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Despite scholarly debate, limited evidence explains how universities can build academic staff commitment and willingness to engage in behaviours that advance the institution’s research strategy. Using a qualitative approach in a critical research framework, the study proposes ways to stimulate Strategically Aligned Behaviour (SAB). Academics’ strategic knowledge, research competence, autonomy, and rewards are key antecedents. 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It has been argued that aligning employees’ actions with the organisational strategic goals is one of most critical success factors of strategy implementation. Despite much discussion among scholars and practitioners, there is still limited knowledge on how universities can stimulate their academic staff members’ commitment and willingness to engage in behaviours that contribute to the realisation of the institution's research strategy. With a qualitative approach and within a critical research framework, this paper aims to suggest ways to stimulate employee actions that is consistent with the company’s strategy; that is Strategically Aligned Behaviour (SAB) . The intention of this theory-building is towards bridging the gaps between research strategy formulation and employees day-today activities. Based on strategic alignment and research productivity literature, our paper submits that academics’ strategic knowledge, research competence, autonomy and rewards play a role in stimulating SAB. Although, an increase in research outputs among African universities has been recorded in recent years, their endeavours to align all academic employees with the research strategy is crucial to the overall success of the institution strategic goals. By exploring the antecedents to stimulate SAB among academic staff members, universities are able to increase the amount of strategically aligned employees, embed research thinking in the daily routines of academics, and encourage a more action-related behaviour towards the implementation of a research strategy. There are avenues for more research in this area of inquiry. Hence, further research is recommended.\u003Cbr>Keywords: Employee strategic alignment, strategically aligned behaviours, strategy implementation, universities. |\n| --- |\n| *Corresponding author. E-mail: [benedicth@cput.ac.za](benedicth@cput.ac.za). |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nRecently, there has been a renewed interest in the debate about the quality and quantity of research output and the factors which influence the output of university lecturers (Yates, 2005; Goodyear, 2006; Hemmings and Kay , 2007) . This is driven by studies showing that research and publication productivity is one of the most critical challenges confronting African universities today, not least in order to strengthen the research capacity needed to meet the demands facing the continent (Cloete et al. , 2011) . This challenge is not uniquely African, as growing the number and quality of researchers is an issue in many countries in other continents and therefore  \nuniversities across the world. The concern with African institutions is not only to increase universities, research outputs, but it also demands intellectual commitment and willingness of each academic staff member. Accordingly, universities have developed their research strategies, usually as part of the overall institutional plans in order to improve the delivery of research outputs so as tooptimise funds from government or private agencies. A research strategy is necessary to ensure that an environment is created that fosters creativity, and promotes innovative scholarship that is transmitted during teaching. Moreover, ‘the strategy ensures that research  \nremains central in the University’s mission, and assists to enhance the capabilities of the academic staff to strength","cbCaispBG0Uz950K","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaispBG0Uz950K","pdf",163864,11,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Research output challenge in African universities\n## Need for alignment with research strategy\n## Strategically Aligned Behaviour (SAB) concept","[{\"question\":\"What is the main strategic planning concern addressed in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper focuses on how universities align employee actions with organisational research strategy during strategic planning and implementation.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Strategically Aligned Behaviour (SAB) mean in this study?\",\"answer\":\"SAB refers to on-the-job actions that are aligned with the strategy, positioned as a behaviour academics can demonstrate to support research strategy realization.\"},{\"question\":\"Which factors are proposed to stimulate SAB among academic staff?\",\"answer\":\"The paper proposes that academics’ strategic knowledge, research competence, autonomy, and rewards play roles in stimulating SAB.\"}]","Researching together - Aligning academic employees with the institution’s research strategy | PDF",1792070578,28]