Keeping marketisation at bay: The quality of academic worklife in Czech universities

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.262" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.262</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.262" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.262</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Keeping marketisation at bay: The quality of academic worklife in Czech universities

Original language description

This study examines quality of academic worklife in Czech public universities to assess the extent to which the global drive towards marketisation in higher education has affected Czech academic staff. A total of 2229 academics (men = 57.1%) completed a survey measuring their job satisfaction, job stress, and work environment perceptions. Findings revealed high levels of overall job satisfaction (83.6% satisfied with their jobs) and relatively low levels of stress (13.7% regularly stressed). Most academics reported positive features of their work environment including autonomy and quality, role clarity, influence over academic work, and a strong social community. Negative features included dissatisfaction with pay, poor leadership, and pressure to produce. Job satisfaction was significantly associated with traditional academic values (focus on quality, involvement in decision-making, commitment to the workplace, recognition), while stress was linked to market-related aspects (pressure to produce, quantitative work demands, job insecurity). The study highlighted relatively high levels of well-being among Czech faculty, which can be attributed to the continued prevalence of a traditional, professor- oriented academic system based on autonomy and collegiality. Despite recent market-oriented changes within Czech research policy, the negative effects of marketisation are not yet pronounced in the quality of academic worklife in public universities, except for the increasing pressure for productivity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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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

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

347-374

UT code for WoS article

000382098200004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84989267001