From academic oligarchy to market exploitation? Destructive organizational cultures in transforming higher education

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From academic oligarchy to market exploitation? Destructive organizational cultures in transforming higher education
Original language description
In recent years, organizational researchers have become increasingly concerned with negative impacts of the global marketization of higher education on well-being of academics. In particular, it has been argued that the shift from academic self-rule to market governance has increased incidence of destructive organizational communication, such as workplace bullying. Few studies have considered, however, how market governance intersects with other, still co-existing regimes of higher education governance.To address this issue, the current study explored faculty experiences with workplace bullying in transforming Czech universities, defined by a mix of academic self-rule and emerging marketization. Drawing on interviews with 25 bullied academics, the study examined what aspects of academic organizational cultures the participants perceived as conducive to workplace bullying. Using thematic analysis, the authors identified two contrasting types of destructive academic cultures. The first
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-02098S" target="_blank" >GA14-02098S: Work environment quality and employee well-being in public higher education</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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