| Description |
xii, 245 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
New managerialism and public services reform : from regulated autonomy to institutionalized distrust -- The changing context of university knowledge work : the UK higher education system from the 1960s to the twenty-first century -- The knowledge worker and the divided university -- Manager-academic identities, practices, and careers in the contemporary university -- Learning how to do the management of academic knowledge work -- Values, public service, the university, and the manager-academic -- Appendix 1 : focus group and interview questions used in the ESRC project -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"The nature of Higher Education has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in 'ivory towers', as increasing government intervention and a growing 'target culture' has changed the way they work. Increasingly universities have transformed from 'communities of scholars' to 'workplaces'. The organization and administration of universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and strategies drawn from the 'New Public Management' ideology in response, promoting a more 'business-focussed' approach in the management of public services." |
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"This book examines the issues that academics now face as a result of these changes, both as the 'knowledge-workers' managed, and the 'manager-academic'. It draws on a detailed study of academics holding management roles ranging from Head of Department to Vice Chancellor in sixteen UK universities, exploring their career histories and trajectories, and providing extensive accounts of their values, practices, relationships with others, and their training and development as managers." "The book will be of interest to all teaching, researching, or managing in Higher Education, Education policy-makers, and academics and researchers concerned with Public Management, Knowledge Management, or Higher Education."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-227) and index |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- Administration.
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Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Administration.
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| Author |
Hillyard, Sam.
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Reed, M. I. (Michael I.)
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Oxford University Press.
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| LC no. |
2007013669 |
| ISBN |
0199265909 (alk. paper) |
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0199265917 (paperback) |
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9780199265909 (alk. paper) |
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9780199265916 (paperback) |
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