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Debaro Huyler; Lourdes Gomez; Tonette S. Rocco; Maria S. Plakhotnik – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2025
Five distinct generational cohorts, from the Silent Generation (born 1920s-1940s) to Generation Z (born 1996-2010s), are active in the workforce. These cohorts are defined by shared characteristics shaped by pivotal historical events influencing their worldviews and work behaviors. Each generation presents unique challenges due to differing…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Leadership Styles, Labor Force, Inclusion
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Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
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Poblete Núñez, Ximena – Gender and Education, 2020
In this paper, I discuss how professional identities in early childhood education in Chile are performatively constituted within the interplay between a religious discourse of vocation and gender. 'Having the vocation' has become a regime of truth that regulates and governs educators' behaviours, motivations and relationships in their workplace.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Gender Differences, Professional Identity, Early Childhood Education
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Chamoux, Marie-Noëlle – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
In Nahuatl-speaking villages located in the north of the state of Puebla, family and community educational practices adhere to the Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours model (LOPI). Attentive observation is encouraged as children's principal method of learning. Co-presence is favoured by the adult educators as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, Learning Processes, American Indian Education
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Wolk, Joseph – College and University, 2019
Transitioning to a new role can be challenging whether at one's current institution or at a new one. Often, the resources that are meant to help with the transition are written by those who have been in the field for many years and who are far removed from the excitement, trepidation, and, at times, uncertainty that may attend a new role. As a…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Universities, Daily Living Skills, Registrars (School)
Childress, Herb – University of Chicago Press, 2019
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Institutional Mission, Adjunct Faculty, Educational Change
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Byrd, Marilyn Y. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter introduces the enlightened revelation framework, a spiritual response to social injustice. The enlightened revelation framework uses a philosophical discourse as a means to promote spiritually engaging and morally responsible workplaces.
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Social Justice, Spiritual Development
Lee, Shinhye; Schmidgall, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2020
In this paper, we discuss the multi-faced role of English writing in the international workplace. Drawing upon previous research, we point out that English, as the main lingua franca, supports a variety of writing practices in the workplace, and so it presents both significant value and challenges for internationally operating individuals and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Business Communication, Business English
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Edmonstone, John – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
Action learning has evolved over a period of time when managerialism and performativity, which are aspects of neoliberalism, have become stronger and this explains, in part, the emergence of Critical Action Learning (CAL). Performativity, in particular, has increasingly become internalised by people at work. CAL seems to be limited to power…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, World Views
Mann, Angela; Zaheer, Imad; Kelly-Vance, Lisa – Communique, 2019
School psychologists deal with challenging situations, including taking on student traumatic experiences, screening for mental health difficulties, dealing with difficult parents, navigating conflict-filled team meetings, advocating for student and family needs, hearing stories of abuse, and supporting school staff who may be experiencing…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Work Environment, Burnout, Barriers
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Stebleton, Michael J. – Journal of College and Character, 2019
College students receive countless messages about "following passion" and "doing what you love" (DWYL). What happens when these repeated messages ultimately do a disservice to some students? Although pursuing one's interests is strongly encouraged, the author explores the limitations of the DWYL advice at all costs, including…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Career Development, Self Concept, Futures (of Society)
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Levesque, Laurie L. – Management Teaching Review, 2018
Critics of ethics education suggest that students need to learn about contextual pressures of workplace ethical decisions and develop skills to handle them. Thus, instructors are often challenged to integrate an ethics unit into organizational behavior courses in ways that complement, rather than duplicate, what may have been covered in their…
Descriptors: Ethics, Management Development, Teaching Methods, Homework
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Clark, Susan G.; Steelman, Toddi A. – Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2013
This paper sets up a scenario about Rebecca, a jobseeker, who is a fictitious composite, a "typical" candidate who wants a position at a college/university. A job description is provided. She interviews for the advertised position, and while doing so, she also interviews the university, school/department, and working environment to see if there is…
Descriptors: Occupational Information, Collegiality, College Environment, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Druzhilov, S. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
The phenomenon of harassment in Russian universities creates an environment that can be both threatening to the individual and a source of poor performance by the work group. Policies need to be developed to deal with this destructive form of behavior. [This article was translated by Kim Braithwaite.]
Descriptors: Higher Education, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Sexual Harassment
Murphy, Jerome T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Experiencing discomfort as a leader is part of the job. But discomfort does not have to turn to anguish. Leaders who learn a new way to respond to the stress and strain of leadership can enhance their performance and enrich their experience.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Work Environment, Stress Variables, Anxiety
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