Barnes, Ninadu Plessis, MarietaFrantz, Jose M2024-11-212024-11-212023Barnes, N., du Plessis, M. and Frantz, J., 2023. Academic career management intervention at a South African university: A modified Delphi study. Acta Commercii-Independent Research Journal in the Management Sciences, 23(1), p.1187.https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ac.v23i1.1187https://hdl.handle.net/10566/19714Orientation: Understanding the components for an academic career management intervention programme, to enable the development of the required academic pipeline to achieve the strategic objectives of higher education institutions. Research purpose: A consensus view across subject experts for a career management intervention programme to enable the progression of academic careers. Motivation for the study: While academic career literature captures an array of normative designs of career management programmes to cultivate the required academic talent consortium, literature indicates a lack of a comprehensive and systematic approach for career management to provide a framework for successfully managing academic careers. Research design, approach and method: A modified Delphi technique was employed, by presenting an expert panel with the findings of a broader research project to initiate the consensus-seeking methodology-a systematic approach to obtain concordance on the experts’ opinions through two rounds of structured questionnaires. Main findings: The identified components are structured and presented in five main themes (categories), including: (1) institutional, (2) individual, (3) overlapping, (4) cultural and (5) external.enAcademic careerCareer management interventionCareer progressionModifieDelphiSouth African universityArticle