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DiConsiglio, John – CURRENTS, 2009
When it comes to raising money for college and university athletic programs, every professional knows how the game is played. Tickets drive the bus. In exchange for gifts, donors typically pay seat-licensing fees. This kind of "quid pro quo" giving--where generous contributions put one in position to buy good tickets--is a very common model," says…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Fund Raising, College Athletics, Donors
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Pierce, Heather R.; Maurer, Todd J. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2009
The authors examined "perceived beneficiary" of employee development (self, organization) for relationships with employee development activity. Perceived organizational support served as a moderator. The authors conclude that employees may engage in development activities to partly benefit their organization to the extent that a positive exchange…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Job Performance, Social Exchange Theory, Correlation
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Korte, Russell F. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2009
Current scholarship views organizational socialization as a learning process that is primarily the responsibility of the newcomer. Yet recent learning research recognizes the importance of the social interactions in the learning process. This study investigated how newly hired engineers at a large manufacturing company learned job-related tasks…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technical Occupations, Engineering, Socialization
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Clydesdale, Greg – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: Developing interpersonal relationships is widely recognised as a key managerial capability, but business schools have been criticised for the limited attention given to the subject. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to address this deficiency in the area of teaching workplace relationships. Design/methodology/approach: The paper…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Administrator Education, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Christophersen, Knut-Andreas; Elstad, Eyvind; Turmo, Are – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
The integration policies in some Northern European countries display relatively poor outcomes of passed exam rates for immigrant language training, and several groups of immigrants have very low employment rates. These measures, in many countries, are strong incentives for host-country language acquisition in addition to the obligation to document…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Immigrants, Social Integration
Kuehn, Mary Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to describe how nursing faculty are cared for in the workplace. Participants were interviewed individually or in a focus group to understand their experience. Following data analysis, the following themes were created: the process of being cared for included connecting, openly sharing,…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Teaching Conditions, Phenomenology
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Reyes, Vicente Chua – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This inquiry interrogates the experiences of local implementation actors of the Philippine Department of Education as they navigate through reform efforts within systemic corruption. Departing from dominant analytical paradigms centred on patron-client frameworks, the article introduces the typology of complex linkages where local actors play…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Politics of Education, Program Implementation, Educational Policy
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Gavish, Yakov – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
Since the wave of school reform decentralization, schools now maintain a more dynamic and diverse relationship with their environment than they did in the past. School principals' relationships with the local educational authority (LEA) are a prominent example of this change in Israel. LEAs try to gain more pedagogic influence over schools while…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, School Based Management, School Districts, Discriminant Analysis
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McIntosh, Ian; Punch, Samantha – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2009
This article investigates forms of strategic interaction between siblings during childhood. The authors argue that these interactions, characterized by notions of reciprocity, equivalence and constructions of fairness, are worked out in relation to responsibility, power, knowledge and sibling status. Birth order and age are not experienced as…
Descriptors: Siblings, Birth Order, Foreign Countries, Interaction Process Analysis
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Jones, Kyffin; Doveston, Mary; Rose, Richard – Pastoral Care in Education, 2009
Mentoring as a means of supporting young people perceived as having difficulties or being at risk of disaffection has become an important feature of pastoral support approaches in and around schools in recent years. The provision of support that is based upon a highly personalised relationship and founded upon principles of unconditional positive…
Descriptors: Mentors, Figurative Language, Young Adults, Counselor Client Relationship
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Harrod, Wendy J.; Welch, Bridget K.; Kushkowski, Jeff – Current Research in Social Psychology, 2009
We examined trends in group research published in Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) from 1975 to 2005. We identified a total of 332 papers about groups published during the time period. Following Moreland, Hogg, and Hains (1994), we created an index of interest in groups by dividing the number of pages in papers about groups by the total number of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Groups, Research, Social Psychology
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Osipian, Ararat L. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Corruption in higher education is known but not described theoretically. Decentralization and privatization of higher education and the increasing scale and scope of corruption in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc, as well as numerous other countries, urges better understanding of the problem within the context of socio-economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Administrative Organization, Social Exchange Theory
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Opfer, Darleen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: This study makes a distinction between a school having high attrition and one having difficulties in hiring. It does so by exploring the relationship between definitions of hard-to-staff schools, school demographics, and school conditions that are often associated with a school being hard-to-staff. Research Design: The study relies on a…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Organizational Theories, School Culture, Social Exchange Theory
Johnston, Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2008
The practice of paying students to earn good grades either in class or on standardized achievement tests has touched off a storm of controversy. Praised by some educators as a way of linking economic rewards to school performance, it is being tested in a number of large cities, such as New York, Baltimore and Chicago, as well as some smaller…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Achievement Tests, Rewards
Korte, Russell F. – Online Submission, 2007
Traditional views of socialization focus primarily on the passive learning by the newcomer of the expectations of the organization. Theorizing and research on cognitive learning and social exchange indicate that the socialization process is vastly more complex. This paper views socialization through the lenses of cognitive learning and social…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Exchange Theory, Organizational Development, Labor Force Development
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