Academic coaching and decision analysis. Ways of deciding whether to pursue an academic career.

Autor/inn/en	Morais, Ana Sofia; Hariskos, Wasilios
Titel	Academic coaching and decision analysis. Ways of deciding whether to pursue an academic career. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wissenschaftscoaching und Entscheidungsanalyse. Wege, sich für eine akademische Karriere zu entscheiden.
Quelle	In: PLOS ONE, 13 (2018) 11, Art. e0206961, 28 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-6203
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0206961
Schlagwörter	Entscheidung; Beratung; Karriereplanung; Berufswahl; Akademikerberuf; Akademiker; Coaching; Prozessanalyse; Hochschulabsolvent
Abstract	"We analyzed and compared the decision-making processes underlying two approaches that academics might use to decide whether to pursue a professorship or an alternative career: academic coaching (a paid service that supports academics with career-related issues) and decision analysis (a method for applying decision theory to real-world decision problems). To this end, we conducted in-depth expert interviews with seven out of 11 academic coaches known to work in Berlin to examine empirically the career decision-making process that they use. Moreover, we demonstrate theoretically how decision analysis can be applied to an academic's hypothetical career choice problem. A comparison of the two approaches showed that they both advise (i) structuring the decision problem by dividing it into smaller components, (ii) using the academic's objectives to generate career alternatives, and (iii) quantifying the uncertainty of decision outcomes using subjective probabilities. Moreover, the observed differences in the way the two approaches structure the decision problem suggest ways in which they could inform each other: (i) they could make use of each other's techniques to help academics define their objectives and generate career alternatives; (ii) academic coaching could, in addition, use decision trees (a hallmark of decision analysis) to represent the structure of the career decision problem, and use simple measurement scales to quantify how much the career options contribute to the academic's objectives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/2