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Direct linkCraig Whitsed; Antonia Girardi; Scott Fitzgerald; John Williams – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2025
Using Multilevel Job Demand-Resources theory, this research explores how crisis influenced perceptions about academic work engagement at individual, team, and organisational levels. The COVID-19 crisis led universities to make significant changes in response to health and fiscal impacts. Changes included restructuring, job shedding, and pivoting…
Descriptors: Universities, Crisis Management, COVID-19, Pandemics
Curran, Tara M.; Prottas, David J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
The study used data provided by 349 professional staff employees from 17 different US higher education institutions to assess aspects of their working conditions that could influence their own work engagement and the work-related behaviours of their colleagues. Relationships among three role stressors (role ambiguity, role conflict and role…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Higher Education, Stress Variables, Work Environment
Anthun, Kirsti Sarheim; Innstrand, Siw Tone – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
This study examines the predictive value of job demands and resources on the meaning of work and organisational commitment across three age groups; young workers (<30 years), a middle age group of workers (30-49 years) and older workers (>50 years). Data were collected from a survey conducted among university employees (N = 3,066).…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Job Satisfaction, Work Environment
Opstrup, Niels; Pihl-Thingvad, Signe – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Academic work has traditionally been seen as relatively stress free. However, a growing number of studies have reported increases in occupational stress experienced by university researchers. In order to explain stress among this group, we build on a new perspective in occupational stress research: the so-called stress-as-offence-to-self…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Work Environment, Researchers, Universities
Coates, Hamish; Dobson, Ian R.; Goedegebuure, Leo; Meek, Lynn – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
This paper considers Australian academic staff members' attitudes to their colleagues in positions of university leadership, based on responses to the international Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey conducted in 2007. When compared with responses from other participating nations, Australian academics indicate considerably lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, College Faculty, Teacher Surveys
Peer reviewedMcInnis, Craig – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1998
Compares results of a national survey of college administrators' work-role satisfaction and values with those of academics surveyed earlier, identifying crucial areas of difference in values attached to work and the perceptions of work practices. Issues and tensions in the everyday work interface between academics and administrators are seen as…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
