Educators are crucial for student success in higher education, yet they often experience high levels of occupational stress which threaten their wellbeing. Informed by a conceptual framework initially developed for addressing worker wellbeing in the healthcare sector, another sector where workers experience high levels of occupational stress, this…

The Oregon community college system employs a full-time faculty workforce that is overwhelmingly White. This study aimed to research why the representation of faculty of color in the state's community colleges remains low by conducting interviews with faculty of color about their experiences at these public 2-year institutions using…

The purpose of this research was to determine whether supervisor support (SS) plays a moderating role in the perception of overqualification (POQ) on workplace loneliness (WL) among music teachers in Turkey. The research was based on the assumption that loneliness, which is a negative emotional state and expresses employees' inability to establish…

This qualitative study explores how Black and Global Majority faculty at an English university with an ethnically diverse student population perceive race and racism on campus. Informed by a theoretical framework drawing on Critical Race theory (CRT), CRT methodology and critical whiteness studies, we adopt counter-narrative story telling as a…

Teacher unrest is an important research object in the literature on teacher unionism in Latin America. This article makes a novel contribution to this traditional topic, presenting statistical data on primary and secondary teacher strikes in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico from 2012 to 2022. This approach highlights important differences in strike…

The psychological well-being of teachers is essential in education, as it directly impacts teaching effectiveness and student outcomes. Recently, emotional blackmail has emerged as a critical concern for both physical and mental health, yet empirical studies on this topic, particularly among teachers, remain limited. Teaching is a profession…

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the employment landscape, including educational institutions, creating long-term effects for college and university employees. One of the major implications of the pandemic is the systemic transformations in employment and organisational dynamics, that resulted in effects on working conditions and…

Presenteeism is a severe global public health issue, which is widespread in the community of teachers. Limited evidence shows presenteeism patterns and their associations with work engagement and turnover intention among primary and secondary school teachers in China. In this study, latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to categorize the…

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a moderation effect between perceptions of school-level autonomy and teacher race/ethnicity on job satisfaction using the National Teacher and Principal Survey. The participants included 25,360 teachers from 5140 public schools representing a weighted sample of 2.35 million teachers.…

There is growing concern that casual academics operate in an environment characterised by precarity and inequality which has implications for motivation and well-being. This study examines how various factors support or inhibit casual accounting academics' motivation and well-being in Australian universities. Using Herzberg's two-factor theory and…

The aim of this study is to analyze the correlation between teacher autonomy and teacher burnout in a Turkish context. For this study, a correlational research design was used, and the data were collected via the Teacher Autonomy Scale by Pearson and Hall (1993) and the Teacher Burnout Scale by Seidman and Zager (1986-1987). 100 Turkish EFL…

This mixed-methods research explored the factors influencing teachers' workplace happiness. The study investigated the mediating role of teachers' work pressure and teaching engagement in the relationship between teachers' self-needs and workplace happiness. It examined the moderating roles of teachers' generation and teaching experience on the…

Singapore is internationally recognised for its high-quality education, but less is known about how instructional quality and teacher self-efficacy manifest within the national context. The current study applied self-report data from 3,262 teachers in Singapore gathered in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 to explore the…

Rural school administrators prefer hiring homegrown teachers because they are more likely to stay than non-local teachers; however, administrators need to hire non-local candidates to meet their staffing needs. Our examination of rural teachers' preferences for local was guided by person-organization fit theory. Specifically, we investigated the…

Teachers' attitudes and behaviours have been studied for the past few decades, but recently, especially due to changes following COVID-19, a new concept named 'quiet quitting' has emerged. This term refers to the widespread phenomenon of employees setting limits to their employers and insisting on their unwillingness to go beyond job requirements.…