At the annual conference in the national research program Long-term Provision of Knowledge, held in Saltsj\u00f6baden 15-16 November, preliminary results from our on-going empirical studies in Swedish business schools were presented. Johann Packendorff, Marianne Ekman Rising and Monica Lindgren are in-depth-interviewing lecturers on initiatives aimed at increasing performance and productivity by connecting funding allocation directly to measures on the individual or institutional level, and are specifically interested in (1) how such initiatives are understood and received by academic professionals in their daily work, and (2) in what ways these initiatives affect work practices and academics\u2019 self-understanding.<\/p>\n
In our presentation, we centered around empirical themes rather than theoretical developments. Where the practicing of performance-based systems (PBS) is concerned, we reflected on the following themes:
\n\u2022Hour counting practices – i.e. that teaching time is broken down in detail to hours to be ”produced” by lecturers.
\n\u2022Research time distribution – i.e. how internal research funding are allocated across faculty and the consequences of the process as such and the allocation criteria
\n\u2022Accreditation as a self-inflicted additional system: Importing US criteria and organizational models
\n\u2022Publishing\/bibliometrics: Awareness ,strategic behaviour but not embraced
\n\u2022Salaries as hygiene factor, not seen as reward or incentive, even negative when seen as unfair
\n\u2022Standardisation important despite variety of work contents and work organisation
\n\u2022Outcome-based systems rather than process-based systems
\n\u2022Individualised systems – individuals are responsibilised, measured and evaluated, less so the organisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the annual conference in the national research program Long-term Provision of Knowledge, held in Saltsj\u00f6baden 15-16 November, preliminary results from our on-going empirical studies in Swedish business schools were presented. Johann Packendorff, Marianne Ekman Rising and Monica Lindgren are … Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa