Does Academic Work Make Australian Academics Happy?

Autor/inn/en	Duncan, Roderick; Tilbrook, Kerry; Krivokapic-Skoko, Branka
Titel	Does Academic Work Make Australian Academics Happy?
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 57 (2015) 1, S.5-12 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Psychological Patterns; Productivity; College Faculty; Job Satisfaction; Social Psychology; Diaries; Teacher Attitudes; Work Environment; Work Attitudes; Correlation; Creativity; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Produktivität; Fakultät; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Sozialpsychologie; Diary; Tagebuch; Lehrerverhalten; Arbeitsmilieu; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Korrelation; Kreativität; Australien
Abstract	Happiness research is a rapidly-growing area in social psychology and has emphasised the link between happiness and workplace productivity and creativity for knowledge workers. Recent articles in this journal have raised concerns about the level of happiness and engagement of Australian academics with their work, however there is little research on the activities Australian academics conduct during a typical day and how these activities affect happiness or productivity. We asked teaching and research academics at a regional Australian university to keep time diaries of their days detailing the tasks they engaged in as well as how they felt overall about their day in terms of both emotional satisfaction and workplace effectiveness. Supporting the notion of intrinsic motivation for academic work, we found a strong relationship between happiness and self-reported effectiveness. We found that research activities made academics happier with their days and that time fragmentation was a major driver of unhappiness. However we also uncovered a tension between the activities which make academics happy and those activities which made academics feel productive. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01