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A Collaborative Learning Model: The Rhetorical Situation As A Basis For Teaching Business Communication, Michelle Loris

English Faculty Publications

Describes a unit of instruction that involves the rhetorical situation of an in-class corporation to give students experience in abstract and report writing.

Risk Taker, Caretaker, Or Undertaker: Which Are You?, Albert F. Varner

WCBT Faculty Publications

Learn to rate your own decision-making abilities and those of others in your organization.

Nonprofit managers must encourage, nurture, and promote decision making by subordinate level managers. They must avoid creating circumstances which discourage decisions being made. Objective and informed management recognizes that its primary responsibility is to create an environment which enables subordinates to make better decisions and to take an acceptable amount of risk.