An empirical study of an academic reward system within an institution of higher education was undertaken to achieve the following objectives: (1) to describe empirically the academic reward system of The Florida State University between 1977-1982; (2) to test the stability of reward within the system over time (in terms of percentage discretionary salary increases between 1977-82); (3) to identify and describe the least-rewarded and most-rewarded faculty members (in terms of total percentage discretionary increases between 1977-82); (4) to identify factors which may have accounted for appropriate and inappropriate discrimination within the academic reward system over time; (5) to provide to the field of institutional research improved methods for addressing questions concerning an institutional academic reward system. / The annual percentage discretionary salary increase was selected as the dependent variable for this analysis. It was proposed that these increments provided the most objective means available to administrators within the university to reward academic performance in order to enhance the education offered by an institution. Demographic and salary increase data were collected for 558 ranked faculty members who had held titles that were included in the collective bargaining unit between 1977-1982. Due to the nature of salary increase decisions (which are ordinal, at best), a nonparametric measure of association the Kendall coefficient of concordance: W was used to determine agreement over time between the rankings assigned to units or individuals within the system in terms of the annual percentage discretionary increase. / The major conclusions of this study were summarized as follows: (1) the academic reward system within The Florida State University was stable between 1977-78 and 1982-83; (2) the least-rewarded and most-rewarded faculty members had not been rewarded consistently between 1977-82; and (3) there was no evidence to support the position that factors of inappropriate discrimination were operating within the academic reward system between 1977-82. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1049. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75291 |
| Contributors | CARNEY, PAUL BENEDICT., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 125 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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