Managing Academic Staff in Changing University Systems
International Trends and Comparisons
Published on 15. January 1999
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288 pages
978-0-335-19960-0 (ISBN)
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This text provides an analysis of how academic staff in universities are managed. It reviews developments in higher education policy in 15 countries and examines their impact on the academic profession. Whilst rates of change differ, the massifying, marketizing, and managerializing of higher education are universal, international phenomena. With strategic attempts being made to re-engineer an increasingly diverse, functionally-differentiated academic profession, there are signs of an emerging but uneven "flexi-university" model of academic employment. Indicators of this phenomenon include the casualization of academic work, widening pay differentials, institutional pay scales, decentralized pay bargaining, and individualizing of the employment relationship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Weight
767 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19960-0 (9780335199600)
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Part 1 Introduction: managing universities and regulating academic labour markets. Part 2 Europe: Belgium - diverging professions in twin communities; Finland - searching for performance and flexibility; France - a centrally-driven profession; Germany - a dual academy; Ireland - a two-tier structure; Italy - a corporation controlling a system in collapse; The Netherlands - reshaping the employment relationship; Spain -old elite or new meritocracy?; Sweden - professional diversity in an egalitarian system; The United Kingdom - end of the donnish dominion?. Part 3 North America: Canada - neo-Conservative challenges to faculty and their unions; The United States - self-governed profession or managed occupation?. Part 4 Oceania: Australia - from collegiality to corporatism; Japan - collegiality in a paternalist system; Malaysia - an emerging professional group. Part 5 Conclusion: towards the flexi-university?.