Abstract
The main aim of this study is to explore the prevalence of academic conflicts in public universities in Albania. The focus of the study is on the ideologies of academic work in regard to the purpose of higher education and higher education law requirements for their work load. The conception of academic identity conflict is predicated on the conflicting professional ideological beliefs needed to realize functions of public universities. The milestones on which the study is focused are the identity problems as a result of pressure to compose the institution, the contradictory values and beliefs and the position in the hierarchy of the institution. A survey send electronically is used to collect data for the purpose of the study. A discourse voiced by academics in this study could help connect and guide the managerial and academic arms of the university: educational principles should stand above market principles and business interests should not be allowed to determine primarily what knowledge needs to be kept, transferred or intellectually valued in higher education. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n16p716
Highlights
As the main mission of higher education in Albania is defined as the institution which raises the new generation to be ready for the job market, the public universities in Albania are trying to redefine themselves as organizations which are more commercial, business oriented and the academicians work market oriented too
Identity conflicts are defined as cognitive states of separation that is caused by from academic work required by the university that embodies corporate beliefs that conflict with a valued professional self-identity (Winter, 2009)
The forms of academic identity we argue are connected to work ideologies that make together or separate academics in their current work roles in the university
Summary
As the main mission of higher education in Albania is defined as the institution which raises the new generation to be ready for the job market, the public universities in Albania are trying to redefine themselves as organizations which are more commercial, business oriented and the academicians work market oriented too. Identity conflicts are defined as cognitive states of separation that is caused by from academic work required by the university that embodies corporate beliefs that conflict with a valued professional self-identity (Winter, 2009). Identities are pluralistic in public universities and they change by the aim of the academic work and higher education system (Henkel, 2005) In this environment, some academics will line up themselves with the university as an enterprise or divide their academic work from the demands of an enterprise. The main aim of this study is to break through the academic identity sorts by taking the views of the academicians for a market oriented of professional conception of academic work in special and higher education in general
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