Changes in the University Research Approach: Challenges for Academics’ Scientific Productivity

Ceacero, Diego Castro; Ion, Georgeta

doi:10.1057/s41307-018-0101-0

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“…Initially, universities focus more on the teaching mission but along with the increased competition over the last decade, the research mission is prioritized (Castro-Ceacero and Ion, 2019). Hence, drastic organizational change is required.…”

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“…Hence, drastic organizational change is required. Teaching-oriented universities express there to be a certain tension when “the rules of the game” changes to be more research-oriented (Castro-Ceacero and Ion, 2019; Albert et al , 2016). Scientific publication is one of the few measures of research productivity used to prove their academic talent to the world.…”

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“…As a research-oriented university, the number of publications is considered to be an important criterion for the lecturers related to appreciation, rewards and research grants (Sandy and Shen, 2019). It has caused conflicts regarding the different perceptions of the lecturers between their teaching functions and the new approach adopted by the university to manage their research functions (Castro-Ceacero and Ion, 2019).…”

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Discomfort and organizational change as a part of becoming a world-class university

Nadia

Sukoco

Susanto

et al. 2020

IJEM

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PurposeThis study examined organizational change in universities as it relates to discomfort among the organization's members.Design/methodology/approachUsing the critical incident technique (CIT), data was collected from the informants in an Indonesian public university that had been mandated by the government to enter the top 500 world university ranking. This would make it a “World-Class” university.FindingsThe findings describe the causes, courses and consequences of the discomfort felt in response to the organizational change in the university context. The causes of discomfort were categorized as a fear of loss, organizational culture, systems and policies, work overload and a lack of resources. Discomfort can manifest through negative affective, cognition and behavioral tendencies. Meanwhile, the consequences result in active and passive participation in the process of the organizational change itself.Originality/valueDiscomfort with organizational change is a new variable that has rarely been explored, thus it requires testing and validation using different methods and contexts, as offered by this study. We have also shown that in the initial stage of organizational change (unfreezing), discomfort will always emerge that must be immediately managed in order not to trigger resistance to change. Furthermore, this study exhibits the use of the critical incident technique in the context of organizational change. Finally, we offer comprehensive views by exhibiting the causes, the reactions shown and the consequences of discomfort with the change.

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“…Scientific productivity occupies a place of importance in a society dominated by the value of knowledge, making university research a key element in its development (Castro-Ceacero & Ion, 2018).…”

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Analysis of the Scientific Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Chilean Universities

Colther

Piffaut

Montecinos

2021

Cal Edu

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Esta investigación analiza la producción científica de las universidades chilenas para el período 2013-2017 utilizando un panel de datos balanceados. La metodología utiliza una función de producción agregada del tipo Cobb-Douglas resuelto por medio de un modelo de datos de panel de efectos fijos un Análisis de Frontera Estocástica (AFE). Los principales resultados muestran que los modelos son equivalentes y complementarios en su análisis y cuantifican el impacto de los recursos financieros y capital humano avanzado. El modelo de efectos fijos muestra que el sistema universitario chileno experimenta rendimientos crecientes de escala, y el modelo SFA mostró importantes brechas de eficiencia entre universidades. Estos resultados son relevantes, ya que los modelos permiten el seguimiento, monitoreo de la inversión pública, de los programas de contratación por parte de las Instituciones de Educación Superior-HEI, y finalmente, de la adecuación de las políticas públicas hacia la Ciencia y la Tecnología.

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“…The fusion of internal and external pressures is forming a new reality in universities, which is determined by power relations and new management models, new knowledge generation methods, changes in centralization level of decision-making in universities and authority of individual leadership versus a communal institute (Gornitzka et al , 2017). According to Castro-Ceacero and Ion (2018), these changes include improving university structural level, increasing competition among employees, marketing public sector services and monitoring productivity, efficiency and individual performance of the staff through measuring the results. Kyvik and Aksnes (2015) pointed out four reasons for the increase in productivity including qualified new generations of academic staff, research collaboration, improved funding and research conditions and the introduction of incentive systems.…”

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Investigating the relationship between career development and productivity with the mediating role of self-regulation among university staff

Delbari

Saeed

Abedini

2020

JARHE

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PurposeThe present study aimed to investigate the relationship between career development and productivity of the university staff with the mediating role of self-regulation.Design/methodology/approachThe research approach is quantitative-relational and is based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The population consisted of the staff of two Iranian universities in 2018 out of which 331 participants were selected using Cochran's formula and a proportionate stratified random sampling method. To gather data, the self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ), the career development questionnaire (CDQ) and a researcher-made employees' productivity questionnaire (EPQ) were used. In terms of reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the instruments was found to be 0.97, 0.84 and 0.88, respectively. Face and content validity were confirmed by a group of field experts.FindingsThe findings indicated that the staff’s self-regulation had a positive and significant effect on individual, organizational and environmental productivity factors. In addition, self-regulation had the ability to predict those factors. It was found that self-regulation had a mediating role in the relationship between career development and staff productivity. According to the results, educational institutions, especially universities, can provide their staff with the opportunity to exploit their full potentials through reinforcing their self-regulation and increasing their productivity.Research limitations/implicationsHigher self-regulation capacity among university staff helps them liberate their potential energy for disinterested selfless service to the society. Higher self-regulation capacities allow individuals to increase the energy resource for self-regulation and contribute to the productivity and quality of life. The statistical population of the quantitative section is confined only to the staff working at Iranian universities. Therefore, our results should be cautiously generalized to universities in other countries.Practical implicationsOur findings can help in empowering human resources and consequently improving education and research processes.Social implicationsUniversities play a decisive role in the economic growth and development of countries because of their diverse services in the production and distribution of science and knowledge.Originality/valueThis study was conducted on university’s staff productivity, while most previous researches have been conducted in industrial enterprises. Thus, the present study seeks to fill this research gap by means of providing new perspectives and information on the factors affecting staff productivity and the relationship between research variables in higher education institutions.

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Changes in the University Research Approach: Challenges for Academics’ Scientific Productivity

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Discomfort and organizational change as a part of becoming a world-class university

Discomfort and organizational change as a part of becoming a world-class university

Analysis of the Scientific Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Chilean Universities

Investigating the relationship between career development and productivity with the mediating role of self-regulation among university staff

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