Faculty Turnover: Discipline-Specific Attention Is Warranted

Autor/in	Xu, Yonghong Jade
Titel	Faculty Turnover: Discipline-Specific Attention Is Warranted
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 49 (2008) 1, S.40-61 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-007-9062-7
Schlagwörter	Intellectual Disciplines; College Faculty; Faculty Mobility; Labor Turnover; Teacher Persistence; Teacher Behavior; Comparative Analysis; Research Universities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geisteswissenschaften; Fakultät; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Forschungseinrichtung
Abstract	This study investigated the importance of discipline variations in understanding faculty turnover behaviors. A representative sample of university faculty in Research and Doctoral universities was obtained from a national database. Faculty members, self-identified into a primary academic area, were grouped into eight discipline clusters according to an established framework. Multiple regression models were constructed to examine within each cluster the relative importance of a list of factors that have been identified to be related to faculty turnover. Cross-discipline comparisons of within-cluster variable prioritization revealed substantial discipline variations with regard to the major factors that are critical to faculty turnover. The findings produced evidence that discipline-specific information was indispensable to institutional administrators and policy makers for effective faculty retention. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10