Managing Academics

Download or read book Managing Academics written by Richard Philip Winter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Academics contrasts three alternative perspectives of managing (professionalism, quality of worklife, prosocial identity) with the dominant perspective of managerialism in higher education institutions. The intention of the contrast is to: (1) challenge the notion that managing academics is a unitary, values-free process; (2) raise awareness of managing as a social process in which values and identity questions resonate as issues of importance to managers and the managed; and (3) help academic-managers influence and balance “hybrid” perspectives of managing and scholarship.