Managing academic staff in changing university systems : international trends and comparisons

Author(s)

• Farnham, David
• Society for Research into Higher Education

Bibliographic Information

Managing academic staff in changing university systems : international trends and comparisons

edited by David Farnham

（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）

Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides a contemporary and international analysis of how academic staff in universities are currently managed. It reviews recent developments in higher education policy in fifteen selected countries and examines their impacts 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 casualizing of academic work, widening pay differentials, institutional pay scales, decentralized pay bargaining and, in some cases, the individualizing of the employment relationship. This is a comprehensive reference work and a key resource for university managers and for all those interested in higher education policy and practice.

Table of Contents

Preface Part one: Introduction Managing universities and regulating academic labour markets Part two: 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 three: North America Canada neo-Conservative challenges to faculty and their unions The United States self-governed profession or managed occupation? Part four: Oceania Australia from collegiality to corporatism Japan collegiality in a paternalist system Malaysia an emerging professional group Part five: Conclusion Towards the flexi-university? Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA40661963
• ISBN:
  • 0335199615
• LCCN: 98028628
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Backingham ; Philadelphia, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 365 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LB2331.66
  • DC21 : 378.1/1
  • NDLC : FD1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : College personnel management -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Educational change -- Cross-cultural studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23280588