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The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 33)

Editors: Meek, V. Lynn; Goedegebuure, Leo; Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9163-5

ISBN: 978-90-481-9162-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jun 14, 2010

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Meek, V. Lynn; Goedegebuure, Leo; Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa

Pages: 1 –14

[This chapter provides a theoretical framework for the comparative analysis of changes to the middle management of higher education. The chapter reviews the literature on the deanship as an object of scholarly analysis and the rise of New Public Management and managerialism in higher education....
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Chapter 2Academic Middle Managers Under the New Governance Regime at Austrian Universities

Pechar, Hans

Pages: 15 –30

[This chapter explores the deregulation of university organisational structures in Austria and discusses the emergent role of the academic middle manager. The discussion is set within the context of the organisational reforms that have occurred since the first seminal reform in the mid-1970s....
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Chapter 3The Changing Role of Academic Leadership in Australia and the Netherlands: Who Is the Modern Dean?

Meek, V. Lynn; Goedegebuure, Leo; De Boer, Harry

Pages: 31 –54

[The New Public Management movement promoting private sector management practices in public sector bureaucracies has impacted higher education institutions in many countries, including Australia and the Netherlands. In these two countries, as elsewhere, universities are being asked to be more...
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Chapter 4Academic Middle Managers and Management in University Colleges and Universities in Belgium

Verhoeven, Jef C.

Pages: 55 –81

[This chapter explores facets of managerialism in Flemish policy and institutions of higher education through addressing four questions: (i) What is managerialism and what are its characteristics? (ii) How did the national policymakers make way for managerialism in institutions of higher...
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Chapter 5The Roles and Responsibilities of Middle Management (Chairs and Deans) in Canadian Universities

Boyko, Lydia; Jones, Glen A.

Pages: 83 –102

[This chapter examines the roles and responsibilities of department chairs and faculty deans in Canadian universities to determine whether these academic middle-management positions are changing in terms of mandate, orientation and scope. A review of institutional policy documents and faculty...
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Chapter 6Middle-Level University Managers in Italy: An Ambiguous Transition

Boffo, Stefano

Pages: 103 –117

[This chapter investigates the changes in the role of Italian middle-level university management in the light of the new managerialist orientations prevailing in most Western countries. The present role and perspectives of middle-level managers, and in particular deans, are explored through the...
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Chapter 7Presidents and Deans in French Universities: A Collective Approach to Academic Leadership

Mignot-Gérard, Stéphanie

Pages: 119 –143

[This contribution is an analysis of the leadership styles of the presidents and deans in French universities. The results are drawn from a qualitative study in four institutions where 250 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The relations among these academic leaders as well as the...
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Chapter 8From Democracy to Management-Oriented Leadership? The Manager-Academic in Norwegian Higher Education

Larsen, Ingvild Marheim

Pages: 145 –164

[This chapter describes recent changes and reforms in the governance and leadership structure in Norwegian higher education. The main questions in the analysis are as follows: In what direction has the leadership structure in Norwegian higher education moved? Are we witnessing a development...
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Chapter 9New Public Management and ‘Middle Management’: How Do Deans Influence Institutional Policies?

Carvalho, Teresa; Santiago, Rui

Pages: 165 –196

[Changes in governmental policies designed to restructure the Portuguese higher education system and its institutions are defined under the influence of New Public Management. In the Portuguese context, external pressures unduly influence attempts to create a new institutional environment. But...
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Chapter 10UK Higher Education: Captured by New Managerialist Ideology?

Trowler, Paul

Pages: 197 –211

[Drawing on the relevant literature and primary data from two large mixed-method research and evaluation projects based at Lancaster University, as well as the author’s other research work (with smaller samples and more qualitative in nature), this chapter (i) identifies new managerialism as...

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