Good salary but high stress and poor leadership - Recensione dipendente - Faculty Member presso XJTLU

1,0
16 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Competitive compensation A relatively autonomous and diverse culture, contrasting favorably with the more rigid administrative environments typical of traditional Chinese universities.

Svantaggi

Aggressive Growth Strategy: The rapid expansion of student enrollment and hiring, coupled with research funding targets, places high pressure on faculty and staff. Centralized Leadership: Senior leadership, particularly the Executive President, adopts a top-down management style with limited faculty consultation. Consequently, executive decision-making has become disconnected from daily academic and operational realities. Compromised Academic Standards: Quality control measures have been marginalized in favor of recruitment incentives. For example, lowering university admission and entry standards, alongside lowering assessment standards, reduces academic rigor and incentivizes student recruitment and graduation over genuine learning.

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5,0
21 set 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Best for a fresher to join

Svantaggi

Nothing to say as cons

1,0
22 ago 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Aesthetically pleasant campus and a vibrant environment at the SIP campus. The library has very good resources.

Svantaggi

My experience as a foreign professor at XJTLU has been extraordinarily negative. The management of my division has fostered a culture of fear and punishment, undermining operational capabilities, stifling research output, and eroding morale to the point that eight full-time professors—all foreigners—are leaving this summer alone. International faculty have been systematically excluded from leadership roles, teaching assignments are constantly reshuffled to an impossible degree, and with the division unable to hire replacements, remaining staff have been told to expect exponentially heavier workloads in the coming semesters. If you are an international scholar considering XJTLU: don’t. I wish I had been warned before making the decision to relocate here.

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