Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism

The Changing Management of UK Universities

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ID23397353
AuthorsRosemary Deem (0000-0003-3081-7225, University of Bristol), Sam Hillyard (0000-0001-6412-8407, Lecturer in Sociology, School of Applied Sciences, University of Durham), Michael Reed (Professor of Organizational Analysis, Cardiff Business School), Samantha Hillyard
Year2007
Pages250
Publication date2007-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueKnowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265909.001.0001
OpenAlexW2482299463
Open LibraryOL10146319M
ISBN9780199265909
LanguageEN
Citations received228
References cited149

The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in ‘ivory towers’, as increasing government intervention and a growing ‘target culture’ has changed the way they work. Increasingly universities have transformed from ‘communities of scholars’ to ‘workplaces’. The organization and administration of universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and strategies drawn from the ‘New Public Management’ ideology in response, promoting a more ‘business-focussed’ approach in the management of public services. This book examines the issues that these changes have had on academics, both as the ‘knowledge-workers’ managed, and the ‘manager-academic’. It draws on a study of academics holding management roles in sixteen UK universities, exploring their career histories and trajectories, and providing accounts of their values, practices, relationships with others, and their training and development as managers. Examining debates around ‘New Public Management’, knowledge management, and knowledge workers, the wider implications of these themes for policy innovation and strategy in HE and the public sector more generally are considered, developing a critical response to recent approaches to managing public services, and practical suggestions for improvements which could be made to the training and support of senior and middle managers in universities.

Government (linguistics) · Higher education · Ideology · Managerialism · New public management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sector · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Higher Education Governance and Development · Management and Organizational Studies · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Administration · Administration - General · Current Events · Education · Educational change · Europe · Europe - General · Great britain · higher · Organization & management of education · Politics/International Relations · polytechnics · Public Affairs & Administration · Teaching · Universities · Universities and colleges · Universities and colleges, administration

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