Organizations around the globe are struggling to engage and retain employees. Moreover, higher education institutions across the United States face challenges in the quest for student recruitment and retention strategies. A university in the Southeastern portion of the United States ("the University") has experienced a decline in student…

Drawing from existing literature, we constructed the Faculty Satisfaction with Online Teaching Survey (FSOTS) and administered it to 320 faculty teaching online in Qatar during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive statistics, including mean, standard deviation, Cronbach's alpha, composite reliability, exploratory factor…

Teacher retention rates are currently at an all-time low, posing significant challenges to the stability and effectiveness of educational institutions. This paper aimed to address this pressing issue by identifying methods to enhance teacher job satisfaction specifically within the context of Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)…

This study explored the relationship between school employees' perceived relationship quality with their school principal and their organizational commitment when controlling for variables of age, gender, ethnicity, job position, and language diversity. The study reached 148 participants from the public school setting and collected data from a…

This mixed methods study investigates the factors influencing job satisfaction and retention among early intervention (EI) providers in Washington State. The research aims to provide insights into the challenges faced by EI providers and identify strategies to improve workforce stability within the state's EI system. The quantitative phase of the…

This study contributes to the comparative analysis of outcomes between gamified and traditional training systems in the banking sector. On-the-job training is a vital aspect of the process of enhancing work performance within organizations. Thus, by employing a case-based asymmetric configural approach rooted in nonlinear and contrarian case…

Vocational teachers (VTs) have been seen as the key individuals executing changes, solving problems and achieving goals in vocational education and training (VET). Therefore, the work of VTs is fragmented between different types of tasks which influence their professionalism and professionality (individual views, experiences and professional…

This quantitative study explores the effect of mentoring on new teacher retention in central Mississippi school districts. The survey analysis focused on six research questions, investigating how mentoring influences retention among beginning and novice teachers. Results indicate significant similarities in perceptions towards mentoring,…

Based on the theory of meaning construction, this research aims to examine the relationship between mindfulness-based instruction and job satisfaction among educators working in kindergarten settings. Specifically, this study will evaluate whether teachers' self-efficacy mediates this relationship and explore the potential moderating impact of…

The work of early childhood educators is conducted in highly regulated environments in many Western nations. This is due to managerialism, the right arm of neoliberal-inspired policies. To explore educators' work within these contexts, our international study highlights the impacts of these systems on educators and the children they teach. This…

Returnee faculty experiencing cross-border academic mobility have obtained ample transnational experience in an international academic environment, which may potentially influence their professional development satisfaction after returning to their home countries. Most research has compared returnee faculty's research productivity with their…

The purpose of this study was to examine whether a workload versus caseload model for allocation of special education staff would increase job satisfaction and special educator retention. It has become increasingly difficult to staff and retain special education teachers in the public school system for a multitude of factors including, workload,…

Drawing on the "top-down" view of life satisfaction, this study investigates the influence of employee career resilience on life satisfaction and examines mediating effects of indicators of career success (i.e., salary, job level, job satisfaction) and work-related well-being (i.e., work stress) on this relationship. Data were collected…

Purpose: Despite the considerable increase in research on entrepreneurship education, few studies examine the role of entrepreneurship educators. Similarly, most frameworks from entrepreneurship education recognize the educator's importance in facilitating instruction and assessment, but the factors influencing the educator role are not well…

The role of the school principal has become increasingly stressful and the problem is that school principals in a large school district in Maryland experience multiple job stressors that are contributing to low job satisfaction. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore high school principals' perspectives of stressors that affect…