Recruiting Graduates of Insider at University: Challenge or Opportunity?

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Asistant Professor of Higher Education Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Malayer University, Iran

2 Asistant Professor of Educational Management, Department of Educational Management, Semnan University, Iran

10.22034/jstp.2020.12.1.1155

Abstract

Recruiting insiders as a way of recruitment which universities try to employ their graduates has a long history. So, the aim of the present study was to investigate status of Iran's old universities about attracting and recruiting the graduates of insider at university and also, provide an integrated wisdom about graduates of insider to thinkers and policymakers of higher edcuation with using a qualitative research synthesis. Therefore, in initially all keywords around insiders were emerged and then special databases. A total of 48 studies were identified and 29 twenty-nine of them were selected purposefully as sample. In the second section, researchers chose 4 Iran's old universities by cluster sampling as sample. To quality control of the data, CASP checklist was conducted and also, code reliability was used to integrate the data. To analyze the data, conductive content analysis was conducted. The results of first section showed that we can view recruiting insiders based on two themes which are challenges and opportunities. The challenges are academic development challenge; professional development challenge; academic chauvinism growth in recruitment and employment; individual communication development challenge; inter-university communication development challenge. In addition, opportunities are the structural-cultural development of the university, the structural-cultural advantages and the economic advantages. Also the results of second section showed that there is higher percentage the graduates of insider in Iran's old universities.
 

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