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A Peer-Based Financial Planning And Education Service Program: An Innovative Pedagogic Approach, Joseph W. Goetz, Dorothy B. Durband, Ryan Halley, Kimberlee Davis
A Peer-Based Financial Planning And Education Service Program: An Innovative Pedagogic Approach, Joseph W. Goetz, Dorothy B. Durband, Ryan Halley, Kimberlee Davis
Faculty Publications - College of Business
This paper presents a peer-based financial planning and education program as a strategy to address the lack of financial literacy among college students and provide an experiential/earning opportunity for students majoring in financial planning or other financial services-related disciplines. Benefits of such programs to campus communities are addressed by illustrating the current trends regarding student debt and financial literacy. The paper provides a specific description of a successful peer-to-peer financial planning and education program and encourages its replication at other colleges and universities. Through the review of this program, other schools may emulate effective strategies to assist in the implementation …
Closing Comments On ‘Leading For Innovation’: We’Ve Only Just Begun, Paul Shelton
Closing Comments On ‘Leading For Innovation’: We’Ve Only Just Begun, Paul Shelton
Faculty Publications - College of Business
The Problem: Insights and recommendations on developing leaders of creative efforts have been offered from various scholars and practitioners in this issue. However, we felt it would best serve the overall effort of this issue to provide several specific linkages between the overall themes presented. The Solution: In this closing piece, we briefly summarize the articles within this issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources. Stakeholders: This synthesis is intended to integrate key aspects of each article within the issue in order to stimulate further thought, and eventually action, for scholars and practitioners in Human Resource Development (HRD) and other …
Developmental Leadership: A New Perspective For Human Resource Development, Paul Shelton
Developmental Leadership: A New Perspective For Human Resource Development, Paul Shelton
Faculty Publications - College of Business
Research indicates that numerous variables influence an organization’s ability to change and innovate. There is a need to understand a leadership model that focuses on the aspects of human resource development (HRD). Furthermore, it is important for the HRD model of leadership to foster and support creativity and innovation in organizations. In response to this need, this article identifies and explains a developmental leadership model rooted within the HRD framework of organized learning, change, interventions, and development. The focus of this work is to discuss how a developmental leadership style can generate new perspectives in HRD that translate to innovation …
Given An Illiquid, Yet Transparent Market, Is It Ethical For Management Of Banks To Use Level 3 Inputs To Increase The Fair Value Of Mortgage-Backed Securities, When Level 2 Valuations Are Available?, Joshua Sauerwein, Seth Sikkema
Given An Illiquid, Yet Transparent Market, Is It Ethical For Management Of Banks To Use Level 3 Inputs To Increase The Fair Value Of Mortgage-Backed Securities, When Level 2 Valuations Are Available?, Joshua Sauerwein, Seth Sikkema
Faculty Publications - College of Business
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Globalization: History Repeats (Chapter 1 From Distributed Team Collaboration In Organizations: Emerging Tools And Practices), Tim Rahschulte, Russ Martinelli, Russ Waddell
Globalization: History Repeats (Chapter 1 From Distributed Team Collaboration In Organizations: Emerging Tools And Practices), Tim Rahschulte, Russ Martinelli, Russ Waddell
Faculty Publications - College of Business
The strategy to improve business results through globalization has become increasingly common. Success in reaping the business value intended from a globalization strategy is, unfortunately, not as common. As national boundaries blur and everyone grows more connected through global collaboration, the dynamics of organizational life grow more complex. These complexities offer challenge, confusion, and frustration – but also great opportunity! The key to achieving improved business results does not hinge on strategies alone, but also on our ability to effectively lead global product and service development teams to successfully execute the strategies. Those struggling the most are the practitioners who …
Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, And Issues, Craig E. Johnson
Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, And Issues, Craig E. Johnson
Faculty Publications - College of Business
The rhetoric surrounding workplace learning is overwhelmingly positive. Boud and Garrick (1999) declare, for example: “Learning at work has become one of the most exciting areas of development in the dual fields of management and education” (p. 1). Advocates promise that education on the job will promote economic prosperity, empower workers, foster collaboration, encourage lifelong learning, and reduce the need for organizational hierarchy (Fenwick, 1998). Government policy makers, human resource professionals, college administrators and faculty, employees, union officials, and executives all support corporate learning. Even the term “workplace learning” has positive connotations. This phrase makes older terms like “vocational education” …
Efficiency Of The Welfare State: A Comparative Approach Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Jekabs Bikis
Efficiency Of The Welfare State: A Comparative Approach Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Jekabs Bikis
Faculty Publications - College of Business
As governments continue to evolve over the past century or so in their perceived role of providing economic security for their populations, a ubiquitous yet ill-defined concept of the welfare state is increasingly taking center stage in political and economic debates. With fiscal crises looming over the horizon in many parts of the world, the fingers of blame point with greater frequency to the welfare state as the entity which is contributing more to fiscal problems than to economic solutions. Reformation of the welfare state is rapidly becoming more likely and more urgent and this study proposes one mechanism for …
A Survey Of Clergy Practices Associated With Premarital Financial Counseling, Ryan E. Halley, Dorothy B. Durband, William C. Bailey, A. William Gustafson
A Survey Of Clergy Practices Associated With Premarital Financial Counseling, Ryan E. Halley, Dorothy B. Durband, William C. Bailey, A. William Gustafson
Faculty Publications - College of Business
The purpose of this exploratory study was to gain an understanding of the state of clergy-led premarital financial counseling. Clergy respondents (n =223) indicated that they often include a financial component in their formal premarital counseling. The most frequently discussed financial topics are budgeting, managing debt and credit, and saving. The most frequently cited obstacles to providing premarital financial counseling are lack of time and lack of subject matter expertise.
A Pedagogical Approach To Teaching Senior Business Majors In A Small Liberal Arts University: Creating And Operating A Real Business, Dirk Barram
Faculty Publications - College of Business
The question of how to motivate students in today’s college classroom has plagued college faculty members. We ask faculty to be competent in their subject area, yet how much focus is there on the art of motivating students in their classroom? The purpose of this article is to describe one unique pedagogical approach with senior business majors in one small liberal arts university in a senior business class.