Teaching effectiveness in the organizational sciences: recognizing and enhancing the scholarship of teaching

Article Abstract:

The 1997 Special Research Forum on Teaching Effectiveness in the Organizational Sciences represents an effort both to recognize the role of the scholarship of teaching and to enhance teaching effectiveness via empirical research. We sought to advance research about good teaching and effective learning in the organizational sciences. We first discuss the changing climate for effective teaching and learning in business schools. Then we provide a brief overview of the current state of knowledge and our view of future needs for research about teaching effectiveness in the organizational sciences. Next, we describe the history and purpose of this forum. Finally, we give an overview of the articles it includes. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Teaching, Study and teaching, Organizational research

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Organizational evolution, learning, and selection: a genetic-algorithm-based model

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This study proposes a relatively simple computational model of organizational evolution based on the genetic algorithm. The model includes three organizational processes: variation, adaptation, and selection of routines. We use the model to demonstrate theoretically that environmental selection influences adaptation and adaptation, in turn, influences the selection process in a Darwinian model of evolution. Results of computer simulations are consistent with empirical observations, including the existence of three distinct phases of organizational evolution and the emergence of a dominant organizational design. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Models, Learning, Organizational change, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Teaching models

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Employer involvement in eldercare: an organizational adaptation perspective

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Social and demographic changes represent an important environmental challenge to organizations. Recent demographic changes in the United States have increased the potential importance of "eldercare" benefits in the workplace. In this research, I elaborate a number of important organizational and environmental determinants that influence the recognition and interpretation of eldercare issues and relate these considerations to the level of employer involvement in the care of elderly dependents, or eldercare. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Care and treatment, Aged, Elderly, Employee benefits, Employer-supported day care, Employer supported child care

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