A study on educations role in establishing strategies for improving safety at…

Safety at sea is a major concern of the maritime industry and it is through education and training that continued improvement can be realized. Despite increased awareness there has often only been minimal improvement made to training programs. The steady stream of accidents and disasters at sea are testament to this situation. This paper has been written to encourage a review of present maritim…

Theoritical aspects of logistics training

Authors discuss about main training needs and problems in the logistics as main driving motive for learning and training process organization in the universities and at the non-formal training places – work places, courses and training organizations. All driving motives can be named as internal and external forces which influence persons. In many cases external driving motives are related to …

Cheung Kong graduate school of business

Cheung Kong graduate school of business

Identifying critical performance indicators and suitable partners using a ben…

Overall, the UK’s representation in the top 100 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has declined since 2011. The basic rationale of the project is to improve performance of universities generally and their standings in rankings particularly. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

The Coming of Age of Business Logistics

This study reviews the admission criteria for a "nontraditional" MBA program by investigating a group of students who in academia. This article reviews past and current trends in the discipline of logistics and reports on the growing placement opportunities for students with degrees in business logistics as more firms create formal logistics organizations and solicit college graduates with cour…

Competency Profile of Managers in the Singapore Logistics Industry

In this paper, we aim to explore what competencies are essential for logistics managers to be successful in the future by developing a conceptual framework of competency profile of logistics managers based on the existing BLM model and some newly proposed competencies, taking into account changes in the business environment. A survey was conducted in Singapore with logistics managers from 350 f…

Advances in human factors, business management, training and education : proc…

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xxi, 1284 p.

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Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Prac…

Leadership Development of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is an edited compilation of chapters written by international medical and health professional experts. The book provides historical and current perspectives on leadership in healthcare.

Logistics Education: A Look At The Current State Of The Art and Science

Purpose – This paper aims to provide the results of a large-scale survey of courses dedicated to the field of logistics in higher education. This research is unique because it represents the first large-scale study of both undergraduate and graduate logistics courses. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was performed on each syllabus to identify the actual course coverage: requ…

Logistics and Supply Chain Education and Jobs: A Study of UK Markets

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the curriculum design of logistics and supply chain management (LSCM) undergraduate courses offered by selected UK higher education (HE) institutions and compares them with employers’ job requirements in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – Desk-based research involving content analysis of 22 selected undergraduate LSCM courses from 1…

Logistics Education: Achieving Market and Research Driven Skill Development

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Vol. 31 Iss 7/8 pp

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0960-0035

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17 p

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International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

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Management education for physical distribution and logistics

Since the emergence of physical distribution/logistics management as an applied discipline in the early 1960s, the search for requisite skills has dominated the concerns of professionals in this new field. While there had been some earlier attempts to organise educational approaches in this field, the first real national and cohesive attempts were launched with the founding of the Annual Transp…

Supply‐chain managementManagers in supply chain management, the critical di…

Attracting and educating the right supply chain managers are a critical challenge to the realization of most supply chain objectives irrespective of the state of the economy (shortage of personnel several months ago or increasing lay‐offs currently). This is because of the richness of capabilities required to do the job well. Much of our teaching in logistics and supply chain management focus…

Preparation of logistics managers for the contemporary environment of the Eur…

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Vol. 31 Iss 7/8 pp. 487 - 505

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20 p.

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The joint-Nordic PhD program in logistics

Doctoral education is usually considered to be a one‐to‐one learning situation with the professor on one side of the table and the doctoral student on the other. With the joint‐Nordic PhD program in logistics, founded in 1997‐1998 by a network of senior scholars from business schools and universities throughout the Nordic countries, doctoral students are now part of a learning network c…

Embedding “insights from industry” in supply chain programmes: the role o…

Guest lecturers (GLs) are a popular mechanism for transferring insights from industry into supply chain programmes. With a scarcity of capable supply chain (SC) talent in today’s labour market, there is real value in executives contributing to SC programmes at schools and universities. By guest lecturing they can “light the fire” in students about how exciting the field and practice are a…

Trends and developments in humanitarian logistics – a gap analysis

The aim of this paper is to present current trends and developments in humanitarian logistics (HL) practice, research, and education, and analyze the gaps between these. The article serves as an update on previous literature reviews in HL.

Knowledge management framework and strategy 2014

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Maritime Education in a Transdisciplinary World: The Case of Hong Kong

Some universities have their maritime education situated in faculty of engineering while few are included in faculty of business. Emphasises are apparently different for those in faculty of engineering from those in faculty of business. The maritime business curriculum has to fulfill the requirements of accreditation of different international organizations e.g. STCW95 and AACSB. This paper is …

Theoretical aspects of logistics training process management

Authors discuss about main training needs and problems in the logistics as main driving motive for learning and training process organization in the universities and at the non-formal training places – work places, courses and training organizations. All driving motives can be named as internal and external forces which influence persons. In many cases external driving motives are related to …

Global logistics management curriculum: perspective from practitioners in Taiwan

This study attempts to list and rank the necessary skills required of a global logistics professional based on objective evaluations from industry

Contemporary logistics education: an international perspective

The purpose of the study is to provide readers with an overall picture of contemporary logistics curricula from an international perspective.

Using Block Courses for Teaching Logistics

This paper describe tha use of seminar or block format in delivering logistic and service marketing course as pilot project at the University of Calgary. The students attending the courses completed questionairs regarding their pre-course expectation

Indonesia Country Risk Report : Includes 10-year forecasts to 2026

Indonesia's poor net international investment position, along with a current account deficit, makes it vulnerable to periods of acute risk aversion in the global economy. In an environment of rising global interest rates, this is an increasing risk.

Transport education in Canada: a contrast

The rather dour outlook for transport graduates in the US noted by Gus L. Keolanui and Donald F. Wood is all too true. For a decade or so the number of transportation courses offered in US universities has declined; the numbers of students majoring in transportation has been disappointing; and the attention given to transportation topics has diminished. Some cynic would say that the quality of …

Teaching supply chain and logistics management through commercial software

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and teaching of graduate courses providing in-depth experiential learning employing commercial supply chain management software. The benefits of teaching such courses are described, the challenges in offering such courses are identified, and some solutions to overcome the challenges are offered

Perceived competencies required for container shipping logisticians in Singap…

Managing container shipping logistics requires people with good competencies, especially in the time of new challenges. The purpose of this paper is to validate a new framework of competencies for container shipping logistics professionals.

Logistics programs in universities: stovepipe vs cross disciplinary

The growth of logistics departments in colleges and universities has been unprecedented in the past ten years. In response to this demand, schools expanded their programs to accommodate more students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. While schools have typically structured their logistics departments differently, they, for the most part, failed to develop their programs to more acc…

Gender-related differences in the occupational aspirations and career-style p…

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether gendered differences in occupational aspirations still appear when considering students with similar abilities who study competitively in the same achievement-oriented educational setting.

Exploring the link between the humanitarian logistician and training needs

The aim of this paper is to evaluate job profiles in humanitarian logistics, and assess current task priorities in light of further training and educational needs.

An exploration of teaching methods used to develop leaders: Leadership educat…

The purpose of this paper is to explore how educators can benefit from data on teaching methods or sources of learning used for the leader development of undergraduate students. To advance the field, the authors contend that programs for leader development need to clearly identify what area of development is being improved (e.g. conceptual understanding, personal growth, skill building, feedbac…