How colleges work : the cybernetics of academic organization and leadership

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How colleges work : the cybernetics of academic organization and leadership

Robert Birnbaum

(Jossey-Bass higher education series)

Jossey-Bass, c1988

1st ed

  • : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 231-244

Includes index

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Volume

ISBN 9781555421267

Description

Aims to provide a new way of thinking about the leadership of colleges and universities. The text examines four distinct models of how colleges work and then integrates the best features of each into a flexible model of college and university organization based on cybernetics.
Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9781555423544

Description

"One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other." --Journal of Higher Education

Table of Contents

Understanding Colleges and Universities as Organizations. Models of Organizational Functioning. Integrating the Models.

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