Organization’s size is determined by number of its employees, the largeness of its operation, and its market reach and share. It also poses a very different challenge for the organization’s leaders, while small organizations are build for innovation, large are meant for operational efficiency. The skills necessary for entrepreneurship are quite different from that of running a large and diverse...

This study explores the corporate university (CU) phenomenon based on human capital theory through a comprehensive review of literatures in economics and HRD. Different from existing CU literature, the study found that, as HRD operational entities, CUs and traditional universities are rooted in different skills contexts, and that theorizing the CU phenomenon is to theorizing HRD. The study expl...

This article describes the communication skills programme of the International Medical University, which adopts an integrated medical curriculum. The programme, implemented in February 2005, is based on a systematic framework aimed at teaching students basic interpersonal communication skills progressively and continuously throughout the pre-clinical phase.

Knowledge about aging of perceptual-motor skills is based almost exclusively on cross-sectional studies. We examined age-related changes in the retention of mirror-tracing skills in healthy adults who practiced for 3 separate days at baseline and retrained 5 years later at follow-up. Overall, the speed and accuracy of an acquired skill were partially retained after a 5-year interim, although th...

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The fundamental assumption behind the refresher training of air traffic controllers is to impart them with the required skills and knowledge to meet successfully the wide range of challenges imposed by emergencies and abnormal situations. The purpose of this study was to test this assumption. Research in emergencies and abnormal situations training in the Air Traffic Control, (ATC) system is li...