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Chantal Olckers; Eileen Koekemoer – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
This study explores the well-being (engagement) and work fulfilment of 628 blue-collar workers as outcomes of decent work, based on the Psychology of Working Theory and its target group. It takes a positive preventative approach and demonstrates the motivational role of work engagement and psychological ownership in contributing to the work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blue Collar Occupations, Work Environment, Quality of Working Life
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Ping Zhao; Jing Yuan; Yongmei Hu – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Several studies have demonstrated the relevance of job demands-resources theory in examining the subjective well-being of Chinese university teachers. Nevertheless, the specific impact and mechanisms of various dimensions of job demands and resources on faculty members' subjective well-being are not well understood. This study seeks to identify…
Descriptors: Working Hours, College Faculty, Work Environment, Faculty Workload
Aaron Trent Crabtree – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Healthy and effective faculty members are vital to student learning and ultimately to institutional effectiveness (Finkelstein et al., 2016; Y. K. Kim & Sax, 2017), yet recent challenges and changes to higher education have significantly affected the faculty role and faculty well-being, resulting in increased dissatisfaction, stress, and…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Christianity, College Faculty, Well Being
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Teuna Cornelia Jenny Ostermeier; Willem Koops; Riccardo Peccei – Review of Education, 2023
Although it is widely recognised that well-being of teachers is important, not much is known about the effects of job characteristics in subjective well-being. This paper is a report of a study that investigates the effects of job characteristics on subjective well-being. Nationally representative employee data is used to investigate the effects…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Fraschini, Nicola; Park, Hyunjin – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
The negative effects of anxiety on teachers' lives, classroom practice, and student learning have highlighted the importance of this emotion for the language teaching field. An understanding of anxiety in language teaching offers a means to explore how language teachers interact with their professional environment, also yielding important…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stevens, Andrew – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Since the 1980s, research on employment conditions in post-secondary institutions has focused on the growth of contingent academic workers, or what the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has labelled "non-full- time instructors" (Field, Jones, Stephenson, & Khoyetsyan, 2014). Very little attention, however, has been…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Job Security, Family Work Relationship
Merrifield, Juliet – Centre for Literacy, 2013
There is a need to connect workplace learning and essential skills to a larger domain of workplace learning in general. To do this, the contexts in which learning takes place, and the cultures of the actors and environments involved, should be taken into consideration. Although research on the direct effects of contexts and cultures on workplace…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Outcomes of Education, Social Environment, Adult Learning
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Mahomed, F. E.; Naude, J. L. P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
The aim of this study was to determine the occupational stressors and strains for support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province, and to assess the differences between the stressors and strains of different biographical groups. A cross-sectional survey design (N = 315) was used. The ASSET and a biographical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Stress Variables, Work Environment
Yen, Irene H.; Frank, John W. – 2002
This document contains two papers on connections between work and health and policy options for improving the health of working families. "Foreword" (James A. Auerbach) places the two papers in the context of recent research on the connections between work, family, and health. Chapter 1's overview addresses the changing nature of work,…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Care, Employment Practices