Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers.

Kim, Jae Yun; Campbell, Troy; Shepherd, Steven; Kay, Aaron C.

doi:10.1037/pspi0000190

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“…Therefore, overall job satisfaction and the positive evaluation of some aspects of the current Czech HE system should not cloud the fact that the participating academics also perceived numerous problems in their academic workplaces. References to workers' high intrinsic motivation are sometimes used to justify poor work conditions [Kim et al 2019] but should not prevent these problems from being addressed. A majority of participating academics referenced at least one of the five main problems (see Table 5): high workload (26.5%), lack of financial resources (26.3%), low-quality leadership (23.7%), excessive administration (16.3%), and job insecurity (10.9%).…”

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A Self-determined Profession? Perceived Work Conditions and the Satisfaction Paradox among Czech Academic Faculty

Mudrák¹,

Zábrodská²,

Machovcová³

2020

Czech Sociological Review

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While the Czech academic profession faces a range of challenges and problems, quantitative surveys indicate a relatively high level of high job satisfaction among academic faculty. This article addresses this 'satisfaction paradox' by exploring the perceived work conditions of Czech academics based on their own reports. The data for this study included academics' (N = 1202) qualitative responses to open-ended questions regarding the main problems and benefits of their current academic work and workplace. Content analysis was used to categorise the respondents' answers. Academics reported heavy workloads (26.5% of participants), a lack of financial resources (26.3%), poorquality leadership (23.7%), excessive administration (16.3%), and job insecurity (10.9%) as the most problematic aspects of their workplaces. In contrast, academics reported that good social relationships in the workplace (46.3%), autonomy of academic work (41.8%), personal fulfilment (28.9%), and work/ contact with students (25.3%) were the aspects of their workplaces they valued most. These positive features appear to be prevalent, as most (80%) academics reported overall satisfaction with their work. The authors draw on job demands-resources theory to suggest that the relatively high level of satisfaction is due to (still) high levels of key job resources that support the intrinsic motivation of academics despite an environment that can be considered suboptimal in some aspects. They also point to inequalities in job demands and job resources between subgroups of academics and highlight key systemic issues that should be addressed to improve the work conditions at Czech public higher education institutions.

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confidence: 99%

A Self-determined Profession? Perceived Work Conditions and the Satisfaction Paradox among Czech Academic Faculty

Mudrák¹,

Zábrodská²,

Machovcová³

2020

Czech Sociological Review

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“…A corollary of this dictum is that, over the long haul, at least some skilled positions in a big team science institution must receive monetary compensation. Running entirely on volunteerism risks exploiting the idealistic people willing to donate their time (Kim et al, 2020), leading to burnout and interpersonal conflict.…”

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The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big Team Science

Forscher¹,

Wagenmakers²,

Na³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Progress in psychology has been frustrated by challenges concerning replicability, generalizability, strategy selection, inferential reproducibility, and computational reproducibility. Although often discussed separately, we argue that these five challenges share a common cause: insufficient investment of resources in the typical psychology study. We suggest that the emerging emphasis on team science can help address these challenges by allowing researchers to pool their resources to efficiently and drastically increase the amount of resources available for a single study. However, we also anticipate that team science will create new challenges for the field to manage, such as the potential for team science institutions to monopolize power, become overly conservative, and make mistakes at a grand scale. If researchers can overcome these new challenges, we believe team science has the potential to spur enormous progress in psychology and beyond.

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“…However, passion alone cannot sustain a workforce. Further, there is a risk that passion can be misused, leading to extra and unpaid work (Kim, Campbell, Shepherd & Kay, 2019;Duke University, 2019). Though the OST field can lift up passion as an asset of this particular workforce, it cannot neglect other important workforce supports, namely fair compensation, opportunities for advancement, and benefits.…”

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Sustaining Passion: Findings from an Exploratory Study of the OST Program Workforce

Hall

DeSouza

Starr

et al. 2020

JYD

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It has long been understood that high-quality staffing is a major contributor to achieving positive outcomes for children and youth in out-of-school time (OST) programs. Yet, information on the current OST program workforce is outdated and understudied. The purpose of this study was to explore, via a convenience sample of OST program workers, the perceived features of the OST field and the relative importance of these features to workers in the field. The researchers were particularly interested in OST worker perception of features that may typically be associated with longevity in a profession. Improving understanding of the perceptions of the OST workforce may help employers to foster the work environments, staffing structures, compensation approaches, and professional development experiences that influence high-quality workers to stay in the field. The study findings illuminate the significance that workers in the OST field attach to passion for a field of work, and the central importance to them of building relationships with and fostering positive and healthy development for children.

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Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers.

Cited by 52 publications

References 86 publications

A Self-determined Profession? Perceived Work Conditions and the Satisfaction Paradox among Czech Academic Faculty

A Self-determined Profession? Perceived Work Conditions and the Satisfaction Paradox among Czech Academic Faculty

The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big Team Science

Sustaining Passion: Findings from an Exploratory Study of the OST Program Workforce

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