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McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark – South African Journal of Education, 2020
The concept of decent work is intuitively desirable, an ideal to strive for, and a human right. Awareness of the decent work agenda has been raised in career counselling and is posing challenges about what role, if any, career counselling can play towards the achievement of sustainable decent work for all. Feeding into the social justice values of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Social Justice, Labor Market, Civil Rights
Casad, Scott – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Job rotations have existed as a means of developing individual knowledge and skills since the industrial revolution, and in today's dynamic global workplace, they afford organizations an opportunity to manage changing psychological work contracts and employee desires for self-managed careers. Through the systematic mining of psychology, business,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Work Environment, Job Security, Identification (Psychology)
Ko, Jyh-Jer Roger; Yeh, Ying-Jung Yvonne – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Since the 1980s, many employment relationships in Taiwan have evolved from regular and long-term to contingent and short-term, with widespread downsizing adding a considerable amount of instability. Since these changes are part of a global trend, there is a growing literature concerning their influences on worker attitudes and work life quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Practices, Employment Patterns, Job Satisfaction
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Hailey, David; Cox, Matthew; Loader, Emily – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2010
We evaluate 45 jobs professional communicators might occupy. Specifically, we examine the impact of creativity on careers that may become more or less easily outsourced domestically or offshore in the future. We are unable to find any particular relationship between creativity, per se, and job security. Instead, we find that people with knowledge…
Descriptors: Creativity, Global Approach, Innovation, Job Security
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
It is important for administrators, faculty, and policy makers to understand and consider how policies commonly associated with non-tenure-track faculty roles and working environments impact student learning. Many policies impede the ability of faculty to provide effective instruction that is aligned with departmental and institutional goals for…
Descriptors: Tenure, Outcomes of Education, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
It is important to understand existing research on the connections between non-tenure-track faculty and student learning and to continue to research these issues. Although working conditions vary across the academy and even within a single institution, many faculty--particularly part-timers--are not permitted to contribute to curriculum planning…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Tenure, College Instruction
Wickens, Christine M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
The current review presents both postulated and empirically tested consequences of university unionization and labor strikes on the North American institution's administration, faculty, and students. The review explores the impact of collective bargaining on employee working conditions including job security, academic freedom, university…
Descriptors: Unions, College Faculty, Civil Rights, Academic Freedom
Occupational Stress in UK Higher Education Institutions: A Comparative Study of All Staff Categories
Tytherleigh, M. Y.; Webb, C.; Cooper, C. L.; Ricketts, C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
The higher education sector in the UK continues to experience significant change. This includes restructuring, use of short-term contracts, external scrutiny and accountability, and major reductions in funding. In line with this, reports of stress at work in higher education institutions have also increased. The study reported here was carried out…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Job Security, Stress Variables
Pate, Judy – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a processual framework of psychological contract breach, which maps holistically the interactions among concepts drawn from the trust and justice literature. However, the price of a holistic picture is frequently a lack of depth of analysis of any single variable, and consequently the second part of…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Psychology, Job Security, Industrial Psychology
Rosow, Jerome M. – Training and Development Journal, 1981
Considers some of the economic, sociological, technological, and psychological factors influencing the shape of work in America during the 1980s. Critical issues are pay, employee benefits, job security, alternative work schedules, occupational stress, economic participation, and democracy in the workplace. (CT)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Flexible Working Hours, Fringe Benefits, Futures (of Society)
Kinman, Gail; Jones, Fiona; Kinman, Russell – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
This paper compares the findings of two studies, conducted in 1998 and 2004, of academic staff in British universities. It examines the stability over time of working hours, specific work stressors and levels of psychological distress. Comparisons are also made between the levels of psychological distress currently reported by academic staff and…
Descriptors: Safety, Psychology, Surveys, Higher Education