02194nas a2200181   4500008004100000020002200041245009000063210006900153260005400222520159200276653001401868653001101882653001101893653001301904653002301917100002101940856005101961       2021                        eng d  a978-84-09-27666-000aDeteriorating Working Conditions in Academia – The Best Way to Secure Meritocracy? 0 aDeteriorating Working Conditions in Academia The Best Way to Sec  aOnline ConferencebIATED Academyc8-9 March, 20213 a<p>Academic careers have been changing worldwide due to a diversity of both endogenous and exogenous factors. Global trends such as managerialism and New Public Management (NPM) influence changes in careers in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), since these trends translate the spreading of discourses, values and ideologies from the private sector to the public sector. This study examines the impact of NPM on the working conditions of Portuguese higher education academics in the last ten years. The empirical data are based on official statistics on the Portuguese academics employment conditions and the analysis leads to the following conclusions. Changes reveal an increasing corrosion of traditional employment practices. Employment has become more precarious as professionals are increasingly employed on non-tenured contracts. Although this tendency was initially more evidenced in the polytechnic sector, in nowadays universities present even more precarious conditions. In short, this means that despite the political changes in the country in the last years, the development of science in Portugal is still based in highly qualified employment but with equally high precarious employment relations, even if an improvement of the working conditions for those at the top is evidenced. In this context, the prospect of future wealth, rather than current income and working conditions, main represent the driver for young academics to stay in the job. Potential consequences for the meritocratic and excellence values, framing HEIs organisational culture are discussed.</p>
10aacademics10acareer10aChange10aPortugal10aworking conditions1 aCarvalho, Teresa  uhttps://library.iated.org/view/CARVALHO2021DET02011nas a2200217   4500008004100000245009000041210006900131260001500200300001400215490000700229520133600236653002401572653001101596653001801607653002601625653001701651100002001668700001901688700002101707856006501728       2019                        eng d00aChange and continuity in the academic profession: Finnish universities as living labs0 aChange and continuity in the academic profession Finnish univers  c04/07/2019  a533–5510 v793 a<p>The academic profession is challenged by the changing environment. Global trends, such as managerialism and new public management, have been influencing all public organizations, including universities. The academic profession is dynamic by its nature; it reflects any changes in its environment. However, the academic profession is also characterized by continuity. In this study, we describe the current changes and continuities of the academic profession in Finland, as perceived by top and middle managers employed in Finnish Universities. We found out that logics and values by organizational professionalism are emphasized; however, occupational professionalism is also deeply rooted in the practices of Finnish universities. Additionally, we found out that changes are often associated with managerial values, such as control and evaluation, and in contrast, the continuities of academic work are commonly related to professorial authority and academic identity. These two aspects of the profession and organization are not opposite, they occur simultaneously; however, there are tensions between them. In this article, we would like to emphasize that change of the academic profession is a hybrid, there exists both, changes and continuities in the logics and values related to the profession and the organization.</p>
10aAcademic profession10aChange10aManagerialism10anew public management10auniversities1 aSiekkinen, Taru1 aPekkola, Elias1 aCarvalho, Teresa  uhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-019-00422-3