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Moraa, Samba Serah; Chepkoech, Koske Luciana; Simiyu, Mulongo Leonard – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Decentralization of teacher recruitment and selection in Kenya was as a result of World Bank/IMF policies, which support projects that guarantee direct net economic returns by productivity and indirect returns on externalities. The approach has been used as a way of improving service delivery. This strategy that has been successful elsewhere may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Personnel Management
Diederich, Paul B. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
This commentary describes the limitations of 40-minute class period times. The forty-minute system makes hash of the lives of teachers, especially in small schools, and about 80 percent of high schools have fewer than two hundred pupils. These small schools crowd their forty-minute periods with as many diverse and unrelated activities as possible,…
Descriptors: Time Blocks, School Schedules, High Schools, Job Simplification
Ahmad, Nawaz; Ashraf, Muhammad – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2016
This study is an effort to understand the impact of occupational stress which is classified into four constructs i.e. pressure at work, support at work, job satisfaction, and nature of job, on the personality of employees working in public as well as private sector universities. To conduct the study, a survey questionnaire was floated to six…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction
Totenhagen, Casey J.; Hawkins, Stacy Ann; Casper, Deborah M.; Bosch, Leslie A.; Hawkey, Kyle R.; Borden, Lynne M. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
Low retention in the child care workforce is a persistent challenge that has been associated with negative outcomes for children, staff, and centers. This article reviews the empirical literature, identifying common correlates or predictors of retention for child care workers. Searches were conducted using several databases, and articles that…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Persistence
Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2012
When it comes to project management, the IT department is typically its own worst enemy. When project requests are pushed through the budgeting process by different departments, it's up to IT to make them all work. The staff is required to be "heroic" to get the project load done. People get to work over weekends and postpone their vacations. The…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Change Strategies, Organizational Change, Performance Technology
US Government Accountability Office, 2016
When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was reauthorized in 2004, it included provisions to reduce administrative and paperwork requirements to address concerns about burden. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review federal efforts to reduce burden related to meeting IDEA requirements for educating…
Descriptors: Special Education, State Policy, Local Government, Disabilities
Hastings, Robin – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Librarians are the ultimate information workers, with little they can count as done at the end of the day. Staying productive and motivated when there are no finished items that you have created at day's end can be difficult. For just this reason, David Allen, author and productivity expert, has proposed an information-worker-centric theory of…
Descriptors: Time Management, Library Administration, Librarians, Productivity
LeBlanc, Sheila; London, Chad; Huisman, Jeroen – Tertiary Education and Management, 2013
This article provides a detailed description and analysis of how one Canadian institution used groups of department heads as change agents to address their most acute department head role tensions. It is demonstrated that this institution's change initiative aligned very closely to the recommendations proposed, in both the literature pertaining to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Development, Foreign Countries, Change Agents
Armbruster, Stephanie; Strasburger, Tom – School Business Affairs, 2011
The economic crisis has caused districts throughout the United States to cut resources and limit spending, particularly with regard to staff. However, the requirements for maintaining safe, efficiently functioning schools and for remaining in compliance with state and federal regulations have not decreased; in many cases, those responsibilities…
Descriptors: Human Resources, School Administration, Automation, Job Simplification
Major, Amanda E. – Current Issues in Education, 2012
Special education teachers, especially those that teach students with behavioral/emotional challenges, have high attrition rates stemming from stress, job dissatisfaction, and low motivation. The external factors in the school setting and job contribute to special education teachers' attrition and disengagement. A relationship between motivation…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Job Simplification, Performance Technology, Teacher Persistence
Ward, David; Phetteplace, Eric – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
The growth in number and kind of online reference services has resulted in both new users consulting library research services as well as new patterns of service use. Staffing in-person and virtual reference services desks adequately requires a systematic analysis of patterns of use across service points in order to successfully meet fluctuating…
Descriptors: Library Services, Reference Services, Library Research, Library Administration
Boitnott, Kitty – Library Media Connection, 2012
School library media specialists have seen more fundamental changes in their jobs and in their roles within their schools than any other group of education professionals. The author started her first job as a school librarian when there were no desktop computers, and card catalogs were the order of the day. Over the course of the thirty-seven…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Teacher Associations, Media Specialists, Librarians
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2011
A return to normal after a crisis is a good thing. Who doesn't want back what once seemed lost? The problem is it usually isn't a simple task figuring out how to patch together a scaled-back training program. When the recession hit in fall 2008, trainers were asked to scale down programming and make do with fewer resources. With a recovery in full…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Labor Needs, Needs Assessment, Industrial Psychology
Ruffins, Paul – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Physician assistants take on primary care duties that were once the exclusive domain of physicians. According to Kevin Lohenry, director of the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California, there are either 90,000 or 30 million reasons why someone might see a physician assistant rather than a physician. The 30…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Physicians, Nurses, Access to Health Care
Chudnov, Daniel – Computers in Libraries, 2010
An experienced developer might have a bagful of techniques to reach for when his/her code is not working. For both new and experienced coders, if they have stared at broken code for hours without any idea what's wrong, it can be easy to reach for emotional responses first. The code might be messed up, but one's constructive options for dealing…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Barriers, Performance Factors, Self Esteem