Beschreibung:
Drawing on two international research projects, Reconstructing Relationships in Higher Education: Challenging Agendas looks behind formal organisational structures and workforce patterns to consider the significance of relationships, particularly at local and informal levels, for the aspirations and motivations of academic faculty. In practice, and day-to-day, such relationships can overlay formal reporting lines and therefore inform, to a greater or lesser extent, the overall relationship between individuals and institutions.
Preface Part 1 Structures 1 Introduction 2 Organisational frameworks Part 2 Workplace relationships 3 Working relationships 4 Individual responses 5 The role of middle managers Part 3 Towards a constructive alignment 6 Emergent practices - bottom up 7 Emergent practices - top down 8 Reconstructing relationships 9 Conclusions References Appendix 1 Details of the two studies