The Worst of Times? A Tale of Two Higher Education Institutions in France: Their Merger and Its Impact on Staff Working Lives

Autor/in	Evans, Linda
Titel	The Worst of Times? A Tale of Two Higher Education Institutions in France: Their Merger and Its Impact on Staff Working Lives
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 42 (2017) 9, S.1699-1717 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2015.1119107
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Organizational Change; Semi Structured Interviews; College Faculty; Employee Attitudes; Teacher Morale; Negative Attitudes; Stress Variables; Professional Identity; Research Universities; Academic Education; Job Satisfaction; Work Environment; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Organisationswandel; Fakultät; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Teacher; Teachers; Morale; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Moral; Negative Fixierung; Forschungseinrichtung; Akademische Bildung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Arbeitsmilieu; Frankreich
Abstract	This paper presents the preliminary findings of a case study of the merger of two higher education institutions in France. The paper's main focus is not the politics that gave rise to the institutional merger, nor the rights or wrongs of the decision, nor the merger process itself; rather, it is the extent to and the ways in which these features of the transition combined to touch the working lives of the people affected by it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 16 employees of the 2 institutions. The findings revealed widespread post-merger dissatisfaction, lowered morale, frustration and disillusionment created by people's impeded capacity to carry out their work as they wished. Drawing on Dickensian literary language to evoke the severity of the negativity expressed by most of the sample, the author suggests that, for these French education professionals, "the worst of times" may be yet to come. (As Provided).
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