Abstract:
Academic incentive allowance is a new practice began to be paid to academic staff
working at the universities since 2016. In this study, it was aimed to examine the
opinions of scholars about academic incentive allowance by content analysis method
and 50 faculty members consulted. Most of the academicians who participated in
the study (38) stated that they found the academic incentive allowance beneficial,
but 8 are not useful, 3 find partial useful and 1 has no knowledge. Academic
incentive allowance was found to be beneficial because it encourages academicians
to scientific work, rewards and motivates the producing academicians, funds
academicians financially, increases the number of academic publications, and
diversifies academicians' publications. However, academics have pointed out that
the application of academic incentive can cause the fall in the quality of academic
studies and ethical dilemmas can be experienced. Moreover, in the study, opinions
and suggestions about the academic incentive allowance scoring system were taken
from the academicians. Academicians want the quality of academic incentives not
to be ignored and to increase the supervision in the application of academic
incentives.
