scholarly journals A Study of Organizational Cynicism Among Employee Groups in a Multi-Campus Public University in Ghana: Does the Level of Education Matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Organizational Cynicism ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Employee Groups ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
One Way Anova

This paper, which was part of a larger study, investigates the relationship between Organizational Cynicism (OC) and the level of education of three employee groups – Teaching Staff (TS), Non-Teaching Staff (NTS), and Senior Staff (SS) – of a multi-campus public University in Northern Ghana. Valid data were collected from 192 employees of the University for Development Studies (UDS) and analysed. A one-way ANOVA and Correlation Analyses were used to respectively determine the cynicism level of the three employee groups; and the relationship between the employees’ level of education and their cynical tendencies in the University. The study found a significant relationship between employees’ cynicism and their level of education; and that the two variables are inversely related. The findings also indicate that the SS group has the highest prevalence of cynicism in the University, followed by the TS, and then the NTS. Some theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Relationship between Social Context and L2 Learning of EFL Students in Tertiary Level

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Silvia Morales
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Public University ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Teaching Procedure ◽  
L2 Learning ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Relationship

This research analyzed the influence of socioeconomic variables in the L2 learning in beginner students of level one in a language center in a public university in Babahoyo. In addition, variables such as parents’ level of education and home environment are analyzed in order to determine the relationship between these variables with L2 learning. Regarding the results, socioeconomic status affects pronunciation of students. Moreover, the influence of the critical period of hypothesis tends to be reduced in L2 learners if the kind of teaching procedure is appropriate to their needs.

scholarly journals Adopt Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Using Hexagonal Diffraction to Enhance Quality of Educational Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-184
Author(s):  
Entesar Saber Al – Jubouri ◽  
Nada Abdel Razzaq Agha
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Strategic Performance ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Several researchers dealt with the balanced performance card, notably Kaplan and Norton, as they tried to use this card to measure the strategic performance of economic units across its four dimensions. This card is one of the most important approaches to measuring and evaluating the performance of economic units. The different units of their activities identify strengths and reinforce them, and deficiencies and treatment, and hence emerged the importance of adoption of the card in the economic units in general and educational in particular, to measure and evaluate performance by adopting the card in the field of education In addition, there are additional benefits to the previous benefits, which may include the continuous development of the curricula, tools and methods used by the faculties at the university to achieve its objectives in raising the level of education at this stage and measuring its impact on the quality level using the hexagonal diffraction and developing its objectives to meet the evolving needs of society, By improving quality by reducing defects and obstacles. The aim of the research is to clarify the concept of the four-dimensional performance card concept and the concept of educational quality, in addition to the concept of hexagonal diffraction, and the relationship between the balanced performance card on educational quality and measuring its effect using hexagonal diffraction.

scholarly journals The Perspective of Demographic Variables on Dynamic Capabilities in the Context Indonesian Traditional Market Trader

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Moh Farid Najib
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Homogeneity Of Variance ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
One Way Anova ◽  
Market Trader

Abstract This study motivated by the need to understand the determinants of dynamic capabilities in the traditional market traders in the context of the Indonesian traditional market. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of demographic variables such as gender, level of education and experience with the dynamic capabilities of traditional market traders. A survey has a to 400 traders of traditional markets in 16 traditional markets around Bandung, Indonesia. One-way ANOVA is used to test different groups, and previously the reliability and homogeneity of variance. The result of this research that there is no difference of demography (gender, level of education and experience) on the dynamic capabilities of traditional market traders in Bandung. The same is true for each dimension, they are; sensitivity capability, absorption capability, integration capability and innovation capability. Nevertheless, there are several dimensions with different capabilities seen from a gender for absorptive the and innovation capabilities, and experience for sensitivity capabilities.

scholarly journals Earthquake Risk Perception in Belgrade: Implications for Disaster Risk Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Planić ◽  
Vladimir Cvetković
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
One Way Anova ◽  
Age Category ◽  
Research Show

This paper presents quantitative research results regarding the influence of demographic factors on the earthquake risk perception of the citizens of Belgrade. This research aims to determine how much the citizens of Belgrade are aware of the risk and prepared to react in the event of an earthquake. The relationship between gender, age, level of education, and facility ownership with risk perception was examined. T-test, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to examine the relationship between the variables and the earthquake risk perception. The survey was conducted using a questionnaire that was given and then collected online among 235 Belgrade respondents during September 2020. The questions were divided into three categories. The first part of the questionnaire was consisted of general questions about the demographic characteristics of the respondents, then the questions that would determine the level of awareness of the respondents about earthquakes, and finally, the questions for determining the respondents' preparedness. The results of the research show that women have a higher perception of risk. It has been proven that the youngest respondents from the age category of 18-30 have the lowest risk perception. The influence of education level in no case showed a statistically significant correlation with risk perception.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

1. “Bringing to Presence That Which Is Other”: Religious Discourses, Public Pedagogy, and the University Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Seán Henry
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Public University ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

<?page nr="11"?>Abstract The relationship between religion and higher education is often characterized by anxieties around religion in the university classroom. These concerns frequently leverage around the assumption that religion is necessarily contentious for the public university, either because of the need to resist the exclusionary privileging of religions in public spaces, or because of sensitivities around the preservation of traditional religious orthodoxies in increasingly pluralist times. Interestingly, both approaches to the relationship between religion and university education rest on the assumption that religion is fundamentally immutable, incapable of contestation, re-interpretation, or change. With the view to moving past the limits of such perspectives, I suggest that religious language and symbol (as two features of religious discourse) are far more poetic, fluid, and open-ended than is often assumed, and that it is precisely this open-endedness that underscores the possibility of engaging pedagogically with religion in the context of the university classroom. In this regard, I trace the affinities between the open-endedness of religious discourses and the “publicness” of pedagogy, suggesting that both registers open up possibilities for new ways of existing and relating in the world that are at once activist, experimental, and demonstrative. I conclude by reflecting on how these affinities offer resources for recalibrating what we mean by student “becoming” at the interface between religion and the university <?page nr="12"?>classroom. I forward the view that the poetry of religious discourses offers students the chance to “become” in ways that unpredictably expand and disrupt the limits of religious identity and tradition, and in this way undermine the inevitable alignment of religion with either exclusion or preservation in the context of university life. Student becoming, understood in these terms, becomes less a matter of forming students into a streamlined understanding of religious identity in the context of the university, and more a matter of providing spaces for students to relate to such identities in potentially interruptive and public-facing ways.

scholarly journals The higher education and loyalty: a strategic tool to the retaining of clients

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Fabio Bergamo ◽  
Osvaldo Elias Farah ◽  
Antônio Carlos Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Management Area ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education In Brazil

With the expansion of the higher education in Brazil, the dropout phenomenon has reached a high-level concern among the university managers. In this study, are presented the theoretical bases of the element loyalty, prominence in the management area, in terms of maintenance of the relationship with the customers, applying it to the higher education environment. The characteristics of the student’s loyalty towards the institutions of higher education (known in Portuguese as IES, Instituições de Ensino Superior) are presented and deined, leading to managerial implications that can be relected in the universities and colleges that aim to increase the students’ retention levels.

TEACHER ABUSE AND ASSOCIATED SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 162-173
Author(s):  
Irma Ramos rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Public University ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Sociodemographic Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Associated Variables

Teacher abuse is an ancient practice at different educational levels, the attacks by teachers vary from verbal and physical abuse, social exclusion, among other forms of abuse. Objective: To analyze the relationship between teacher abuse with gender, age, career, and other associated variables in students of different careers from a public university in Mexico. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional, analytical study was carried out in 1149 first semester university students to collect the information, two questionnaires were applied, one on sociodemographic data and the other on teacher abuse. Results: Teacher abuse was presented in 10.5% of the participants, who claim to have been mistreated by at least one teacher in the current semester, 31.4% say they are afraid of attending university, 9.6% claim to fear a teacher. No differences were found between teacher abuse and the gender of the participants, or according to age, but there were differences according to the degree they were studying. Conclusions: Teacher abuse is a common practice in the university, this can cause in the student fear of teachers, fear of attending the university, absenteeism, school dropout and low academic performance.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Resilience & Mental Health among a Sample of University of Nizwa Students - Sultanate of Oman

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samer Rudwan ◽  
Saada Alhashimia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
One Way Anova

This study employs the descriptive approach to identify the relationship between resilience and mental health in light of some variables in a student sample at the University of Nisswa. The sample consisted of 1,000 students, including 403 men and (597) women. The sample random sampling. Two instruments were used: the resilience scale (Connor & Davidson , 2003) and the Arab Mental Health Scale (Abdel-Khalek, 2011). The psychometric properties of both scales were tested. To answer the study questions, the following statistics were used: Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, one-way ANOVA Test, LSD test, and regression analysis. The results indicate a positive correlation between mental health and resilience. There was also a significant difference between female and male students in terms of resilience and mental health in favor of female students; It seems that women are more resilient and healthier than men. The study of age differences did not reveal any differences. The study also indicates that resilience has a significant impact on mental health. Finally, the results were tweaked against the limitations of the study.

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