Chubb, Jennifer Alison orcid.org/0000-0002-9716-820X, Weinstein, Netta, Haddock, Geoff et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Supported or stressed while being assessed? How motivational climates in UK University workplaces promote or inhibit researcher well-being. Higher Education Quarterly. pp. 537-557. ISSN 1468-2273
Abstract
Academic culture now places high expectations on researchers to demonstrate research productivity alongside teaching, leadership and knowledge exchange. In two studies of researchers across career stages in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), we examined workplace climate within academic departments as (1) supportive of researchers' needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, (2) publish-or-perish focused and (3) hyper-competitive. In Study 1 (multiwave from 2018 to 2020), need support predicted researchers' lower turnover intention 2 years later, even when controlling for concurrent need support, and career and economic conditions. In Study 2, need support correlated with academic well-being (lower job strain and turnover intention, greater job satisfaction) in a nationwide sample of 2951 researchers. Study 2 found that need support related to improved, and a hyper-competitive motivational climate related to undermined, well-being. Results were mixed for publish-or-perish climate. Performative demands can have deleterious effects on researcher well-being.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Higher Education Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2024 04:26 |
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2025 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12420 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/hequ.12420 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217152 |
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