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Erin Hamel – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
Early childhood (EC) environments that are safe and engaging can positively influence developmental outcomes in children. Indeed, the benefits of a high-quality environment for young children are numerous (Kostelnik et al., 2019). The EC classroom is also the primary workplace of EC teachers and much like the children they serve, they can also…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Well Being
Alejandra Ros Pilarz; Jessica Pac – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
In the United States, most mothers work during pregnancy. Yet, until the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in 2022, pregnant employees did not have a right to reasonable accommodations to work under safe conditions. This law is expected to increase employment among pregnant women, making it critical to understand the effects of work…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Employed Parents, Health
Eric Richardson; Jean Gordon; Laura Morris; John Lothes; Randyl Cochran; Dawn Oetjen; Reid Oetjen – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2025
The retention of student affairs professionals remains a significant challenge for academic institutions, as these professionals play a critical role in supporting student retention and ensuring completion rates. A misalignment between employees' preferred work environments and current institutional policies and traditions hinders the transition…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Personnel Policy, Wellness, Employee Attitudes
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, 2023
The 2023 Thought Leaders Report, "Leadership Reimagined: Navigating the Higher Education Workplace" provides leaders with information and tools to help them lead their employees through the continuing uncertainty with a focus on the workforce. We recognize that workforce issues are incredibly challenging and understand that an engaged…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Leadership Responsibility, Work Environment
Adam B. Lockwood – Communique, 2025
The Red Queen effect takes its name from a scene in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," where Alice and the Red Queen are constantly running, yet remain in the same place relative to one another. In competitive ecosystems, this translates to the idea that, "in order to survive, a technology solution must evolve faster just…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Evolution, Technology Integration
Elavie Ndura; Gloria Bukuri Kambaye – Intercultural Education, 2025
This paper unfolds against the backdrop of the immigrant experiences of the authors, an intergenerational team from two different countries and two different professional roles, but who are united by their immigrant experience and commitments to foster the sense of belonging and advance inclusive excellence across educational institutions and…
Descriptors: Sense of Belonging, Inclusion, Immigrants, Self Concept
Christine Crefton; Paul D. Miller – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
Established in 1946 in Montgomery County, Maryland, Montgomery College (MC) is home to over 50,000 credit and noncredit students from more than 155 countries. Alongside its student body, MC prides itself on its highly dedicated faculty and staff, over 3,500 in total, who are instrumental in driving the college's commitment to academic excellence…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Work Environment, Sense of Community, Social Support Groups
Leach, Rebecca B.; Kim, Heewon – Communication Teacher, 2022
Course: Organizational Communication, Business/Professional Communication. Objectives: This activity is designed to help students respond to their peers' challenges in a more compassionate and helpful way. At the end of the activity, students will be able to identify appropriate displays of compassion at work.
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Altruism, Work Environment
Kevin R. McClure; Margaret W. Sallee – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2025
Higher education institutions rely on staff working in a variety of roles to perform their core functions, including custodians, librarians, food service workers, career counselors, and residence hall directors. Research within and beyond the field of higher education offers multiple approaches leaders can consider to improve their workplace…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Labor Turnover, Work Environment
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
Stephen Billett; Ashlea Troth; Hongmin Yan – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Elaborating the relations amongst workers' learning, innovations and well-being is essential for achieving two important and dual goals in contemporary work life. The first is individuals' ongoing learning that underpins their employability and can respond to new challenges and emerging occupational and workplace requirements. The second comprises…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Well Being, Innovation, Adult Learning
Hökkä, Päivi; Vähäsantanen, Katja; Ikävalko, Heini – Vocations and Learning, 2023
The concept of agency has recently emerged as a fruitful construct in understanding organizational practices and development. However, agency has tended so far to be seen as a rational and goal-oriented phenomenon, with little attention paid to the role of emotions within it. There is thus a need for theoretical discussion on both agency and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Emotional Response, Emotional Experience, Work Environment
Lin, Xi – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This paper explores, from a practical perspective, the role, and potential outcomes of the "We Hear, We Speak" (WHWS) learning community in supporting international women faculty and promoting their personal and professional growth. Grounded in the principles of relational cultural theory (RCT), the WHWS community embodies the core…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Women Faculty, Mentors, Teacher Collaboration
Patrick Greene; Travis Webster – Writing Center Journal, 2023
Using a sprinkle of Queer Theory, their on-the-job experiences, and writing center scholarship that challenges disciplinary orthodoxies, two intersectionally queer and contingent writing center researcher-administrators examine the constraints of contingency; discuss the underlife of queer labor; and point to queer labor nuances and possibilities…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Administrators, Homosexuality
Hollingsworth, Kristine – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2022
Masculine rationality pervades organizations and organizational theory but remains largely unexplored and or studied by human resource development (HRD) researchers and practitioners. This essay defines rational masculinity and summarizes its origins and effects on women in the workplace. Current literature supports the need for increased…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Masculinity, Work Environment