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    Career competencies for academic career progression: Experiences of academics at a South African university
    (Frontiers Media, 2022) Barnes, Nina; du Plessis, Marieta
    An understanding of career competencies is critical for the progression of academic careers, as it influences the availability of adequate and capable academic staff at all levels within universities. The study aimed to explore and describe the career competencies that academics demonstrate to successfully progress in their careers, while theoretically underpinned by an integrated competency framework. This report is based on the qualitative experiences, gathered through semi-structured interviews of eight academic staff in various career phases, in a South African university. Data was thematically analysed, while a deductive modality was adopted to identify the competencies. The findings align very closely with the dimensions of the integrated competency framework, including reflective competencies: gap analysis, self-evaluation, social comparison, and goal orientation; communicative competencies: information seeking and negotiation; and behavioural competencies: strategy alignment, control and agency, university awareness, continuous learning and collaboration.
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    The development of a career management intervention programme for academics in a South African higher education institution
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Barnes, Nina; du Plessis, Marieta
    The higher education sector, similar to all other industries, is subjected to unprecedented challenges outside traditional continuity threats, which include the global pandemic and COVID-19 regulations (World Health Organization, 2020) as a particular demonstration. Besides this global context, there is significant pressure on South African higher education to achieve national higher education goals. Achievement depends on the availability of adequate and capable academics at all university levels. Higher education institutions recognise the need to ensure the required academic pipeline to achieve their strategic objectives.
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    Perceived career management challenges of academics at a South African university
    (AOSIS, 2021) Barnes, Nina; du Plessis, Marieta; Frantz, Jose M.
    Understanding academic career challenges is important at a national and global level, to support academic career progression. Whilst challenges are identified in academic career literature, higher education institutions are identified as complex interdependent structures and, therefore, encouraged to be studied from a perspective of interdependency and complexity.ore and describe the perceived career management challenges of academics at a South African university. To address the need for an integrated approach, from an individual and organisational perspective, through a systems-thinking framework (STF), which acknowledges academic career progression as an interdependent and complex system.
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    Perceived career management challenges of academicsat a South African university
    (AOSIS, 2021) Barnes, Nina; du Plessis, Marieta; Frantz, Jose M.
    Understanding academic career challenges is important at a national and global level, to support academic career progression. Whilst challenges are identified in academic career literature, higher education institutions are identified as complex interdependent structures and, therefore, encouraged to be studied from a perspective of interdependency and complexity. To explore and describe the perceived career management challenges of academics at a South African university. To address the need for an integrated approach, from an individual and organisational perspective, through a systems-thinking framework (STF), which acknowledges academic career progression as an interdependent and complex system.