BACKGROUND Numerous international policy drivers espouse the need to improve healthcare. The application of Improvement Science has the potential to restore the balance of healthcare and transform it to a more person-centred and quality improvement focussed system. However there is currently no accredited Improvement Science education offered routinely to healthcare students. This means that th...

The experience of planning and implementing a professional development program, ‘Learnscope’, at RMIT is examined and evaluated through a comparison of different management approaches undertaken in 2001 and 2002. ‘Learnscope’ is a national professional development program for the Vocational & Educational Training (VET) sector which has a specific focus on exploring the application of technology...

The value of business simulations as pedagogic tools in education has been debated for over twenty years. This paper proposes a methodology for analyzing and understanding in-depth the educational validity of business simulations. It is based on Principal Component Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling, which are used for estimating models of educational value generation. The proposed meth...

This paper presents a set of six principles of facilities management (FM) with supporting discussion through selected case studies to justify these principles, which were put forward through a rigorous quantitative analysis through a TRIZ process underpinned by extensive literature review into industry standards, professional guidance and best practice relating to FM. The six principles covers ...

Recently much has been written about sustainability and greening and the issue is likely to continue to resurface on the agendas of decision makers. This paper addresses one aspect of the topic: that of sustainability and greening through information technology management. The authors review existing research and publications on the topic and conclude that while much research is available on me...

The present study discussed the issue of gender and career maturity which operated on Super‟s Theory of career development. The aim was to examine the effects of gender on career maturity among counseling students in a public university in Malaysia. The Career Maturity Inventory by Crites (1995) was utilized as the major instrument for the study. Seventy-six participants comprising 35 males and...

We study a novel aspect of a firm’s capital structure, namely the profile of its debt maturity dates. In a simple theoretical framework we show that the dispersion of debt maturities constitutes an important dimension of capital structure choice, driven by firm characteristics and debt rollover risk. Guided by these results we establish two main empirical results. First, using an exogenous shoc...