Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 25, 2023
Abstract
The
COVID-19
pandemic
has
severely
affected
the
normal
operation
of
global
economy,
leading
to
a
significant
decline
in
demand
job
market,
leaving
sports
major
students
unemployed.
In
light
this,
present
study
aims
examine
associations
between
cooperative
education
(i.e.,
family-school-industry
partnerships),
self-efficacy,
and
employability
Chinese
students.
Data
was
collected
from
sample
384
university
students,
consisting
68.8%
males
31.2%
females.
Participants
completed
questionnaires
on
education,
employability.
Descriptive
statistics
mediation
analysis
were
employed
analyze
obtained
data.
findings
revealed
positive
correlation
employability,
with
mediating
role
self-efficacy
this
relationship.
These
serve
as
foundation
for
future
researchers
further.
Human Relations,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
77(10), P. 1413 - 1435
Published: Aug. 17, 2023
Given
the
prevalence
of
precarious
work
in
social
fabric
organizations,
its
negative
repercussions
for
employees
and
scarcity
research
on
how
organizational
leadership
can
improve
working
conditions,
we
suggest
inclusive
leaders
as
a
remedy
to
work.
Drawing
stakeholder
theory,
propose
that
is
negatively
associated
with
work,
both
directly
indirectly,
via
structural
empowerment.
We
also
hypothesize
leader
political
skill
moderates
positive
relationship
between
empowerment
indirect
(via
empowerment)
association
Two-source
time-lagged
survey
data
collected
from
311
their
supervisors
supported
our
hypotheses.
Other
than
contributions
literature
leadership,
empowerment,
this
study
offers
several
imperative
practical
implications
help
organizations
counter
repercussions.
Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 27
Published: Jan. 3, 2025
This
systematic
review
aims
to
summarize
the
mental
health
outcomes
of
self-employment
and
identify
potential
moderators
between
issues,
ultimately
guiding
future
research
informing
targeted
suggestions
for
practice.
International Migration Review,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 15, 2025
New
work
arrangements
enabled
by
online
platforms,
or
gig
work,
saw
substantive
growth
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic.
Various
estimates
have
suggested
wide
participation
of
workers
in
economy,
with
minority
and
immigrant
well
represented.
The
quality
is
a
multi-dimensional
concept
that
goes
beyond
earnings.
One
framework
good
jobs
bad
centers
on
control
over
schedule,
content
duration,
stability,
safety,
benefits
insurance,
as
career
advancement
opportunities.
Using
newly
released
national
survey
focused
entrepreneurs
United
States,
we
find
about
18.5
percent
21.1
native-born
participated
economy
their
primary
secondary
job.
In
terms
job
quality,
shorter
hours
significantly
less
fringe
than
non-gig
U.S.-born
workers,
reflecting
double
disadvantage.
However,
they
tend
to
higher
entrepreneurial
aspirations,
suggesting
transient
nature
potential
for
advancements.
This
paper
provides
comprehensive
analysis
characteristics
implication
immigrants’
engagement
offers
policy
theoretical
discussions.
PLoS ONE,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
20(3), P. e0318586 - e0318586
Published: March 27, 2025
Building
upon
the
Job
Demands-Resources
model,
this
study
examines
relationships
among
precarious
work
schedules,
attendance
anxiety,
and
employer
support
during
early
COVID-19
pandemic.
For
part-time
retail
workers,
prevalence
of
schedules
has
been
a
persistent
problem.
Additionally,
new
challenges
such
as
anxiety
lack
emerged
Data
were
collected
through
an
online
survey
on
Amazon
Mechanical
Turk
platform.
Between
July
August
2020,
we
secured
sample
U.S.
workers
in
“food
beverage
stores”
(N
=
179).
Using
Ordinary
Least
Squares
regression
analyses,
find
that
control
over
hours,
non-standard
working
hours
are
negatively
associated
with
job
satisfaction.
In
terms
support,
personal
protective
equipment
is
lower
levels
alleviates
impact
The
findings
provide
valuable
insights
for
employers
managers
aiming
to
enhance
satisfaction
effectively
respond
posed
by
health
crises.
Work and Occupations,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
50(3), P. 316 - 334
Published: April 20, 2023
This
symposium
issue
of
Work
and
Occupations
on
“The
New
Labor
Activism”
develops
a
new
generation
labor
sociology
research
for
comprehending
sustaining
the
contemporary
mobilization
in
U.S.,
largest
since
1930s.
The
responds
to
question
raised
June,
2022
report
Worker
Empowerment
Research
Network
about
sustainability
activism.
essays
focus
themes
“history,”
“intersectionality,”
“worker
agency,”
“hierarchy”
continue
post-World
War
II
transition
field
from
union-centered
toward
worker-centered
sociology.
Sociological Quarterly,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
65(2), P. 246 - 268
Published: Oct. 31, 2023
Gig
work
platforms
often
promise
workers
flexibility
and
freedom
from
formal
constraints
on
their
schedules.
Some
scholars
have
questioned
whether
this
"formal
flexibility"
actually
helps
people
arrange
gig
around
non-work
commitments,
but
few
studies
examined
empirically.
This
paper
examines
how
hours
spent
in
microtask
–
a
form
of
with
high
influence
work-to-life
conflict
(WLC)
relative
to
conventional
hours,
these
relationships
differ
by
workers'
gender
financial
situation.
Fixed-effects
regressions
using
panel
data
Amazon's
Mechanical
Turk
platform
(MTurk)
suggest
that
are
just
as
closely
associated
WLC
hours.
Moreover,
disadvantages
the
same
groups
(i.e.
women
financially
struggling
workers).
Only
comfortable
men
seem
immune
hours'
association
WLC.
suggests
benefits
work's
elusive.
We
argue
like
MTurk
promote
mystique:
illusory
empowers
set
own
schedules
earn
decent
income
without
disrupting
personal/family
lives.
The
economy's
expansion
may
thus
do
little
bring
work-life
balance
masses
or
alleviate
inequalities
at
nexus.
