(A Research on Determination of The Opinions of Academicians in Public Universities for Norm Staff Implementation)

Abstract

Purpose – Purpose of the research is to determine the opinions of academicians working in public universities in Turkey about norm staff implementation. Also it was tried to determine whether these opinions differ or not according to some demographic characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – The findings of a field research using descriptive model and quantitative research method were included in this study. Survey method was used as a data collection tool in the research. In addition to frequency distributions and descriptive statistical analyzes, T-Test and One-Way ANOVA were used in order to determine whether the opinions about norm staff implementation differed or not. Findings – If all the findings are summarized, it is clearly seen that there are question marks in the minds of academicians towards the implementation of the norm staff. Failure to fully understand or explain the reasons for norm staff, uncertainties in practice, delays in staff announcements, differences in practice between universities or departments can be cited as the problems of norm staff implementation that arise as a result of this research. . In addition, half of the participants wanted the continuation of the implementation by making the necessary changes and the other half demanded the abolition of the implementation. Discussion – The clearest consensus is that norm staff implementation is not desired to continue in this state. The fact that half of the participants want the implementation to be continued by making changes makes it important to determine what these changes are and to make the necessary corrections. Changing the criterias of the norm staff, differentiating them according to the universities and not using the norm staff in the academic promotion of the internal staff were determined as the changes requested by the participants in this research. In addition, it is important to conduct field surveys with broad participation to involve relevant stakeholders in order to determine the desired changes in more detail and to implement a more acceptable norm staff implementation by academicians.