A comparative analysis of workload and career progression of faculty members in Uganda’s private and public universities
Career progression is a goal most employees, particularly faculty members, pursue to improve job satisfaction and advance towards self-actualisation. However, many faculty members in Uganda’s private and public universities are lagging behind their desired level of career progression, but how thi...
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Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal
2022
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/606 |
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| Summary: | Career progression is a goal most employees, particularly faculty members, pursue to
improve job satisfaction and advance towards self-actualisation. However, many faculty
members in Uganda’s private and public universities are lagging behind their desired level
of career progression, but how this situation is explained by the workload allocated to them
has not been comparatively analysed. The cross-sectional design was used to assess the
effect of workload on academic staff career progression. Data on 207 lecturers randomly
selected from two private and two public universities using the heterogeneous purposive
sampling was used. Results from linear regression analysis indicate that workload assigned
in terms of teaching tasks, is a significant constraint to lecturers’ career progression.
Much of the time lecturers would have used to improve their careers through research,
publication and further training is spent on teaching. Results from independent samples
T-test show that this scenario is more pronounced in public than private universities
because of understaffing caused by underfunding of these universities. The paper
concludes public universities’ should improve staffing levels to address workload allocation
in way that creates times for faculty members to pursue career. |
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