Accent on Teaching Materials: Notices and Reviews of Important Teaching Materials

In contrast to the analysis of variance of fully fixed or fully random component models, the analysis of variance of mixed models is fraught with potential pitfalls. It is fortunate that there are simple rules for the correct analysis of balanced data; in the case of unbalanced data there are no simple results. The potential pitfalls in the path of a correct analysis are well-known. Despite this, some computer packages still report incorrect results for the balanced model and some textbooks gloss over or ignore some of these pitfalls.     

Kaleidoscopes and the multiplicity of perspectives in human resource development

This paper tracks changes in design and implementation of Western management training interventions in Eastern Europe (EE) over a period of more than a decade. The study is based empirically on three management development programmes conducted by Westerners in the transitional environments of Bulgaria and Russia from 1992 to 2003. Departing from existing literature on knowledge transfer from Western to EE, activity theory is used to identify a process of reconfiguring the zone of proximal development of East European (also abbreviated EE in the article) participants and conclude that there is a growing desire and assertiveness on the part of local participants to formulate their own strategic and managerial repertoires. At the same time, it is also observed that as a product of Western ideology of the transitional process, there has been empowerment of socio-demographic groupings who demonstrate consonant ideological inclinations towards Western managerial discourse, most notably young, educated and English proficient individuals.