirements for the new pedagogical approach are outlined, along with its primary concepts and how an e-portfolio has been designed to meet the needs of the target group. Findings – The paper shows how imperatives arising from policies and drivers outside the university can be contextualised by that university to develop a cost-effective, sustainable and scaleable pedagogy to widen access to cohorts of learners that would otherwise not be able to access higher education. Originality/value – The paper showcases an innovative pedagogic approach to enable access to higher education for work-based learners in small to medium-sized enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The need for integrating business and technical information systems, allowing partners to collaborate effectively in creating innovative products, has motivated the design and deployment of a novel integration framework for product lifecycle management. The time is ripe for such an integration framework because of the convergence of three important developments, almost in a perfect storm: (1) maturity of standardized product data and meta-data models, and standardized engineering and business processes; (2) emergence of service-oriented architecture for information sharing; and (3) availability of robust middleware to implement them. These developments allow engineering and business objects and processes to be built or composed as modular pieces of software in the form of services that can communicate with each other and be used across different parts of a business. These modular software pieces can be reused and reconfigured in new ways as business conditions change, thereby saving time and money for companies. This paper describes the business and technical aspects of an integration framework for product lifecycle management using open standards and service-oriented architecture. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

There are many MBA courses in the world. It is necessary to know the uniqueness of each MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the world. What are the criteria to evaluate the value of MBA? I gathered some basic information of MBAs in Europe, USA and Japan. These are the official information provided by Web site of each University. Through the survey for those 3 area's MBA course, I found regional uniqueness among 3 regions as above. In the USA, it has long history and many MBAs in USA. They are in the very tough competition each other. However, majority of them are practical business oriented MBA. In Japan, it is different. MBA is very new in Japan. Some of the University strengthens MOT (Management of Technology). It is technology oriented MBA. In Europe, it has variety; however it smells academic oriented MBA. There are 3 tastes in MBA. All of those MBA has 1 common approach, it is social linkage. MBA is developed for business needs, and it is from social needs. MBA must countermeasure such a social needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning a foreign language (most of all English) has become established as one of the most desired goals of individuals trying to be competitive in the national and international labor markets. In Croatia, learning a foreign language starts very early and is continued up to tertiary education at the majority of institutions. The questions that arise entail the kind of language an individual requires while pursuing their career – whether it is general, academic, business, or for specific purposes (English) - and, in accordance with the need – whether formal tertiary education provides this specific type of language. The authors have tried to answer the questions by conducting a needs analysis among students of bachelor programs and individuals working in business sector to compare the students’ ideas and business people’s experiences. The answers given by participants in an online questionnaire were collected and analyzed using the SPSS software. The results obtained show a discrepancy between the language students think is needed and what those with experience in the labor market actually use. This opens up a possible issue with regard to the syllabus at university in the relation to actual needs: Are we teaching a foreign language by having a real need and purpose in mind or are we just teaching the language for the sake of teaching it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]