Job satisfaction amongst academic economists in the UK

Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.025

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“…Workplace features are the most significant professional satisfaction determinants, especially working in a cooperative and gender environment. The respondents have also noted the importance the adaptive environment of the educational institution, which contributes to the formation of productive characteristics, and, accordingly, affects the satisfaction with the place of employment (Mumford & Sechel, 2019). Feld et al (2013), explore the determinants of life satisfaction of economists.…”

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Formation of future economist professional competence in adaptive-digital environment conditions of higher educational institution

Sydoruk

Bakhmat

Poberezhetsʹ

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The purpose of the academic paper lies in assessing the state of formation of future economists’ professional competence within the conditions of the adaptive-digital environment of a higher educational institution. Methodology. The level of digitalization of higher educational institutions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and France has been assessed in the research. Based on the OECD database, the skills of specialists needed in the labor markets in different countries have been evaluated. Results. Within the countries, significant differences are observed in the level of digitalization, which will determine and influence the competence of a future specialist. The development of digital technologies in the HEI poses a threat and causes developing various groups of students - future economists’ skills. In practical activities, an economist should possess highly developed technical, digital, and mathematical skills. The lack of critical thinking skills among specialists (0,245 in the Czech Republic and 0,255 in Germany) or active learning is particularly acute. This means that the development of this skill requires time, which is limited within the conditions of digitalization of higher education. The lack of social skills developing the professional competence of economists has been also observed in the Czech Republic, France, and Germany.

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Formation of future economist professional competence in adaptive-digital environment conditions of higher educational institution

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“…, 1992). In a related research, Mumford and Sechel (2019) assess individual and workplace characteristics of faculty satisfaction with a sample of 668 faculty members of the economics departments in the United Kingdom. They assessed overall job satisfaction with one item: “Overall how satisfied are you with your job these days?”.…”

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Development of a faculty satisfaction questionnaire for Ecuadorian higher institutions

Aguilar

Parraga²,

Gracia³

2022

JARHE

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a context-specific scale to assess faculty job satisfaction for Ecuadorian higher education institutions.Design/methodology/approachA draft questionnaire was developed after reviewing the literature. Then, following a pilot study the questionnaire was administered to a stratified random sample of 261 faculty members of an Ecuadorian University. An exploratory factor analysis based on a pairwise polychoric correlation matrix was carried out to validate the scale.FindingsA 24-item faculty satisfaction questionnaire was developed. The scale showed high reliability and validity. Following an exploratory factor analysis five dimensions emerged: 1) rewards and benefits, 2) IT and facilities services, 3) administrative and other campus services, 4) teaching support and development and 5) working relationships.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough our sample size is considered good, the ratio subjects to items of 6:1 was just above the recommended minimum. Due to the split questionnaire design for the research support and community services support sections and the fact that more than a half of the participants did not fill them we had to exclude the items from those sections from the analysis.Practical implicationsThe scale can be used by higher education institutions to assess faculty satisfaction periodically.Originality/valueTo our knowledge this is the first study to develop a context-specific instrument to measure job satisfaction in Ecuadorian higher education institutions using exploratory factor analysis.

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“…One area that has been looked at, possibly due to the relative ease of data collection, is academia. Being in a cooperative environment is related to higher job satisfaction among academic economists [ 46 ], and the perceived strength of a departmental chair is positively related to job satisfaction while being negatively related to leaving intentions, which may also be related to their impact on fostering a positive academic environment [ 47 ]. While academia and healthcare jobs perhaps have little in common, it seems as though having positive relationships with both managers and colleagues may be uniquely important for job satisfaction and employee retention more generally.…”

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Satisfaction and attrition in the UK healthcare sector over the past decade

Ocean

Meyer

2023

PLoS ONE

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Existing literature has highlighted concerns over working conditions in the UK National Health Service (NHS), with healthcare workers frequently citing work-life balance issues and stress as being drivers of attrition and burnout. However, we do not know whether these problems have become worse over time, particularly over the past decade, during which there have been multiple shocks to the UK healthcare system. To investigate this, we analysed data from NHS monthly workforce statistics and the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Three times as many workers left the NHS in 2021 for work-life balance reasons than in 2011, while estimated satisfaction with one’s amount of leisure time for healthcare workers fell by three times the amount that it fell for non-healthcare workers. Both satisfaction with amount of leisure time and satisfaction with income have remained lower for healthcare workers than for other public sector workers. By 2020, a worker that had low satisfaction with their amount of leisure time was as much as 22 percentage points less likely than in 2010 to remain in healthcare in the following year. Overall, working conditions in UK healthcare have deteriorated between 2010 and 2020, especially relative to the private sector. However, overall job satisfaction has fallen faster in other areas of the public sector than it has in healthcare, which may indicate wider issues within the UK public sector as a whole.

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Job satisfaction amongst academic economists in the UK

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Formation of future economist professional competence in adaptive-digital environment conditions of higher educational institution

Formation of future economist professional competence in adaptive-digital environment conditions of higher educational institution

Development of a faculty satisfaction questionnaire for Ecuadorian higher institutions

Satisfaction and attrition in the UK healthcare sector over the past decade

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