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Academics’ Perception of Institutional Governance and Management Practices
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between systemic higher education governance, institutional governance, and academics’ perception of management practice from a comparative perspective. Based on a quantitative survey among academics working in the sectors of public universities (N = 3,340) and university colleges of teacher education (UCTE) (N = 563) in Austria, we ask how academics perceive the institutional management of their organisation and the internal control mechanisms and personnel decisions.
The results show that different governance frameworks, institutional practices and different missions in the sectors effect academics’ perception. Academics at public universities emphasize the research mission and the role of research for personnel decisions, while academics at UCTE emphasize the teaching mission and the role of teaching for personnel decisions. Finally, we found that the different role of academics in decision making as foreseen by the institutional governance structure (collegial bodies) did not match with the results of this study, as UCTE respondents feel to contribute more strongly to institutional level decision making.