Cristina Sofia Coelho, Catarina Pereira Faria, Filipa Oliveira, Carla Vale Lucas, Sónia Vasconcelos and Luísa Soares
Tutoring or mentoring is a form of mutual and informal learning which has distant origins. This is a way of sharing knowledge and experience which has been proved to be extremely…
Abstract
Purpose
Tutoring or mentoring is a form of mutual and informal learning which has distant origins. This is a way of sharing knowledge and experience which has been proved to be extremely useful in educational settings, particularly where there is a peer that plays the role of tutor. Despite its informal characteristic, tutoring should be a structured process, with defined goals and clear roles for both: tutors and tutees, those who benefit from tutoring. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
As this paper aims to explore a pilot project, it was used as a reflexive and practical methodology, in a case study, analyzing the number of participants attending the project as well as the contents of the training course.
Findings
In this first project in a Portuguese university, 35 students attended as candidates to tutor, participating in the training course, showing interest in helping their colleagues.
Originality/value
This proposal for a tutoring program in a public higher institution aims to train college students to help other colleagues, giving academic support, helping in the adaptation to academic context, promoting autonomy in learning, sharing effective strategies and helping in maintenance of positive interpersonal relationships. These aspects are very important to promote academic success in higher education.
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Aman Chadha, Akriti Gupta, Vijayshri Tewari and Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Sustainable practices are the modern-day necessities for organisations as the world is becoming highly dynamic. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of…
Abstract
Purpose
Sustainable practices are the modern-day necessities for organisations as the world is becoming highly dynamic. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of sustainable training and creativity practices (STP and SCP) on organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB-individual and OCB-organisation) via the mediating role of psychological contract fulfilment (PCF).
Design/methodology/approach
A sample of 326 white-collar Indian service industry employees was collected. The data are analysed using structural equation modelling and random forest regression supervised learning (RFRSL).
Findings
The findings indicate that sustainable training practices (STP) had an indirect impact on organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB-I, OCB-O) via the mediating effect of transactional (T-PCF) and relational psychological contract fulfilment (R-PCF). In terms of sustainable creative practices (SCP), the impact on OCB-I was indirect due to T-PCF. In addition, R-PCF acts as a mediator between SCP and OCB-O. In the latter portion of the analysis, the RFRSL approach created a prediction model for T-PCF, R-PCF, OCB-I and OCB-O, with demographic characteristics such as industry experience, gender, age, etc. playing a constructive role.
Originality/value
The study conducts a combination of both traditional and newer technology (machine learning), resulting in highlighting the uniqueness of the relationship between variables and the role of demographic variables.