Managing academic staff in changing university systems : international trends and comparisons
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Managing academic staff in changing university systems : international trends and comparisons
(SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins)
Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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