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Estimating the Effects of No Child Left Behind on Teachers' Work Environments and Job Attitudes
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Grissom, Jason A.; Nicholson-Crotty, Sean; Harrington, James R. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
Several recent studies have examined the impacts of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on school operations and student achievement. We complement that work by investigating the law's impacts on teachers' perceptions of their work environments and related job attitudes, including satisfaction and commitment to remain in teaching. Using four waves of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Work Attitudes, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
The Gendered Context of Life: Implications for Women's and Men's Career-Life Plans.
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Cook, Ellen Piel – Career Development Quarterly, 1993
Discusses recent perspectives on gender differences in life and career planning, focusing on gendered context of women's and men's lives. Notes that men and women develop different orientations regarding occupational achievement and interpersonal relationships that interact with broader sociocultural norms for sexes' behavior to produce different…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Style, Occupational Aspiration
A Causal Model of the Antecedents of Organizational Commitment among Professionals and Nonprofessionals.
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Mathieu, John E.; Hamel, Karin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1989
A causal model of organizational commitment was developed from previous theory and research. The model included variables from each of four categories--personal needs, job characteristics, role states, and work experiences--as well as employees' job satisfaction and mental health. It was tested in surveys of nonprofessional and professional…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Models, Need Gratification
The Effect of Occupational Stress on Health and Illness: A Model.
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Taylor, William L.; Cangemi, Joseph P. – Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior, 1988
Examines brief history of stress research and concludes that psychological factors can affect job satisfaction, work adjustment, work attitudes, and overall well-being in the work environment. Establishes relationship between mental and physiological functioning disturbances. Presents model relating effect of stress on health and illness. (Author)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Mental Health, Models
The Human Factor in Innovation and Productivity Including an Analysis of Hearings on the Human Factor. Report by the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, Transmitted to the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session. Serial FF.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science and Technology. – 1982
The House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, sponsored an American Association for the Advancement of Science seminar (July 28, 1981) and 6 days of hearings (September 9-17, 1981) on "The Human Factor in Innovation and Productivity." These hearings were designed to increase knowledge…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Government Role, Human Resources
The New Workplace Environment and Cooperative Education.
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Zdorkowski, Todd; Thomas, Tom – Workplace Education, 1984
Changes in the American work force include more workers, especially women; racial and ethnic composition of the work force; lengthening work lives; decline in union representation; workers' attitudes toward labor and leisure; expansion of a service economy; and projected demand for blue-collar occupations. The effect of these changes on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Demand Occupations, Employee Attitudes, Employment Opportunities