Singapore, like many other countries in the world, is on a journey towards a culture of lifelong learning to keep its workforce competent, resilient, and future-ready in the rapidly changing world of work. In order to realise this, a significant amount of resources has been invested to the training and adult education (TAE) sector. The TAE sector…

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…

Owing to the temporary nature of their job position, postdoctoral researchers (postdocs) are among those workers in the academic sector who experience the most job insecurity as well as high levels of turnover intention and disengagement. The present study improves the extant knowledge on the effect of job insecurity on postdocs' cynicism and…

Given a lack of knowledge about the work happiness of PhD graduates across a range of jobs, we explored which employment sectors graduates were entering, their work happiness and what factors influenced their happiness. We surveyed PhD graduates from two US and one New Zealand university. Analysis of 120 graduate responses revealed that nearly 60%…

Several studies have demonstrated the relevance of job demands-resources theory in examining the subjective well-being of Chinese university teachers. Nevertheless, the specific impact and mechanisms of various dimensions of job demands and resources on faculty members' subjective well-being are not well understood. This study seeks to identify…

Background: Physical Education (PE) teachers around the world often struggle with different experiences of precarity such as job insecurity, high workloads, lack of infrastructure in schools, and others. Communities of practice (CoP) are recognised as an important democratic strategy for teachers' continuing professional development (CPD). A…

Despite the diversity of entry points into academia, little research exists examining the experiences and impact of precarious employment at different life stages. Drawing on interviews with 19 academics employed casually or on fixed-term contracts in Australian universities, this paper illustrates how precarious employment is experienced at…

Healthy and effective faculty members are vital to student learning and ultimately to institutional effectiveness (Finkelstein et al., 2016; Y. K. Kim & Sax, 2017), yet recent challenges and changes to higher education have significantly affected the faculty role and faculty well-being, resulting in increased dissatisfaction, stress, and…

Purpose: The fear of COVID-19 has been identified as a significant predictor of adverse work-related outcomes. Grounded on conservation of resource theory, this study examines the impact of fear of COVID-19 on faculty members' job turnover intention (TI) and job insecurity, as well as the relationship between job insecurity and TI. Additionally,…

The current study has reported perceptions from teachers who taught in a private school in China about factors regarding their retention decisions. Teacher attrition has been a global issue shared by many countries and areas. Teacher attrition has caused intensive discussion in the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as in China, from…

Teacher job satisfaction is the degree to which employees like or dislike their profession; they are satisfied when they have positive attitudes and feelings towards their job. Many studies were conducted in developing and developed countries, but unfortunately, studies focusing on teacher job satisfaction in the Afghan context are very limited.…

Although it is widely recognised that well-being of teachers is important, not much is known about the effects of job characteristics in subjective well-being. This paper is a report of a study that investigates the effects of job characteristics on subjective well-being. Nationally representative employee data is used to investigate the effects…

The present research aimed at investigating the direct effect of civil servant teacher job satisfaction on their absenteeism. Quantitative approach with survey method was employed. The sample involved was 198 civil servant teachers from public senior high schools in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia. The result signified that t[subscript count] <…

This qualitative study explored the conceptualizations of career development success among young women who had formerly aged-out of out-of-home care settings in Canada, addressing the central question: How do young people who were formerly in out-of-home care and self-identify as experiencing career development success conceptualize their career…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons behind teachers' negative attitudes about classroom observation. This multiple-case study interviewed five teachers from different private language schools in Iran. The themes emerging from in-depth interviews suggest that the negative attitudes could be related to the observer effect, teacher's…