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American Faculty and Their Institutions: The Global View
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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
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: Workers' Evaluations in Five Countries.
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Ritter, Joseph A.; Anker, Richard – International Labour Review, 2002
A study of workers from Argentina (n=2,920), Brazil (n=4,000), Chile (n=1,188), Hungary (1,000), and the Ukraine (n=8,099) examined relationships between job satisfaction and employee and employer characteristics. Satisfaction was related to job security, perceptions of workplace safety, higher education, and employer attitudes. (Contains 17…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
More Training, Less Security? Training and the Quality of Life at Work in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
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Jeria Caceres, Maria Mercedes – International Labour Review, 2002
Conditional multiple correspondence analysis of data from workers in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile found that training was a consequence rather than a cause of promotion. More job training resulted in increased salary and benefits as well as in greater costs such as hours of work and work-related insecurity. (Contains 21 references.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Job Security