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Direct linkKenny, John; Fluck, Andrew Edward – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This paper reports on research exploring the academic workload and performance practices of Australian universities. This research has identified a suite of activities associated with teaching, research and service, each with an associated time value (allocation). This led to the development of the academic workload estimation tool (AWET). In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, College Faculty, Holistic Approach
Kenny, John; Fluck, Andrew Edward – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Internationally, much has changed in the governance of universities since the adoption of corporate management approaches. A strong focus on efficiency, productivity and accountability arising from these approaches has been well documented in the literature. Reductions in government funding have caused universities to become more competitive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Self Management
Download full textKenny, John; Fluck, Andrew – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
This paper addresses the important and linked questions of how to manage academic performance and workload effectively. It highlights the need in a modern, corporatised university to consider the nature of academic work and optimal ways to develop workload allocation and performance management processes. This paper complements two previous papers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Faculty Workload, College Administration
Kenny, John; Fluck, Andrew Edward – Australian Universities' Review, 2018
This article provides insight into the nature of research workload allocation for Australian academics. It explores the distinction between research performance and research workload allocation. Research performance can be judged at an institutional level, a work group level or an individual level. The process by which an institution's research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, College Faculty, Higher Education
Kenny, John; Fluck, Andrew Edward – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
An online survey of workload activities was circulated to academics across Australia seeking estimates for the time to undertake a range of academic-related tasks associated with teaching, research and service. This article summarises the most important findings from the teaching data of the 2059 respondents. This detail of workload data has not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Management, Faculty Workload, Online Surveys
Kenny, John; Fluck, Andrew; Jetson, Tim – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
This paper presents a detailed case study of the development and implementation of a quantifiable academic workload model in the education faculty of an Australian university. Flowing from the enterprise bargaining process, the Academic Staff Agreement required the implementation of a workload allocation model for academics that was quantifiable…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Models
