Supervisors of on-campus student employees are perhaps the most consistent touchpoint of a working undergraduate's college experience and the criticality of this role within higher education has gone relatively unrecognized. The current study explored how student affairs professionals learn to supervise student employees who work part-time on…

This paper offers an investigation of the perceptions of servant leadership behaviors by subordinates and the effects that those perceptions may have on the subordinate engagement and turnover intention within a higher education institution. Perceived servant leadership behaviors can induce positive attitudes and engagement in the subordinate…

Workplace bullying refers to the aggressive behavior and mistreatment towards an employee from peers and/or superiors. When this behavior takes place frequently and for long duration, it causes a high level of stress in the employee, in turn causing direct and indirect damage to the organization. The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a massive shift…

Higher education leaders fail to recognize an employee's job satisfaction is affected by their supervisor's awareness of generational needs, resulting in the problem of decreased employee retention and associated costs. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study was to determine if a supervisor's awareness of generational needs of…

The work environment plays a vital role in the transfer of the newly attained knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) at the workplace. In the past decades, a series of studies have investigated the direct relationship between the work environment and training transfer. Surprisingly, empirical findings noted the inconsistent relationship between…

Social challenges represent a significantly under-researched area when it comes to the poor employment outcomes in autism. In this exploratory study employees on the autism spectrum (N = 29) and supervisors (N = 15), representing seven continents, provided 128 written examples of workplace-based social challenges, their interpretation,…

Organizational leaders know that training improves worker performance, but training is often initiated without considering employees' work task requirements. This instrumental case study was conducted to understand the perceptions of employees who completed a skills training program and those of supervisors. The conceptual framework was andragogy,…

Purpose: This study aims to examine the link between supervisor support, transfer motivation and post-training usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The study tested the influence of supervisor support and transfer motivation on training transfer in a complex information systems environment. Second, the study tested the mediating…

Workplace incivility is common in organizations across the world and can have negative effects on individuals and organizations. The purpose of the reported study is to examine the effects of supervisor and coworker incivility on job satisfaction and examines emotion management as a mediator of these relationships. Data from 268 working adults…

This study explores the relationship between perceived employability and individual as well as organizational characteristics of employees in South Korea using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). Gender, age, total work experience, turnover, positive psychological capital, proactive personality, social network capital and openness to changes at…

This study examined the moderating role of creative self-efficacy in predictions of employees' creativity through transformational leadership. Data from a dyadic sample of 424 employees and their immediate supervisors were collected and analyzed. The results signify that transformational leaders promote creativity among their subordinates.…

Distance education particularly the IT based distance learning is a fast growing concept in the academic world. The employees working in such distance learning institutions have certain issues that need to be investigated. One important such issue the job satisfaction of employees. Job satisfaction of employees can be investigated through several…

Changes and transformations in organisations are traditionally initiated by the management. This approach does not, however, encourage the agency of all the members in an organisation to engage in cooperative development of the activity. This paper presents an analysis of the development of participants' transformative agency in a Change…

In the knowledge economy era, the competitive advantage of an enterprise is established on intangible resources and capability. Trust allows individuals acquiring and exchanging intellectual capitals, especially in ambiguous and uncertain situations, and knowledge exchange relies on the existence of trust. Different from past other industries,…

Interns possess a unique career status, straddling a career boundary between intern student and regular employee. Taking into account interns' ambiguous and often precarious career status, this study investigates the factors that shape an intern's perceptions of himself or herself as an organizational insider, and how this perception in turn…