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Portugal: Dimensions of Academic Job Satisfaction

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Job Satisfaction around the Academic World

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Portugal has a binary system of universities and polytechnics and, within that, public and private institutions. This provides a diverse background against which to examine academic staff job satisfaction, starting with the fact that only universities can award PhDs, and the different legal framework of academic careers between public and private institutions. The analysis of personal characteristics, affiliation, commitment and careers trajectory of the Portuguese academics showed a range of similarities and differences, but many results were consistent with the opinions of academics in other countries.

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  1. ISLA Campus Lx – Laureate International Universities, Lisbon, Portugal

    Diana Dias

  2. Center for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal

    Diana Dias, Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Rui Santiago, Teresa Carvalho & Sofia Sousa

  3. Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher education (A3ES), Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

  4. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

  5. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Rui Santiago & Teresa Carvalho

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Dias, D., de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, M., Santiago, R., Carvalho, T., Sousa, S. (2013). Portugal: Dimensions of Academic Job Satisfaction. In: Bentley, P., Coates, H., Dobson, I., Goedegebuure, L., Meek, V. (eds) Job Satisfaction around the Academic World. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5434-8_10

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