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Mentor Effectiveness And Its Correlation With Physician Assistant Faculty Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intentions, Amy Bronson
Mentor Effectiveness And Its Correlation With Physician Assistant Faculty Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intentions, Amy Bronson
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Growth in physician assistant training programs is resulting in an increasing demand for qualified physician assistant faculty. Gaining an understanding of mentoring in PA education and its relationship to faculty job satisfaction and faculty turnover intentions is important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the effectiveness of mentoring in relation to faculty perceived levels of job satisfaction and faculty turnover intentions for Physician Assistant (PA) Educators in the United States. A correlative cross-sectional web-based survey design, created from a combination of The Mentor Effectiveness Questionnaire, Job in General Scale, and the Turnover Intentions Measure, were …
Job Embeddedness: The Pulls Of Staying For Teachers In The International School Setting, Ann M. Jurewicz
Job Embeddedness: The Pulls Of Staying For Teachers In The International School Setting, Ann M. Jurewicz
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The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that influence retention of teachers in the international school setting using the construct of job embeddedness. As the largest global study of its kind to date, 975 respondents hired for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years were surveyed through the four main recruitment agencies: Search Associates, International School Services, Council of International Schools, and the Association of America Schools in South America. Applying a quantitative research method, the study first assessed the influence of any demographic factors significant in teacher retention regarding region, age, tenure status, number of overseas contracts, …