Motivation and research productivity in a university system undergoing transition

Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra; Zaiț, Adriana

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvv010

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“…Notably, Horodnic and Zait (2015) adapted Amabile et al's (1994) WPI scale to measure motivation of 506 Romanian academics of economics and business administration. They reported that intrinsic motivation captured by the enjoyment index significantly positively influenced research productivity, whereas extrinsic motivation captured by the compensation index had a negative effect.…”

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“…The stress and tension created in the new managerial culture may lead many to wonder about academics' motivation to conduct research and the effects of motivation on research publication. Extant research has reported the relationships between motivation and research productivity among academics of economics and/or business administration and other disciplines (Chen, Gupta, & Hoshower, 2006;Horodnic & Zait, 2015;Tien, 2000Tien, , 2008. However, although some studies have explored research motivation of nonnative English-speaking (NNES) academics who teach English as a foreign language (TEFL) (Borg, 2009;Borg & Liu, 2013;Gao & Zheng, 2018;Xu, 2014;Yuan, Sun, & Teng, 2016), these studies mostly used descriptive statistics or qualitative narrations without examining the associations between research motivation and research productivity.…”

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Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Peng

Gao

2019

SAGE Open

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Motivation is considered an important impetus driving and sustaining individuals’ efforts to fulfill their goals. Against the backdrop that university academics worldwide are increasingly expected to produce research output in prestigious journals for both individual and institutional development, it is necessary to understand academics’ research motivation and its relations with research productivity in international and local journals. This study, being descriptive and explanatory in nature, surveyed 309 academics who taught English as a foreign language (TEFL) in China. Results showed that the participants exhibited stronger extrinsic motivation, in the form of external and identified regulations, than intrinsic motivation. However, these two subtypes of extrinsic motivation were significantly negatively associated with academic publishing, whereas intrinsic motivation was the significant positive factor associated with the participants’ publication in international journals. These findings remind both academics and educational managers of the importance of enhancing intrinsic motivation and refining contextual support in improving academics’ research productivity.

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Section: Research On the Relation Between Academics' Motivation And Rmentioning

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Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Peng

Gao

2019

SAGE Open

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“…The desire to acquire recognition and academic prestige in a given field (Brew et al, 2016;Bourdieu, 1999) Drive to publish Being motivated and driven towards the publication of research results (Allison et al, 1982;Horodnic & Zaiţ, 2015) Convergence Mastery Specialising into a single field or topic (Leahey, 2007) Stability Preference for focusing on a single field or topic and avoiding shifts of research focus (Bourdieu, 1999) Divergence Branching out Desire to expand into other fields of study or topics (Geschwind & Melin, 2016) Multidisciplinarity Preference for working in multidisciplinary research ventures (Horlings & Gurney, 2013) Discovery Discovery Preference for working in fields or topics with the potential to lead to discovery (Merton, 1957;Popper, 2005) Conservative Conservative Preference for working in mature and more stable fields or topics (Klavans, Boyack, Sorensen & Chen, 2013;Rzhetsky, Foster, Foster & Evans, 2015) Tolerance to low funding…”

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The association of thinking styles with research agendas among academics in the social sciences

Santos

Horta

Zhang

2019

Higher Education Quarterly

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Research agendas are understudied, despite being key to academic knowledge creation. The literature suggests that the ways that academics determine their research agendas are conditioned by individual, organisational and environmental characteristics. This study explores the cognitive aspects of academics' research agendas in the social sciences by using a theory on thinking styles as an analytical framework. The results suggest that the research agendas of academics in the social sciences are significantly associated with their thinking styles. These findings aid understanding of how academics set their research agendas. This study also represents an important landmark in research on thinking styles, focusing on academic research work as a potential venue for further studies. The findings are relevant for policymakers, research funding agencies, university administrators and academics because they have implications for academic research development processes, outcomes, and for research and academic identity socialisation during doctoral studies.

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“…This study also suggests that in order to be a qualified researcher who also produces quality research, lecturers are expected not to do a research only for economic reasons, but also to leave intrinsic motivation factors, namely to develop knowledge and find solutions to various problems. Another study conducted by Horodnic and Zait found that both intrinsic motivation had a positive effect on the productivity of lecturers 'research [13]. On the contrary, extrinsic motivation negatively affected the productivity of lecturers' research.…”

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Strategy in Improving Research Productivity of the Lecturers

Suhardi¹,

Fuad²,

Rosyidi³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Sciences and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2018)

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This study aims to express comprehensively about motivation in lecturers' research, institutional policies in supporting the research process, and lecturers' research productivity in teacher training and education science Mataram. This research is a qualitative research by using the intrinsic case study approach. The results of this study showed that 1) the motivation of lecturers in conducting research is influenced. a) Intrinsic factors: financial, pleasure in conducting research, scientific responsibility, and desire to fulfill rank, achievement motivation, language and ability to research, b) extrinsic factors, including: institutional support, competition, research culture, and campus policy. 2) Policy in increasing the productivity of lecturers' research results includes: a) the determination of the research mission, b) providing research support facilities, c) optimizing the functions of the center of research and community service to manage research activities, and d) encouraging the publication of lecturers' research through internal journals. 3) There is an increase in the quantity and quality of lecturers'research each year which is encouraged by the availability of a forum for lecturers to publish their research in internal journals. Based on the findings of this study, it must be recommended in order to be a continuous and comprehensive effort to improve the productivity of the results of lecturers 'research, especially in publishing the results of the lecturers' research into national and international journals. The literature review conducted by Mantikayan and Abdulgani found that in general lecturer research productivity was significantly influenced by four factors [6], namely: a)

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Motivation and research productivity in a university system undergoing transition

Cited by 41 publications

References 46 publications

Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

Understanding TEFL Academics’ Research Motivation and Its Relations With Research Productivity

The association of thinking styles with research agendas among academics in the social sciences

Strategy in Improving Research Productivity of the Lecturers

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