Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy needs suggests that human beings cannot reach level self-actualization in event their basic are not properly fulfilled, i.e., physiological and related to security. This study is an effort test against living standard instructors Haramaya University (the researchers explore where academic staff leveled). A qualitative approach was employed make empirical investi...

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities in enabling them to deliver multiple agendas in complex environments (Gordon & Whitchurch, 2007). In recent years, many governments have proceeded with deregulation and developed schemes to assure the quality of higher education. Today, universities have a greater autonomy under the new quality assurance systems b...

Academic staff in Higher Education (HE) need to transform their teaching practices to support more future-orientated, digital, student-centered learning. Promoting, enabling and implementing these changes urgently requires acceptable, meaningful and effective staff development for academics. We identify four key areas that are presenting as barriers to the implementation of successful staff dev...

each semester, students are asked to evaluate the academic staff through an online questionnaire. generalized estimating equations model (gee), taking into account the correlation between scores, is the established tool to analyze longitudinal data. the aim of this manuscript is to identify characteristics that influence staff score and to address the importance of selection of appropriate corr...

This article examines the emergence of author as a leader Universities Academic Staff Union at university in East Africa. Using role, resource and constraint-based theories well autoethnography, which is sub-category qualitative research, traces intellectual political ferment that enabled him to become unionist. From discussion emanated from data he collected, memos, newspaper articles personal...

This study was conducted in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Penang, Malaysia in April 2005. The objectives of the study were to examine the life satisfaction of the academic and non-academic staff. Findings revealed that some demographic variables had significant difference in life satisfaction. This study could provide meaningful information to the top management to design intervention progra...

Original scientific paper Evaluating candidates’ suitability for a selection of academic staff is an important tool for Human Resources Management (HRM) to select the most suitable candidates for required posts. There are various methods regarding the selection of staff in the field. As there are increasing improvements in the field of education, universities around the world demand high qualit...