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Learning Climate Positively Influences Residents' Work-Related Well-Being
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Lases, Lenny S. S.; Arah, Onyebuchi A.; Busch, Olivier R. C.; Heineman, Maas Jan; Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
An optimal learning climate is crucial for the quality of residency training and may also improve residents' well-being and empathy. We investigated the associations of learning climate with residents' work-related well-being. A multicenter questionnaire study was performed among 271 surgery and gynaecology residents in 21 training programs from…
Descriptors: Well Being, Empathy, Surgery, Gynecology
How Do Young Tenured Professors Benefit from a Mentor? Effects on Management, Motivation and Performance
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van der Weijden, Inge; Belder, Rosalie; van Arensbergen, Pleun; van den Besselaar, Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
Do young tenured professors who receive mentorship differ from those without mentorship in terms of motivation, scholarly performance, and group management practice? We conducted a survey among research group leaders in the biomedical and health sciences in the Netherlands, to study the effects of mentorship. Our results show that mentorship…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Mentors, Tenure, Surveys
Motivating University Researchers
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Hendriks, Paul; Sousa, Celio – Higher Education Policy, 2008
This paper presents an empirical investigation into how universities approach the need and means for motivating university researchers through their management practices. The role of work motivation for this group deserves attention because pressures from outside and within the universities are said to have made university research less of a…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Work Attitudes, Faculty Evaluation, Business Administration Education
Job Characteristics and Off-Job Activities as Predictors of Need for Recovery, Well-Being, and Fatigue
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Sonnentag, Sabine; Zijlstra, Fred R. H. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006
Two empirical studies examined need for recovery (i.e., a person's desire to be temporarily relieved from demands in order to restore his or her resources) as a mediator in the relationship between poor job characteristics (high job demands, low job control) and high off-job demands, on the one hand, and fatigue and poor individual well-being, on…
Descriptors: Health Services, Fatigue (Biology), Employer Employee Relationship, Well Being
Critical Reflective Work Behaviour: A Survey Research.
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van Woerkom, Marianne; Nijhof, Wim J.; Nieuwenhuis, Loek F. M. – 2001
After a review of the literature, critical reflective work behavior (CRWB) was defined as: a set of connected, individual activities aimed at analyzing, optimizing, or innovating work practices on the individual, team, or organizational level. The combination of literature review and analysis of case studies led to the operationalization of CRWB…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Thinking
Organizational Enhancement. Symposium 30. [AHRD Conference, 2001].
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2001
This document contains four papers on organizational enhancement and human resource development (HRD). "Motivation to Improve Work through Learning in Human Resource Development" (Sharon S. Naquin, Elwood F. Holton III) argues that HRD's traditional conceptualization of motivation should be expanded to incorporate motivation to use…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes, Employee Absenteeism, Employee Attitudes