The academic workplace: A baker’s dozen posts to ponder

Academic institutions can be, umm, interesting places to earn a living. And given that I’ve been working in higher education for some 20 years now, it shouldn’t be surprising that aspects of employment relations in colleges and universities come up fairly often in this blog, especially topics such as bullying.

I’ve collected a baker’s dozen of posts that are particularly relevant to the academic workplace. Not all were written with higher education specifically in mind, but all apply. Here they are:

1. Meetings upon meetings: The administrative mindset in academe (2012)

2. Workplace bullying and the ombudsman (2012)

3. Illuminating bullying, mobbing, and conformity in academe (2012)

4. What is academic tenure? (2011)

5. “Strategic planning”: All too often, a time-sucking bridge to nowhere (2011)

6. Keashly and Neuman on bullying in academe (2011)

7. How well does your organization respond to employee feedback and criticism? (2011)

8. Study on incivility toward graduate students reports effects similar to workplace bullying (2011)

9. The culture of academic work: On conformity, bullying and the disappearance of academic jobs (2011)

10. Rework on Rock Stars: Academe, are you listening? (2010)

11. Workplace violence in higher education settings (2009)

12. Is your workplace psychologically and ethically healthy? (2009)