Ready for Action: Developing Classroom Teams to Prepare Students for the Business World

Autor/inn/en	Wesner, Bradley; Smith, Ashly; Austin, Traci
Titel	Ready for Action: Developing Classroom Teams to Prepare Students for the Business World
Quelle	In: Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 8 (2018) 2, S.119-137 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2153-7615
Schlagwörter	Teamwork; Business Administration Education; Business Communication; Undergraduate Students; Group Activities; Business Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unternehmenskommunikation; Gruppenaktivität
Abstract	The ability to work in teams is one of the most highly valued professional skills. Preparing students to operate effectively in workplace teams, therefore, is naturally a priority for business and management faculty. Managing course-based teams, however, can be a challenging and complicated process for many instructors. This article offers instructors practical solutions to those challenges. After a brief review of relevant literature on workplace and course-based teams, the authors provide the results of a survey of 207 current undergraduate business students conducted in the fall of 2015 in which the authors sought to determine: (1) the factors that influence students' best and worst team experiences, and (2) undergraduate students' overall impressions of teamwork. Based on these results, the authors developed two successful--though very different--strategies for managing the classroom group process, which were implemented in business communication courses in the spring of 2016. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01