TY - JOUR
T1 - Career success, collegiality, and the intentions of early career academics to stay in the academic profession
AU - Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article examines the relationship between the career success of early career academics (ECAs), collegiality, and their intentions to stay in the academic profession. Two different surveys were developed and administered to ECAs (n=68) and other academics (n=219) from a public university in South Africa. The data were analysed using bivariate correlation and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that career success factors that include career advising (research and teaching and learning), learning and development, rewards and recognition, and socialisation strengthen the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession. Additionally, collegiality demonstrated a strong moderation effect on the relationship between career advising on research, teaching and learning and the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession. The article further discusses the implications of the results in relation to how career success and collegiality reinforce the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession.
AB - This article examines the relationship between the career success of early career academics (ECAs), collegiality, and their intentions to stay in the academic profession. Two different surveys were developed and administered to ECAs (n=68) and other academics (n=219) from a public university in South Africa. The data were analysed using bivariate correlation and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that career success factors that include career advising (research and teaching and learning), learning and development, rewards and recognition, and socialisation strengthen the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession. Additionally, collegiality demonstrated a strong moderation effect on the relationship between career advising on research, teaching and learning and the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession. The article further discusses the implications of the results in relation to how career success and collegiality reinforce the intentions of ECAs to stay in the academic profession.
KW - career construction theory
KW - Early career academics
KW - higher education
KW - intention to stay
KW - objective career success
KW - subjective career success
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194551245&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13611267.2024.2360377
DO - 10.1080/13611267.2024.2360377
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85194551245
SN - 1361-1267
JO - Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
JF - Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
ER -