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Zan Chen; Catherine Ramos – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Singapore, like many other countries in the world, is on a journey towards a culture of lifelong learning to keep its workforce competent, resilient, and future-ready in the rapidly changing world of work. In order to realise this, a significant amount of resources has been invested to the training and adult education (TAE) sector. The TAE sector…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
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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
Gwilym Croucher; Elizabeth Baré; Kenneth Moore – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2025
The use of casual contract employment has become a prominent feature in higher education institutions worldwide, including the growth of adjunct roles in the United States and fixed-term teaching staff positions in the UK. In Australia, this trend has been a subject of significant controversy and national attention in recent years, as casual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Panagiotis Arsenis; Miguel Flores – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
We study whether the completion of an optional professional year placement during undergraduate studies enhances job quality, in terms of earnings, job security and career fit, for economics graduates from a UK university. Using linear and discrete choice models, we estimate the effect of doing a professional year placement on four graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Economics Education, Work Experience Programs
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Oluyemi Theophilus Adeosun; Waliu Mulero Adegbite – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Quality jobs, a multidimensional construct, have been perceived differently in labour management literature. The view that the quality of earnings is the primary determinant of job quality has been criticized. This study, therefore, investigates the characteristics and major factors determining quality jobs among the youths in Lagos, Nigeria.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Working Life, Employment Opportunities, Youth Opportunities
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Basar, Ozlem Deniz; Genc, Elif Guneren – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The quality of an adult's daily working life comprising the major part of his life, will also increase the quality of his social life. Having a good working life is also associated with having a job that one desires and regards it as suitable for himself. But as will be acknowledged all over the world, the quality of a job that one can have will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Subbarayalu, Arun Vijay; Al Kuwaiti, Ahmed – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: Higher education institutions understand the importance of the quality of work life (QoWL) since it directly impacts faculty members' involvement in providing high-quality teaching. The purpose of this paper is to compare the QoWL of faculty members in undergraduate medical and undergraduate engineering programs offered at Imam…
Descriptors: Quality of Working Life, College Faculty, Medical Education, Engineering Education
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Aarnikoivu, Melina; Nokkala, Terhi; Siekkinen, Taru; Kuoppala, Kari; Pekkola, Elias – European Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This article examines the perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers in Finnish universities towards changing careers. It maps out the reasons this group has considered the change and where they see themselves in five years. As a theoretical framework, a synthesisation of variables related to career change, created by Ryan, Healy, and…
Descriptors: Researchers, Career Change, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Gray, Joey; Larson, Lincoln R.; Fernandez, Mariela; Duffy, Lauren N.; Sturts, Jill; Powell, Gwynn M.; Roberts, Kelsie – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2019
The complex and uncertain academic job search is often a terrifying prospect for aspiring recreation and leisure scholars. New doctoral candidates are eager for meaningful lived experiences and useful advice regarding the steps for a successful job search, including finding the right opportunities, submitting applications, interviewing well, and…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Leisure Education, Recreation, College Faculty
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Hose, Linda; Ford, E. J. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
Based on personal experiences garnered through years of adjunct instruction, the authors explore the challenges associated with working in academia without the guarantees of a long-term contract or tenure. Further, adjuncts are desperate to accept any position that is remunerative and this willingness undermines contract negotiation leverage of…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Ethnography, Neoliberalism, Commercialization
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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
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Lyter, Sharon C. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2012
In light of the assertion that field education is the signature pedagogy of social work education, this Internet-based study explores field director demographics and questions the fulfillment of this potential, examining BSW and MSW field education through the lens of the field director position. Field directors (159) and deans/directors (150)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Work, Field Experience Programs, Program Administration
Cotter, Elizabeth W. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the process of burnout and engagement in layoff survivors. Job demands (job insecurity and work overload) and resources (social support, optimism, career adaptability, and career management self-efficacy) were examined as predictors of burnout and engagement. The sample consisted of 203 adults currently working at…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Burnout, Job Security, Coping
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Simola, Sheldene – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between dimensions of commitment to the profession of business, and ascribed importance of various organisational characteristics to the first full-time job following graduation. Design/methodology/approach: Business administration students (n=446) completed surveys on…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Social Responsibility, Recruitment, Organizational Climate
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Reitzle, Matthias; Korner, Astrid; Vondracek, Fred W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
Recent years have witnessed a growing diversity of career patterns, resulting from the relative decline of stable employment. In the present study of 1368 employed and self-employed German adults career pattern diversity was assessed using nine pictograms. The goal was to identify psychological and demographic correlates of these patterns and to…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Social Change, Psychological Patterns, Employment Opportunities
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