
Redesigning Collegiate Leadership
Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 26. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8018-4956-5 (ISBN)
Description
Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book offers a different model, focusing instead on the complex ways that members of a leadership team interact, wield power, use language and create meaning. The authors describe the team as a culture and argue that effective team leadership depends on expecting, understanding and appreciating the differences among individuals. Based on interviews with members of administrative teams on 15 campuses - including research universities, public colleges, private colleges and community colleges - the book examines teamwork as an essentially human activity. It considers how and why people on leadership teams think and act as they do, how they learn and communicate (or neglect to do so), and how they bring their deepest values, beliefs and aspirations into play in the conduct of administrative work. The authors describe how administrative leaders shape and maintain effective teams, and how the teams address diversity and conflict.
Emphasizing the importance of inclusiveness, the authors identify a number of hidden dynamics related to gender, race and power inequity. The book contains a number of quotes from team participants.
Emphasizing the importance of inclusiveness, the authors identify a number of hidden dynamics related to gender, race and power inequity. The book contains a number of quotes from team participants.
Reviews / Votes
Any president, team leader, or team builder can glean a sizable amount of wisdom from Redesigning Collegiate Leadership... The authors provide experiential knowledge on how to build and evaluate a 'real,' complex team. -- Toni Murdock Alliance Reading this work becomes a personal as well as intellectual journey of reflecting on who we are and what we might wish to become as collaborative leaders and team builders. An important journey for any administrator in American higher education today. NASPA JournalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4956-5 (9780801849565)
DOI
10.56021/9780801845611
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Estela Mara Bensimon | Anna Neumann
Redesigning Collegiate Leadership
Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education
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04/1993
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Persons
Anna Neumann is a professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and coauthor of Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education, also published by Johns Hopkins. She is the winner of the American Educational Research Association's 2010 Exemplary Research Award and was recently named President-Elect of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
Author
University of Southern California
Professor of Higher EducationTeachers College, Columbia University
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Leadership by Teams: The Need, the Promise, and the Reality
Chapter 2. A Different Way to Think about Leadership Teams: Teams as Cultures
Chapter 3. What Teams Can Do: How Leaders Use-and Neglect to USe-Their Teams
Chapter 4. Making Teams Work: The Art of Thinking Together
Chapter 5. Searching for a Good Team
Chapter 6. The Relational and Interpretive Work of Team Building
Chapter 7. Reconstructing Collegiate Leadership as a Collective Practice
Chapter 8. toward the Creation of Teams Tha Lead, Act, and Think Together
Appendix A: Sample Interview Protocol
Appendix B: Cognitive and Functional Complexity of Sample Teams
References
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1. Leadership by Teams: The Need, the Promise, and the Reality
Chapter 2. A Different Way to Think about Leadership Teams: Teams as Cultures
Chapter 3. What Teams Can Do: How Leaders Use-and Neglect to USe-Their Teams
Chapter 4. Making Teams Work: The Art of Thinking Together
Chapter 5. Searching for a Good Team
Chapter 6. The Relational and Interpretive Work of Team Building
Chapter 7. Reconstructing Collegiate Leadership as a Collective Practice
Chapter 8. toward the Creation of Teams Tha Lead, Act, and Think Together
Appendix A: Sample Interview Protocol
Appendix B: Cognitive and Functional Complexity of Sample Teams
References
Index