Purpose: This study aims to develop the understanding of learning processes related to the new ways of interacting in the enforced digital workplace over time. Design/methodology/approach: A multiple, longitudinal case study of knowledge-based workers in three firms located in Sweden has been conducted from March 2020 to March 2023. In total, 89…

Work and family are two of the most important parts in one's life. Individuals cannot fulfill their work requirements and family responsibilities at the same time, so they are faced with the dilemma of timing and role conflict. Based on the conservation theory, this study explored the relationship between work-family conflict and job satisfaction…

Principals in the United States are faced with challenging and complex roles as the leaders of our schools. Levels of district, state, and federal mandates and accountability measures coupled with the demands of supporting students, parents, and teachers on a multitude of levels create a job that is almost impossible to keep up with. In addition,…

Encouraging pre-service teachers to perceive early childhood teaching as an inherently attractive career option remains an issue in the early childhood profession in Australia. Following a Research by Design methodology with iterative modifications, this paper uses a professional identity theoretical lens to analyse survey and interview data from…

Despite comprising the majority of labor in higher education in general and writing centers more specifically, contingent workers' voices and experiences have often been overlooked. The contingent voices that have been represented have predominantly been those in director or administrative positions, not the professional tutors who engage in…

In this cross-sectional quantitative study, we employed survey research to examine the differences in school counselors' (N = 327) burnout, job stress, and job satisfaction based on their student caseload size. The results indicated that higher caseloads were associated with higher degrees of burnout and job stress, along with lower job…

To address the challenges of realising decent work, Contextual Action Theory (CAT) is proposed as an innovative, relational approach. Grounded on the notion of goal-directed actions that occur in daily life, many involving significant others, the approach provides a framework for a relationally oriented supportive counselling intervention that…

Three million women around the world left the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic continues to stretch on, women worldwide are taking significant steps to improve their job prospects and re-evaluate their lives and careers. Pearson asked 6,000 women in six countries how challenges have impacted their lives, their careers, and…

As the world economy and ways of working move in the direction of globalization (Ebrahim et al., 2009), organizations continue to look at ways to move employees into a virtual space (Malhorta et al., 2017). However, overall levels of engagement and job satisfaction tend to be lower in virtual teams (Gurtner et al., 2007), due to a number of…

This study seeks to identify the specific challenges that female high school principals in Mississippi State face in their leadership roles. It will use four main domains: organizational challenges, physical challenges, social challenges, and personal challenges to unearth the problem. The primary research question, "What are the barriers and…

Purpose: The study aims to examine the moderating influence of perceived co-worker support in the nexus between compulsory citizenship behaviour, job involvement and social loafing amongst university interns. Design/methodology/approach: Four hundred and sixty-two) respondents took part in the study by completing a self-reported questionnaire…

This study explores the employee retention strategies implemented by administrators in educational institutions, focusing on Immaculate Conception College of Balayan, Inc. The qualitative case study involved 10 participants, including administrators and employees selected based on stable tenure and appropriate qualifications. Through face-to-face…

Determining which antecedent variables affect employees' work engagement has always been a concern for both managers and researchers. The present study investigated the effect of workplace democracy on teachers' work engagement and explored the mediating role of job satisfaction and the moderating role of school performance. A two-phase…

Chile is undertaking an ambitious public education reform, re-centralising the administration of municipal schools in larger territories. This reform is unprecedented, both for the size of the new intermediate-level services ("Servicios Locales de Educación Pública") and the escalation of their bureaucratic complexity, facing widespread…

Autoethnography has been used to examine employees' physical and emotional experiences of workplace bullying and mobbing. In this approach of inquiry, data were extracted through; personal narratives, lived experiences, and opinions through meaning-making. Power structures in academia were found to play a significant role in academic bullying…