The Effect of Emotional Exhaustion on Job Involvement among Academic Administrators in Malaysia

Attracting and retaining academic administrators are quite hard in most universities, due to the fact that, having an administrative position is considered as burdensome for most academicians. This study investigated the effect of emotional exhaustion on job involvement among academic administrators in Malaysian universities. A total of 190 academic administrators from both public and private universities in Malaysia participated in this study. Data analysis revealed a moderately high level of emotional exhaustion experienced by the academic administrators and average level of job involvement. In addition to that, this study also found a significant inverse relationship between emotional exhaustion and job involvement. Knowledge gained from this study could contribute to empower university management to better comprehend the impact of emotional exhaustion on the well-being as well as performance of the employees, specifically academic administrators.

The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs Edited by Bruce McDonald III and William Hatcher

In The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs, editors Bruce McDonald III and William Hatcher, provide a broad overview on designing, leading, and managing a public affairs (PA) program. The edited volume is explicitly written for PA faculty in new leadership roles in higher education, though it is a useful reference for administrators of all levels and even useful for regular faculty. Despite excellent journals focused on PA education, such as Journal of Public Affairs Education, and Teaching Public Administration, there is a clear need for a focused cultivation of fundamental knowledge, research, and experience-informed advice for academic administrators in PA programs.

Help wanted: A qualitative study of what newspaper editors consider when hiring journalism school graduates

This research examines what skills are needed by legacy newspaper hiring editors of their new employees hired after journalism school, including writing and reporting skills for print and online, coding, data scrubbing and analysis, and design skills. Moreover, this article highlights, for the first time, that the perceived disconnect between legacy newspaper editors and journalism academic administrators is, in fact, real.

Dimensions

Dimensions is a combined analytical, search & discovery, and information management database which has developed API tools to control and organize its holdings. The Digital Science philosophy has been that metrics and indicators belong to the scholars generating the research, not to a vendor, hence the majority of its articles and bibliographic indicators are Open Access, and free to the research community. Charges are assessed, however, for Dimensions Plus subscriptions which provide links among policy papers, grant information, clinical trials, and other information of interest to academic administrators, institutions, publishers, and librarians. Dimensions offers the ability to generate new knowledge: its data may be used, and a new information artefact created, without having to leave its platform. Featuring a full text index that enables deep discovery and machine-learning based research classification, the search and navigation experience is smooth and intuitive. Offering many additional features that set it aside from traditional bibliometric databases, Dimensions is a tool that is designed primarily for expert users with knowledge of the various facets and research processes of the disciplines in which they search information.

EXPRESS: R2M Index 1.0: Assessing the Practical Relevance of Academic Marketing Articles

Using text-mining we develop version 1.0 of the Relevance to Marketing (R2M) Index, a dynamic index that measures the topical and timely relevance of academic marketing articles to marketing practice. The index assesses topical relevance based on a dictionary of marketing terms derived from 50,000 marketing articles published in practitioner outlets from 1982 to 2019. Timely relevance is based on the prevalence of academic marketing topics in practitioner publications at a given time. We classify topics into four quadrants based on their low/high popularity in academia and practice —“Desert,” “Academic Island,” “Executive Fields,” and “Highlands”— and score academic articles and journals: Journal of Marketing has the highest R2M score followed by Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Consumer Research. The index correlates with practitioner judgments of practical relevance and other relevance measures. Because the index is a work-in-progress, we discuss how to overcome current limitations and suggest correlating the index with citation counts, altmetrics, and readability measures. Marketing practitioners, authors, and journal editors can use the index to assess article relevance, and academic administrators can use it for promotion and tenure decisions. The R2M index is thus not only a measurement instrument but also a tool for change.

Perceptions about Gossip and Rumours in Academic Organizations

Gossip and rumour, as forms of informal communication in academic organization have attracted little research attention in the literature. This paper examines the perceptions of Turkish academics of gossip and rumours, gossip topics and their relationship with certain organizational cultural issues. A web-based questionnaire was sent to 356 academics working in the communications field. The findings revealed that gossip and rumours are quite common in academic organizations. Internal gossip and rumours are perceived to be more common than the external gossip and rumours. Gossips and rumours about the management and the personnel rights are among the top topics. On the other hand, academics generally have negative opinions about gossip and rumours. However, such negative opinions about gossip and rumours were found to decrease when the perceived organizational democracy and internal communication levels increase. It is clear that academic administrators may not cope with gossip and rumours successfully unless they improve democratic participation and internal communication.