Technical Note
NOTE ON FACULTY MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN UNIVERSITIES
INDUSTRY :EDUCATION
AREA :HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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LENGTH :34
LUMS No :05-708-2017-2
PUBLICATION YEAR : 2017
ABSTRACT:
This note aims to provide an overview of the broad area of faculty management for universities in general, and public universities of Pakistan in particular. We describe a high-level framework for faculty management, identify its key elements, provide a few examples of international practices, and discuss the challenges faced by universities of Pakistan through some examples. Several public universities have adopted the Tenure-Track System (TTS) introduced by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. HEC prescribed new policies and practices for faculty management based on TTS. However, these new practices coexist with the traditional policies and practices for non tenure-track faculty based on government’s Basic Pay Scale (BPS) system. The coexistence of these two systems has resulted in a whole set of issues and challenges related to faculty management in public universities, as elaborated further in this note.