1. Is Commitment to Performance-based Management Compatible with Commitment to University 'Publicness'? Academics’ Values in French Universities
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Samuel Sponem, Christine Musselin, Stéphanie Chatelain-Ponroy, Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action (LIRSA), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), Institut de Recherche en Gestion (IRG), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HEC Montréal (HEC Montréal), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CSO), and HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)
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new public management ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,publicness ,New public management ,université ,Performance ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Context (language use) ,IRG_AXE1 ,administration ,university ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,values ,050602 political science & public administration ,media_common ,University ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,business.industry ,4. Education ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Values ,Public relations ,0506 political science ,Management ,Publicness ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Position (finance) ,Normative ,Professional association ,business ,Administration (government) ,management ,performance ,050203 business & management ,Reputation - Abstract
International audience; Individuals’ values in the context of NPM-based reforms are a central theme in studies of public professional organizations. While organization studies mainly focus on “professional” values, research on public administration primarily addresses the issue of “public” values. This article brings these two research streams together in order to investigate the relationship between two sets of individual values—commitment to performance-based management and normative publicness—in the context of French public universities. It draws on a quantitative survey of academics involved in university governance. The study demonstrates that a positive attitude towards performance-based management is negatively correlated with commitment to university publicness; furthermore, it delineates different groups within the academic profession—according to professional status, managerial position within the organization, and the department’s reputation and ability to generate revenues—which have differing attitudes regarding performance-based management and university publicness.
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- 2017
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