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Behrstock, Ellen; Bhatt, Monica; Cushing, Ellen; Wraight, Sara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2010
Training, recruiting, developing, and supporting talented and effective educators throughout their careers is known as human capital resource management (HCRM) in education. HCRM has been identified in recent literature as one of the ways in which districts and states may increase school effectiveness and improve student learning (Heneman &…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Policy, State Legislation, Teachers
Lesisko, Lee J.; Wright, Robert J.; O'Hern, Brenda – Online Submission, 2010
School construction or renovation projects can have a profound affect on students, faculty and administration. The literature revealed that continuous communication is essential for a smooth process. This research identified bureaucratic issues and school climate to be leading factors of concern during construction projects. Analysis of this study…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Culture, School Construction, Educational Facilities Improvement
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Salisbury, Mark – International Journal on E-Learning, 2010
This article describes how to create an innovative learning (iLearning) organization. It begins by discussing the life cycle of knowledge in an organization, followed by a description of the theoretical foundation for iLearning. Next, the article presents an example of iLearning, followed by a description of the distributed nature of work, the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Knowledge Management, Vignettes, Work Environment
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McAndrew, Patrick; Taylor, Josie; Clow, Doug – Open Learning, 2010
The process of developing innovative mobile approaches to informal and formal learning is challenging, not least in needing to satisfy stakeholders with diverse interests in the technology, the pedagogy and the overall system. Some approaches to evaluation may focus on examining the nature and quality of learning that occurs, while other methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Informal Education, Educational Technology
Kaur, Sarbjit; Kumar, Dinesh – Online Submission, 2008
They studied on the government non government college teachers in relation to job satisfaction and job stress. They collected the sample from 200 college teacher from government and non government from bathinda district (Punjab) to discover the difference between government and non government male and female college teachers in relation to job…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), College Faculty, Job Satisfaction
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Dhliwayo, Shepherd – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a prospective entrepreneurship training model based on experiential learning which will enable the "production" of small business owners or entrepreneurs which is not being achieved by the current methods. Design/methodology/approach: This is a conceptual paper. It analyses the current…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Models
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Hegarty, Cecilia; Johnston, Janet – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to explore graduate training through SME-based project work. The views and behaviours of graduates are examined along with the perceptions of the SMEs and academic partner institutions charged with training graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The data are largely qualitative and derived from the experiences of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduates, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
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Wilton, Robert D. – Disability & Society, 2008
This paper explores the implications of emotional labour for workers with disabilities, drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 59 respondents who had disabilities and who worked in service sector occupations. The analysis illustrates that employer demands for emotional labour may prove difficult for workers with a range of disabilities,…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Disabilities, Employees, Psychiatry
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Pachulicz, Sarah; Schmitt, Neal; Kuljanin, Goran – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Objective and subjective career success were hypothesized to mediate the relationships between sociodemographic variables, human capital indices, individual difference variables, and organizational sponsorship as inputs and a retirement decision and intentions to leave either the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) or medicine as output…
Descriptors: Females, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Physicians
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Tsaousides, Theodore; Jome, LaRae – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of career compromise on positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), and work-related satisfaction (WRS). Career compromise refers to the modification of occupational preferences under pressing external circumstances [Gottfredson, L. S. (1981). Circumscription and compromise: A…
Descriptors: College Students, Career Choice, Occupational Aspiration, Trend Analysis
Kim, Changdai; Min, Kyung Wha; Yune, Sook Kyeong; Choi, Hanna; Gong, Eun Hye – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
This study examined employees' perceptions of interpersonal competence at work through the research methodology known as concept mapping. The purpose of this study was to identify the phenomenally derived components of interpersonal competence in work environments and employees' underlying cognitive structures of interpersonal competence at work.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Employees, Research Methodology, Cognitive Structures
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Nussbaum, E. Michael – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
This article serves two functions. First, it addresses why studying collaborative discourse and collaborative argumentation is important for promoting students' deep-level understanding of content. A literature review is presented examining the evidence for this claim, concluding that engaging in collaborative discourse and argumentation might…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Educational Psychology, Learning Strategies, Literature Reviews
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Maume, David J. – Social Forces, 2008
It may be premature to think that contemporary families are egalitarian because wives are working more and fathers are more involved with children. This research contends that egalitarianism is reflected in gender similarity in missing work to attend to children's needs. Drawing from two national surveys of dual-earner parents, familial factors…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Gender Differences, Mothers, Child Caregivers
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Bishop, Daniel – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence outlining the ways in which small businesses orientate themselves towards the training market. The primary aim is to illuminate the factors influencing small firms' (non-) participation in formal, externally-provided training. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected via…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Off the Job Training, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Jordan, Jeremy S.; Turner, Brian A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2008
Researchers in a number of disciplines have examined the utility of single-item measures for both affective and cognitive constructs. While these authors have indicated that, under certain circumstances, the use of single-item measures is appropriate, there remains concern regarding the reliability and validity of single-item measures. This study…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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