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Fusulier, Bernard; Barbier, Pascal; Dubois-Shaik, Farah – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Men and women remain in unequal positions in coping with their scientific and academic careers. Several of the mechanisms dissuading or preventing women from pursuing scientific careers have already been described in the literature: women getting stuck with paltry, undervalued tasks, thus manufacturing a "sticky floor"; structuring the…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Gender Differences, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty
Davis, Loni – ProQuest LLC, 2013
An increasing portion of the contemporary workforce is using mobile devices to create new kinds of work-space flows characterized by emergence, liquidity, and the blurring of all kinds of boundaries. This changes the traditional notion of the term "workplace." The present study focuses on how people enact and make sense of new work space…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Work Environment, Interviews, Reflection
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Ylijoki, Oili-Helena – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Drawing upon the notion of acceleration of time in late capitalism, the article addresses the different forms and driving forces of the speeding up of the tempo and rhythm in research work in academia, and the impact of the temporal acceleration on how academics perceive their work and its connection to the private sphere of life. Based on 40…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Research, Family Work Relationship
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Wallace, Janice; Wallin, Dawn; Viczko, Melody; Anderson, Heather – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
Our research situates, contextualizes, and analyzes the lived experiences of ten female academics who were among the first women in the academic discipline of educational administration in seven of the ten provinces in Canada. Using institutional ethnography and life history to inform our analysis, this article explores three of the themes that…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Females, Women Faculty, Womens Studies
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Duffy, Ryan D.; Torrey, Carrie L.; Bott, Elizabeth M.; Allan, Blake A.; Schlosser, Lewis Z. – Counseling Psychologist, 2013
The present study interviewed 17 of the most research-productive counseling psychologists within APA-accredited counseling psychology programs. Using Consensual Qualitative Research, seven domains emerged from the interviews: root of productivity, personality characteristics, productivity strategies, work environment, nonwork life, impact, and…
Descriptors: Time Management, Counseling Psychology, Psychologists, Productivity
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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Lounder, Andrew; Campbell, Corbin M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This article analyzes sensemaking about faculty departure among administrators, faculty colleagues, and faculty leavers in one research university. A mixed methods database was analyzed to reveal four dominant explanations for faculty departure and two influences on sensemaking. Dominant explanations included better opportunities, the likelihood…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Research Universities, Administrators
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Gardner, Susan K. – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2012
A mixed methods analysis of women faculty departure at one research institution was conducted using Hagedorn's model of faculty job satisfaction. Findings from an institution-wide survey and interviews with women faculty who had left the institution resulted in several themes: (a) a lack of resources to support faculty work, (b) a lack of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
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Lin, Yii-Nii – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2012
The purpose of this study was to describe the burnout, self-care, and recovery experiences of female university counsellors working at a university counselling centre in Taiwan. The 9 participants had an average age of 42.44 years and had worked at the centre for an average of 11.3 years. A qualitative method of phenomenology with in-depth…
Descriptors: Age, Foreign Countries, Burnout, Data Analysis
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Van Ummersen, Claire; Duranleau, Lauren; McLaughlin, Jean – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
It has been almost ten years since the American Council on Education (ACE) began to raise awareness of the importance of workplace flexibility in faculty careers and to encourage colleges and universities to support faculty in better integrating their professional and personal lives. With the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ACE…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Family Work Relationship, Work Environment, Transitional Programs
Wood, Kristin R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Leaders have limited understanding regarding mobile technology (Ramo & Edenius, 2008). However, with over 1 billion users (Meeker, Devitt & Wu, 2011), managers are tasked with making leadership decisions regarding technology adoption, management and use. Leaders may find this difficult to undertake given the limited body of knowledge in…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Leadership
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Butterfeld, Lee D.; Borgen, William A.; Amundson, Norman E.; Erlebach, Anne C. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2010
This research responds to calls for increased understanding of workers' experiences of their work and work contexts. Informed by positive psychology, this study focused on a seldom-studied subset of working individuals who self-identified as doing well with change affecting their work and on strategies that helped or hindered them in doing well,…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Interviews, Career Counseling, Research Methodology
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Chou, Yueh-Ching; Fu, Li-yeh; Chang, Heng-Hao – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: This study explored the experiences of working mothers with an adult child with intellectual disabilities to understand how they reconcile paid work and care responsibilities. Methods: Fifteen working mothers in Taiwan with an adult child with intellectual disabilities were interviewed, and an interpretative phenomenological approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Employed Parents, Mothers
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Hacifazlioglu, Ozge – Perspectives in Education, 2010
This comparative study examines the experiences of women leaders in Turkey and the US. It argues that the theme of "balance in leadership" appeared to be the most influential driving force in women leaders' stories. It further shows that balance in leadership is associated with balance in two areas: balancing private and professional…
Descriptors: Leadership, Women Administrators, Women Faculty, College Faculty
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Perry-Jenkins, Maureen; Smith, JuliAnna Z.; Goldberg, Abbie E.; Logan, Jade – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in working-class employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents' depressive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Employed Parents, Depression (Psychology)
Allen, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of relationships within the context of a new college presidency. The college presidency is unique given the societal importance of higher education and the organizational complexity of academia. To remain relevant in addressing society's needs a president must successfully create an…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Phenomenology, Interviews, Data Analysis
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