Trouble at Mill
Quality of academic worklife issues within a comprehensive Australian university
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4096588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Winter (0000-0002-2897-3256), Tony Taylor, James Sarros, James C Sarros |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-294 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713696158 |
| OpenAlex | W2036465179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 36 |
This study describes the quality of academic worklife (QAWL) within a comprehensive university in Australia. Academics responded to the Academic Work Environment Survey, a diagnostic instrument designed to assess the relationships between and among academics' demographic characteristics (age, gender, position, discipline area), work environment perceptions (role, job, supervisor, structure, sector characteristics), and work attitudes (self-estrangement, organisational commitment). Findings revealed positive QAWL features such as role clarity, motivating job characteristics, and low levels of self-estrangement (alienation). Negative QAWL features included role overload, low levels of job feedback, and limited opportunities to influence university decisionmaking. Comments indicated that many academics feel disenchanted and demoralised with the tenets and practices of managerialism. The study concludes that comprehensive universities suffer from strategic dissonance. They want to deliver cost efficiencies and maintain institutional reputation (i.e. centralise), but also want to serve distinct market sectors and expand their revenue base (i.e. decentralise)
Alienation · Antipathy · CLARITY · Cognitive dissonance · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Job satisfaction · Managerialism · Political science · Public relations · Reputation · Sociology · Higher Education and Employability · Human Resource and Talent Management · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
Gender, power and managerialism in universities
Similarities and differences in collegiality/managerialism in Irish and Australian universities
Voices from the chalkface
Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education
Entangled in academic capitalism? A case-study on changing ideals and practices of university research
Burnout and Work Engagement of Academics in Higher Education Institutions: Effects of Dispositional Optimism
Çalışanların İş Yaşam Kalitesinin Bağlamsal Performans ve Görev Performansı Üzerindeki Etkisine Yönelik Bir Araştırma
Academics' commitment and job satisfaction
Cultural values, school innovative climate and organizational affective commitment
Educators' self-esteem
In search of intangible connections
Tackling Complex Social Challenges within Neoliberal Constraints
Working the Clock
Pulling the strings
Faculty engagement in higher education
Supporting academic staff
Cultural capitalists and academic habitus
The Role of Management Controls in the Higher Education Sector
Keeping Marketisation at Bay
Centralising professional staff
Effective leadership in higher education
Rational curriculum processes
Resistance and enrolment in the enterprise university
A leap of faith
Quality of Work Life of Teaching Staff Working at a Higher Education Institution in Saudi Arabia
Embedding Cetls in a performance‐oriented culture in higher education
Occupational Stress of Academic Staff in South African Higher Education Institutions
The impact of collegiality amongst Australian accounting academics on work-related attitudes and academic performance
Internationalisation of curricula
Managing the tensions between maintaining academic standards and the commercial imperative in a UK private sector higher education institution
Academic Staff Workloads and Job Satisfaction
Occupational stress in University academics in Australia and New Zealand
The predictive value of job demands and resources on the meaning of work and organisational commitment across different age groups in the higher education sector
Job satisfaction among accounting and finance academics
Changes in higher education and valuing the job
Time is not enough
The impact of managerialism on the strategy work of university middle managers
Collegial participation in university governance
Academic pedagogies, quality logics and performative universities
Academic work/life balance
Managerial behavior, performance, and effectiveness
Higher Education Management
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity.
Employee reactions to job characteristics.
Employee Creativity
Some practical aspects of qualitative data analysis
The McUniversity
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Occupational Stress, Burnout and Job Status in Female Academics
Faculty versus administration
Managerialism, Economic Rationalism and Public Sector Reform in Australia
Managing the Academics
An Empirical Test of the Theory of Job Design Using Multiple Job Ratings
Academic Professionals
Perceived Control by Employees
The measurement of organizational commitment
Professionals in Bureaucracy
Professional identity and the restructuring of higher education
A bleak outlook
Some Determinants of Work Alienation
The Analysis of Bureaucratic-Professional Conflict
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |