Gender Specifics in the Human Capital of Russian University Professors / Shubat Oksana,Bagirova Anna,Novokshonova Yuliya // . - 2017. - V. , l. . - P. 297-302.

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2049-0933 / нет данных

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Proceedings Paper

Abstract:

The negative trends and pace of change within the Russian education system are creating an ever-growing need for quality human capital among university professors. However, different categories of professors respond to these challenges differently. It is important to recognise that Russian universities only started to face the need to assess the human capital and effectiveness of professors' labour in recent times. This may be why universities mostly use such methods to set material incentives for professors, underutilising the analytical potential of these instruments. This paper presents the results of an analysis of points received by professors from one Russian university as part of an on-the-job incentives scheme. This scheme provides a framework whereby professors receive points for different types of activities they engage in. The results are as follows. Firstly, female professors are higher performers, receiving greater scores for their activities than their male counterparts. Secondly, there are far fewer non-performing professors with zero points among women. Thirdly, women's work is more diversified - they engage in a greater spectrum of activities than men. Fourthly, the professional activities of female professors are seldom correlated to age, whereas men tend to become higher performers as they get older. There could be a number of reasons for these differences - from objective psychological traits of men and women to existing societal gender stereotypes. On the whole, our research showed that gender could be seen as one determinant of the effectiveness with which professors use their human capital. A university's resourcing policy can factor in gender specifics. This is particularly significant given external and internal transformations taking place in the Russian education system today. We suppose that gender differences should be one element used in forecasting the development of professors' human capital. Moreover, accounting for gender in assessments of human capital will, on the one hand, help bridge the gender gap within the university environment, while at the same time giving impetus to consolidate and improve a university's competitiveness.

Author keywords:

human capital; gender differences; professors; incentive scheme FAMILY; WOMEN; WORK

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ISI:000404891000037

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Поле	Значение
Editor	Lopes, IT and Serrasqueiro, R
Booktitle	PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL (ECIC 2017)
Series	Proceedings of the European Conference on Intellectual Capital
Note	9th European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC), Inst Univ Lisboa, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, APR 06-07, 2017
Publisher	ACAD CONFERENCES LTD
Address	CURTIS FARM, KIDMORE END, NR READING, RG4 9AY, ENGLAND
Language	English
ISBN	978-1-911218-31-9
Keywords-Plus	FAMILY; WOMEN; WORK
Research-Areas	Business \& Economics
Web-of-Science-Categories	Business; Economics; Management
Author-Email	o.m.shubat@urfu.ru a.p.bagirova@urfu.ru j.e.novokshonova@urfu.ru
ResearcherID-Numbers	Bagirova, Anna/M-7440-2013 Shubat, Oksana/M-7443-2013
ORCID-Numbers	Bagirova, Anna/0000-0001-5653-4093 Shubat, Oksana/0000-0002-0929-8144
Funding-Acknowledgement	Act 211 Government of the Russian Federation {[}02.A03.21.0006]; Graduate School of Economics and Management of Ural Federal University
Funding-Text	The work was supported by Act 211 Government of the Russian Federation, contract No 02.A03.21.0006. The project was also sponsored by the Graduate School of Economics and Management of Ural Federal University.
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