Relations of Career Plateau and Supervisory Support on Career Satisfaction

Career plateau is one of the major concept that has been around any organization in last decades and also that was changing the handling with it in a recent years.in this study addresses the factors that affect the job satisfaction and job plateau for instance challenging environment create positive attitude and more efficient outcome. It is doubtful to say that the employee will feel better and good or in another way that they are satisfied in their careers without any developing in their position and any action from the management in such organization. Managements would make efforts to minimize the chances of career plateau from occurring by supporting their employees' career development within the organization. By doing so, career plateau chances can be reduced, which will positively affect career satisfaction. When employees have an ongoing development in their careers they tend to be more satisfied with their jobs than those who have reached a plateau in their careers.

Learning to Work, Working to Learn

The Great Recession of 2008 focused minds on many issues of the economy and of society generally. It also focused considerable attention on the workings and results of higher education. Students were faced with spiraling tuition costs, while graduates were looking at burgeoning debt and the diminishing life-long financial returns on their degree investment. These prompted a reconsideration of the economic value of the college degree and of graduate employability. This chapter examines graduate employability from a perspective of what has been called new vocationalism. The challenges and potential of new vocationalism are explored against the framework of students who wish to enter employment and who believe that it is their best interests, and in the best interests of future employers and of society at large, if they are better prepared for transition to the workplace. The chapter argues for a reconsideration of vocationalism and suggests ways in which a closer and more authentic connection can be made between what is learned and what is needed to empower new graduates in the work-world.

The Roles of Lifelong Learning and Knowledge Management in Global Higher Education

This chapter reveals the roles of lifelong learning and knowledge management (KM) in global higher education, thus explaining the theoretical and practical concepts of lifelong learning and KM; the application of KM; and the significance of lifelong learning and KM in global higher education. The utilization of lifelong learning and KM is necessary for higher education institutions (HEIs) that seek to serve students and faculties, increase educational performance, strengthen competitiveness, and achieve continuous success in global higher education. Therefore, it is essential for HEIs to examine their lifelong learning applications, develop a strategic plan to regularly check their practical advancements, and immediately respond to lifelong learning and KM needs of customers in modern HEIs. Applying lifelong learning and KM in global higher education will significantly enhance organizational performance and reach strategic goals in the digital age.

Lifelong Learning in Knowledge Society

Education focus is shifting from “teaching” to “learning” today. Faculty roles are changing from lecturing to primarily “designers of learning methods and environments” (Fink 2003). Brookfield (1985) argues that teachers' role is to “facilitate” the acquisition of knowledge, not “transmit” it. NRC (2000) recommends that the goal of education shift from an emphasis on comprehensive coverage of subject matter to helping students develop their own intellectual tools and learning strategies. If you ask most teachers what is the greatest gift that they could give their students, today, most will answer “the desire and skills for lifelong learning.” It's not that it isn't important to learn some facts while in college; these will likely be necessary for future employment, but more important though is having the skill to learn on one's own after leaving college. The chapter revolves around this single, most-important skill which will empower for a lifetime. So, how it should be one of highest priorities especially in knowledge society forms the core of this chapter.

Ontology Based Intelligent System for Online Employer Demand Analysis

Identifying employer demand is crucial for a nation to ensure it develops accurate and reliable education, workforce development and immigration policies. Skills shortages globally pose a real and urgent need for proper investigation and workforce development planning into the future. Analysing workforce development and employer demand needs through online job market allows much deeper and wider research into skill shortages. Current methods do not provide the level of depth required to address such important economic implications. In this chapter, the authors present an intelligent system aiming to gather and analyse current employer demand information from online job advertisements. An Employer Demand Ontology has been developed and to further the ontology functionality, the Employer Demand Identification Tool has been developed as a semi-automated means to gather and analyse current employer demand information on a regular basis.

Giving Painkillers to a Dying Patient

The issue of unemployment and especially youth unemployment is one of the most urgent and gloomy issues in the European Union. In the case of Greece, in particular, this phenomenon is closely linked to the financial, fiscal and debt crisis creating extremely negative conditions and prospects for the Greek economy and society. This chapter highlights key issues of the current situation in the field of unemployment and especially youth unemployment in Greece, drawing the image of reality on vocational education and training (initial and continuing). It also shows the diachronic ineffectiveness of policies concerning educational and vocational training in Greece. Finally, the chapter proposes the context of a critical and institutional framework for the development of a realistic policy for vocational training and education and social cohesion in times of crisis.

I Have a Story to Tell You

The current study was conducted to learn the factors affecting students' satisfaction in distance learning (DL) and to understand students' perceptions of the barriers to their studies. The study consists of two parts: qualitative and quantitative. In the quantitative part, survey was used, and in the qualitative part, case study was used. The research covers the academic year of 2012-13. The results reveals students' perspectives, expectations, experiences, and satisfaction about the newly established distance learning program and based on these give important notes and suggest to redesign and rethink teaching methodologies in distance education especially in high uncertainty avoidance cultures like Turkey.

Identifying the Determinates of Entrepreneurial Intention

The prime aim of this study was to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students at university level. This study employs attitude towards the behavior, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control as predictors and entrepreneurial intention as a dependent variable. The data were gathered through structured questionnaire. Respondents of this study were picked through convenience sampling technique. A total of 400 sets of questionnaire were distributed to the targeted respondents while 384 individuals were participated in the study. This study was a descriptive in nature. Most of the respondents showed their intention to be entrepreneur. This study will be a milestone for potential researchers. In future, researchers can conduct empirical studies on this topic.

A Comparative Study of Teachers' and Students' Use of Social Media for Interaction with Other People

Economic crisis strongly influences teaching. To promote effectiveness and competitiveness of teaching in higher education, teachers' and students' use of social media for interaction with other people has to be analysed. The research question is as following: are there any similarities and differences between teachers' and students' use of social media for interaction with other people? The purpose of the research is to compare teachers' and students' use of social media for interaction with other people. The meaning of the key concepts of “social media” and “web technologies” is studied. Exploratory research is used. The empirical study was based on teachers' and students' case studies. Descriptive statistics was implemented for primary data analysis. The findings allow drawing the conclusions on the teachers' and students' use of social media for interaction with other people. A hypothesis is proposed. Directions of further research are formulated.

IT in Higher Education-Possibilities and Prospects in an Era of Economic Crisis

A 21st Century Classroom is a learning environment that incorporates current critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills into traditional core knowledge instruction. Fostering this space will enable students to integrate core subjects and lead to a deeper understanding of global awareness and greater economic, civic, health and environmental literacy. Skeptics have argued that transforming higher education, especially to attenuate its cost is something, which we know, but we cannot get it. However, information technology is a way to achieve this required transformation. This chapter explores explore how information technology might help achieve this transformation to advance higher education, and its prospects for success.