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Weng, Qingxiong; McElroy, James C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
This article examines the influence of career self-management and vocational self-concept crystallization on job decision effectiveness and how vocational self-concept crystallization mediates the relationship between career self-management and job decision effectiveness. Six hundred and eleven Chinese employees participated in the research. Using…
Descriptors: Career Development, Self Concept, Career Choice, Employees
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Guan, Yanjun; Wang, Zhen; Dong, Zhilin; Liu, Yukun; Yue, Yumeng; Liu, Haiyang; Zhang, Yuqing; Zhou, Wenxia; Liu, Haihua – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
The current research aimed to develop a multidimensional measure of career locus of control (LOC) and examine its predictive validity on objective and subjective career success among Chinese employees. Items of career LOC were generated based on literature review of the significant predictors of career success, as well as the open-ended responses…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Multidimensional Scaling, Chinese, Predictive Validity
Advance Illinois, 2011
This paper tells the story of what must be done to make teaching in Illinois look more like the ever-evolving careers available in today's most innovative industries. This report was developed in collaboration with Advance Illinois' Educator Advisory Council (EAC)--a group of award-winning teachers who have been recognized for moving Illinois…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Responsibility, Models, Teacher Collaboration
Woo, Marjorie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of Chinese women executives going beyond the Chinese dream, to learn how they describe and make meaning of their midlife transition experience. A narrative inquiry and holistic content and form approach was used to explore two-stage life stories: narratives of self-actualization of women…
Descriptors: Females, Developmental Stages, Lifelong Learning, Midlife Transitions
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Yang, Yan – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the challenge for the classical idea of professionalism in understanding the Chinese software engineering industry after giving a close insight into the development of this industry as well as individual engineers with a psycho-societal perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The study starts with the general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, Engineering, Industry
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Qin, Chenyi; Baruch, Yehuda – Career Development International, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of cross-cultural training and career attitudes for expatriation career move in the context of China, whether cross-cultural training is perceived necessary, and the consequence of providing such cross-cultural training. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 82…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Corporations
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Guo, Karen Liang; Yong, Yan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper focuses on early childhood teachers' professional development in China. It reports a study which aims to elicit twelve in-service early childhood teachers' perspectives of the values and issues of professional development policies and the learning opportunities they experienced. Two themes arising from the study are addressed, namely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Guo, Yan; Sippola, Emily; Feng, Xinglin; Dong, Zhe; Wang, Debing; Moyer, Cheryl A.; Stern, David T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
To explore the need for faculty development among Chinese medical educators. Leaders at each medical school in China were asked to complete a 123-item survey to identify interest in various topics and barriers and perceived benefits of participating in faculty development programs. Interest levels were high for all topics. Experience with Hospital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, Medical School Faculty, Needs Assessment
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
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Du, Ping; Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
Research on work life and job satisfaction of university professors is becoming an important research issue in the field of higher education. This study used questionnaires administered to 1 770 teachers from different levels, types, and academic fields of Chinese universities to investigate job satisfaction among university professors and the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Climate, Career Development, Teacher Salaries
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Ma, Lang; Jacobs, Francine – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
The present study demonstrates the processes by which 12 young women working in four production chain factories in China shape their own lives--their developmental trajectories--during the period following their entry into factory work. One-on-one, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted in August, 2005, as part of an evaluation…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Labor, Individual Characteristics, Marital Status
Clotfelter, Charles T., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2010
In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in other realms of international competition. "American Universities in a Global Market"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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Wong, Ruth Ming Har – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
Research has shown that the underlying teaching beliefs or theories of any particular teacher have generally been considered relatively stable and static throughout his or her career. However, this study investigates how one teacher's beliefs regarding both teaching and learning were changed during a short-term study and immersion program abroad.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Career Development, Beliefs
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Weng, Qingxiong; McElroy, James C.; Morrow, Paula C.; Liu, Rongzhi – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
This research examines the relationship between employees' career growth and organizational commitment. Career growth was conceptualized by four factors: career goal progress, professional ability development, promotion speed and remuneration growth, while organizational commitment was conceptualized using Meyer and Allen's (1997) three component…
Descriptors: Employees, Foreign Countries, Personnel Data, Career Development
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Wu, Lihui; Qiu, Zhuoying; Wong, Daniel; Hernandez, Lucy Wong; Zhao, Qianlei – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Intellectual disability (ID) is a prevalent form of non-progressive cognitive impairment. The objectives of this articles are: to analyze the changes of ID in China, including its definition, prevalence, rehabilitation, education, vocational development, social life and support services; to review and to compare the issues of intellectual…
Descriptors: Social Life, Social Integration, Incidence, Mental Retardation
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