This study explores the link between workload and work performance among junior high school teachers under China's "Double Reduction" policy. The study employed a quantitative approach, surveying 1,135 junior high school teachers from various regions in China. Utilizing the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) to measure workload and a binary…

Purpose: Internships are a common form of short-term employment for students seeking to demonstrate their value to employers and thereby improve their post-graduation career opportunities. As such, performance during the internship has been found to be positively related to post-graduation vocational outcomes. Yet, internships also serve a…

Performance feedback has been identified as an evidence-based practice to improve teacher implementation fidelity. The efficacy of performance feedback might be enhanced with ancillary strategies such as goal setting. In this paper, we systematically reviewed 22 experimental studies in which a combination of goal setting and performance feedback…

Whether or not it is possible to predict military performance using laboratory measures constitutes an important question. There are indications that humans possess a common multitasking ability enabling them to perform complex behaviors irrespective of task requirements. Working memory processing abilities likely illustrate cognitive substrates…

Despite a few local studies on the higher education governance model, there has been scant research into the underlying link between organizational structure change and employee job performance in Ethiopian research universities. This study assessed the relationship between organizational structure change and staff job performance at Addis Ababa…

This study aims to reveal the impact of training based on regional human resources development standards in the Kazakhstan labor market on employees' work performance and innovation skills. The research employed a case study based on qualitative research designs. The study group consists of 18 participants selected with maximum diversity from 150…

Purpose: Drawing on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, the authors examine how working in the hybrid workplace model (telework and flexible work) affects job performance via the intervening role of work engagement. Design/methodology/approach: The authors adopted a quantitative approach and collected data from 277 employees working in…

The leadership styles and behaviors of supervisors preferred by pharmaceutical sales professionals during periods of varied sales performance were explored in this qualitative study. A phenomenological approach was used to address the gap in research on how the leadership styles of the supervisors of pharmaceutical salespeople affect the…

Supervisor communication competence was used to predict both beneficial (Study 1) and detrimental (Study 2) employee outcomes across remote, hybrid, and in-person work experiences. In both studies, there were no differences in perceived supervisor communication competence based on remote, hybrid, and in-person work experiences. As predicted,…

Purpose: The primary purpose of this paper is to identify for practitioners and readers of this journal several interventions represented in empirical research that have shown promise with regard to the stimulation and/or reinforcement of employee work engagement. The aim is to identify a range of interventions that managers, supervisors or…

This study aimed to investigate the effects of Jiangsu University teachers' competency and engagement on their job performance and determine whether teacher competency affects job performance through the mediating role of engagement. We constructed a theoretical model based on self-determination theory (SDT) and the job demand-resource model and…

Organizations around the globe are struggling to engage and retain employees. Moreover, higher education institutions across the United States face challenges in the quest for student recruitment and retention strategies. A university in the Southeastern portion of the United States ("the University") has experienced a decline in student…

The literature reveals a gap in the understanding of the impact of meaningful work (MW) and strength use (SU) on teachers' job performance (JP), which has not been widely studied. Additionally, the roles of SU and work engagement (WE) as mediating variables affecting teachers' perceptions of MW in JP are less explored. This study addresses these…

Objectives: Work performance is a critical aspect of daily living, significantly impacted by the characteristics of ADHD. However, current research lacks sophisticated, theoretically, and empirically supported instruments for assessing work performance in this context. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a comprehensive and psychometrically…

As demonstrated through the experiences of executive administrators who lost their jobs, higher education leaders experience pain when they fail. Leaders at any stage of their life and career can process the pain of failure in constructive ways using a recovery formula built on a "half-life of pain" concept. The time it takes for a…