{"title":"Money isn't everything: job satisfaction, nonmonetary job rewards, and sub-baccalaureate credentials.","authors":"Janet Rosenbaum, James Rosenbaum","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some researchers and reformers have raised doubts about whether sub-BA credentials lead to good jobs. This study finds that young working adults (ages 25-32) report that nonmonetary rewards such as autonomy and career relevance are more strongly related to job satisfaction than earnings is. Controlling for background differences, young adults with BA and graduate degrees have the greatest nonmonetary job rewards, followed by those with associate's degrees and certificate credentials, all of whom have significantly greater nonmonetary job rewards than high school graduates. Students who attend college without earning credentials report few job rewards, and no better autonomy and career-relevance than high school graduates. Parents, advisors, and policymakers should inform students of nonmonetary job rewards they likely will value as young adult workers in addition to earnings, and which credentials lead to these job rewards.</p>","PeriodicalId":92719,"journal":{"name":"Research in higher education journal","volume":"30 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508652/pdf/nihms-1021230.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37236069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First-Year Experiences of Associate Deans: A Qualitative, Multi-Institutional Study.","authors":"Gary W. White","doi":"10.13016/M2C31G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13016/M2C31G","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the first-year experiences of new associate deans at doctoral granting, Research I universities. Participants were 24 associate deans from various disciplines at three difference universities who had been in their positions for five years or less. Findings show that the transition into the associate dean position is stressful and difficult, and that the first year involves a great deal of on-the-job skill acquisition, learning to navigate the broader organizational environment, dealing with significant changes in the nature of their interactions with colleagues from their previous departments along with a great sense of loneliness and isolation, and a need to establish new peer groups. However, nearly all report high job satisfaction and a desire to remain in administration. Future study is necessary to examine how these early experiences shape decisions to move into higher-level positions in higher education administration.","PeriodicalId":92719,"journal":{"name":"Research in higher education journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66547832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}