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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AN - Psychologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA14-02098S" target="_blank" >GA14-02098S: Kvalita pracovního prostředí a well-being zaměstnanců ve veřejném vysokém školství</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

52

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

28

Strana od-do

347-374

Kód UT WoS článku

000382098200004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84989267001