Nurturing self-concept is an important ingredient in designing initial and on-going training of employees. McShane and Von Glinow (2010) highlight that North America’s largest luxury hotel operator, Fairmont, discovered that one of the secret ingredients for employee performance and well-being is supporting the individuals ‘self-concept’. People want to feel valued and they will stay where they [...]
The head of the UN’s telecommunications agency, Hamadoun Toure, recently stated that, “at the beginning of the year 2000 there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users. By the beginning of this year, 2011, those numbers have mushroomed to over five billion mobile users and two billion subscribers to the [...]
Our world is changing and many of our schools today are becoming dangerously irrelevant. Teachers need to re-examine the pedagogy they are using. It needs to take into consideration that information is out there, that we are all co-constructors of learning, and that we are all co-constructors of knowledge. A modern ‘classroom’ isn’t just four [...]