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Workload Allocation Models in Academia: A Panopticon of Neoliberal Control or Tools for Resistance?

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2020
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dc.abstract.plAcademic ‘labour’ within the Higher Education landscape is changing as universities are increasingly managed as business organisations. In the contemporary neoliberal academic context, departments and individuals are required to develop forms of accountability based on quantitative metrics regarding performance, budgets, human resource management and income generation. Drawing from Foucauldian theories of power, this article explores the contentious implementation of workload allocation models in the UK Higher Education sector not only as an illustration of a superimposed managerial tool of control but also as an instrument of resistance. This article suggests that in order to counteract the systematic failure of neoliberal academia at the individual and collective level, these performance management tools can be used as forms of empowerment and resistance. Further, it is recommended that these instruments are designed in a collaborative way to ensure fair and transparent allocations of tasks and responsibilities, and to avoid unmanageable workloads.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Essex
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Naples Federico II, Italy
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Naples Federico II, Italy
dc.contributor.authorIlaria Boncori
dc.contributor.authorDavide Bizjak
dc.contributor.authorLuigi Maria Sicca
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:47:26Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:47:26Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.published2020
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.physical51-69
dc.description.volume18
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3091
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages51-69
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectresistance
dc.subjectpanopticon
dc.subjectFoucault
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

Workload Allocation Models in Academia: A Panopticon of Neoliberal Control or Tools for Resistance?

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