Browsing by Author "Ediri Okoloba Anderson"

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Growth Mindset: Attitudes and Practices at CamEd Business School
(CamEd Business School, December 30, 2019) Ediri Okoloba Anderson
The purpose of this paper is to assess the growth mindsets of students at CamEd business school. It also assesses classroom practices that either foster or hinder growth mindset and authentic learning, and assesses the mindset of CamEd as organization itself. The assessments were conducted through comprehensive surveys made available to students, lecturers and staff. The findings showed the mindsets of the students to be mixed, with a leaning towards a fixed mindset. Overall, lecturers reported practices that foster a growth mindset in their classrooms, including setting high expectation and providing additional support to reach these aims. As an organization CamEd practices healthy and open discussion between lecturers and leadership. Some of the areas of improvement for classroom teachers were to more intentionally create an atmosphere where it is safe to make mistakes as part of the learning process and provide process praise rather than person and praise. Both of these recommendations are discussed thoroughly. It was also recommended to directly teach the science behind the concept of growth mindset to students. The final recommendation is to improve proactive collaboration among staff at CamEd. Keywords: Growth mindset
Leading a Virtual Cross Cultural Team
(CamEd Business School, June 30, 2019) Ediri Okoloba Anderson
Most organizations are made up of people from different cultures. Our communication patterns, including formal and informal language used as we engage and address customers, clients, bosses and co-workers, are all predicated on our culture. Broadly, in today’s global business, where technology helps us to collaborate, the need for Virtual Cross Cultural Teams is increasing. VCCT is simply an expression that describes the work done by several people from a particular organization, but from different cultural orientations in different places and time zones using the available technological mediums to pursue effective collaboration. Today, we need to develop a completely new skill set to lead virtual cross-cultural teams to high performance. It will involve understanding the cultural dimensions so that we can generate and formally represent an evolving common culture with regards to the specific problem face. Hence, being able to lead a VCC team is even more important for today and future organization’s projects. This paper presents a clear understanding of this new phenomenon in global business, the role of culture and why it matters, the benefits and challenges of CCV teams, and finally outlines some key application points for leading a CCV team well. Keywords: Virtual, Cross culture, Effective collaboration
Quality of Accounting Graduates: Evidence from Cambodian Employers’ Perceptions
(CamEd Business School, May 30, 2021) Ediri Okoloba Anderson; Mara Mong
Increasingly, accountants are graduating from Cambodian universities, business schools, and financial institutions. They are gaining employments in record numbers with business organizations in both public and private sector in Cambodia due to its recent robust economic growth experienced by many different sectors: tourism and hospitality; consultancy services; manufacturing/industry; transport and logistics; consumer goods and retail; and of course, banking and finance. Our study examines the qualities and skills of currently employed accounting and finance graduates, exploring the perceptions and viewpoints of numerous private-sector employers. A hundred and fifteen (115) local companies (both small and large scale companies depending on the number of accountants employed), some with international ownership across more than 15 sectors; one-third of them SMEs who have been present in Cambodia for at least the past 4 years, and all in the private sector were investigated using a comprehensive self-reported questionnaire “Khmer accounting graduate quality questionnaire”. The research was prompted by a perceived gap between the qualities and skills possessed by the graduate employees under small scale private organizations and the graduate employees under a large scale private organizations. Data collected were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis test followed by multiple comparisons of the perceptions of large and small scale private business enterprises with IBM SPSS 21. The result shows that of the three researched questions, there is no significant difference in perception between large and small scale businesses in all the criteria in the first and third research questions, but there is a significant difference in perception in two of the criteria (Oral and written communications in Chinese) under the second research questions. It is worth noting though that out of all the criteria in the first question “Awareness of global accounting and economics” ranked the least quality by both small and large scale organizations’ perception of their employees. These research findings are expected to benefit all stakeholders, including policymakers on matters that enhance the employability and productivity of accountants in Cambodia. Keywords: Accounting graduates; employability; employers; employees; generic skills; technical skills and perceptions
Today’s Digital Classrooms: The Impact of Technology on Students’ Studying in CamEd Business School
(CamEd Business School, December 30, 2020) Ediri Okoloba Anderson
As technology becomes increasingly common in every aspect of our lives today, from the way we communicate with people, collaborate with them, the way we entertain ourselves and to the way we do research, it is inevitable that technology should also be incorporated in our studies. This research paper focuses on the impact of technology (classroom management tools, laptops and mobile devices, WI-FI in the classroom, Google apps, and E-books etc.) in the classroom as perceived by both students and lecturers. The research was mostly carried out through surveys, one for lecturers and another for students, and the findings were analyzed and compiled. Overall, students felt favorably towards the use of technology in the class. They found collaboration tools, and Google classroom beneficial to their learning experience. It is concluded that students would like lecturers to provide more online practices and provide links and other references that support the learning that takes place in the classroom, but students claimed E-books were the least popular aspect of technology in the classroom; agreeing with some other results from similar studies. And, several students requested print copies of reference textbooks be made available alongside the E-books. Keywords: technology; collaboration tools; classroom; Google classroom
Turning A Good Business School To A Great Business School Using A Book Called From Good To Great
(CamEd Business School, December 30, 2016) Ediri Okoloba Anderson
Every school would like to be the best, but most schools or institutions lack the rudimentary know how. Hence, cannot figure out what they can do to be the best. The purpose of this research paper is to propose ways that can be used to make a good school into a great school. By understanding the basis and actions proposed by Collins in his book “Good to Great”, any school can adopt approaches and strategies that will ultimately make it great.