Effective teacher management -- aimed at building teachers' status, skills, motivation, wellbeing, and retention -- is a key policy lever that can help Uganda to achieve its aim of developing and sustaining a high-quality, inclusive, and equitable education system for all learners, including refugees and vulnerable Ugandans. This policy brief aims…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand business students' intention to behave ethically in general, and in particularly in the business context of a developing country, India. Design/methodology/approach: The paper surveyed 250 final semester MBA students from different business schools in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh in India. The…

Based on Knowledge-Based View, the study examines the effects of knowledge-oriented leadership on knowledge management processes in research universities and test the direct association among knowledge management processes and organizational (university) performance. This study further examines the mediating role of knowledge worker productivity…

Background: Fentanyl has become increasingly present in the illicit drug supply, including in cocaine. Interventions that target non-opioid use are a necessary component of overdose prevention due to the increased presence of fentanyl. Objectives: To assess management and staff reception to overdose prevention messaging and access to naloxone in…

Researchers suggest contextual and personal factors may interact to predict career adaptability and that antecedents of career adaptability have received less research attention. Consequently, we examined the relationship between developmental leadership, career optimism, and career adaptability, and the potential moderating role of career…

The present study examined the effect of school administrators' social justice leadership behaviours on teachers' organizational citizenship behaviours based on teachers' perceptions. The predictive correlational research design, one of the correlational research methods, was used in the study. It was carried out with the participation of 1025…

This paper aims to provide clear and appropriate evidence of factors that trigger student engagement of flipped classroom (FC) learning in higher education (HE), based on an example of a fully flipped business undergraduate degree program in Australia. Qualitative data from the Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units (SETU) of 142 first-year…

This exploratory study responds to the criticism that non-instructional faculty or "academic professionals" at American universities are the cause of "administrative bloat." The purpose of the study was to build from the work of Rhoades (1998) and Kane (2007) to examine whether academic professionals at an R-1 (very-high…

This study examines the factors that impact learners' satisfaction with web-based assessment platforms designed by publishers. The research model investigates the intermediate role of autonomy and competency from the self-determination theory. The data are collected from 324 undergraduate business students in a mid-western U.S. institution who…

Audience analysis is essential for creating successful messages across communication fields. The audience persona is an effective tool for understanding the characteristics and needs of a target audience. Through this unit activity, students experience the process of persona development, build skills in data collection and analysis, and gain…

Purpose: The present study aimed to find out the relationship of public service motivation (PSM) with other positive aspects, that is workplace spirituality and employee well-being among academic staff of public sector higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach: In order to capture the full picture of the institutional factors that…

Relative proximity theory contributes to the concept of distance in distance education by defining how far a current learning environment is from an ideal learning environment. As in Moore's (1993) theory of transactional distance, it defines distance as a psychosocial phenomenon but provides specificity to Moore's seminal theory for learning at a…

This article discusses the intensification of research performance demands in UK universities in relation to the complex terrain of academic identity formation. It considers whether a demand for academic researchers to produce and evidence economic and societal impact -- in the rewards game of the UK's performance-based research funding system,…

In the field of educational leadership, there is some work around the preferred theories of scholars, but little to no research on how the chosen theories are subsequently applied. Better understanding the purpose, role, and depth of how theory is used in educational leadership can help inform the teaching and mentorship of aspiring leaders and…

This qualitative study describes and interprets how two educational leadership programs, participants in the UCEA (University Council for Educational Administration) Program Design Network Improvement Community, identified and responded to a problem of practice by focusing on the needs of each program regarding the recruitment, selection,…