McUniversities Revisited: A Comparison of University and McDonald's Casual Employee Experiences in Australia

Autor/inn/en	Nadolny, Andrew; Ryan, Suzanne
Titel	McUniversities Revisited: A Comparison of University and McDonald's Casual Employee Experiences in Australia
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 40 (2015) 1, S.142-157 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2013.818642
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Commercialization; Employees; Surveys; Interviews; Comparative Analysis; Experience; Work Environment; College Faculty; Adjunct Faculty; Personnel Management; Recruitment; Career Development; Job Security; Dismissal (Personnel); Compensation (Remuneration); Training; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Erfahrung; Arbeitsmilieu; Fakultät; Personalmanagement; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Berufsentwicklung; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Dismissal; Entlassung; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Ausbildung; Australien
Abstract	The McDonaldization of higher education refers to the transformation of universities from knowledge generators to rational service organizations or "McUniversities". This is reflected in the growing dependence on a casualized academic workforce. The article explores the extent to which the McDonaldization thesis applies to universities by comparing the experiences of casual academics with those of McDonald's employees. Survey and interview findings from an Australian university are compared with Gould's research on McDonald's casual employees in Australia. Aside from their employment status, the two groups have nothing in common. McDonald's employees experience routine work organization with good management and career prospects while casual academics experience stimulating work within a context of poor management and lack of career paths. This article questions the accuracy of applying the McDonaldization thesis to higher education based on the failure of the McJobs descriptor to withstand empirical scrutiny. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10