Language:

Academic dissatisfaction, managerial change and neo-liberalism

Higher education, 2012-07, Vol.64 (1), p.41-58 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2012 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 ;COPYRIGHT 2012 Springer ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 ;ISSN: 0018-1560 ;EISSN: 1573-174X ;DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9479-y ;CODEN: HREDAN

Full text available

Citations Cited by

Actions
1. Add to My Research
2. Remove from My Research
3. E-mail
4. Print
5. Permalink
6. Citation
7. EasyBib
8. EndNote
9. RefWorks
10. Delicious
11. Export RIS
12. Export BibTeX

Title:
Academic dissatisfaction, managerial change and neo-liberalism
Author: Fredman, Nick ; Doughney, James
Subjects: Academic education ; Academic profession ; Academic staff attitudes ; Academic staff workload ; Academic writing ; Analysis ; Australia ; Baby boomers ; Central business districts ; College Faculty ; College professors ; Colleges & universities ; Commercialisation ; Commercialization ; Context ; Cultural factors ; Culture ; Discourse Analysis ; Economic liberalism ; Education ; Education, Secondary ; Educational administration ; Educational policy ; Employment Level ; Factor Analysis ; Faculty Workload ; Foreign Countries ; Funding cuts ; Higher Education ; Job Satisfaction ; Laws, regulations and rules ; Liberalism ; Management ; Managerialism ; Marketization ; National Tertiary Education Union ; Neoliberalism ; Occupations ; Organisational climate ; Organizational Culture ; Perceptions ; Performance management ; Polls & surveys ; Productivity ; Professions ; Public sector ; Regression (Statistics) ; Regression analysis ; Regulation ; Research universities ; Respondents ; Satisfaction ; Self concept ; Sociocultural factors ; Surveys ; Teacher Attitudes ; Teacher Surveys ; Universities ; University administration ; Victoria ; Work ; Work Attitudes ; Work environment ; Workloads
Is Part Of: Higher education, 2012-07, Vol.64 (1), p.41-58
Description: This paper examines perceptions by academics of their work in the Australian state of Victoria, and places such perceptions within the context of international and Australian debates on the academic profession. A 2010 survey conducted by the National Tertiary Education Union in Victoria was analysed in light of the literature on academic work satisfaction and on corporatised managerial practice (" managerialism"). The analysis is also placed in the context of neo-liberalism, defined as a more marketised provision combined with increased pro-market state regulation. Factor analysis was used to reduce 18 items we hypothesised as drivers of work satisfaction to four factors: managerial culture, workloads, work status and self-perceived productivity. Regression models show the relative effects of these factors on two items measuring work satisfaction. This analysis is complemented by discursive analysis of open-ended responses. We found that satisfaction among academics was low and decreasing compared to a previous survey, and that management culture was the most important driver. Concern with workloads also drove dissatisfaction, although academics seem happy to be more productive if they have control over their work and develop in their jobs. Work status had little effect. In the open-ended responses the more dissatisfied academics tended to contrast a marketised present to a collegial past. While respondents seem to conflate all recent managerial change with marketisation, we pose a crucial question: whether the need for more professional management needs to be congruent with marketising policy directions.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0018-1560
EISSN: 1573-174X
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9479-y
CODEN: HREDAN
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

Back to results list


INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY	(84-028) 37 755 057	Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM	thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn	Feedback

Academic dissatisfaction, managerial change and neo-liberalism

2012 Springer Science+Business Media ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 ;COPYRIGHT 2012 Springer ;Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 ;ISSN: 0018-1560 ;EISSN: 1573-174X ;DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9479-y ;CODEN: HREDAN

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait