Purpose: Work-family conflict plays a vital role in employees' work-related satisfaction and emotional exhaustion measures. Yet, the theoretical interrelationship between work-family conflict, emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction has not been fully explored in the construction literature. Hence, this study aims to assess emotional…

Based on a model for the experience of timelessness in organisations, this study aims to empirically study the relationship between timelessness and creative process engagement. Research provides an integration of the current model of timelessness by including the dependent variable creative process engagement. With multilevel data, results…

The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between a company's local embeddedness and training intensity. It is argued that local embeddedness might influence training through several mechanisms, which eventually should lead to a higher level of training intensity. In order to verify this hypothesis, several two-level ordered logit…

This flash report apprises the U.S. Department of Education (Department) of the risk that the Puerto Rico Department of Education (Puerto Rico DOE) used Department program funds for payroll costs related to inactive employees from 2007 to 2020. An ongoing audit of the Puerto Rico DOE's administration of the Temporary Emergency Impact Aid for…

Back in 2015, the Board of Governors for the state of Florida implemented new funding policy within its public state university system, as a mechanism to hold institutions accountable to their performance. According to the performance-funding policy, lower performing institutions were at risk of losing state funding if university metrics were not…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how petroleum industry technicians and technologists describe their experience with and the value they place on online education as professional development in Bonny Island, Southern Nigeria. The social cognitive career theory was used as the theoretical foundation for this study.…

The purpose of this study is to add to the body of knowledge regarding the impact of cybersecurity awareness training programs and how effective and efficient the program is in DoD affiliated organizations. The general problem addressed in the present study was that there has been an increase in security breaches within Department of Defense (DoD)…

The academic practitioner divide and strategies to close that gap have been important lines of inquiry in the fields of public administration and public affairs. This study contributes to that significant body of work by reporting results from two surveys of faculty in NASPAA accredited programs and of practitioners affiliated with the…

This article focuses on work-related self-help books and asks what kinds of promises self-help books make as a reward for change. In work-related self-help guides, the employee is advised not only to change their affects and relation to work but also to inspire others. Thus, the employee is presented as a potential reformer of the work…

The article focuses on the relationship between the use of employee training and development and the competency-based approach. The objective of this article is to evaluate the use of the competency-based approach in employee training and development in organisations in the Czech Republic based on long-term research (n = 1,360) since the year…

This article reports a study illustrating the relationship between digitalization and professional development from an identity-centered perspective. Drawing on a unique data set of 101 empathy-based stories from 81 Finnish government workers, the findings show how workers might experience and respond to work-identity alignments and misalignments…

Purpose: This study aims to examine the web of relationships among training value, employee internal states (psychological empowerment, employee engagement and motivation to transfer) and training transfer. Design/methodology/approach: Data is obtained from different categories of employees a few months after attending different training programs…

A common observation in Transformative Learning (TL) literature is the scarcity of ways to gauge the extent of personal transformation. This is despite a recorded history of more than four decades and the existence of multiple schools of thought in TL. Also, there has been insufficient exploration of the personal transformation of profession…

In Biotechnology industry, training is the only way to nourish the scientific and technical skills of the key employees. There are numerous ways to train the employees through theoretical and practical knowledge-based training modules for Inhouse training, On-job training, task-specific training, hands-on training, external training, refresh…

The uncertainty and disruption imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic are so extensive that they will far outlast the pandemic itself. It is difficult to scale leadership development when staff is constantly shifting and leaders are struggling just to keep up with the day-to-day challenges of their work and personal lives. HR and L&D (learning and…