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Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Segregation: How Parents' Occupational Field Affects Gender Differences in Field of Study Choices
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Vleuten, Maaike; Jaspers, Eva; Maas, Ineke; van der Lippe, Tanja – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
The study explores how parents' occupational field affects gender differences in educational fields. On the one hand, the theory of direct transfer predicts that adolescents enter fields similar to those of their parents because of intergenerational transmission of occupation-specific resources and that adolescents are more likely to draw upon the…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Gender Differences, Parent Influence, Secondary School Students
The Influence of Direct Executive Managers on Lecturers' Perceptions on New Organizational Aims in Times of Academic Drift
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Griffioen, Didi M. E.; de Jong, Uulkje – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
During educational change, managers can contribute positively to the professional's sense of coping ability. The question remains as to whether the managers of lecturers can also influence the perception of lecturers on newly formulated organizational aims. Recently, the changes in many European institutes of higher professional education (HPE)…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Faculty, Higher Education, Professional Education
The Contribution of Work Characteristics, Home Characteristics and Gender to Burnout in Medical Residents
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Verweij, Hanne; van der Heijden, Frank M. M. A.; van Hooff, Madelon L. M.; Prins, Jelle T.; Lagro-Janssen, Antoine L. M.; van Ravesteijn, Hiske; Speckens, Anne E. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Burnout is highly prevalent in medical residents. In order to prevent or reduce burnout in medical residents, we should gain a better understanding of contributing and protective factors of burnout. Therefore we examined the associations of job demands and resources, home demands and resources, and work-home interferences with burnout in male and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Undergraduate Students, Medical Education, Foreign Countries
Implementing Research in Professional Higher Education: Factors That Influence Lecturers' Perceptions
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Griffioen, Didi M. E.; de Jong, Uulkje – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Higher professional education in Europe has changed from teaching-only institutes to hybrids of teaching and research. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence the judgements of lecturers about new organisational goals and perceptions of their new research-related competencies. Lecturers' judgements of new organisational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Education, College Faculty
Decentralized Decision Making and Organizational Effectiveness in Colleges for Vocational Education: A Structural Equation Model for School Organization.
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Bechger, Timo M.; Boerman, Pieter L. J. – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1997
Questionnaire data on the effect of decentralization on organizational effectiveness from 299 middle managers of colleges for vocational education in the Netherlands were analyzed with structural equation modeling. Results show a moderate positive effect of decentralization on organizational effectiveness. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational Administration