Academics and Professional Administrators in Australian Universities
Dissolving Boundaries and New Tensions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4545341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Mcinnis (a University of Melbourne , Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-173 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-080X • E-ISSN: 1469-9508 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1360080980200204 |
| OpenAlex | W2086932362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper reports the results of a national survey of administrators' work roles satisfaction and values in relation to those of academics surveyed on similar issues in an earlier study. The paper identifies some crucial areas of difference in the values attached to work and the perceptions of work practices. Issues and tensions at the everyday work interface between academics and administrators are identified as central to the likelihood, or otherwise, of universities managing major changes
Higher education · Job satisfaction · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Relation (database · Sociology · Survey data collection · Work (physics · Engineering · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Invisible forces
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Management of Workplace Change in the Australian Higher Education Sector
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Academic artisans in the research university
Public engagement professionals in a prestige economy
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General Staff Experiences in the Corporate University
Why Students are not (Just) Customers (and other reflections on Life After George)
The rise of 'professional staff' and demise of the 'non-academic
Culture clash or ties that bind? What Australian academics think of professional staff
The invisible workers
Transforming spaces and identities
A comparative study of the perceptions of professional staff on their contribution to student outcomes
Distributed leadership
Relationships and reciprocality in student and academic services
Beyond administration and management
Negative 'marking'? University research administrators and the contestation of moral exclusion
Get yourself some nice, neat, matching box files!' Research administrators and occupational identity work
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Just 'non-academics
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |