Excellence teams in action

Article Abstract:

Employee empowerment can be a powerful weapon for improving corporate performance as the experience of Duffy Tool & Stamping shows. Since launching its Excellence Team-based empowerment program in 1988, Duffy has attained significant cost savings and an impressive record of steadily improving profits for six straight years. The success of Duffy's empowerment program can be traced to three factors. The first of these was the high degree of support the program received from senior management. The second major factor was the decision to adopt a highly structured employee-participation process so that the company's continuous improvement campaign did not get sidetracked by needless bickering. The other important factor behind the empowerment program's success lay in Duffy's decision to allow the program to start slowly, expanding it only when managers and staffers became more confident about the benefits of the participatory management process.

Metal Forgings and Stampings, Forging and Stamping, Automotive stampings, Special dies, tools, jigs & fixtures, Metal Stampings, Quality management, Participatory management, Metal products industry, Metalworking industry, Metal stampings (Product), Duffy Tool and Stamp Inc.

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Accounting education: how students view a career in management accounting

Article Abstract:

A survey was carried out among undergraduate and graduate accounting students at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in order to assess the students' attitudes toward careers in managerial accounting (in commerce and industry), as compared to public accounting. A high proportion of the survey respondents indicated that they believed an accounting career in industry and commerce provides employment and financial security, opportunities for innovation, considerable nonmonetary rewards, and opportunities for career advancement. Of the students surveyed, only 1 percent viewed managerial accounting in an unfavorable light and 28 percent had no opinion.

Accounting, Surveys, Employment, Study and teaching, College students, Accountants, Managerial accounting

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On the air

Article Abstract:

Ball State University offers students a managerial accounting course via interactive television through the Indiana Higher Educational Telecommunication System (IHETS) as part of its Master of Business Administration program. IHETS carries programs originated by Ball to receiver locations where students are able to respond to questions and participate in discussions via the Teleresponse system. Besides giving students in remote locations the access to otherwise unobtainable education, television allows for the integration into lectures of video footage on accounting production processes.

Analysis, Curricula, Educational programs (Mass media), Business education, Educational broadcasting, Ball State University

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