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Yasmany García-Ramírez; Vera Bijelic – Cogent Education, 2024
In the realm of academia, the workload of professors varies widely depending on the institution, department, and specific roles they undertake. With many faculty members exceeding a fifty-hour workweek, the balance between teaching, research, administrative duties, and personal life becomes a challenging endeavour, potentially leading to high…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Task Analysis, Job Analysis, Faculty
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Messmann, Gerhard; Mulder, Regina H. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2015
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of reflection as a preparatory mechanism for employees' engagement in innovative work behaviour (IWB). This issue was explored in a study with 67 teachers at the highest level of German secondary education. Specifically, we investigated whether teachers who reflected on work tasks, the social…
Descriptors: Reflection, Facilitators (Individuals), Innovation, Teacher Behavior
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Jung, Jisun; Shin, Jung Cheol – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of administrative staff's job competency on their job satisfaction in a Korean research university. We conceptualized job satisfaction into three subcomponents: satisfaction in the job field, in the workplace, and with the actual task. In the regression analysis, we included demographics, inner…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Satisfaction, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving
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Srivastava, Abhishek; Locke, Edwin A.; Judge, Timothy A.; Adams, John W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
This study examined the mediating role of task complexity in the relationship between core self-evaluations (CSE) and satisfaction. In Study 1, eighty three undergraduate business students worked on a strategic decision-making simulation. The simulated environment enabled us to verify the temporal sequence of variables, use an objective measure of…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Difficulty Level, Simulated Environment, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Porter, Christopher O. L. H.; Webb, Justin W.; Gogus, Celile Itir – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010
The authors draw on resource allocation theory (Kanfer & Ackerman, 1989) to develop hypotheses regarding the conditions under which collective learning and performance orientation have interactive effects and the nature of those effects on teams' ability to adapt to a sudden and dramatic change in workload. Consistent with the theory, results…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation, Decision Making
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Mogilchak, E. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The objective of this study is to obtain information about how college students' economic orientations interact with one another as well as with indicators of the level of their satisfaction with their lives and social and economic factors. The assumption was that these orientations are formed by a number of latent variables and factors, and that…
Descriptors: Work Attitudes, Economic Factors, College Students, Work Ethic