The 'sandwich generation' in Korean academe

Between Traditional Academic Authority and Meritocratic Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID4098467
AuthorsJung Cheol Shin (0000-0001-7930-5242, Seoul National University of Education, corresponding author), Yangson Kim (0000-0001-5078-8762, Seoul National University of Education), Heejin Lim (0000-0003-1269-564X, Seoul National University of Education), Bongsup Shim, Bong Sup Shim (0000-0003-3205-6191, Seoul National University of Education), Younggi Choi (0000-0002-7137-3109, Seoul National University of Education)
Year2015
Volume40
Issue8
Pages1406-1422
Publication date2015-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2015.1060710
OpenAlexW1952341317
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited39

This study investigates how academics hired during the period of rapid neoliberal reforms differ from the senior academics hired before the reforms and the junior academics hired after the reforms were institutionalized. The faculty members who were employed in a period of radical reform may be impacted by the additional requirements and tasks caused by the reforms while they are also expected to do more traditional duties. They could be regarded as the ‘sandwich generation’ and may be suffering from overloaded. Through the survey data and interview data of this article, however, the authors found that the younger generation (the ‘new generation’) is overloaded, and their job stress is higher than either old generation (the ‘academic boomers’) or the sandwich generation. Although the new generation has a stronger preference for research than other generations, they spend less time on research and more time on administration than the others. Accordingly, the new generation is highly stressed. In addition, the authors found that there are differences between hard and soft disciplines in dealing with generational effects. In soft disciplines, the new generation spends more time on administration and less on research than the others, but they are not as highly stressed. On the other hand, their colleagues in hard disciplines feel more stressed though they do not spend more time on administration than their colleagues in soft disciplines

Baby boomers · Demographic economics · Discipline · Economics · First generation · Generation x · Higher education · Meritocracy · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Third generation · Engineering · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Psychology

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