Empowerment through self-improvement skills: The role of learning goals and personal growth initiative

Predictors of Empowerment Among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective

To predict the factors that influence undergraduate nursing students' perception of empowerment.

Methods

A cross-sectional design was used, and fourth-year nursing students (n = 164) were selected using convenient sampling. The data collection methods included the Arabic version of self-reported questionnaires: The (LES), (LOGO-II), and (UNSASS).

Results

The results showed a positive correlation between nursing students' perception of empowerment and their attitudes toward learning. Also, the results showed a strong correlation between students' perception of empowerment and their academic satisfaction. In addition, in-class teaching was found to be the strongest predictor of students' perception of empowerment.

Conclusions

Verified the factors that may contribute to promoting the teaching-learning process to focus and stress on them. Teachers and instructors should utilize the available resources in the teaching environment to maximize the learning outcomes. All these factors are not limited and will enhance the nursing students' perception of empowerment.

Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality

BACKGROUND

Teachers' instructional quality is critical to student learning and development. However, the affordance of different aspects of instructional quality remains underexplored.

AIMS

This study explores the relationship between teachers' personal growth initiative (PGI) and teacher engagement and instructional quality.

SAMPLE

The data were collected from 998 teachers (82.9% female, average years of teaching experience = 15.25, SD = 10.29) from China.

METHODS

The participants completed an anonymous online survey questionnaire that examined their PGI, work engagement and self-reported instructional quality. Structural equation modelling and bootstrapping were performed to determine the differentiated associations between PGI and each aspect of the teachers' self-reported instructional quality.

RESULTS

The results confirmed the critical role of PGI in teacher engagement and self-reported instructional quality. To varying degrees, the dimensions of teacher engagement, except for cognitive engagement, mediated the association between PGI and self-reported instructional quality.

CONCLUSIONS

The teachers' self-reported data showed that their motivation for personal growth played an important role in improving their instructional quality. The teachers' emotional engagement and social engagement with colleagues were positively related to classroom management, and their social engagement with students was associated with a supportive climate.

What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

Purpose

The purpose of the study is threefold: first, to identify what factors influence mobile users' willingness of news learning and sharing, second, to find out whether users' learning in the news platforms will affect their sharing behavior and third, to access the impact of sharing intention on actual sharing behavior on the mobile platform.

Design/methodology/approach

This study proposes an influence mechanism model for examining the relationship among the factors, news learning and news sharing. The proposed mechanism includes factors at three levels: personal, interpersonal and social level. To achieve this, researchers collected data from 474 mobile news users in China to test the hypotheses. The tools SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 23.0 were used to analysis the reliability, validity, model fits and structural equation modeling (SEM), respectively.

Findings

The findings indicate that news learning on the mobile platforms is affected by self-efficacy and self-enhancement. And news sharing intention is influenced by self-efficacy, interpersonal trust, interpersonal reciprocity, online community identity and social norms positively. News sharing intention has a significant effect on news sharing behavior, but news learning has an insignificant relationship with new sharing.

Originality/value

This study provides practical guidelines for mobile platform operators and news media managers by explicating the various factors of users' engagement on the news platforms. This paper also enriches the literature of news learning and news sharing on mobile by the integration of two theories: the social ecology theory and the interpersonal behavior theory.

Continuous learning during crises: achieving change-efficacy, meaningful work and adaptive performance

Purpose

The study aims to examine the association between learning culture and adaptive performance of delivery employees during crises situation. The study develops and tests a model that explains how learning culture, through change-efficacy and meaningful work, influences employees' adaptive performance (including how they handle crisis situations and deal with uncertainty).

Design/methodology/approach

Data was collected from 298 delivery employees working in e-commerce companies throughout India in a time-lagged manner. Regression analysis and structural equation modeling were performed to assess the influence of learning culture, change-efficacy and meaningful work on adaptive performance using SPSS 24. Further, PROCESS macro was used to test the parallel mediation effects through bootstrapping approach.

Findings

The study establishes a significant direct and indirect relationship between learning culture and adaptive performance for employees. Further, underpinning the transformative learning theory (Mezirow, 1997), and job characteristics theory (1976), this study came across two pathways for organizations to transform their learning efforts into improved adaptive performance for employees.

Practical implications

Organizations, particularly in crisis situations, can leverage employees' change-efficacy and meaningful work to connect learning efforts with employees' adaptive performance.

Originality/value

The study contributes significantly to existing theory on transformative learning and job characteristics theory while strengthening the literature on antecedents of employees' adaptive performance, particularly in crises situation.

Challenging experiences: recommendations for promoting individual development

Purpose

Existing research on challenging experiences has focused primarily on the positive outcomes of these experiences for individuals and organizations. However, some studies have also highlighted the potential downsides to these experiences. This paper offers recommendations for organizations, including specific actions and interventions to foster development using challenging experiences.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors reviewed the academic and practitioner literature on challenging experiences to formulate their recommendations.

Findings

Based on a review of the literature, the authors offer five recommendations for organizations to manage challenging experiences effectively and, thus, foster the development of their employees.

Originality/value

The authors hope that the adoption of their five recommendations may assist organizations in improving their leadership bench strength.