Abstract
One of the most striking findings of the CAP survey is the strong sense of affiliation that US academics express toward their academic disciplines both in 1992 and 2007. But they express a sharp decline in their sense of affiliation with their employing institutions over this same 15-year period. Perceptions of the quality of the physical conditions and the level of human support (secretaries, service personnel) for the conduct of work are linked with the feeling of institutional affiliation. But of even greater importance is management style—the perception of a strong performance orientation, the sense of being consulted, the sense of having influence in decision-making, and the perception that management supports academic freedom. These variables lead to a perception of competent management and in turn to a feeling of affiliation or loyalty to the institution.
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The numerical values for the Spearman rank-order correlations were in all instances very close to the values using the Pearson product–moment formula. For example, age’s value with the Spearman formula was .10 compared to .09 with the Pearson formula.
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Cummings, W.K., Finkelstein, M.J. (2012). Declining Institutional Loyalty. In: Scholars in the Changing American Academy. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2730-4_9
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