Designing business school courses to promote student motivation: An application of the job characteristics model

Journal of Management Education

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 812-831

  Debnath, Sukumar C ^a   Tandon, Sudhir ^a   Pointer, Lucille V ^b  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

business school course design; classroom environment; instructional strategies; Job Characteristics Model; learning; management education; student motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990329981     PISSN: 10525629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1052562906290914     Document Type: Article

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