Academic staff between threat and opportunity: Changing employment and conditions of service

Egbert de Weert; Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9263-5_3

Academic staff between threat and opportunity: Changing employment and conditions of service

Egbert de Weert, Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen

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Abstract

Academic staff constitute the core of higher education institutions. They are engaged in teaching and/or research and vary in rank from the highest rank of full professor to the lowest of instructor or research assistant. There are clear indications that staff are experiencing increased pressures to meet a wide range of obligations. Recent studies show that there is dissatisfaction among staff with the conditions in which their tasks — teaching, research and public service — have to be performed, with deteriorating effects on the motivation and quality of their work (UNESCO 1992). According to the OECD study on staffing higher education, the morale of academic staff is generally thought to be lower than in previous generations (Kogan et al. 1994). Factors given for this dissatisfaction are, amongst others, pay and conditions of service, and lack of research time. These changing conditions appear to threaten the traditional position of academic staff.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	From the Eye of the Storm
Subtitle of host publication	Higher Education's Changing Institutions
Editors	Ben Jongbloed, Peter Maassen, Guy Neave
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	39-63
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-015-9263-5
ISBN (Print)	978-90-481-5355-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9263-5_3
Publication status	Published - 1999

Keywords

Decentralisation
Human resource management
Tenure

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de Weert, E., & van Vucht Tijssen, L. (1999). Academic staff between threat and opportunity: Changing employment and conditions of service. In B. Jongbloed, P. Maassen, & G. Neave (Eds.), From the Eye of the Storm: Higher Education's Changing Institutions (pp. 39-63). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9263-5_3

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Academic staff between threat and opportunity : Changing employment and conditions of service. / de Weert, Egbert; van Vucht Tijssen, Lieteke.

From the Eye of the Storm: Higher Education's Changing Institutions. ed. / Ben Jongbloed; Peter Maassen; Guy Neave. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. p. 39-63.

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