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Direct linkErickson, Mark; Hanna, Paul; Walker, Carl – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we present results from an extensive survey of United Kingdom (UK) university academics investigating satisfaction with senior managers and university governance: the Senior Management Survey (SMS). In total, 5888 academic staff across the United Kingdom Higher Education (HE) sector completed the survey, and results were used to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Mohammadi, Shno; Karupiah, Premalatha – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the quality of work life (QWL) of academic staff in universities and how QWL affects their performance. Data for this study were collected using a questionnaire from 379 academic staff in public and private universities in Malaysia. This study found differences among demographic…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Work Environment, Teaching Conditions, Universities
McCarthy, Dermot; Dragouni, Mina – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Recent decades have seen the evolution of UK business schools into international mass education providers. This transformation has developed against a background of institutional changes that jeopardise work conditions in academia. As few studies have examined the relationships between organisational, social and psychological aspects of academic…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Educational Change, Mass Instruction, Organizational Change
Evans, Linda – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This paper presents the preliminary findings of a case study of the merger of two higher education institutions in France. The paper's main focus is not the politics that gave rise to the institutional merger, nor the rights or wrongs of the decision, nor the merger process itself; rather, it is the extent to and the ways in which these features…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Organizational Change
Fontinha, Rita; Van Laar, Darren; Easton, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Quality of working life has been defined as the part of overall quality of life that is influenced by work. We developed a mediation model where home-work interface, job and career satisfaction, control at work, and working conditions are considered to be positively related to employee commitment and to the absence of stress at work. These two…
Descriptors: Quality of Working Life, Contracts, Tenure, Statistical Analysis
Jung, Jisun; Shin, Jung Cheol – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of administrative staff's job competency on their job satisfaction in a Korean research university. We conceptualized job satisfaction into three subcomponents: satisfaction in the job field, in the workplace, and with the actual task. In the regression analysis, we included demographics, inner…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Satisfaction, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving
Wolhuter, C. C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Since 1994, the eyes of the world have been on South Africa, observing with interest the societal reconstruction project, upon which the country had embarked. In this project, higher education is both the terrain and the perceived instrument of change. In this higher education system and its mission, the academic profession is pivotal--especially,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Productivity, Global Approach
