Millennials make up the largest segment of the current workforce. However, research about minority Millennials and their needs are relatively unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine what minority Millennials deemed important within an organization's culture and the policies and programs that would persuade them to remain with the…

Institutions of higher education do not currently know the experiences of mid-level Women of Color who work in student affairs. This study provides a fuller understanding of the lived experiences of these individuals. It focused on the what influences Women of Color mid-level student affairs professionals to stay or leave their employment and…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational predictive study was to examine if and to what extent perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived social support (PSS) predicted turnover intention in female high school principals in the United States. The sample consisted of 88 female high school principals in the United States. The…

Mid-level student affairs professionals are leaving the field at an alarming rate. Even though many studies have given considerable attention to the reasons employees leave, less attention has been given to the reasons they decide to stay. The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to examine factors influencing mid-level…

This phenomenological study highlighted the perceptions of Arkansas teacher who have exited the profession pre-retirement. The study examined the perceptions of former educators as to the impact of both organizational and personal factors on their decision to leave the profession. The sample for this study was former educators in Arkansas who left…

This chapter presents a broad interdisciplinary literature review linking artists' economic precarity and need for but resistance to entrepreneurial skills, alongside colonial histories, structural racism, and hierarchies of taste in arts organizations. These themes are complemented empirically by engaging data from the Strategic National Arts…

Purpose: In an uncertain and competitive higher educational landscape, expedient management of professional capital could increase knowledge capital by ensuring the recruitment and retention of experienced and highly qualified academic staff. In this paper, a case study of a private university aims to evaluate the talent management of academic…

The higher educational institution needs a group of dedicated and committed lecturers to endure the institution during these turbulent times. As the organizational commitment reflects the self-identification of an employee with the organization, it has far-reaching implications on multifarious aspects in the organization. This present study…

This individual case study is part of a larger group study examining how principals benefit from and shape professional capital to improve schools. Principals play a critical role in supporting student learning, while also structuring the culture of the school and mediating external demands. Despite the importance of the school principal,…

Recent research has confirmed what students, families, educators, and advocates have always known to be true: School leaders really matter. School leaders play a fundamental role in recruiting and supporting strong educators, driving rigorous instruction, creating school cultures that are inclusive and inviting, and working toward positive…

The total annual separation rate for the accommodations and food services industry for 2021 was 86.3%. Food service leaders care about high turnover intentions as it leads to increased turnover, negatively impacting service, and profitability. Grounded in job embeddedness theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine…

With five generations present in almost every modern work environment, business and human resource leaders need tools to help their organizations retain skilled workers, lowering and possibly eliminating their intent to leave. The information technology (IT) sector provides an ideal setting for research on multigenerational workers, where older…

Research on perceptions of critical tacit knowledge retention in business is prevalent; however, minimal research has been conducted on participant perceptions of this loss specifically within higher education due to unintentional siloing. The problem addressed in this study was that high employee turnover in higher education may result in the…

School districts throughout the Commonwealth have engaged in initiatives to increase educators of color. Ingersoll et al. (2019) argue that while "many believe that the small number of minority teachers is caused by a lack of recruitment or intake" they concur with Pearson and Fuglei (2019) that recruitment is not the only problem. The…

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major disrupter in the Australian early childhood education (ECE) sector. ECE educators had to respond quickly to frequent surprises and risky challenges. Their stressful, exhausting experiences as they constantly managed change are explored in this paper. The study used an interpretive social constructionist…