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Chantal Olckers; Eileen Koekemoer – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
This study explores the well-being (engagement) and work fulfilment of 628 blue-collar workers as outcomes of decent work, based on the Psychology of Working Theory and its target group. It takes a positive preventative approach and demonstrates the motivational role of work engagement and psychological ownership in contributing to the work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blue Collar Occupations, Work Environment, Quality of Working Life
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Botha, R. J. Nico; Hugo, Jean-Pierre – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
Teachers leaving the profession before age of retirement is an ongoing problem in schools worldwide. While fewer teachers enter the profession each year, the number of teachers leaving the profession has increased. Many teachers listed lack of job satisfaction as a reason for leaving the education profession, while citing the lack of mentoring as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Beginning Teachers
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Khumalo, Njabulo – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The paper focuses on assessing and identifying the factors that affect the morale of employees in the institution of higher learning in South Africa. Employee morale is a drive to keep the organisation growing and achieve its objectives. In the worldwide ranking there are two institutions of higher learning that are featured in the top 250 of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Morale, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Job Satisfaction
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Wolhuter, C. C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Since 1994, the eyes of the world have been on South Africa, observing with interest the societal reconstruction project, upon which the country had embarked. In this project, higher education is both the terrain and the perceived instrument of change. In this higher education system and its mission, the academic profession is pivotal--especially,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Productivity, Global Approach
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Peltzer, Karl; Matseke, Gladys; Louw, Julia – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
The aim of this study was to evaluate secondary trauma and job burnout and associated factors in a sample of 71 HIV lay counsellors in South Africa. Results indicate that 49.5% were not satisfied with their work environment and 51.4% were potentially secondary traumatic stress cases. In univariate analysis, seeing more HIV counselling and testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Trauma, Burnout
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Maforah, T. P.; Schulze, S. – South African Journal of Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to identify influences on the job satisfaction of previously disadvantaged school principals in North-West Province. Evans's theory of job satisfaction, morale and motivation was useful as a conceptual framework. A mixed-methods explanatory research design was important in discovering issues with which these principals…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Job Satisfaction, Principals, Morale
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Mapesela, Mabokang; Hay, Driekie Hr – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
No institution of higher education in the world can make valid claims that it is immune to the effects of change and transformation. An array of trends such as the massification of higher education, widened access, response to new demands of technology, globalisation, internationalisation, increased accountability, the use of new modes of delivery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Higher Education
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education