Discusses the authors' experiences with integrating financial calculators into a business mathematics course. Presents a brief overview of the operation of financial calculators, reviews some of the more common models, discusses how to use the equation solver utility on other calculators to emulate a financial calculator, and explores the…

Charting the ever-increasing integration of "academics" into the business world, this book uses specific examples to describe how the research and analytic skills developed in an academic setting can offer new approaches to problem solving in the business arena. Of use to employers, corporate headhunters and recruiters, and academics…

Provides a rationale and outlines a procedure for writing a research proposal in business writing classes. (DF)

Details the present and projected utilization of computers in the educational process to show what a particular school of business is doing to upgrade its computer-related program. (Authors)

Presents three ideas for use in business communication courses: (1) using advertisements to teach sales writing, (2) establishing strong student-teacher relationships, and (3) using proposal writing to increase student interest in business communication. (FL)

Discusses electronic meeting systems (EMS) technology. Tests the effectiveness of the Groupwriter tool, which allows for group composition of written documents. Concludes that EMS technology significantly improved the quality of policy and procedure documents written in groups but that member satisfaction was not statistically different among the…

Examines university students' employment interview satisfaction. Finds that interview communication satisfaction significantly predicted applicants' postinterview attraction to vacancies; whereas preinterview attraction to vacancies did not predict applicants' interview communication satisfaction; and applicants' employment intentions were…

Proposes a framework for organizing and conceptualizing the interdisciplinary research on customer service encounters. Describes the three categories into which service behaviors tend to fall. Outlines areas of service behavior that future research should consider. (HB)

A survey of 152 employers and 140 nurse educators (28% from high managed care states) rated graduating nurses as competent in patient care but deficient in business-of-nursing competencies, although they considered the latter less important. However, employers in high managed care states were particularly concerned with business competencies. (SK)

Traces average response to recession, beginning with the use of blinders to maintain the illusion of the good old days, through the belated realization to the ill-considered hysterical response. Then, of course, the business like approach. Presented in Williamsburg, Virginia, in May to the Potomac and Chesapeake ACAC. (Author)

Communication apprehension among Hawaiians is the subject of three related papers in this document. Each of the papers defines communication apprehension and discusses the implications of such anxiety on a person's functioning in society. The first paper describes a study in which 16% of a sample of University of Hawaii students, also employed,…

Two topics are discussed that can be presented in a discussion of the annual percentage rate (APR): difference equations and fixed-point iteration. A program in BASIC using the iteration procedure is included. (MNS)

Offers a technique designed to help business communication students write sales letters and letters of application. (FL)

Noting that the new awareness of lifelong career opportunities for women calls for long range career preparation, this article describes two teaching techniques--simulation and in-baskets--and discusses (1) student skill development in the area of sensitivity, judgment, and organization and planning, (2) student performance and grading, and (3)…