Sustainability in the Nonprofit Sector: Communication Strategies to Increase the Bottom Line

This paper explores the impact of communications management strategies in the sustainability of community-based organizations (CBOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs). Several communication challenges prevalent among nonprofits in Southwestern PA are identified and communication strategies for improving the bottom line are provided as a viable solution. This paper will be of interest to consultants, academics and nonprofit leaders who seek to undertsand and address financial sustainability through effective communication management strategies

Preparing millennials as digital citizens and socially and environmentally responsible business professionals in a socially irresponsible climate

As of 2015, a millennial born in the 1990's became the largest population in the workplace and are still growing. Studies indicate that a millennial is tech savvy but lag in the exercise of digital responsibility. In addition, they are passive towards environmental sustainability and fail to grasp the importance of social responsibility. This paper provides a review of such findings relating to business communications educators in their classrooms. The literature should enable the development of a millennial as an excellent global citizen through business communications curricula that emphasizes digital citizenship, environmental sustainability and social responsibility. The impetus for this work is to provide guidance in the development of courses and teaching strategies customized to the development of each millennial as a digital, environmental and socially responsible global citizen

Emotional Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Two College Business Administration Programs

A comparative study of two universities explores the emotional intelligence (EI) of students in two College of Business Administration (CBA) programs with contrasting missions, visions, and populations. This study investigates the extent to which EI test scores and sub-scales varied among two CBA student populations. Despite the differences between the two universities, no differences were evident in the EI abilities among the two CBA student populations. Further research will explore the extent to which universities can impact EI short and long-term through classroom interventions

Does Feedback Increase Students' Emotional Intelligence?

This study investigates the extent to which emotional intelligence can be successfully developed through a semester-long classroom intervention and self-directed learning process among students in a college of business administration. We found that with emotional intelligence training, all students experienced improvement between the administrations of pre-tests and post-tests. This result also held regardless of maturity level (undergraduate or graduate student), or gender