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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lee, HaeNim; McNamara, Tay K.; Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie; Lee, Jungui – International Journal of Training and Development, 2014
Opportunities to improve skills and opportunities to teach or train others may be associated with job satisfaction, work engagement and organizational commitment. The analysis reported in this paper used a subsample of 823 employees within two Japanese and three American worksites. We tested not only the direct relationships of each type of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Educational Opportunities, Training Methods, Job Training
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Kim, Sehoon; McLean, Gary N. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
The purpose of this article was to identify how differing cultural factors affect informal learning in the workplace. We have introduced concepts and reviewed studies on informal learning and national culture based on an extensive literature review on the factors influencing informal learning, particularly based on five Hofstede's dimensions…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, National Norms, Cultural Influences
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Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: The implications of complexity theory have become a recurring topic in the literatures of a wide range of scholarly and professional fields including adult education. This paper builds on literature calling attention to the educational need for pedagogically addressing the implications of the intensifying complexity in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Development
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Gong, Yaping; Zhou, Jing; Chang, Song – Personnel Psychology, 2013
In this study, we examine when creativity is positively or negatively related to firm performance. Building on the creation-implementation tension theorized in the literature and the attention capacity perspective, we argue that the relationship between creativity and firm performance is contingent on riskiness orientation, firm size, and realized…
Descriptors: Employees, Creativity, Performance, Relationship
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Connelly, Brian S.; Sackett, Paul R.; Waters, Shonna D. – Personnel Psychology, 2013
Organizational and applied sciences have long struggled with improving causal inference in quasi-experiments. We introduce organizational researchers to propensity scoring, a statistical technique that has become popular in other applied sciences as a means for improving internal validity. Propensity scoring statistically models how individuals in…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups, Inferences, Research Methodology
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Kennedy, Sheryl Y.; Smith, Julia B. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
This study used Hierarchical Linear Modeling to analyze the relationship between school organizational behaviors and practices (at the school level) on teachers' reports of internal and external physiological sources of efficacy. Six hundred sixty-one teachers from 42 schools in the United States were surveyed to measure both individual sources of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Effectiveness, Reflective Teaching
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Brownell, Judi – International Journal of Listening, 2013
Robert Bostrom has not only left a listening legacy, but he was also a pioneer in the larger discipline of communication. Bostrom was one of the first scholars to focus on the dynamics of interpersonal contexts, thereby directly contributing to the transition of our field from "speech" to "communication." Early on he recognized the importance of…
Descriptors: Listening, Intellectual Disciplines, Scholarship, Communication Research
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Paglis, Laura L. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
Courses designed specifically to develop students' managerial skills began to emerge in the 1980s, in response to criticism of the theoretical and quantitative orientation of business school coursework. Since then, a number of management textbooks focusing on skills-based learning have been published, and many instructors have become…
Descriptors: Administrators, Job Skills, Business Administration Education, Educational History
Whitefield, Joe – Facilities Manager, 2013
There are often situations in facilities management where the daily repetition of certain tasks can seem meaningless to the employee if facilities managers are not conscientious. In this article, Joe Whitefield asks and answers the question: If your workplace morale is sagging a bit, what can be done to prop it up? To answer that question, he…
Descriptors: Facilities Management, Job Simplification, Performance Technology, Job Performance
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Omar, Safiah; Noordin, Fauziah – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
Adaptability was found to be one of the important aspects for employees in order for them to survive in their career especially to those in the ICT industry. The ICT work nature involved with consistent work changes, intensive creative thinking, and advanced technological upgrading. Although organizations supposed to encourage career adaptability…
Descriptors: Career Development, Information Technology, Persistence, Career Change
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Yoo, Sun Joo; Han, Seung-Hyun – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
The purpose of this study is to examine employees' acceptance levels towards e-learning in the workplace. By using "The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology" (UTAUT), our model captured the effect of factors influencing employees' intention to use e-learning in the workplace. Data was collected from 261 employees…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employee Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Intention
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Conklin, Amanda M.; Dahling, Jason J.; Garcia, Pablo A. – Journal of Career Development, 2013
The authors tested a model based on the satisfaction model of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) that links college students' affective commitment to their major (the emotional identification that students feel toward their area of study) with career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and career outcome expectations. Results indicate that CDSE…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Majors (Students), Decision Making
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Dipeolu, Abiola; Sniatecki, Jessica L.; Storlie, Cassandra A.; Hargrave, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
This study examined dysfunctional career thoughts and attitudes as predictors of vocational identity among high school students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Regression analysis results indicated that dysfunctional career thoughts and attitudes were significant predictors of vocational identity, accounting for 42% of the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, High School Students, Work Attitudes, Vocational Maturity
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The students who are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Johnson, Douglas A. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2013
Despite the frequency with which performance feedback interventions are used in organizational behavior management, component analyses of such feedback are rare. It has been suggested that evaluation of performance and objective details about performance are two necessary components for performance feedback. The present study was designed to help…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Industrial Psychology, Personnel Management, Feedback (Response)
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