2013
DOI: 10.1504/ijlic.2013.052078
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Lecturers as knowledge workers and the self-management of their intellectual capital growth and development from a teaching to a research-teaching fusion - a Malaysian case study

Abstract: In the period 2003 to 2005, a case study was conducted in an institution of higher education that was in the process of upgrading its status from being a college to that of a university college. A part of that change involved lecturers having to make a shift from being mainly concerned with teaching, to doing research as well. The case study looked into the perceptions and attitudes of the lecturers in making the behavioural and cultural change, from the perspective of knowledge worker motivation. In particula… Show more

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“…According to the findings of a study conducted by Khiat et al (2011), lecturers evaluated educational action research as being beneficial in educational activities such as teaching and learning. A similar pattern of results was achieved in the study conducted by Ho, Woods, Aziz, Sin, and Capital (2013), which claimed that all lectures were clear on what it meant to be a researcher and what it meant to be a participant in a research project. In contrast to such findings, Lertputtarak (2008) discovered that the majority of Chulalongkorn University's lecturers lacked the information, talents, experience, and resources essential to do research in their areas of specialization.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…According to the findings of a study conducted by Khiat et al (2011), lecturers evaluated educational action research as being beneficial in educational activities such as teaching and learning. A similar pattern of results was achieved in the study conducted by Ho, Woods, Aziz, Sin, and Capital (2013), which claimed that all lectures were clear on what it meant to be a researcher and what it meant to be a participant in a research project. In contrast to such findings, Lertputtarak (2008) discovered that the majority of Chulalongkorn University's lecturers lacked the information, talents, experience, and resources essential to do research in their areas of specialization.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…The highest level of average mean is guide is still needed in doing action research obtained an average mean of 4.15 or high. Previous research suggested that novice lecturer-researchers should be guided by the experienced lecturer-researchers in writing papers through a mentoring system [7,9]. The item action research is difficult to do obtained an average mean of 2.77 or moderate.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ho, Woods, Aziz and Sin [7] found that "lecturers were knowledgeable about what doing research meant and were positive about the benefits of being a university college". Tertiary institutions, lecturers are normally required to attend some research and publication workshops.…”
Section: Lecturers' Capability To Do Action Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License members and institutions transitioning to university status to holistically support teaching, learning and the development of a research culture to enhance university performance (Ho et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2017; Technical University ACT, 2016). Such changes require leadership interactions in HEIs and actions that promote higher-education goals that ultimately lead to effective performance.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%