Donna Mccloskey

Widener University · Management Department

One of the goals of undergraduate business programs is to prepare students for navigating the job market, yet many programs do not effectively incorporate career activities into the curriculum. Often career-focused training is outsourced to a career center or a career services unit of the university or school, which results in a lack of linkage bet...

This article explains an activity that can be conducted to form teams in university business classes. It allows students to actively participate in the team selection process and learn valuable human resource management skills. Students are placed in the role of hiring managers. They have to identify the skills and characteristics needed to complet...

This article describes how knowledge workers no longer have physical and time boundaries between their work and personal lives. The boundary theory integration-segmentation continuum does not account for variations in both schedule flexibility and work and home boundary permeability. It is possible for an employee to have a flexible but not permeab...

Mobile computing has changed when and where one works, necessitating an examination of the boundaries one maintains between work and home. Flexible boundaries allow for the shifting of work to alternate times and/or locations. Permeable boundaries allow for the integration of one role while present in the other role, such as scheduling dinner reser...

Purpose – Given the increasing number of older individuals, exploration of age differences in attitudes toward and participation in electronic commerce is critical. This paper aims to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected on three age groups: 18 to 25, 50 to 69, and 70 and older. Descriptive statistics were explored...

This exploratory study examined the impact of age on e-commerce participation and its antecedents: usefulness, ease of information access, and trust. The three age groups considered were the “young†who were 18 to 25, the “mature†who were 50 to 69, and the “elderly†who were 70 and older. Of the three age groups, mature consumers had the...

This research examines electronic commerce participation and attitudes by older Americans. Questionnaires were distributed at a large retirement community and several senior centers located in Pennsylvania. The sample of 110 respondents ranged in age from 52 to 87. Fifty nine percent reported purchasing an item online in the last six months. The Te...

This research examines electronic commerce participation and attitudes by older Americans. Questionnaires were distributed at a large retirement community and several senior centers located in Pennsylvania. The sample of 110 respondents ranged in age from 52 to 8 7. Fifty-nine percent reported purchasing an item online in the last 6 months. The Tec...

As many retailers struggle with their on-line operations and dot corns close their virtual doors, it has become critical to understand why consumers buy online. This study applies the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to electronic commerce participation using a sample of 138 college students. Ease of use was found to have an impact on whether some...

The fear that telecommuting will have a negative impact on career advancement prospects has been a barrier to telecommuting acceptance. This study sought to examine whether professionals who telecommute on a part-time basis did indeed experience less advancement prospects than their non-telecommuting peers did. The results indicate that this fear i...

There are many contradictions concerning expected telecommuting experiences and outcomes. At one extreme telecommuting is believed to benefit the employee by providing increased flexibility and job satisfaction and reduced stress. On the other extreme telecommuting has been said to result in very negative experiences and outcomes for employees incl...

The popularization of the Internet and the rise of Internet electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been one of the major social and business developments of the last few years. Much is made of the rapid development of, for instance, amazon.com and there seems to be an assumption that what has started to happen in the retail book trade will continue a...

Researchers have found that men and women frequently encounter different work experiences. There has been some speculation that women who choose to telecommute will have more negative experiences than men who choose to telecommute. This study examines whether the work experiences of professionals who telecommute differ by gender. An analysis of 44...

Each semester universities and colleges go through a time consuming process to develop a teaching and course schedule. The problem can be broken down into three distinct stages, assigning faculty to courses, courses to time periods and finally courses to classrooms. While earlier studies have developed models for assigning faculty to courses, sever...

Career orientations of employees play an important role in affecting the selection of specific occupations and work settings and the employees' reactions to their work experience. The role of information technology in creating and sustaining competitive advantage has focused research attention on the career management of MIS professionals and the s...

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