New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited

2009 ◽  
pp. 36-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Enders ◽  
Harry de Boer ◽  
Liudvika Leišytė
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
New Public

scholarly journals Accountability Measures in Higher Education and Academic Workload: A Ten-year Comparison

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Silvia Nakano ◽  
Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée ◽  
Olivier Bégin-Caouette
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
New Public ◽  
Academic Workload ◽  
Administrative Tasks

At the core of New Public Management (NPM) reforms sit the concept of accountability of publicly funded organizations. In Canada, it is suggested that provinces have increased the number of accountability procedures imposed to universities and those measures would have had an impact on professors' academic workload. This study relies on the Canadian faculty's perspectives collected through the 2007 Changing Academic Profession (CAP) study (n = 1151) and the 2017 Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society (APIKS) study (n = 2968). Descriptive statistics and a MANOVA comparing the scores of five variables in 2007 and 2017 suggest that academic workload increased significantly in ten years, academic acvities are significantly more evaluated, although less by academics themselves, female academics report dedicating more time to administrative tasks and being more frequently evaluated, and senior administrative staff and external reviewers are perceived as being more involved in the evaluation of academic activities in 2017 than in 2007. Our interpretation is that accountability measures could increase professors' admministrative burden and grant more authority to non-academic staff. Key words: accountability; academic workload; academic profession; new public management; Canadian universities.

"Jedes starre Konzept ist schlecht und passt net' in diese Welt"

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (148) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer ◽  
Ariadne Sondermann ◽  
Olaf Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
New Public ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Procedures

The recent reform of the Bundesagentur fijr Arbeit, Germany's Public Employment Service (PES), has introduced elements of New Public Management, including internal controlling and attempts at standardizing assessments ('profiling' of unemployed people) and procedures. Based on qualitative interviews with PES staff, we show that standardization and controlling are perceived as contradicting the 'case-oriented approach' used by PES staff in dealing with unemployed people. It is therefore not surprising that staff members use considerable discretion when (re-)assigning unemployed people to one of the categories pre-defined by PES headquarters. All in all, the new procedures lead to numerous contradictions, which often result in bewilderment and puzzlement on the part of the unemployed.

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