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This article presents one educator's philosophic answer to the question "Why am I teaching?" During the course of this article, principles of servant teachership are presented. In addition, some teaching approaches used by the author are presented.

"Quackery" is a term commonly associated with the medical profession. It is often associated with those who are proponents of alternative medicines, the benefits of which are not based on science. In this article, it is asserted that quack methodologies have been infused into the teaching of marketing. Marketing education is not indicted with being dominated by quack teachers. Rather, the article presents a number of concerns about the infusion of quack teaching methodologies that, as practiced, are proffered to contribute positively to student learning. The article offers a challenge to marketing educators to engage in more scientific assessment of teaching methods. Throughout the article, questions are presented that, it is hoped, will energize some marketing educators to rigorously examine teaching methodologies in the continuing quest to improve the quality of marketing education. (Contains 1 note.)

Examination of teacher evaluations by 750 freshmen in introductory business showed that actual perceptions often diverged from the way they evaluated teaching. Their class expectations and self-assessments were highly related to their assessments of classes and teachers. (Contains 80 references.) (SK)

Asserts that, when university career center pursues a strategic plan and becomes market driven, it is not only perceived to be a quality organization, it is one. Explains philosophy of market-driven management, marketing concept, and implementation of market-driven career planning and placement center. (NB)

In this research, the authors test a model in which the regulatory focus of employees at work mediates the influence of leadership on employee behavior. In a nationally representative sample of 250 workers who responded over 2 time periods, prevention focus mediated the relationship of initiating structure to in-role performance and deviant behavior, whereas promotion focus mediated the relationship of servant leadership to helping and creative behavior. The results indicate that even though initiating structure and servant leadership share some variance in explaining other variables, each leadership style incrementally predicts disparate outcomes after controlling for the other style and dispositional tendencies. A new regulatory focus scale, the Work Regulatory Focus (WRF) Scale, also was developed and initially validated for this study. Implications for the results and the WRF Scale are discussed. Keywords: regulatory focus, servant leadership, initiating structure

The relation among the attempts to establish learning and sales force management is shown. The propositions relating to the various organizational and individual variables to organizational and individual salesperson learning are presented.

Contrary to theory and past empirical results, supervisory consideration in the workplace was a significant predictor of intent to leave for 210 men in sales only (not the 39 women in sales). 'Self-selection' and 'Structural' theory of Dawson are offered as explanations for this phenomenon.