NDLI: The impact of merit-pay systems on the work and attitudes of Mexican academics

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Author	Galaz Fontes, Jesús Francisco Gil Antón, Manuel
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The central purpose of this work is to present data that evaluates the impact and perspectives of various merit-pay systems directed at Mexican academics. To this end a brief description is provided of recent Mexican higher education evolution, including that of merit-pay programs. It is proposed that faculty merit-pay systems, in the context of several institutional performance-based funding programs, and of a general conditional cash transfer approach to the distribution of public funding, have created a de facto supra-institutional academic rank ladder based on the academic’s participation in the highly prestiged and well-remunerated National Researcher’s System (SNI), and on the academic’s highest degree (HD). Data is presented showing that increasing SNI–HD ranks are associated with less teaching, more research, stronger academic preference for research activities and less institutional involvement. Several collateral negative side-effects of this situation are highlighted and questions are posed in relation to the long-range pertinence of merit-pay systems with the characteristics that are current in the case of Mexican higher education.
Starting Page	357
Ending Page	374
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00181560
Journal	Higher Education
Volume Number	66
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1573174X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-02-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Academics Merit-pay systems Academic work Higher education México Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Law

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