Total productivity of university professors: labor policies influence of teleworking

Abstract

Academic productivity as an expression of quality, is a latent, complex, and dynamic variable, which represents a challenge for the substantive functions of research and teaching at the higher level. Thus, this article aims to analyse the dynamics of the influence of Colombian remote work labour policies on the productivity of higher education teachers. Based on a mixed methodology, dynamic hypotheses were formulated through a causal loop diagram and scenarios were simulated with a stock and flow diagram of Systems Dynamics from a perspective of long-term productivity. The global analysis of the simulations showed that there is an increase in the total productivity of the teaching staff when the hours of supplementary teleworking in research are increased. There is no evidence of sensitivity in teaching productivity to the hybridisation of subjects. Considering the analysis carried out here, it will be realized that, in the future, both public and private policies, as well as decisions aimed at increasing the academic productivity of higher-level professors, broadly contemplate elements of well-being, in addition to the estimation of all the tasks and products in charge of the teaching staff.