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Park, Sunyoung; Park, Sohee – European Journal of Training and Development, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to critically review current studies on job crafting to identify contextual factors related to employees' job crafting and to integrate the findings to help organizations improve employees' job crafting. Design/methodology/approach Based on the guidelines provided by Torraco (2016), the authors reviewed 44…
Descriptors: Work Attitudes, Employees, Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Flynn, Susan – Child Care in Practice, 2021
The professionalisation of social care practice in Ireland, after a period of dormancy, has experienced rapid advancement toward statutory regulation and reform. Yet, the limited literature available in Ireland on the subject matter, almost exclusively predates these changes. This paper presents a theoretically informed commentary on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Evidence Based Practice, Caseworkers
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Duane Wilson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper provides a historical literature review of the subject librarian position. The subject librarian position was originally created to support patrons in specific subjects. Since the position's creation, a subject librarian's foundational duties have consisted of collection development, reference, instruction, and liaison. Though liaison…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Librarians, Library Role, Library Services
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Aysun Dagtas; Senem Zaimoglu; Fatma Toköz – Advanced Education, 2024
This systematic review examines the literature on teachers' job crafting; a topic that has gained interest in recent educational research and practice. With the teaching environment constantly changing over time due to developments in technology and movement toward globalization, there have been requirements for teachers to job craft--that is,…
Descriptors: Job Development, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions, Teacher Attitudes
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Nicholas R. Fyfe – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: The paper focuses on current debates about police professionalism. It explores the nature and meaning of what has been termed "old" professionalism, which focuses on the role of the police as "professional crime fighters", and then assesses the extent to which there has been a transition to a "new"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Police Community Relationship, Crime Prevention
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Twalo, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
South Africa's democratic state has been clouded by various social and economic ills like joblessness, skills shortage, poverty and crime. These are a result of various complex issues which include the apartheid legacy, misdirected education system and poor planning for long term national priorities. This article looks at the lost opportunities to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Musselin, Christine – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This paper outlines the main changes that have effected a transformation in the nature of academic work: on the one hand, the increasing diversification and specialisation of academic tasks, and on the other, new forms of control over academic work. An analysis of these trends leads to a discussion of the relationships between the evolution of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Job Development, Change, Specialization
Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This literature review, undertaken for Australian Industry Group, shows how multiple variations and combinations of formal, informal and non-formal learning, accompanied by various government incentives and organisational initiatives (including job redesign, cross-skilling, multi-skilling, diversified career pathways, action learning projects,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Informal Education, Experiential Learning, Quality Control
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Stack, Steven – Death Studies, 2007
B. Yang and D. Lester (2007) have produced an innovative contribution to the relevant literature. Unlike previous studies, they incorporate estimates of cost savings from suicide. Their argument could be strengthened in 3 ways. First, they may have underestimated some of the cost savings by relying on inflated estimates of mental health usage by…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities, Costs