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Direct linkBarma, Sylvie; Laferrière, Thérèse; Lemieux, Bruno; Massé-Morneau, Julie; Vincent, Marie-Caroline – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This formative intervention documents the emergence of a hybrid activity aiming at student engagement and academic achievement. In this context-bound study, early stages of this activity consisted in establishing PénArt meant to enable high school students with difficulties to start up their own business at school. It involved reaching agreements…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High School Students, Intervention, Business Skills
Download full textCarter, E. Vincent; Donohue, Mary – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This study introduces a collaborative business education curricular design known as "whole person learning." The post-financial crisis market environment requires business education to encompass curricular, commercial and community skills. Drawing on the Toronto based National Mentoring Program (NMP), "whole person learning"…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Leadership Training, Business Administration Education
Mortimore, Douglas; Wood, Wilma – 1982
The congruency between Alberta senior high school recordkeeping, bookkeeping, and accounting curricula and the entry-level skills of employees of business was examined. The investigation was a replication of one conducted by West (1973) in New York City and had very similar findings. Questionnaires that were developed from the job activities list…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Education, Business Skills
Peer reviewedShaughnessy, Patricia – Guidance & Counselling, 1986
Looked at co-op and non co-op students in a semestered school to examine the effect of a compressed program on development of students' personal, career and life skills. Findings suggest that co-op students develop a feeling of self-worth and learn skills and attitudes that "will lead to satisfaction and productivity in the world of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Business Skills, Cooperative Education, Decision Making Skills
Dartnell Corp., Chicago, IL. – 1990
A survey was conducted of the want ad sections of Sunday newspapers in 14 cities in the United States and of Saturday newspapers in 3 Canadian cities in February 1990 to determine what qualifications employers required of secretaries. Data from 4,500 individual ads were tabulated. The survey tracked 34 types of information in secretarial ads…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience
Satterlee, Brian – 1999
This study used a multimethod research technique to examine the acquisition of key executive skills and attitudes required for success in the international business arena. Following a review of the literature, the report presents the results of responses by a panel of 36 international business experts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States to…
Descriptors: Administrators, Business Administration Education, Business Skills, Communication Skills
