@conference {4095,
	title = {Deteriorating Working Conditions in Academia {\textendash} The Best Way to Secure Meritocracy? },
	booktitle = {15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference},
	year = {2021},
	month = {8-9 March, 2021},
	publisher = {IATED Academy},
	organization = {IATED Academy},
	address = {Online Conference},
	abstract = {<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>
},
	keywords = {academics, career, Change, Portugal, working conditions},
	isbn = {978-84-09-27666-0},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1861 },
	url = {https://library.iated.org/view/CARVALHO2021DET},
	author = {Teresa Carvalho}
}
@article {4051,
	title = {Change and continuity in the academic profession: Finnish universities as living labs},
	journal = {Higher Education},
	volume = {79},
	year = {2019},
	month = {04/07/2019},
	pages = {533{\textendash}551},
	abstract = {<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>
},
	keywords = {Academic profession, Change, Managerialism, new public management, universities},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00422-3},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-019-00422-3},
	author = {Taru Siekkinen and Elias Pekkola and Teresa Carvalho}
}
