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Perceptions of resource criticality in times of resource scarcity: the case of university departments

Article Abstract:

Research shows that during times of scarcity, research-oriented administrators and faculty will consider support personnel to be more valuable relative to faculty than do administrators who place less value on research. Also, the relation between perceived importance of support personnel and research orientation with regard to faculty is much stronger in academic disciplines with completely matured paradigms. The research also shows a contingency view of departmental retrenchment. For academic departments with an excess of research-oriented faculty members, especially departments having high-paradigm disciplines, retrenchment is feasible when it makes maintaining the jobs of support personnel and those of faculty a major priority.

Usage, Economic aspects, Universities and colleges, College faculty, Education, Higher, Higher education, Paradigms (Social sciences)

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Institutional and resource dependence determinants of responsiveness to work-family issues

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Whether and how organizations choose strategies that address pressures from both their exchange and the institutional environments has recently become a central question in organization theory. We used the National Organizations Study to replicate and extend Goodstein's application of Oliver's framework integrating resource dependence and institutional theories to explain organizational responsiveness to work-family issues. We found that organizations' responsiveness to work-family issues was determined by both the institutional environment and demands for work-family programs from important exchange partners. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Work and family

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