The influence of direct executive managers on lecturers’ perceptions on new organizational aims in times of academic drift

Building Research Capacity in New Universities During Times of Academic Drift: Lecturers Professional Profiles

“…To complicate matters, the selection is mostly done by lower educational management, while top-level management implements the increase in research capacity as a university change initiative. Generally, these lower educational managers were trained as practitioners in the related vocational fields and, therefore, often lack research competencies and research identities (Griffioen and De Jong, 2017). One can wonder if the hiring practises of these lower educational managers act as bridges or buffers to reaching the provided strategic policy goals (Hales and Clarke, 2016).…”

“…While the urgency of teaching tasks can also be an incentive for educational managers to mostly focus on content and didactical skills and less on research competencies (Griffioen and De Jong, 2017), one can wonder if the educational managers' hiring strategies actually result in an increase in research capacity. Yet, these hiring strategies on the lowest organisational level are of the upmost importance for the implementation of the intended change from teaching-only to knowledge-based universities (Balogun and Johnson, 2004).…”

Academic Drift in Canadian Institutions of Higher Education: Research Mandates, Strategy, and Culture

“…This study examined Dutch higher professional education institutions (roughly analogous to the Canadian college sector), which were undergoing a government-driven "change from teachingonly institutions to organizations of research and teaching" (Griffioen & de Jong, 2015, p. 1). The study presumed that this would be a difficult cultural shift and hypothesized that implementing it at the level of individual faculty members would be positively and directly affected by those individuals' immediate managers, as previous research had suggested (Griffioen & de Jong, 2015). However, the study reached a surprising conclusion: "The results show that the direct influence of the executive manager on the way [faculty] perceive new organizational aims is limited and primarily mediated through how organizational arrangements, such as collaborative decision-making processes, are perceived" (p. 14).…”

A questionnaire to compare lecturers’ and students’ higher education research integration experiences

“…However, in many applied university settings, conducting research is still a relatively new endeavour (Griffioen & De Jong, 2017). The integration of research into higher educational programmes has not yet been fully formalized.…”

“…The connection between research and teaching has multiple faces (Trowler & Wareham, 2008). Previous studies have addressed four different foci of the connection between research and teaching (Brew, 2003;Smeby, 1998): in the perceptions and activities of students (Brew, 2003); in the intended, executed, or experienced curriculum (Barnett, 2012;Griffioen, Groen, & Nak, submitted); in the tasks, competencies, and perceptions of faculty members (Åkerlind, 2008;Lopes, Boyd, Andrew, & Pereira, 2014); and in local, national, and international policies and structures (Griffioen & De Jong, 2017;Jenkins & Healey, 2005). However, to make a comparison between students' and lecturers' perceptions, it is necessary to consider aspects that are within the perspective of students.…”