Türkiye'de Akademisyenlerin Zaman Kullanımı

In this article, how the academics in Turkish Universities use their time explored. The context is provided by an examination of individual and institutional demographic factors and time-use of academics. A modified version of the Diamantopoulos et.al.’ (1992) 20 - item survey instrument is used to define how academics spend their time. A questionnaire was conducted in August 2007, via the Internet. The sampling frame with 17,756 academics from 54 universities was developed by collecting e-mail addresses from the universities’ web pages. A total of 6,000 questionnaires were administered to randomly selected respondents. Of those, 1720 usable questionnaires were returned providing a response rate of 28.6 percent. The findings from frequency analyses show that academics work for long hours and deal with a wide range of work-related activities occupying a significant portion of their time. An analysis of the correlation matrix also suggests that there are trade-offs between the time spent on various activities.