{"id":5075,"date":"2025-06-19T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/understanding-delegated-administrative-tasks-beyond-academics-professional-identities\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","slug":"understanding-delegated-administrative-tasks-beyond-academics-professional-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/understanding-delegated-administrative-tasks-beyond-academics-professional-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Delegated Administrative Tasks: Beyond Academics\u2019 Professional Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Understanding Delegated Administrative Tasks: Beyond Academics\u2019 Professional Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1321' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1321\/930' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>This paper examines the implication of administrative task delegation on academics\u2019 professional identity construction at a Cameroonian university. Academics at Cameroonian universities are juggling multiple tasks, including teaching, research, outreach and administrative tasks. Using a qualitative case study design, 11 academics selected purposively from diverse disciplines were engaged in in-depth interviews to explore their experiences with administrative tasks and the implications on their professional identities. The force field model for teacher development and distributed leadership theory guided data production and analysis. The study found that administrative tasks are seen as an opportunity for professional growth and career advancement. However, they also prevent academics from engaging fully in their key professional roles because they spend more time on them. The study recommends that all stakeholders should encourage university leaders to move away from a \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d philosophy that assumes a uniform understanding of the roles of all academics, where academics must integrate administrative tasks with their key roles. Administrative tasks should be delegated to those academics who consider it a path towards developing an additional identity in administration, not by coercing academics to prioritise administration over their key responsibilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Novel Lena Folabit (University of the Free State, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Saravathie Reddy (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Loyiso Currell Jita (University of the Free State, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>administrative tasks, community outreach, higher education, sustainability leadership, professional academic identity<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Understanding Delegated Administrative Tasks: Beyond Academics\u2019 Professional Identities Original Article Link: Read Original Article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1688,2153,1689,1331,1691,1690],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-administrative-tasks","tag-ajims","tag-community-outreach","tag-higher-education","tag-professional-academic-identity","tag-sustainability-leadership","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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