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Academic staff perceptions of performance management : a qualitative study.

dc.contributor.advisorIsaacs, Dean Lee.
dc.contributor.authorMazibuko, Lindani Thando.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-31T06:10:51Z
dc.date.available2018-01-31T06:10:51Z
dc.date.created2016
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionMaster of Social Science in Industrial Psychology. University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 2016.en_US
dc.description.abstractPerformance management as a tool of managing human recourses has flourished into the higher education sector, with more and more universities employing it to manage the performance of academics (Simmons, 2002). This research is a qualitative exploration of the individual and personal lecturer or university academic’s experiences and perceptions of performance management. The research study conducted seven semi-structured, thirty to forty-minute-long interviews with seven university academics to ascertain their individual, personal, subjective perceptions, opinions and experiences of performance management within higher education institutions. Participants recognised the importance and positives of performance management, but also expressed frustration with the conception, implementation and execution of performance management. Performance management is viewed by academics as being detached from the realities of a university context, due largely to the pro-profit and bureaucratic approach employed in the entirety of the process. Participants desired an inclusive, qualitative, less bureaucratic approach to the conceptualisation of what constitutes ‘good performance’. This approach must also honour the changing environment and context of contemporary universities that is driven less by neoliberal norms.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/14928
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_US
dc.subject.otherPerformance management.en_US
dc.subject.otherEmployee performance.en_US
dc.subject.otherOrganisational psychology.en_US
dc.subject.otherPsychology.en_US
dc.titleAcademic staff perceptions of performance management : a qualitative study.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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