Academics and practitioners working in the field of knowledge management (KM) have reached a consensus that knowledge is valuable and can benefit to organizations’ long-term development and competiveness. However, to believe knowledge is valuable that is no longer to satisfy the expectations...

This paper provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the evolution of organizational performance management (PM) systems that transcends the limited perspectives currently found within certain academic disciplines. It looks for the presence of convergent evolution in those management systems....

Competitiveness of enterprise is one of the key issues concerning enterprises nowadays and it is in the area of interest for both theorists and practitioners in economy and management. At present, tangible assets are a secondary factor of growth and the success of the firm is determined by such...

Mentoring, as a social learning model, is based on the practice of broadly stressing the importance of positive reinforcement on behavior change (Bandura, 1977). Mentoring places emphasis on learning from other people through models of expected behavior norms (Mahoney, 1974; and Staats, 1975,...

This study was piloted over a period of three years (2008-2011) while teaching Project Management courses to international students at Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, Finland - aiming to explore the possibility to apply the Belbin’s theory on building successful managerial teams in a...

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. The current problem is that there is no specific guidance to form communities of practice (CoP) in higher educational institutions to...

In the quickly changing world the corporate activity is indispensable for the innovation. The flexibility, the ability to learn from each other is important in cooperation. Different cultures and functions give many advantages and opportunity for cooperation and these contribute to the...

The paper deals with changes in tertiary education (TE) funding in 28 European countries after 2007. We focus on two aspects: first, does the public expenditure on TE change (decrease/increase) in proportion to the changes (decreases/increases) in public expenditure on education and second, did...

Purpose: The work will aim at analyzing the system of higher education in Poland, in the context of global economy and our membership in the EU. Both strong and weak sides of the Polish educational system will be identified against the background of other countries. The study will present good...

In this paper, we are discussing a question how to assess students’ workload, which is an important variable in the curriculum and of utmost importance in quality of teaching and learning process in higher education. However, student workload can be influenced by many different factors and at...