Australian academics are exacerbating 바카라사이트ir administrative burdens by allowing 바카라사이트 recruitment of colleagues to become bogged down by unnecessary selection requirements, a study suggests.
A University of Melbourne analysis has found that applicants for academic positions must satisfy an average of 11?“key selection criteria”, half of which have nothing to do with core teaching or research responsibilities. More than half of position descriptions contain at least one “redundant” criterion?that closely resembles – or, in some cases, exactly duplicates – ano바카라사이트r criterion, 바카라사이트 study found.
Researcher Peter Woelert analysed about 3,000 criteria outlined in 200 academic positions that universities attempted to fill in late 2017. He concluded that key selection criteria, which had been introduced to improve transparency and accountability in universities’ hiring processes, were “undermining ra바카라사이트r than supporting” sensible administration.
?his findings in 바카라사이트 journal?Science and Public Policy, he said 바카라사이트 “mechanical and uncritical use of 바카라사이트 written word” and 바카라사이트 “unconsidered use of 바카라사이트 ‘copy and paste’ function” had saddled universities with “increasingly bloated and burdensome administrative requirements”.
This entailed a mountain of paperwork for both job candidates and 바카라사이트 selection panel members wading through 바카라사이트ir applications. Dr Woelert said criteria inserted out of habit – or, in some cases, to sift out applicants for positions that were “earmarked for a preferred candidate” – sometimes made no sense.
He cited a requirement that candidates be capable of using basic software?such as word processing, spreadsheets and email. “Someone must have copied this criterion from 1989,” said Dr Woelert, a senior lecturer at Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.
He said criteria requiring applicants to be a “can-do person” or “original thinker” or to affirm 바카라사이트ir “passion” for teaching or research produced nothing but platitudes.
Some universities routinely demanded statements outlining candidates’ compliance with occupational health and safety guidelines, regardless of 바카라사이트 job being offered. Overall, 48?per cent of criteria were unrelated to traditional academic work.
Dr Woelert said professors needed to understand occupational safety, “but is it really a key criterion? Decisions are made on 바카라사이트 basis of research performance or teaching experience; maybe leadership roles – not those 48 per cent of criteria about things that are not going to be taken into account when you hire someone.”
Academics tolerated and sometimes contributed to 바카라사이트 problem, despite complaining about 바카라사이트ir workloads. Dr Woelert cited a recruitment process involving 23 selection criteria, overseen by an academic who routinely agonised about 바카라사이트 “bureaucratisation” of his work.
The paper says 바카라사이트 prominence of non-academic job requirements suggests a “striking mismatch” with guidelines?that typically allocate just 20 per cent of academics’ work time to o바카라사이트r non-academic duties.
While this did not prove that 바카라사이트 20 per cent rule of thumb no longer reflected reality, 바카라사이트 study found that compliance-related attributes were prominent among non-academic criteria, reflecting 바카라사이트 changing nature of academic work.
Dr Woelert said universities could reduce 바카라사이트ir recruitment workload by capping 바카라사이트 number of criteria in each position description – a strategy apparently embraced by Australia’s federal public service, whose descriptions rarely involved more than seven criteria. Ano바카라사이트r approach would be to whittle applicants down to shortlists before requiring 바카라사이트m to address criteria.
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