BEING WORKAHOLIC IN THE UNIVERSITY. TEACHER, RESEARCHER OR MANAGER?

Abstract

The university membership supposes the recognition of a high scientific level and peculiar relationship skills. The work of a teacher in the contemporary Romanian university is a real challenge. Being overwhelmed by frequent and not always wise changes as regards the academic demands, teachers have developed abilities to continuously adapting in new contexts. Instead of focusing upon the necessary improvement of their lectures, they had to orient themselves towards the increase of the quantity of various courses and towards their manifestation first of all as project managers and researchers. So, teachers twisted from the status of mentors for the students toward the position of a kind of “workaholics” under the threatening slogan: “publish or perish”. In the Romanian university of nowadays, teacher became more and more a walker face to a crossing point where a difficult choice must be made, seeing that three ways are to be followed at the same time: the didactic, the research and the management activities.

Keywords

• teacher
• university
• workaholic
• researcher
• manager.