Bureaucratic, Professional and Managerial Power in University Tenure Track Recruitment
Vellamo, T., Kosonen, J., Siekkinen, T., & Pekkola, E. (2022). Bureaucratic, Professional and Managerial Power in University Tenure Track Recruitment. In E. Forsberg, L. Geschwind, S. Levander, & W. Wermke (Eds.), Peer review in an Era of Evaluation : Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia (pp. 371-402). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75263-7_16
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In this chapter, our interest lies in analysing the different powers in recruitment and, particularly, how they are manifested in the new tenure track model in technical fields in Finland. Traditionally, recruitment in higher education has mostly relied on the bureaucratic application of processes and on academics, representing professional power, evaluating academic merit. The new university legislation, granting universities more autonomy in recruiting, has allowed the development of increasingly strategic recruitment models. The novel tenure track recruitment criteria exceed traditional notions of individual merits to include assessments of the strategic visions of universities and departments. We see the use of the tenure track model as a shift both in the recruitment for identity building related to the technical university’s strategy and as a shift in using more managerial power in recruitment. We use a case study approach where we look at recruitment in a similar field in two different kinds of universities utilising tenure track, and we examine how bureaucratic, managerial and professional powers are manifested in the processes. The comparisons are used to highlight the powers in the tenure track process in a technical university.
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