This nonexperimental, correlational study examined the relation among job fit, psychological climate, and employee engagement and discretionary effort and job performance. An Internet-based self-report survey was administered to a sample of 307 cruise line customer contact center reservation agents. The research hypotheses were evaluated using…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use recent empirical research and theory to help explain how a manager may assume a coaching role to assist employee learning and growth. In the coaching role, performance appraisal and other information may be carefully used as feedback to reinforce growth mindset learning in the service of employee…

Networking is a viable career self-management strategy. Most studies so far in the networking domain have focused on long-term consequences and used a between-person trait approach. To address recent calls for more time-oriented approaches in career research, we extend the existing research by conducting a diary study over five consecutive working…

This article aims to identify the mutual relationship between the awareness of the importance of mathematical competencies for the acquisition of work-related skills and the perceived importance of the latter for performance in future work and successful participation in the labor market. How these issues relate to math anxiety is also explored.…

This study developed and tested a model of higher education environmental science program review through industry-wide surveys of environmental science graduate employers. We surveyed 62 environmental professionals who manage recent environmental science graduate employees in eastern Australia. The survey captured expectations of graduates' skill…

Developing relevant competencies for optimal job performance ensures graduates' professional inclusion and success in the labor market. Competency research is examined from the business contexts of higher education and with the actors involved: faculty, students, graduates, and companies. This paper reviews the research on competency-based…

Available reports provide an account of academic staff's poor job performance in higher education institutions and universities in particular. Consequently, a growing body of research has been attracted to this area, including those seeking ways to understand the problem and others aimed at proffering solutions. This study contributes to the…

Clinical Question: Do young adults with ASD (P) who receive language + vocational training (I) as opposed to language-only training (C) experience an increase in gainful employment postgraduation (O)? Method: Systematic Review. Study Sources: CINAHL Complete and PsycInfo® via EBSCOhost, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) journals,…

This study explored the mechanism of labor market performance by confirming the role of secondary vocational education for young Korean employees of high school graduates. To this end, we focused on the Meister High School (MHS) policy for fostering the lead in secondary vocational education in Korea. In comparative perspective, data from 2,344…

Research increasingly acknowledges the far-reaching impact of social class and the many ways in which it can meaningfully shape individuals' work and working lives. As such, social class and concomitant class privilege represent relevant and necessary content for the management classroom. In this paper, we begin by offering an overview of select…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Arabic Language Proficiency (ALP) and expatriate adjustment (EA), and job performance (JP) in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the moderating role of personal and environmental factors is investigated. This investigation employs a mixed-methods research design. The intended audience is…

This study underscored the significance of company-paid professional development opportunities for higher education clerical support staff working in higher education facilities. Professional development constitutes an essential mechanism of continual education. It also facilitates the acquisition of innovative knowledge, an enhanced skill set,…

A graduate's experiences in higher education impacts performance behaviors in the workplace. Some universities have worked together to offer students a double degree education experience that allows students to obtain international experience and complete two degrees simultaneously, such as the double degree program offered by Centro de Ensenanza…

This narrative review integrates theoretical and empirical scholarship in which relationships between teacher leadership and teacher wellbeing are addressed. The review highlights four dimensions of teacher leadership (identity, formality, practices, and level of influence) and considers potential links with domains of wellbeing that may be…

The aim of this study is to evaluate the perceptions of school principals and teachers about the concept of merit by means of metaphors. Metaphor has been used as a data collection method. The research data were obtained from 185 administrators working in public primary and secondary schools in five central districts of Antalya/Turkey. Easily…