The shortage of school-based agricultural education (SBAE) teachers in the United States has been a chronic issue for decades. Besides not having sufficient graduates our teacher preparation programs, number SBAE annually leaving profession further exacerbates problem. While reasons why leave are well-documented, little research examined career retention factors and they stay. purpose study was...

Professionally trained, motivated, and responsible forestry workers are a fundamental prerequisite of successful forest production an integral part the modern, generally accepted paradigm sustainable management. However, sector today is increasingly facing problem shortage challenge obtaining qualified workforce. This paper, therefore, presents reflections on challenges future perspectives thei...

This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches, punitive consequence and logical consequence, to change employees’ non-work related computing (NWRC) behaviors in the workplace. Employees’ affective commitment to change (change by desire), normative commitment to change (change by obligation), and continuance commitment to change (change by cost-benefit comparison) were compared. A betw...

In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discussion of what drives fertility decisions after dissolution has been largely dominated by the arguments that: (a) people want to have a child as a way to achieve the adult status of parenthood (the "parenthood hypothesis"), and that (b) a shared child can signal the partners' commitment to each oth...

T he nursing profession is being faced with the dilemma of increasing retention and decreasing turnover of nursing staff in the face of economic limitations. Given the current state of the economy, turnover has decreased significantly as retir-ees continue to work and part-time employees work full-time to support their families. As a profession, nursing needs to be forward thinking ; as the eco...

Globally, there are ongoing problems with teacher retention, leading to a loss of experience and expertise. In policy research, the emphasis is often on professional development retention early career teachers, whereas teachers in later stages their relatively under-represented. This article addresses this imbalance, reporting mixed methods scoping study that explores definitions mid-career Eng...

Over 1,000 U.S. Army officers responded to two surveys over a two-year period. Results indicated that mentoring was positively related to affective commitment and continuance commitment and negatively related to “turnover behavior.” The relationship with affective commitment was moderated by the conditions of mentorship (supervisory versus nonsupervisory) but not by the type of mentoring suppor...