Journal•ISSN: 1080-5699
Business Communication Quarterly
SAGE Publishing
About: Business Communication Quarterly is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Business communication & Higher education. Over the lifetime, 1018 publications have been published receiving 15355 citations.
Topics: Business communication, Higher education, Business education, Organizational communication, Intercultural communication
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TL;DR: The authors identified the top 10 soft skills as perceived the most important by business executives: integrity, communication, courtesy, responsibility, social skills, positive attitude, professionalism, flexibility, teamwork, and work ethic.
Abstract: Hard skills are the technical expertise and knowledge needed for a job. Soft skills are interpersonal qualities, also known as people skills, and personal attributes that one possesses. Business executives consider soft skills a very important attribute in job applicants. Employers want new employees to have strong soft skills, as well as hard skills. This study identified the top 10 soft skills as perceived the most important by business executives: integrity, communication, courtesy, responsibility, social skills, positive attitude, professionalism, flexibility, teamwork, and work ethic.
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TL;DR: This paper investigated whether instructor classroom behaviors, called "immediate" behaviors, are significantly associated with student learning and satisfaction in Web-based courses and found that immediacy behaviors represent instructors' attempts to reduce the social distance between themselves and students.
Abstract: In this study I investigated whether instructor classroom behaviors, called "imme diacy behaviors," are significantly associated with student learning and satisfaction in Web-based MBA courses. Immediacy behaviors represent instructors' attempts to reduce the social distance between themselves and their students. While my study found that immediacy behaviors were positive predictors of student learning and course satisfaction, such other factors as student attitudes toward course soft ware, the length of a course, and prior student and instructor experience with Web-based courses were also significant predictors. These findings suggest that both structural characteristics of MBA programs and instructor behavior merit attention for Web-based courses to successfully deliver graduate management education.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the knowledge of what makes these courses effective learning experiences for students. But, their knowledge is limited and their knowledge about what makes them effective learning environments for students is limited.
Abstract: While the number of college courses being delivered via the Internet is increasing rapidly, our knowledge of what makes these courses effective learning experiences for students is still limited. T...
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TL;DR: This paper found that ethnic Chinese students were not prepared for the dialogic nature of classroom communication, which created difficulties in listening, understanding, and interacting with their first culture and the host culture.
Abstract: Research on ethnic Chinese students studying in a Western (New Zealand) learning environment exposed differences in communication and learning between their first culture and the host culture. Thirteen ethnic Chinese students in a New Zealand university business school participated in an 18-month ethnographic study. The findings indicate that these students were not prepared for the dialogic nature of classroom communication, which created difficulties in listening, understanding, and interacting. Written assignments embodied different expectations of writing styles, and understandings of critical analysis and plagiarism. The findings raise challenges for teachers in responding to difference rather than deficit approaches to teaching and learning, for ethnic Chinese students to be better prepared for the new learning environment, and for host institutions and local students to find ways of developing diversity awareness and appreciation.
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TL;DR: A review of the literature validates these concerns as discussed by the authors and suggests that plagiarism is on the rise on college and university campuses more than ever before, with plagiarism as one of the most common forms of cheating.
Abstract: ACADEMIC DISHONESTY, with Internet plagiarism as one of the most common forms, is a concern on college and university campuses more than ever before. A review of the literature validates these concerns. According to a 2003 nationwide research study of 23 public and private colleges and universities, conducted by Donald L. McCabe, Internet plagiarism is on the rise. Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed indicated that they had engaged in Internet plagiarism (as cited in Rimer, 2003). Brown, Weible, and Olmosk (2010) found that 49% of students in undergraduate marketing classes admitted cheating in 1988 versus 100% of the students in an undergraduate management class in 2008; a national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of the students surveyed admitted to Internet plagiarism and 76% admitted to cheating; and the Center for Academic Integrity found almost 80% of the college students surveyed admitted to cheating at least once (\" Facts About Plagiarism, \" 2011). In May 2006, Ohio University's Department of Mechanical Engineering plagiarism scandal garnered national attention when a review panel found \" rampant and flagrant \" forms of plagiarism in 34 master's theses (Grose, 2006); and in November 2010, more than 200 of the 600 students in a University of Central Florida business class confessed that they benefited from accessing online test questions prior to taking their mid-term exam (The Ticker, 2010). These findings help corroborate the assertion that academic dishonesty—cheating and Internet plagiarism— is on the rise; consequently, these concerns have sparked numerous debates about academic dishonesty at institutions of higher education throughout the United States. Many institutions of higher education have adopted academic honesty policies, instituted academic integrity tutorial completion prerequisites 142 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY / June 2011 for next term registration, and acquired plagiarism software detection tools; however, the research overwhelmingly confirms that the Internet provides an array of opportunities for students to cheat—whether intentionally or not. Internet usage has grown 151.6% (Miniwatts Marketing Group, 2011) since 2000, and access to information on any topic is only a click away. A fortiori, \" The Internet has made plagiarism more common due to the ease of copying and pasting the work of others and claiming it as one's own \" (Lehman & DuFrene, 2011, p. 328). According to McCabe, many students believe that they do not need to cite information found on the Internet because the information is public knowledge (as cited in …
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