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McCarthy, Dermot; Dragouni, Mina – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Recent decades have seen the evolution of UK business schools into international mass education providers. This transformation has developed against a background of institutional changes that jeopardise work conditions in academia. As few studies have examined the relationships between organisational, social and psychological aspects of academic…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Educational Change, Mass Instruction, Organizational Change
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Tumuheki, Peace Buhwamatsiko; Zeelen, Jacques; Openjuru, George Ladaah – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Participation and integration of non-traditional students (NTS) in university education is influenced by factors within the institution and those external to the institution, including participants' self-perceptions and dispositions. The objective of this qualitative study is to draw from the life-world environment component of Donaldson and…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Models, Lifelong Learning, Educational Quality
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Fontinha, Rita; Van Laar, Darren; Easton, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Quality of working life has been defined as the part of overall quality of life that is influenced by work. We developed a mediation model where home-work interface, job and career satisfaction, control at work, and working conditions are considered to be positively related to employee commitment and to the absence of stress at work. These two…
Descriptors: Quality of Working Life, Contracts, Tenure, Statistical Analysis
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Jung, Jisun; Shin, Jung Cheol – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of administrative staff's job competency on their job satisfaction in a Korean research university. We conceptualized job satisfaction into three subcomponents: satisfaction in the job field, in the workplace, and with the actual task. In the regression analysis, we included demographics, inner…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Satisfaction, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving