How social relationships influence academic health in the ‘enterprise university’: an insight into productivity of knowledge workers

Ditton, Mary

doi:10.1080/07294360902725033

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“…Dylag et al (2013) found that if there was a conflict between a worker's personal values and the organizations there was a higher risk of professional exhaustion and decrease in work engagement. The work environment affects the mental and physical health of the knowledge worker (Ditton 2009;Kwon et al 2014;Richardson and Larsen 1997). The challenge for the organization is creating a work environment, which promotes health, motivates and engages their workers, to get optimum performance from them and make them want to work for the organization.…”

Section: Nature Of Knowledge Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Soft Systems Approach to Knowledge Worker Productivity—Analysis of the Problem Situation

Óskarsdóttir

Oddsson

2017

Economies

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Low knowledge worker productivity is an important problem that needs to be addressed. Current research addressing this problem is fragmented and deals with different isolated elements of the problem. There is a need for a holistic approach to knowledge worker productivity. This paper takes the first steps of a holistic approach to knowledge worker productivity by using soft systems methodology to describe the problem situation. The main challenge of this research was the abstraction of the results from two literature reviews into simple rich pictures and specific root definitions to identify the fundamentals of knowledge worker productivity. The problem situation was explored from the perspective of two problem owners, the organization and the individual knowledge worker. The rich picture from the perspective of the organization highlighted that the organization must communicate what they perceive as value and create a work environment that promotes collaboration, encourages knowledge sharing, motivates and fulfills the needs of their knowledge workers. The rich picture from the perspective of the individual knowledge worker highlighted the fact that knowledge workers need to manage their personal resources, be effective and efficient to maximize their own productivity. This paper attempts to integrate these two perspectives into a holistic view.

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Section: Nature Of Knowledge Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Soft Systems Approach to Knowledge Worker Productivity—Analysis of the Problem Situation

Óskarsdóttir

Oddsson

2017

Economies

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“…Several studies published in Higher Education journals also provided different examples related to major entrepreneurial activities in universities from various countries (Bernasconi, ; De Zilwa, ; Mazdeh, Razavi, Hesamamiri, Zahedi, & Elahi, ; Mok, Yu, & Ku, ; Sam & van der Sijde, ; Sharma, ; Yokoyama, ). In addition, academics’ activities and behaviours were examined within the entrepreneurship perspective in various studies from Higher Education journals (Bienkowska & Klofsten, ; De Silva, ; Ditton, ; Duberley, Cohen, & Leeson, ; Hansson & Mønsted, ; Lee & Rhoads, ; Rherrad, ; Ryu, ; Sinclair, Cuthbert, & Barnacle, ; Wardale & Lord, ; Ylijoki & Henriksson, ). Furthermore, other important aspects of entrepreneurship in academic settings such as the reflections of growing entrepreneurial expectations on the organisational design of universities, the recruitment policies of academics, and their teaching, research and service activities were discussed in articles in Higher Education journals (De Silva, ; McClure, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

The entrepreneurial university and academic discourses: The meta‐synthesis of Higher Education articles

Uslu

Çalıkoğlu

Seggie

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Higher Education Quarterly

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The innovative teaching, knowledge and technology production and societal service activities of academics are largely discussed within the entrepreneurial university discourse in Higher Education journals. Therefore, this research focuses on a meta‐synthesis of Higher Education articles to better understand the concepts of the entrepreneurial university and entrepreneurial academic. After the systematic elimination based on keywords and titles, 25 articles have been selected from the top 10 Higher Education journals in the SCImago Journal Rankings. Content analysis was performed on these articles to highlight the common operational areas in entrepreneurial universities and activities of entrepreneurial academics. The meta‐synthesis shows that, both for universities and academics, entrepreneurship is overwhelmingly characterised by the commercialisation of scholarly activities that enrich institutional income revenue as well as academics’ personal income. However, such an approach can distance universities from their mission of public good; so Higher Education administrators should create mechanisms that would allow both to take place in a balanced way.

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“…I found that research on the contemporary conditions of academic labour has offered some of the richest accounts of the ways in which the neoliberal university shapes the affective lives of its inhabitants (Barcan, 2013;Bryson, 2004;Burrows, 2012;Court & Kinman, 2008;Cvetkovich, 2012;Davies, 2006;Davies & Petersen, 2005;Ditton, 2009;Gill, 2010;Grant & Elizabeth, 2014;Hartman & Darab, 2012;Hey, 2011;Kinman, 2014;Leathwood & Hey, 2009;Lynch, 2010;Pelias, 2004;Saltmarsh & Randell-Moon, 2014;Sparkes, 2007;Sullivan & Simon, 2014). Within current higher education debates, it is routinely observed that the neoliberal reconfiguration of universities has resulted in significant changes to the nature of academic work.…”

Section: The Case For Examining the Affective And Political Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This surveillance has been enacted as a part of a broader trend toward new managerialist models that have been imposed on universities and other public organisations, in what is sometimes called the rise of the 'enterprise university' (Bansel, 2011;Davies & Petersen, 2005;Ditton, 2009;Sullivan & Simon, 2014). Increasingly, the 'scientific-technical' (Bansel, 2011, p. 546) approaches of business management dominate, with a focus on 'quality assurance, audit and evaluation [and]… metrics to determine both the value and impact of knowledge' (Bansel, 2011, p. 546).…”

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Conceptualising Doctoral Writing as an Affective-political Practice

Burford

2017

IJDS

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Aim/Purpose: This article offers a conceptual summary and critique of existing literature on doctoral writing and emotion. The article seeks to intervene in current debates about doctoral writing by re-positioning it as an affective-political practice Background: Over recent decades public interest in the doctorate has expanded as it has become re-framed as a key component of national success in the global knowledge economy. It is within this context that the practice of doctoral writing has crystallised as an object of interest. While researchers have examined the increased regulation, surveillance, and intensification of doctoral writing, often this work is motivated to develop pedagogies that support students to meet these new expectations. At this point, there has been limited attention to what broad changes to the meanings and practices of doctoral writing feel like for students. Methodology: The paper offers a conceptual review that examines the ways in which doctoral writing tends to be understood. A review of literature in the areas of doctoral writing, doctoral emotion, and critical studies of academic labour was undertaken in order to produce a more comprehensive understanding of the political and emotional dynamics of doctoral writing. Contribution: It is intended that this conceptual research paper help researchers attend to the emotional context of doctoral writing in the current university context. Critical studies of academic work and life are identified as a possible platform for the development of future doctoral education research, and the conceptual tool of “affective-politics” is advanced as a novel frame for approaching doctoral writing research.

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How social relationships influence academic health in the ‘enterprise university’: an insight into productivity of knowledge workers

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

A Soft Systems Approach to Knowledge Worker Productivity—Analysis of the Problem Situation

A Soft Systems Approach to Knowledge Worker Productivity—Analysis of the Problem Situation

The entrepreneurial university and academic discourses: The meta‐synthesis of Higher Education articles

Conceptualising Doctoral Writing as an Affective-political Practice

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