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Jabra F. Ghneim – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines the role that culinary entrepreneurship communities of practice, using Lave and Wenger's Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) model (Lave & Wenger, 1991), can lead to better social and economic inclusion for Middle Eastern Muslim refugee chefs in Utah. The life history approach was used to construct life…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Inclusion, Social Integration, Refugees
III Stephen Bernard Rodoquino – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This nonexperimental, correlational study examined the relation among job fit, psychological climate, and employee engagement and discretionary effort and job performance. An Internet-based self-report survey was administered to a sample of 307 cruise line customer contact center reservation agents. The research hypotheses were evaluated using…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Work Environment, Work Attitudes, Travel
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Artemisa R. Dores; Marina Letica-Crepulja; Regina A. Silva – Open Education Studies, 2024
Many professionals are confronted in their practice with clients who show post-traumatic symptoms (PTS). "Trauma-informed practice" helps professionals recognize, understand, and appropriately respond to the effects of trauma. This work presents the "Trauma-Informed Practice for Workers in Public Service Settings" -- TIPS…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Public Service Occupations, Employees, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Klope, Eva; Hedlin, Maria – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
In the hairdressing occupation emotional labour has often come to overshadow other vocational skills. The present study, using ethnographic methods, explores how students and teachers in vocational education and training (VET) for hairdressers in Sweden describe and explain the emotional labour being carried out when a hairdresser perform good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cosmetology, Vocational Education, Emotional Response
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Meng-Lei Monica Hu; Hao-Chiang Koong Lin; Yu-Hsuan Lin; Yu-Hsi Yuan – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Technical culinary skills are fundamental competencies for professional chefs. Consequently, demonstrating and enhancing these skills pose significant challenges within culinary education. This study aims to develop a virtual reality (VR) system for culinary skill development and assess its effectiveness when integrated into a hospitality…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Outcomes of Education, Cooking Instruction
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Ryburn, Ty M. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
A challenge public organizations face in motivating their workforces is the strong union influence. In 2018, the United States Supreme Court abolished agency fees in the public sector, changing the landscape of union membership. In examining the unique motivational factors of public sector employees, Perry and Wise developed a theory called public…
Descriptors: Government Employees, City Government, Public Service Occupations, Motivation
Teneika L. Eve – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research on adult learners is ever evolving, and Knowles (1990) considered them to be a neglected species. Andragogy is the coined term that describes the manner in which adults learn. Adult learners are considered autonomous, experience-driven, and motivated. However, despite the strides made in adult learner literature, there still remain many…
Descriptors: Adults, Andragogy, Adult Learning, Multimedia Materials
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Abernathy, Jacqueline H. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
This study evaluates faculty efforts to accommodate graduate students in the Tarleton State University Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Criminal Justice programs called away from classes in the first weeks of the 2017 academic year as disaster responders called into duty by Hurricane Harvey. The evaluation employed a theoretical…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Public Service Occupations
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Odor Kingsley Ndubuisi; Jocelyn Okerogehne Emerho – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
Petroleum products are very flammable and can ignite at extremely low temperatures if exposed to an open flame source or not handled appropriately. Individuals who handle petroleum products in the petroleum industry and fuelling stations are known as "petrol station attendants". The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study carried…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Occupations, Fuels, Industry
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Mary Twis – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
Drawing from my experiences as an American-Israeli Jewish woman in social work academia, I use this paper to reflect upon the ways in which the Council on Social Work Education's newly-mandated anti-racist and anti-oppressive paradigms are problematic for the future of the social work profession. While it is important for social workers to address…
Descriptors: Social Work, College Students, College Faculty, Jews
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Aspøy, Tove Mogstad – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
International political discourse has implied that upskilling leads to higher productivity and growth. Combining aspects from skills theory and institutional theory, this article asks what role upskilling can play in making bad jobs better, drawing on previous research about the process of professionalising the cleaning occupation in Norway. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Occupations, Sanitation, Skill Development
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Chiang, Yu Chih; Arendt, Susan; Sapp, Stephen – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Interest in overall health and well-being of students in higher education has grown. Retention and success in college has been linked to various health aspects including sleep and alcohol usage. The purpose of this study is to: 1) assess sleep health and related behaviors, 2) examine relationships between sleep health and work conditions, and 3)…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Achievement, Sleep, Work Environment
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Wadei, Kwame Ansong; Chen, Lu; Frempong, Joseph; Appienti, William Ansah – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Drawing upon social information processing theory, the study examined how ethical leadership shapes creative performance. Specifically, we tested a theoretical model integrating the sequential roles of psychological safety and creative self-efficacy. A two-waved sample of 512 supervisor-subordinate dyads from frontline employees of three service…
Descriptors: Ethics, Leadership Effectiveness, Creativity, Performance Factors
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Weston, Emma; Foster, Tim; Crilly, Jim; Mossop, Liz – Journal of Food Science Education, 2020
Food science-based graduates are a significant proportion of the United Kingdom (UK) food and drink industry's workforce. Aside from technical standards, there is no cohesive competency framework to support key stakeholders; employers, students, and degree providers. Clarity of desirable competencies for the range of graduate opportunities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foods Instruction, Competence, College Graduates
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Hippi, Kaarina; Lehto, Liisa-Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper discusses how persons of multicultural backgrounds describe in interviews their everyday experiences when using Finnish. The focus is on categories of linguistic (non)belonging described in interview interactions. The data consist of 23 single and pair interviews of 33 informants in total and come from two interview datasets. Data are…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Finno Ugric Languages, Language Usage
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