Los estudios doctorales: crecimiento profesional por sobre los incentivos organizacionales. Un estudio en la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) de Costa Rica

Abstract

The generation of knowledge is a necessary and indispensable task of higher education, which requires constant updating as well as a commitment to improve the real world. However, this implies that there is a real interest in professional training and thus the possible obtaining of an academic doctorate degree, beyond the organizational incentives that can be obtained with such qualification, whether or not they are granted. To learn about this, a study was carried out at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) of Costa Rica with the aim of analyzing the interest for high-level training in research, leading to an academic doctorate according to the different disciplinary fields; to 892 officials with a master's degree and of whom a response was obtained from 304 persons; based on a naturalistic paradigm with a quantitative approach, for which an opinion survey was applied for the collection of information. The study found that the rewards or motivation factors with the greatest appreciation by the participants relate, for the most part, to the project approach with social benefit, as well as the linking to different national and international research networks, leaving aside the option related to the possible wage increase.

Keywords

• organizational incentives
• personal rewards
• doctorate degree
• professional-academic-research growth
• motivation
• interests.