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Direct linkDrobnic, Sonja; Beham, Barbara; Prag, Patrick – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Cross-national comparisons generally show large differences in life satisfaction of individuals within and between European countries. This paper addresses the question of whether and how job quality and working conditions contribute to the quality of life of employed populations in nine strategically selected EU countries: Finland, Sweden, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Quality of Life
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
Download full textEvans, Karen; Rudd, Peter; Behrens, Martina; Kaluza, Jens; Woolley, Claire – 2000
A study explored how young adults experience control and exercise personal agency (self-determination) as they pass through periods of transition in education and training, work, unemployment, and in their personal lives. Data were gathered through structured questionnaires administered to at least 100 young adults from universities and companies,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Peer reviewedBuer, Jurgen van; Squarra, Dieter – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1998
Analyzes how locus of control affects teachers instructional perceptions, their perceived workload, and their professional satisfaction. Reveals that teachers emphasizing an internal locus of control are satisfied professionally, see teaching as demanding, and positively view their instructional practices; teachers emphasizing an external locus of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
2002
This document contains three papers on challenges facing human resource development today. "In Difficult Times: Influences of Attitudes and Expectations Towards Training and Redeployment Opportunities in a Hospital Retraction Programme" (Sandra Watson, Jeff Hyman) presents reasons behind the low uptake of training and redeployment…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Development, Developed Nations
Plath, Hans-Eberhard – 2001
In Germany and elsewhere, the literature on current and future work requirements rarely discusses the effects of globalization, internationalization, computerization, and other factors from the point of view of workers. Some have suggested that a blurring of limits will be one of the main changes in work in the future. This blurring will involve…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, At Risk Persons, Competence
