...Inusah Salifu Purpose This study explores union leaders' challenges in promoting industrial harmony in Ghanaian public universities and how they manage to maintain industrial harmony within Ghana's tripartite higher education (HE) labour relations system. Design/methodology/approach Guided...

...Rasha Kassem; Fotios Mitsakis Purpose This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of academic and professional Higher Education (HE) staff in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method survey questionnaire was sent to almost 300 UK HE...

... attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Higher education Bullying Workplace bullying University Work performance Work engagement The purpose of this study is to examine...

...Iona Byford Purpose This empirical paper aims to explore the effectiveness of the organising model from a worker perspective in unionised workplaces within higher education support services. Design/methodology/approach A case study approach is used in two university Unison branches. Three...

... with financial sustainability; and that reconcile wider social needs with “best practices” of human resource management. Overall the direction and rate of growth of higher education in Malaysia has been dictated by the political, economic and demographic needs and realities of the nation. © Emerald Group...

... Academic staff Higher education United Kingdom Several publications exist on the topic of job satisfaction and this grows daily. Locke estimated that, as of 1976, about 3,350 articles or dissertations had been written on the topic. Cranny et al. (1992) suggested that more than 5,000...

... prior to the Robbins expansion of higher education (PREROB) constituting the medieval and nineteenth‐century civic universities. Second, we distinguish between those post‐Robbins institutions that were set up ab initio as universities, typically those greenfield site universities (GREEN...