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Generational Cohorts and Leadership Styles of Leaders at Higher Education Institutions in Florida: A Causal-Comparative Study
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Garcia, Henry Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As new generations arrive to leadership positions within the higher education arena, there are new opportunities to conduct further research and expand on what has been previously published on leadership and generational cohorts. The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to examine if and to what extent there was an effect of…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, State Universities, College Administration, Age Groups
Generational Attitudes toward Workplace Fun and Their Relationship to Job Satisfaction
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Attebery, Esther – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine attitudes toward workplace fun and overall job satisfaction of baby boomer, Generation X, and millennial staff employees at a Christian university in California, and determine if there is a predictive relationship between them. Conceptual Framework: The framework was developed from…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Age Groups, Work Attitudes, Work Environment
Commitment to Career and Family among American and Chinese Business Students
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Schneer, Joy A.; Beutell, Nicholas J. – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
The authors examined expectations for and commitment to career and family participation among American and Chinese business students using social learning theory. They found differences between Chinese and U.S. respondents on expectations regarding career and family as well as an interaction between gender, country (China vs. United States), and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education
Academic Entitlement and Its Relationship with Perception of Cheating Ethics
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Elias, Rafik Z. – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Cheating is an epidemic in higher education. The author examined the psychological variable of academic entitlement and its relationship with the ethical perception of cheating using a sample of business students. Contrary to some previous research, the author found that millennials were only slightly more academically entitled than students from…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Ethics
Flaws in Flynn Effect Research with the Wechsler Scales
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Weiss, Lawrence G.; Gregoire, Jacques; Zhu, Jianjun – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Many Flynn effect (FE) studies compare scores across different editions of Wechsler's IQ tests. When construct changes are introduced by the test developers in the new edition, however, the presumed generational effects are difficult to untangle from changes due to test content. To remove this confound, we use the same edition of Wechsler…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Intelligence Tests, Comparative Analysis, Scores
Making Sense of the Performance (Dis)Advantage for Immigrant Students across Canada
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Volante, Louis; Klinger, Don; Bilgili, Özge; Siegel, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Education, 2017
International achievement measures such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have traditionally reported a significant gap between non-migrant and immigrant student groups--a result that is often referred to as the "immigrant performance disadvantage". This article examines first- and second-generation immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, International Assessment