Appointment Procedures between Affiliation and Human Resources – On the Way to „Academic Staff Management“ ?

Appointment procedures are instruments of employee selection for professors and therefore critical for the profiles and development of universities. Basing on interviews extracts this article reconstructs the process how the “fitting” of applicants into the profiles of departments and disciplines is achieved by argumentation. Particularly those criteria and mechanisms of selection not being explicated within the procedures will be presented as a starting point for making the appointment procedure an instrument of staff development at universities – the basis for academic staff management.

04.01.2007 | Karin Zimmermann (Dortmund)