Dissertation Information for Filiberto Felipe Martinez-Arellano NAME: - Filiberto Felipe Martinez-Arellano
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- SUNY, Buffalo (USA) (1996)
ADVISORS: - William K. Cummings
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - William McGrath - George Sylvan Bobinski - G. Charles Newman
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: A multivariate analysis of factors influencing promotion, tenure, and earnings of academic librarians at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Abstract: The literature indicates that academic career advancement of librarians is influenced by the bureaucratic and professional structures that coexist in academic organizations. Likewise, social factors and organizational features impact achievements and rewards of librarians. Thus, the objective of this study was to identify those variables influencing career advancement of librarians defined in terms of their promotions, tenure and earnings.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the largest higher education system in Mexico, was the research setting. A self-administered questionnaire was delivered to 364 individuals having professional positions at UNAM libraries during Spring 1996. It was hypothesized that credential factors, bureaucratic factors, organizational and disciplinary achievements, academic culture factors, social ascribed factors, and institutional factors would explain differences in promotion, tenure, and earnings of librarians. Earnings was the main dependent variable; however, promotion and tenure status, and months for promotion and tenure were also tested as dependent variables.
The analysis was performed using linear and logistic regression. The results indicated that the probability of being tenured was related to participation in continuing education and departmental service assignments, having seniority, receipt of mentoring from senior librarians, being male, performing reference and public service activities, and being promoted. Being promoted was related to having high rank, participation in teaching activities, level of parent's education, and being tenured. The significant element influencing months to tenure was seniority. The determinants of months to promotion were seniority and professional association identification.
The variables that significantly contributed in explaining earnings variance among tenured librarians were level of studies completed, seniority, participation in teaching programs, and type of institution. Among promoted librarians, those variables that were significantly related to earnings were level of studies completed, seniority, participation in teaching programs, and type of institution.
Although several variables dealing with academic profession and social aspects were significantly related to promotion, tenure and earnings, the results indicated that librarian rewards primarily answer to the bureaucratic paradigm of higher education institutions. Since librarians are part of the academic community, these results suggest the necessity of encouraging scholarly activities and a reward system in which those activities have more weight.
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