Purpose: This paper aims to validate the Korean version of the decent work scale and examine the relationship between decent work and work engagement. Design/methodology/approach: After completing translation and back translation, the authors surveyed 266 Korean employees from various organizations via network sampling. They assessed Rasch's model…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a reliable and valid measurement scale of employee engagement that can be used in human resources departments in any industry field. Design/methodology/approach: This study used the measurement development process with three steps. The first step was to generate items for measuring employee…

Purpose: This paper aims to depart from the premise that human capital investments and human capital outcomes are often tacit -- an aspect, which is often neglected in the current literature on entrepreneurial human capital. The idea of this conceptual paper is to shed light on the social process of how human capital investments and human capital…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine learning style instruments used in Arab countries to measure higher education students' learning styles, identify the most common instruments and determine whether the reliability and validity of these instruments have been verified in Arab contexts. Design/methodology/approach: A comprehensive…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to validate the Korean version of the thriving at work measurement by Porath "et al." (2012). Design/methodology/approach: After translating the thriving at work measurement into Korean, the researchers assessed the validity and reliability of the measurement in a Korean working context using two…