Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore what agile learning strategies businesses need to develop agile core competencies to respond to the uncertainty of the rapidly changing business environment and sustain their competitive advantage. Technology advances and unexpected crises have created an ever-changing environment in which…

Although recent studies have attempted to clarify the daily dynamics between moods and creativity, relatively limited studies have explored how daily positive and negative activating moods influence "changes" in daily creativity (i.e., controlling for the effects of prior daily creativity) in real organizations. Furthermore, although the…

Student affairs professionals help students who experience trauma. Repeated and prolonged traumatic exposure has significant adverse effects on other helping professionals; burnout is one consequence of trauma exposure. Burnout as a construct has not been quantitatively researched in the student affairs profession recently. This study provides a…

Workplace bullying is a chronic work stressor involving high human resource costs (Hurley et al., 2016). One inconsistent finding in the literature is the relationship of victim's gender to the personal experiencing of workplace bullying and workplace bullying behaviors (Nielsen & Einarsen, 2018). Workplace bullying behavior persists across…

Existing research concerning trans people is sparse, and even less research exists regarding their career development and workforce experiences. Hence, I explored the career development and workforce experience stories of trans people. I used a conceptual and theoretical framework in this study to inform my general approach to trans scholarship…

This study aimed at identifying the interplay between individual and organizational factors and predictors of work motivation, job satisfaction, and burnout. This was a cross-sectional study, conducted with 460 early education teachers in Kosovo. Based on the results, job satisfaction and professional development are significant positive…

The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the lived experiences of Muslim professionals in U.S. workplaces with varying levels of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The research, conducted through a basic qualitative approach with twenty participants, delved into the personal and professional narratives of these…

Resilience training for Further Education (FE) managers has become an increasingly familiar aspect of management development. This paper challenges the accepted orthodoxies underpinning resilience as a 'learnable' skill required to succeed as a manager. In particular, it addresses the concepts of toxic positivity, growth mindset (Dweck) and Grit…

The present study sought to assess the psychometric properties of the Iranian adaptation of the Vietnam Teacher Resilience Scale for Asia (VITRS), referred to as the Iranian Teachers' Resilience Scale (ITRS) and to examine its measurement invariance across middle and high school teachers in Iran. In total, 700 participants completed the…

The knowledge-based economy and the information society highlights the importance of developing new competencies for personal, professional and social integration. Problem-solving in technologically rich environments (PS-TREs) is one of these competencies. This research examines the relationships between higher education and the PS-TREs…

Teachers well-being has a significant influence on their quality of life, as well as on students' emotions, behaviors, and cognitions. Although there is evidence of a negative relationship between teachers' experience of work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) with their well-being, we have no information on how the interaction…

Purpose: This paper aims to further the understanding of the motivation to learn (ML) among an organisation's older cohort of employees. It is proposed that age diversity climate (ADC) will positively impact ML by improving employees' subjective age (SA) perception. Such a climate will indicate that the organisational climate is fair and inclusive…

Purpose: Cultivation of a learning culture and subsequent enhancements in employee performance can be translated through employee engagement. This study aims to examine the mediating role of employee engagement in the relationship between the learning culture and employee performance. Design/methodology/approach: This research adopted a…

This study focused on the female perspective of authentic leadership and the careers of female faculty of rural community colleges. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how female faculty of community colleges in rural communities perceive the influence of authentic leadership-self-awareness, moral perspective, balanced processing,…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among training design, trainee motivation and work environment on the transfer of learning for teachers enrolled in a continuing professional education (CPE) training program and the confirmation of potential positive, predictive relationships of trainee motivation, work environment…