At present it is implicitly or explicitly recognized that various paradoxes surface in the application of spirituality in the management field. In this article, instead of acknowledging this and moving on to provide clarity, I articulate and stay with the paradoxes inherent in the area of study. Management education that engages with…

This collection of self-management tactics is intended for teachers to use in helping secondary school students acquire and improve their self-management skills. The tactics are subdivided into sections devoted to self-recording, self-evaluating, self-selecting, using combinations of individual self-management tactics, and training. The following…

This document outlines the curriculum plan for the one-semester vocational-technical training component of PHOENIX: A Model Program for Higher-Wage Potential Careers offered by Bismarck State College (North Dakota) which prepares and/or retrains individuals for higher-wage technical careers. The comprehensive model for the program is organized…

This guide, designed for use in a ninth grade BRIDGE class, is a comprehensive source of learning activities intended to help motivate youth to stay in school and acquire the skills required to succeed both in school and at work. BRIDGE, a program conceived by Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), is for high-risk students in…

This curriculum guide was developed to help teachers/trainers conduct classes in life skills for single parents or displaced homemakers. The curriculum guide contains dozens of learning activities organized in the following three sections: self-concept (self-awareness, self-communication, and self-management); networking; and employability skills…

This curriculum guide contains materials for a 1-semester high school course designed to introduce students at the 9th or 10th grade level to technology in the workplace. The course gives students hands-on experiences, knowledge about changes in the workplace, and exploration of career opportunities associated with those changes. The nine units of…

This unit is one of three self-contained modules for self-assessment, career exploration, and life skills designed for use with special populations (persons with disabilities, educationally and economically disadvantaged persons, persons with limited English proficiency, students in programs designed to eliminate sex bias, and prisoners) in…

As part of the career development curriculum materials for Michigan schools, this book contains 100 strategies (learning activities) for teachers to use in presenting various aspects of career development to students in grades K-6. The strategies are grouped by grade level K-3 and 4-6 and organized around the four components of the Michigan career…

As one of a series of curriculum guides for office education programs in Texas, this guide contains units of instruction to assist in teaching the following objectives rated as necessary for the success of the program by experienced teachers across the state: (1) the essential elements common to all vocational programs and (2) the essential…

This core curriculum, in use at the Homemaker ReEntry Center at Northern Kentucky University, provides three units of materials that teachers can use to help homemakers make the transition to the world of work. The first unit, on personal development, covers such topics such as self-esteem, self-awareness, goal setting, decision making, sex role…

This document contains the two modules (called respectively Working Citizen and Personal Resource Management) of the Introduction to Occupations course required of all occupational education sequences in New York State. The Working Citizen module begins with an overview describing goal; overall nature of the module and of the four major topics…

This course content guide was developed in accordance with the Standards for Accreditation of Public Schools adopted by the Arkansas State Board of Education. The guide is offered as a framework upon which a curriculum can be built. Within the subject area and at each grade level, the content guide identifies skills at three instructional levels:…

This guide presents a new approach to the teaching of the behaviors relating to job skills and the maintenance of successful employment for handicapped persons, in particular the mentally retarded. The manual is divided into three major learning areas: those of skills, knowledge, and attitudes. Unit 1 on skills contains two subsections that deal…

This instructor's guide consists of materials for use in helping students enrolled in postsecondary vocational or technical education programs to develop technical communications skills. The second part of a two-part course in technical communications, the guide contains 8 units dealing with the following aspects of employability and interpersonal…

This curriculum is designed to help teachers teach a course in job keeping skills to high school students in order to instill in them appropriate attitudes for the world of work. The guide introduces the human aspects of working in an organization. "Job Keeping Skills" is divided into 10 instructional units. Each unit contains four or more lessons…