Goal Congruence and Positivity Toward College Major: The Role of Self‐Connection

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-179
Author(s):  
Kristine Klussman ◽  
Meghan I. Huntoon Lindeman ◽  
Austin Lee Nichols ◽  
Julia Langer
Keyword(s):  
College Major ◽  
Goal Congruence

Undergraduate Prescription Stimulant Misuse and Academic Strain: The Role of College Major and Graduate School Plans

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Norman ◽  
Jason A. Ford
Keyword(s):  
College Major ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prescription Stimulants ◽  
Prescription Stimulant Misuse ◽  
Education Plans ◽  
School Plans ◽  
The Relationship

The literature has shown that undergraduates engage in the misuse of prescription stimulants in large part to meet academic demands and as an attempt to alleviate academic stress. The current study examined the relationship between misusing prescription stimulants for academic purposes and academic strains (academic stress, grade strain, and academic impediments) to determine whether prescription stimulant misuse (PSM) and the types of academic strains experienced by undergraduates differed based on their college major and postgraduate education plans. We utilized survey data that had been collected from 924 students at a large southeastern university in 2014, which specifically assessed for PSM. Results indicated significant differences in the misuse of prescription stimulants based on the types of academic strains experienced, college major, and postgraduate education plans. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

What if a college major isn’t enough? Cognitive skills and the relationship between US college majors and earnings

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 410-420
Author(s):  
Karly S. Ford ◽  
Junghee Choi ◽  
David P. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
College Major ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Data Set ◽  
College Majors ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship

Policy discussions in the United States on the link between college majors and earnings have under-appreciated the role of cognitive skills. This study uses the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, a unique data set that contains information on individual cognitive skills, college majors and earnings to investigate the relationships between them. The authors find that variation in numeracy and literacy skills is significantly associated with earnings for graduates of the same major. Also, there is an interactional effect between majors and cognitive skills to explain earnings. The findings shed light on the importance of considering cognitive skills when assessing the relationship between college majors and labour market outcomes.

Student Evaluations of the Ethics of Marketing Practices: The Role of Marketing Education

1972 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Del I. Hawkins ◽  
A. Benton Cocanougher
Keyword(s):  
College Major ◽  
College Education ◽  
Student Evaluations ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Future Business

The role of college education in providing an “ethical framework” for evaluating marketing practices is examined. The effects of a specialized college major on an individual's evaluative framework are suggested and the implications of these findings discussed in terms of both marketing education and future business-society relations.

Goal congruence in teams and performance: The role of (shared) psychological contract fulfilment

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Frits Schreuder ◽  
René Schalk ◽  
Sasa Batistič
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Goal Congruence ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
Team Alignment ◽  
And Performance

AbstractThis study examines the motivating effects of goal congruence on outcomes in teams. Building on psychological contract theory and theories of person–environment fit, we proposed at the team level of analysis a mediating role of psychological contract fulfilment (PCF) and moderating effects of task interdependence and team identification. The results indicate partial mediation of shared PCF in the goal congruence – team performance relationships and a significant moderation effect of team identification with team alignment in learning goal orientations.

Temporal leadership and employee workplace deviance: The role of perceived illegitimate tasks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wan ◽  
Aimin Wang ◽  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Workplace Deviance ◽  
Goal Congruence ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Drawing on the literature on perceived illegitimate tasks, we investigated, with 216 participants, how temporal leadership affects employee workplace deviance. Our findings show that temporal leadership effectively reduced employee workplace deviance. In addition, perceived illegitimate tasks played a mediating role in the relationship between temporal leadership and employee workplace deviance, and goal congruence moderated the indirect effect of temporal leadership on employee workplace deviance through perceived illegitimate tasks. Practical implications and suggestions for future studies are discussed.

scholarly journals Let's work together, especially in the pandemic: finding ways to encourage problem-focused voice behavior among passionate employees

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Renato Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Voice Behavior ◽  
Goal Congruence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
Positive Work ◽  
Passion For Work

PurposeThis study seeks to unravel the relationship between employees' passion for work and their engagement in problem-focused voice behavior by identifying a mediating role of their efforts to promote work-related goal congruence and a moderating role of their perceptions of pandemic threats to the organization.Design/methodology/approachThe research hypotheses were tested with quantitative data collected through a survey instrument administered among 158 employees in a large Portuguese-based organization that operates in the food sector, in the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The Process macro was applied to assess the moderated mediation dynamic that underpins the proposed theoretical framework.FindingsEmployees' positive work-related energy enhances their propensity to speak up about organizational failures because they seek to find common ground with their colleagues with respect to the organization's goals and future. The mediating role of such congruence-promoting efforts is particularly prominent to the extent that employees dwell on the threats that a pandemic holds for their organization.Practical implicationsThe study pinpoints how HR managers can leverage a negative situation—employees who cannot keep the harmful organizational impact of a life-threatening virus out of their minds—into productive outcomes, by channeling positive work energy, derived from their passion for work, toward activities that bring organizational problems into the open.Originality/valueThis study adds to HR management research by unveiling how employees' attempts to gather their coworkers around a shared work-related mindset can explain how their passion might spur reports of problem areas, as well as explicating how perceived pandemic-related threats activate this process.

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