project description
The BeProf project, which is divided into four sub-projects, examines the appointment of professors at private and public universities of applied sciences as part of a comparative case and field analysis. The focus is on strategic personnel planning, operational personnel selection and professorial personnel structures at private universities of applied sciences. With regard to personnel planning, the study examines the aspects according to which the position table for professorships and the organization of individual professorial positions are aligned by the universities. With regard to operational personnel selection, the formal requirements, the procedural elements of the decision-making process, the constellation of actors and the selection criteria for appointments are analyzed. The comparison of professorial staff structures at private and state universities of applied sciences is based on characteristics such as the number, subject focus, value or gender-related staffing of positions. The BeProf project as a whole aims to compare the special features of the appointment process at private university of applied sciences that have hardly been researched to date.
Project Work Packages
The project is divided into 4 work packages:
- WP1 - Personnel Structures
The organizational and personnel structures of private and public universities of applied sciences are examined. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of the professorial personnel structures of both types of universities is carried out. - WP2 - Personnel Planning
The work package examines the strategic personnel planning of private and public universities with regard to the decision-making logics in the alignment of the professorial positions (number, subject profiles, degree programs, location, equipment of the positions, etc.) and the consideration of regulatory requirements. - WP3 - Personnel Selection
The study examines the constellations of actors (participants, responsibilities, potential for influence), criteria, procedural elements and procedural framework conditions in the implementation of appointment procedures for filling professorships at private and public universities. - WP4 - Transfer
Distribution and reflection of the findings in the scientific community and in the field of practice in various formats: scientific (possibly as part of cumulative doctorates) and practice-oriented publications, lectures, data provision, informal knowledge transfer in the case universities, methods and transfer workshop, project website.