Recruitment Processes in Academia: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?
The final outcome of promotion and recruitment processes in universities should be conventional and plausible by the members of the relevant scientific community, to affirm that the processes have been competitive and fair. The objective of this opinion letter is to make a plea for the importance of the post-auditing and quantitative assessment of the selection criteria. It is shown that for an example case the outcome of the post-audit does not look reasonable from an external point of view, at least regarding the research competency.
Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, PO Box 11155-9313, Tehran, Iran. ataie@sharif.ir.|National Centre for Groundwater Research & Training and School of the Environment, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia. ataie@sharif.ir.
Behzad
B
Ataie-Ashtiani
D002322:Career Mobility; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards; D014495:Universities / Q000941:ethics*; D000078329:Workforce
Australia; Civil Engineering; Equal opportunities; Promotion; Recruitment