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Direct linkJensen, I.; Bjorklund, C.; Hagberg, J.; Aboagye, E.; Bodin, L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Theories of what determines research performance have evolved from political and economic science, amongst other disciplines. Contemporary research shows that universities have a problematic work environment characterized by bullying, insecure jobs, and dysfunctional leadership. In this study, we explore the relationship between the psycho-social…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Research, Performance, College Faculty
Erickson, Mark; Hanna, Paul; Walker, Carl – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we present results from an extensive survey of United Kingdom (UK) university academics investigating satisfaction with senior managers and university governance: the Senior Management Survey (SMS). In total, 5888 academic staff across the United Kingdom Higher Education (HE) sector completed the survey, and results were used to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Fetherston, Catherine; Fetherston, Anthony; Batt, Sharryn; Sully, Max; Wei, Ruth – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Academic work environments are becoming progressively more digitalised and focused on performativity and commodification, increasing the potential to force an unwanted merge of the boundary between work and non-work domains. This study aimed to explore academic wellbeing and the role played by factors related to work-life merge. Data were…
Descriptors: Well Being, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty, Work Environment
Tapanila, Katriina; Siivonen, Päivi; Filander, Karin – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The invasion of managerialism in universities has changed the prerequisites for academic work. Decision making and control over academic work based on the expertise of academics have declined; in turn, managers have gained more decision-making power. Our study's target group comprises academics representing educational sciences in two Finnish…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Social Status, Decision Making, College Administration
Sharafizad, Jalleh; Redmond, Janice – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This research examines the impact of non-monetary work environment factors on employee discretionary effort within the higher education sector in Australia. There is limited qualitative research that examines the factors that drive and inhibit employee discretionary effort especially in the higher education sector. Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Work Environment, Motivation, Occupational Information
Pietilä, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Research has shown that a tenure track incorporates both commitment and control aspects: the career system offers junior-level academics long-term job prospects, but subjects them to performance control. This study complements existing research on tenure track positions, which has mostly been conducted in northern America. Universities in Finland…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Universities, Faculty Promotion
McCarthy, Dermot; Dragouni, Mina – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Recent decades have seen the evolution of UK business schools into international mass education providers. This transformation has developed against a background of institutional changes that jeopardise work conditions in academia. As few studies have examined the relationships between organisational, social and psychological aspects of academic…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Educational Change, Mass Instruction, Organizational Change
Prasad, Ajnesh; Segarra, Paulina; Villanueva, Cristian E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Scholars have increasingly recognized how efforts among business schools to attain or maintain accreditation from external agencies (i.e. Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]) have engendered myriad consequences on the experiences of academic faculty members. Extant research that has investigated this phenomenon…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Accreditation (Institutions), Foreign Countries, Work Environment
Ylijoki, Oili-Helena – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Drawing upon the notion of acceleration of time in late capitalism, the article addresses the different forms and driving forces of the speeding up of the tempo and rhythm in research work in academia, and the impact of the temporal acceleration on how academics perceive their work and its connection to the private sphere of life. Based on 40…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Research, Family Work Relationship
