Spirals of Sustainable Academic Motivation, Creativity, and Trust of Higher Education Staff

Martina Blašková, Dominika Tumová, Rudolf Blaško and Justyna Majchrzak-Lepczyk
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Martina Blašková: Department of Management and Informatics, Police Academy of Czech Republic in Prague, 143 01 Prague, Czech Republic
Dominika Tumová: Department of Managerial Theories, University of Žilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia
Rudolf Blaško: Department of Mathematical Methods and Operational Analysis, University of Žilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia
Justyna Majchrzak-Lepczyk: Department of International Supply Chains, Poznan University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-25

Abstract: Sustainability has to penetrate more and more into higher education. It should not focus only on traditional elements. It should also enter new, but for future improvement, extremely important areas. Based on this premise, creativity and motivation, when additionally interconnected and supported by trust that is provided and achieved, decide on the progress and sustainability of universities. This connection is gaining importance especially from the point of view of building solid foundations and mechanisms that functionally preserve the potential effects of these elements in the future. For this reason and following the nature, importance, and content of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), the paper introduces two new concepts: sustainable academic creativity (SAC) and sustainable academic trust (SAT). For further original contributions, the paper hypothesizes the existence of mutual—spiral—relations of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), sustainable academic creativity (SAC), and sustainable academic trust (SAT). The empirical section tests the validity of this claim in the universities of two countries: the Slovak Republic and Poland. A survey performed on a sample of n = 181 pedagogical, scientific, management, and administrative staff in higher education confirms the existence of these spirals. The results indicate the spiral effect of motivation when connected with creativity and trust and show that it is accented by the crucial principles of sustainability (responsibility, novelty, usefulness, progress, etc.). Therefore, the paper’s conclusion contains the explanations for the potential occurrence of three types of sustainably mutual systems and complexes. These are: (a) individual sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; (b) group/sectional sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; and (c) the global sustainable complex of SAM, SAC, and SAT in the university.

Keywords: academic sustainability; motivation; creativity; trust; spirals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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