This article examines four categories of teaching strategy used in business classes by a group of 26 secondary school business teachers in Hong Kong, using grounded theoretical coding techniques in the analysis. Each of the teaching categories is illustrated with typical extracts from interviews and is discussed in relation to its effectiveness…

This paper identifies and describes Hong Kong secondary business teachers' conceptions of student competence in business education, and their choice of teaching approaches to developing such competence. It also addresses the relationship between the conceptualisation of competence and teaching approaches in developing student competence.…

Western management literature presents a model of organizational life that may or may not be appropriate in a non-Western business context. A Hong Kong study suggests even students professing to be westernized maintain home cultural attitudes. It is argued that non-Western management teachers have the added responsibility of relating Western…