oe * DOCUMENT RESUME * a6 an ED 216 661 eer | HE-015 146 AUTHOR + Bean, John P. TITLE. |, A Causal Model of Faculty Research Productivity. PUR DATE <= Mar 82. - A NOTE. 33p.; Paper. presented atthe Annual Meeting of the Koos Ametican Educational Research Association (New York, » + NY, March 19-23, 1982)," " EDRS PRICE‘, MFO1/PCO2 Plus Postage. - Ks DESCRIPTORS ¢ “College Environm *Gollege Faculty; Faculty . i e Relationship; Goal Orientation; Higher . Individual Chai teristics; Model: ‘Organizat’onal Theories; Predictor Variables; - *Productivity; Researchers; *Research Opportunities; 2°, *Scholarship; Teacher Motivation’ wo ABSTRACT - nae : : ar A causal model of faculty research productivity was ‘developed through a survey of the literature. Models of . organizational behavior, organizational effectiveness, and motivation ~_ were synthesized into a causal model of productivity. Two general > ° jables were assumed to affect individual research eae fiables and individual variables. ‘Twenty propositions coucerning individual research productivity. were examined for both types of variables. Institutional variables are as follows: level of: research emphasis at the institution, granting of degrees at the institution, institutional reputation, size, of the institution. Indivi: research goals, undergraduate 1 variables are’ as follows: level of umber of research colleagues, degree of ching’ responsibilities, level of research resources, ivéd equity of rewards, level of alienation, perceived el of legitimacy in one's research, level of expectancies, level of need for personal growth, level of publication in graduate school, period of time as a faculty member after beginning as productive in ch, academic rank at an institution with a res; i evel of individual autonomy for individuals wit! arch-goals. Several variables that have received ical research, and'which are not included in t! ability, sex, field, career stage, and-prestige. A bibliography, summary information on empirical studies of faculty research productivity, and a diagram of the causal model of faculty research _ productivity are appended. (sw) * AARRARAAARARRERREARRAAIRRAREA AER EAE EERE RE REE ARR RRR RRR RR RARER REE REE * ° .Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that canbe made ® ¥ -*“from-the original document. * ISI HERE IEEE SO ETUC C OUD SOE IEEE oe oe a5 . cs freA CAUSAL MODEL OF FACULTY RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY’ - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. OF HIGHER EDUCATION 23 “ REPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCAT; 6 EDUCATION BUILDING INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON; INDIANA 47405 PAPER PRESENTED AT THE . ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASsOCEATION "NEW YORK, -WI IEW YORK a i - MARCH, 1982 ‘us ocr oF estanon waTonat INGTTUTE OF EDUCATION -DUCATONAL RESOURCES MFORATIN ‘cen nih” “Tia conan be bow edt od noe pen wn « pn ior ange te ben mode ono 5 epoaston or. o . . ~eermision ro peeRoouce THs i . MATERIAL WAS BEEN GRANTED BY\ ABSTRACT 3 a “ A causal model of faculty esearch productivity was developéd through an Survey of the literature. Nodels of .\organizational behavior, oiganizational , etfectivenest, and motivation were synthesized into a causai mudel of, productivity. Determinants of research productivity were placed in the model based on empirical studies. Two general types of variables were ~ assumed to affect individual research productivity: a institutional variables and individual variables.” The model,