Factors Affecting African American Counselors' Job Satisfaction: A National Survey

Jones, Cravor; Hohenshil, Thomas H.; Burge, Penny L.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6678.2009.tb00562.x

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“…Students did express positive experiences as well, such as support received by peers, friends, family, and faculty (Baker & Moore, 2015). These studies and others like it noticed the negative experiences of African American counselor education students and the lack of available research on the topic (Baker & Moore, 2015;Day-Vines, & Holcomb-McCoy, 2007;Henfield et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2009;Schneider et al, 2009). This study seeks to address the need for counselor education programs to address the unique training needs of African-American counselor-in-training in group counseling coursework and experiences.…”

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“…African American counselor-in-training (AACIT) experiences and training in counseling education programs is a relatively new area of research. According to Jones et al (2009), until the late 1970s, mental health professionals were not included in a majority of study, including job satisfaction. As a result, research on professionals in the mental health field was lacking; research on African American professionals and professionals-in-training in the area was almost non-existent (Jones et al, 2009).…”

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“…According to Jones et al (2009), until the late 1970s, mental health professionals were not included in a majority of study, including job satisfaction. As a result, research on professionals in the mental health field was lacking; research on African American professionals and professionals-in-training in the area was almost non-existent (Jones et al, 2009). Today, there continues to be a paucity of research on counselors, specifically African American mental health counselors (Baker & Moore, 2015;Eason, 2009;Henfield et al, 2013;Schneider et al, 2009).…”

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Exploration of African-American Counselor-in-Training Group Core Skills: Importance and Confidence Level

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<p style="text-align: justify;">This study explored through applied statistics the importance and confidence levels of African American counselors-in-training core group counseling skills while at the same determining the difference among their colleagues of different ethnic backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to assess core group counseling skills while at the same determining the difference among their colleagues of differing ethnic backgrounds. Participants were sixty-eight counselors-in-training enrolled in a Group Counseling Course in the spring of 2015 and fall of 2016. Of the sixty-eight participants 38 (55.88%) African Americans and 27 (39.71%) White/Caucasian had an opportunity to complete the Core Group Work Skills Inventory - Importance and Confidence (CGWSI-IC) as an extra credit assignment pre- and post their group counseling facilitation experience. Results suggest African American participants had confidence in determining their effectiveness as group members or leaders. A significant difference and a very large effect between pre-test and post-test of African American counselor-in-training importance level of the individual behavioral items in the CGWSI-IC items were seen. Implications for specific training for African Americans in group counseling for core group counseling skills should be examined.</p>

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“…Onder watter omstandighede kan die beoefening van 'n professie vir die beoefenaar daarvan as vervullend beskou word? Die navorsing van onder andere D' Addio et al (2003) en Bender en Heywood (2004), asook die doktorale proefskrif van Jones (2005) toon dat antwoorde op hierdie vraag onder andere insluit dat die beoefenaar van die professie dit moet geniet om dit te beoefen; dat hy/sy daagliks daarna moet uitsien om te gaan werk. 'n Mens sou ook kon byvoeg: indien die werksomstandighede aangenaam is en die beoefenaar van die professie nie met allerlei frustrasies en irritasies opgeskeep word nie; wanneer daar vrugte op die arbeid kom en die arbeid gevolglik aan verwagtings voldoen; wanneer hierdie vrugte ontvang en geniet mag word (in die vorm van 'n konstante vergoeding, bonusse, aansporings, bevordering en telkense erkenning deur oorgesteldes).…”

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Academe in South Africa: a fulfilling profession? South African academics possess a collective value system. However, other value systems impact not only on their value system but also on their academic work. They typically find themselves working in an institutional, a national and an international context, each with its own hierarchy of values. A theoretical discussion of (the role of) values in the academic workplace is followed by an overview of the professional values held by South African academics as measured by means of the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) Survey, which was carried out in 2008. The survey revealed, for instance, a rift between the institutional value hierarchy and that of the academic profession. It can therefore be concluded that many South African academics seem to lead relatively unfulfilled professional lives, among others, because they find themselves working in an environment (various contexts) with many contradictions. These problems should be addressed for the sake of the well-being of both the academic profession and of the higher education sector.

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“…Spector defined job satisfaction as a cluster to measure and evaluate an individuals' feeling toward his job (Spector, 1997). It is closely related to the need of fulfillment as it measures how well an occupation satisfies ones' needs and thus reversely created a form of motivation (Jones, 2005;Spector, 1997). The definition of job satisfaction has also been extended to the essence of pleasurable or positive feeling towards the task, job achievement and job experiences (Worell, 2004).…”

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Impact of Informal Workplace Learning on Job Satisfaction

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Ruai

2018

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In order to remain competitive in the global economy, many employers emphasized lifelong learning on their workers. But most of them focused on formal learning and tend to overlook the informal learning in the workplace. Current evidence suggests that informal learning is far more important for skill development and predict employees’ behavior in the workplace. Therefore, this study takes into account the impact of informal workplace learning on employees’ job satisfaction. Samples of the study were 197 property executives. Instruments used in this study were Small Business Workplace Learning Survey (SBWLS) and Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS). Result shows that there was a significant positive impact of informal workplace learning on the job satisfaction. Further analysis concluded that all three components of informal workplace learning such as past episode, current experience and future behavior were positively significant predictors of job satisfaction among property executives. Some limitations and recommendations for future research were discussed in this article. For overall, this study provided full support for the predictive role of informal workplace learning towards employees’ job satisfaction especially in property consulting firms.

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Factors Affecting African American Counselors' Job Satisfaction: A National Survey

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Exploration of African-American Counselor-in-Training Group Core Skills: Importance and Confidence Level

Exploration of African-American Counselor-in-Training Group Core Skills: Importance and Confidence Level

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Impact of Informal Workplace Learning on Job Satisfaction

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