Graduate Education in Pharmacy: Issues, Trends, and Opportunities

Eng, Jacqueline L.; Trinca, Carl E.

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“…Developing JS measures specifically tailored for academic staff has become a pressing need in the face of increasing accountability for teaching outcomes to meet accreditation standards. [ 28 ]…”

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Academic job satisfaction questionnaire: Construction and validation in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rubaish

Rahim

Abumadini

et al. 2011

J Fam Community Med

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Background:Colleges and universities are becoming increasingly accountable for teaching outcomes in order to meet rigorous accreditation standards. Job satisfaction (JS) seems more difficult to measure in the academic field in view of the complexity of roles, duties and responsibilities.Objectives:To compile and determine the psychometric properties of a proposed Academic Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (AJSQ) suitable for university faculty, and amenable to future upgrading.Materials and Methods:A 46-item five-option Likert-type draft questionnaire on JS was distributed for anonymous self-reporting by all the academic staff of five colleges in University of Dammam (n=340). The outcome measures were (1) factor analysis of the questionnaire items, (2) intra-factor α-Coefficient of Internal Consistency Reliability, (3) inter-factor correlations, (4) comparison of psychometric properties in separately analyzed main faculty subgroups.Results:The response rate was 72.9 percent. Factor analysis extracted eight factors which conjointly explained 60.3 percent of the variance in JS. These factors, in descending order of eigenvalue, were labeled “Authority”, “Supervision”, “Policies and Facilities”, “My Work Itself”, “Interpersonal Relationships”, “Commitment”, “Salary” and “Workload”. Cronbach's-α ranged from 0.90 in Supervision to 0.63 in Salary and Workload. All inter-factor correlations were positive and significant, ranging from 0.65 to 0.23. The psychometric properties of the instrument in separately analyzed subgroups divided by sex, nationality, college and clinical duties produced fairly comparable findings.Conclusion:The AJSQ demonstrated good overall psychometric properties in terms of construct validity and internal consistency reliability in both the overall sample and its separately analyzed subgroups. Recommendation: To replicate these findings in larger multicenter samples of academic staff.

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Academic job satisfaction questionnaire: Construction and validation in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rubaish

Rahim

Abumadini

et al. 2011

J Fam Community Med

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“…At the same time, colleges and universities are being held more accountable for teaching outcomes. 3 In this increasingly high-pressured climate, faculty members are beginning to perceive erosions in their autonomy, resulting in greater levels of stress with a deleterious impact on quality of work life. [4][5][6] These phenomena would appear to hold true in pharmacy, particularly as a workforce shortage among practitioners has seemingly begun to impact the supply of pharmacy faculty members.…”

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Development of a Multidimensional Scale to Measure Work Satisfaction Among Pharmacy Faculty Members

Conklin¹,

Desselle²

2007

Am J Pharm Educ

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Objectives. To develop a multidimensional scale to measure work satisfaction among pharmacy faculty members and determine its reliability and validity. Methods. A literature review was used to assist in the generation of 36 statements that putatively comprise the satisfaction construct. The 25 items meeting a priori criteria in a modified Delphi procedure were included in a questionnaire sent by e-mail to 4,228 pharmacy faculty members. Principal axis factoring and scale purification procedures were used to identify a plausible factor structure. Results. Using responses acquired from 885 pharmacy faculty members, 6 domains of work satisfaction were identified: resources for scholarship, institutional support and reward, requirements for tenure and promotion, availability of a graduate program, collegiality, and teaching environment. The overall measure demonstrated construct validity, while each domain subscale exhibited relatively high internal consistency reliability. Conclusions. The overall work satisfaction measure and each subscale derived from composite domains can be used to identify sources of discontent and/or track interventions designed to improve work satisfaction.

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Graduate Education in Pharmacy: Issues, Trends, and Opportunities

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Academic job satisfaction questionnaire: Construction and validation in Saudi Arabia

Academic job satisfaction questionnaire: Construction and validation in Saudi Arabia

Development of a Multidimensional Scale to Measure Work Satisfaction Among Pharmacy Faculty Members

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