چکیده (انگلیسی):

This study aimed at determining academic staff satisfaction with promotion criteria and what, in
their view, should be included in the promotion criteria. A researcher-designed questionnaire was
utilized for data collection from a sample size of 349 academic staff. Findings show that the
majority of the academic staff were dissatisfied with the promotion practices. Academic staff were
satisfied with promotion criteria that had to do with required number of publications but
dissatisfied with those related to computer literacy and international publication requirements. An
oral interview before promotion was advocated for inclusion into the promotion criteria by
academic staff. Evolving a more holistic criterion for promotion of academic staff was
recommended.