The 'Work-Work Balance' in Higher Education: Between Over-Work, Falling Short and the Pleasures of Multiplicity

Autor/in	Griffin, Gabriele
Titel	The 'Work-Work Balance' in Higher Education: Between Over-Work, Falling Short and the Pleasures of Multiplicity
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 11, S.2190-2203 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Griffin, Gabriele)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2021.2020750
Schlagwörter	Family Work Relationship; Higher Education; Neoliberalism; College Faculty; Labor Demands; Portfolios (Background Materials); Foreign Countries; Faculty Workload; Sweden; Finland; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Fakultät; Arbeitskampf; Tarifkonflikt; Ausland; Schweden; Finnland; Norwegen
Abstract	The neoliberalization of higher education in western countries has led to work intensification, projectification, and work-life balance issues for academics. This article draws on interviews with Digital Humanities practitioners in higher education conducted in 2017-2018 in three Nordic countries to introduce the concept of the 'work-work balance', an under-researched phenomenon in contemporary academe. The term 'work-work balance' refers to the ways in which workers in higher education seek to balance conflicting concurrent work demands made on them. Four such work scenarios emerged from the data: the 50/50 split across different jobs; working across multiple projects simultaneously; occupying multiple functional roles; and conflicting demands within one job. The article argues that work-work balance, or rather imbalance, issues result in the inability of higher education workers to meet the demands put upon them. This raises questions regarding the role of HEIs and research funding regimes in the generation and maintenance of work-work balance scenarios and suggests that work-work balance issues need to be researched further as well as requiring urgent attention from HEIs and research funders. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01