EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION: AN ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
B J Erasmus ◽  
A Grobler ◽  
M Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Intent To Stay ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Organisational Climate ◽  
Talent Retention

Talent retention and employee turnover are major concerns for higher education institutions (HEIs) because they are losing highly qualified staff to the private sector and to other HEIs that are able to offer better rewards and benefits. The turnover of talented staff is therefore a major concern for the institution under investigation. The retention and voluntary turnover decisions among a workforce of 4 651 employees was thus investigated. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted by means of the objective analysis of organisational data in combination with the structured questionnaire (organisational climate survey). Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyse the data across demographic groups, including age, employment category (academic as well as professional and support), etc. The results indicated that the institution’s turnover rate was acceptable (4.34%) and that dysfunctional turnover was marginal because employees with below-standard performance ratings had voluntarily resigned. Positive correlations and significant beta (b) values were reported between Organisational citizenship, Leadership, My manager and Compensation and the employees’ intent to stay in or to leave the organisation. These organisational climate factors were found to explain approximately 30 per cent of the variance in the employees’ intent to stay in or to leave the organisation. The article recommends that a talent retention tool be developed. In addition, it contributes to the literature on retention and turnover of high-performing employees, as it underscores the importance of measuring employee turnover

COVID-19 AND THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN THE EXTREME SOUTH OF BAHIA

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Private College ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Impacts

Introduction: The current pandemic experienced in Brazil and worldwide has caused numerous problems in all sectors of the economy, interfering directly in the educational area, from pre-school to higher education, it is well known that without students, there will be no educational institution and this class has been very affected since the beginning of the infection by COVID-19. Methodology: A cross-sectional study of the opinion survey type was carried out; the sample consisted of university students from a private college in the southernmost part of Bahia, where all participants agreed to answer the questionnaire. Results and Discussions: a total of 128 students were interviewed, 28.90% identified themselves as male, 70.31% identified themselves as female and 0.79% identified themselves as other. It was possible through this study to realize the negative impacts of social isolation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic that has been established in the year 2020.

scholarly journals Comportamentos de risco para doenças crônicas em trabalhadores

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 889
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Ramos Costa ◽  
Vanessa Neckel Derin ◽  
Daysa Da Silva Palmeira ◽  
Verusca Soares de Souza ◽  
Elen Ferraz Teston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Enseñanza Superior ◽  
Factores De Riesgo

RESUMOObjetivo: identificar as condições e comportamentos de risco para as doenças crônicas em servidores de uma instituição de ensino superior. Método: estudo quantitativo, transversal, com 134 servidores de uma instituição de ensino superior. Utilizou-se um formulário autoaplicável. Os dados foram tabulados em planilha do Microsoft Excel® 2010 para posterior processamento e análise no programa SPSS por meio de estatística descritiva. Os resultados foram apresentados em tabelas. Resultados: dos participantes 62,7% eram do sexo feminino, 32,1% possuíam doutorado, 81,3% não possuíam casa própria e 44% têm renda superior a 10 salários mínimos. Quanto aos comportamentos de risco observou-se que 18,7 não praticam atividade física, 63,4% trocam o jantar por lanche e 15,7% sentem-se ansiosos. Conclusão: que os servidores apresentaram condições e comportamentos de risco para as doenças crônicas sinalizando que ações de promoção à saúde e prevenção de doenças necessitam ser implantadas de forma permanente na instituição de ensino estudada. Descritores:Trabalhador; Doença Crônica; Assunção de Riscos; Saúde do Trabalhador; Fatores de Risco; Prevenção de Doenças.ABSTRACT Objective: to identify conditions and risk behaviors for chronic diseases in servers of a higher education institution. Method: a quantitative cross-sectional study with 134 employees of a higher education institution. A self-administered form was used. The data were tabulated in a Microsoft Excel® 2010 worksheet for further processing and analysis in the SPSS program using descriptive statistics. The results were presented in tables. Results: of the participants 62.7% were female, 32.1% had a doctorate, 81.3% did not own a house, and 44% had an income above 10 minimum wages. Regarding the risk behaviors, it was observed that 18.7 do not practice physical activity, 63.4% exchange dinner for snack and 15.7% feel anxious. Conclusion: that the servers presented conditions and risk behaviors for the chronic diseases signaling that actions of health promotion and prevention of diseases need to be permanently implanted in the studied institution. Descriptors: Workers; Disease Chronic; Risk-Taking; Occupational health; Risck Factors; Disease Prevention.RESUMEN Objetivo: identificar las condiciones y comportamientos de riesgo para las enfermedades crónicas en servidores de una institución de enseñanza superior. Método: estudio cuantitativo, transversal, con 134 funcionarios de una institución de enseñanza superior. Se empleó un formulario auto-aplicable. Los datos se ordenaron en una planilla de Microsoft Excel® 2010 para posterior procesamiento y análisis en el programa SPSS por medio de la estadística descriptiva. Los resultados se presentaron en tablas. Resultados: de los participantes, el 62,7% eran del sexo femenino, 32,1% con doctorado, 81,3% no tenían casa propia y 44% tienen renta mayor que dos salarios mínimos. Respecto a los comportamientos de riesgo, se observó que el 18,7% no practican actividad física, 63,4% cambian la cena por merienda y el 15,7% se sienten ansiosos. Conclusión: que los funcionarios presentan condiciones y comportamientos de riesgo para las enfermedades crónicas señalizando que acciones de fomento a la salud y prevención de enfermedades necesitan implantarse de forma permanente en la institución de enseñanza estudiada. Descriptores: Trabajadores; Enfermedad Crónica; Assunción de Riegos; Salud Laboral; Factores de Riesgo; Prevención de Enfermidades.

scholarly journals Knowledge of undergraduates in dentistry about tooth brushing techniques

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Luis Alexandre Moura Penteado ◽  
Ingrid Webb Josephson Ribeiro Sanada ◽  
Lidia Virginia Curvêllo ◽  
Jefferson Tomio Sanada
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Tooth Brushing ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Evaluation Functions

AIM: This cross-sectional study aimed to determine whether undergraduates in dentistry identify correctly the Bass, Scrub, Modified Stillman, Chartes, Roll and Fones brushing techniques, as well as determine which techniques are more properly identified and which have a lower rate of recognition. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The sample consisted of undergraduates of the 9th and 10th periods over the year of 2010/02 and the 9th period of the 2011/01 year of the Dentistry course of Higher Education Institution (HEI), who answered a questionnaire on a sequence of videos about tooth brushing. The collected data were tabulated in Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet and subsequently analyzed using descriptive statistics. RESULTS: When evaluating all the techniques, the number of all hits had a percentage 61%, before a frequency of 39% errors. CONCLUSION: Even with the higher percentage of accuracy that the error, it is possible conclude that there is a need for strengthening the control and evaluation functions on recognition of tooth brushing techniques by dentistry undergraduate students of the HEI.

scholarly journals Motivation and Productivity of Employees in Higher Education during the First Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jacqueline R. Rietveld ◽  
Djoerd Hiemstra ◽  
Aleid E. Brouwer ◽  
Jan Waalkens
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Motivational Process

In a cross-sectional study among 623 employees of a higher education institution, we examined the relations between perceived competence, autonomy, relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and productivity during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. The results indicate that, relative to the period before the lockdown, the employees experienced an increase in autonomy and competence, but a decrease in relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and productivity. Structural equation modelling revealed that the decrease in productivity can be explained by a decrease in intrinsic motivation, which in turn can be explained by changes in relatedness, autonomy, and perceived competence. Thus, during the lockdown, both positive and negative motivational consequences of teleworking were observed. However, the ultimate consequence for employees’ productivity was negative. An important difference between this study and previous studies on the topic of teleworking, is that the present examined the motivational process under extreme circumstances in which employees had to switch overnight form onsite to remote working.

scholarly journals Rurality and Dropout in Virtual Higher Education Programmes in Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4953
Author(s):  
Alfredo Guzmán Rincón ◽  
Sandra Barragán ◽  
Favio Cala Vitery
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Stratum ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Rural Student

As part of the 2030 Agenda, higher education has been conceptualised as one of the ways to overcome the social disparities experienced in rural areas in Colombia. Thus, in concordance with the benefits of this level of education, the state has been designing public policies during the last few years, in order to facilitate access to undergraduate programmes to these populations, focusing mainly on the implementation of the virtual modality. In this context, it is recognised that access itself is not enough, but that continuance and timely graduation are required to materialise the benefits obtained along with a higher education degree; hence, dropout is a subject of interest for study, especially due to the high rates existing in the rural student population. Therefore, the event of dropout becomes an obstacle to social change and transformation in rural areas. Thus, this article aimed to identify which individual, institutional, academic and socio-economic characteristics influence rural student dropout in virtual undergraduate programmes in Colombia. For this purpose, an exploratory, quantitative and cross-sectional study was proposed, with a sample of 291 students to whom a student characterisation instrument and a classroom evaluation instrument were applied. With these data, it was proceeded to establish which of them had deserted, constituting the extraction of the sample of the study, which were 168. With the information, an exploratory factor analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis and descriptive statistics were used to establish which explanatory variables are involved in the dropout of this type of student. The results showed that the academic variables analysed do not have an impact on the event, while marital status (associated with family obligations), age, social stratum, work obligations, parents’ level of education and type of work, income and type of employment relationship of the student, and, finally, the number of people who depend on the family’s income do.

Examining the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Academic Performance: Implications for Diversity and Equity in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 152102512110538
Author(s):  
Heather Mechler ◽  
Kathryn Coakley ◽  
Marygold Walsh-Dilley ◽  
Sarita Cargas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on the experience of food insecurity among students at higher education institutions. Most of the literature has focused on undergraduates in the eastern and midwestern regions of the United States. This cross-sectional study of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at a Minority Institution in the southwestern United States is the first of its kind to explore food insecurity among diverse students that also includes data on gender identity and sexual orientation. When holding other factors constant, food-insecure students were far more likely to fail or withdraw from a course or to drop out entirely. We explore the role that higher education can play in ensuring students’ basic needs and implications for educational equity.

scholarly journals Perception on Management of Nursing Education Institutes among Bachelors Students in Selected Nursing Colleges at Kathmandu

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Bhuwan Kumari Dangol ◽  
Narbada Thapa
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Current Status ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Organizational Goals

Management is a process of planning, decision making, organizing, leading, motivating and controlling, and an effective utilization of the resources to reach the organizational goals efficiently and effectively. Management has a crucial role in quality of work and production in any institutions. Although a rapid increase of Nursing Education Institutions in Nepal since last decade which had been trained thousands of nursing cadres, the management aspects of these institutions are not studied adequately. Thus current study intended to explore the current status of Nursing Education Institution Management as experienced and perceived by the bachelors nursing students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among the nursing institutions in Kathmandu valley. Of the total 28 in the valley, 14 were selected purposively. From the selected institutions, all 377 eligible students currently in final year of study were selected. Among them, 208were from BSN and 169 were from B Sc program.  The data was collected through the self administered structured questioners after taking informed consent. Data entry and analysis was done in SPSS version 16 software. The findings of the study show that 70% students were satisfied in institutional management (mean59.62, SD ± 3.66). In academic management (78%), (mean139.82, SD ± 6.22), followed by human resources 67%, (mean43.54, SD ± 2.79) and were in physical resources management 75% students were satisfied (mean45.02, SD ± 3.08). Analysis of variations between group (administrators, faculties, students) found statistical significance (p value <0.05). So it is concluded the perception of students, faculties and administrator were different on managing the nursing education.

scholarly journals Tuberculosis: knowledge among nursing undergraduate students

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1279-1287
Author(s):  
Cleina de Fátima Carvalho ◽  
Maria Amélia Zanon Ponce ◽  
Reinaldo Antonio da Silva-Sobrinho ◽  
Roberto Della Rosa Mendez ◽  
Mariana Alvina dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the knowledge about tuberculosis among nursing undergraduate students of a Federal Higher Education Institution. Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study, with quantitative approach. Data were collected through a questionnaire based on the WHO’s guide to developing evaluation instruments on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to TB. Students were classified as “with knowledge” and “with little knowledge” based on the mean percentage of correct responses to the variables analyzed. Descriptive statistics techniques were used. Results: 60 nursing students were interviewed. “with little knowledge” was observed among students who were studying at the university for less time and who had no previous contact with the subject, and “with knowledge” was observed among those whose knowledge about tuberculosis was acquired in the health services. Conclusion: Knowledge gaps among undergraduate nursing students were identified, suggesting the need to rethink teaching-learning strategies on the subject.

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