Whitchurch, Celia (2006) Who do they think they are? The changing identities of professional administrators and managers in UK higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 28 (2). pp. 159-171. ISSN 1360-080X
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Abstract
Contemporary universities, serving mass higher education markets, find themselves delivering complex, broadly based projects such as student support and welfare, human resource development, and business enterprise. Established concepts of academic administration and devolved management have been overlaid by more fluid institutional structures and cultures, with a softening of internal and external boundaries (Whitchurch 2004; 2005). These developments have caused major shifts in the identities of professional administrators and managers, as they adopt more projectoriented roles crossing functional and organisational boundaries. This paper considers the dynamics of these changes, in terms that move beyond conventional assumptions about ‘administration’ and ‘management’. While identities have been defined traditionally via structured domains such as professional knowledges, institutional boundaries, and the policy requirements of the higher education sector, an emergent ‘project’ domain has fostered the development of an increasingly multi-professional grouping of staff, with implications for career futures.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Whitchurch, Celia (2006) Who do they think they are? The changing identities of professional administrators and managers in UK higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 28 (2). pp. 159-171. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13600800600751002 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | university management, university administration, professional identity, management development |
| Subjects: | Departments > Lifelong and Comparative Education |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2010 11:19 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2030 |
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