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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.
As academia is increasingly questioned as an elite profession, a narrative of casualisation, precarity, inequality, long hours, surveillance, austerity, erosion of pay, exacerbated competition, and harmful power relations has come to dominate. Expert contributors provide multiple perspectives on how academics are managed and how the management of academics influences their roles and careers. Chapters consider how academics’ characteristics, such as gender, age, and position in their academic career, influence or are influenced by the way in which academics are managed. Drawing together a range of theoretical approaches as well as a broad geographical coverage, this Research Handbook offers an important contribution to the debates surrounding the shifting frontiers of managing academics and the questions raised for individuals, higher education institutions, and higher education systems.
This Research Handbook will be a useful resource for academics and advanced students with an interest in human resource management, management and universities, and management education. Higher education professionals and policy makers will also find it to be a helpful guide.
Trade Review‘The Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics
presents wide-ranging and critical perspectives while making an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the changing world of the academic profession. Individually and collectively, academics are encountering considerable changes and challenges to what they do, their performance, and their working environment with calls for greater accountability within and beyond the institution. Managing these changes brings their own complexities and challenges. This is a must read for academics as well as for HE leaders and policy makers, and anyone interested in better understanding higher education today.’ -- Ellen Hazelkorn, Technological University Dublin and BH Associates, Ireland
‘A useful collection of essays relating to the academic profession and its role in the contemporary university.’ -- Phillip G. Altbach, Boston College, US
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword xviii Christine Musselin 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Managing Academics 1 Cláudia S. Sarrico, Maria J. Rosa and Teresa Carvalho PART I CHANGING CONTEXT FOR MANAGING ACADEMICS 2 Academic labour markets in changing higher education systems: a political economy approach 18 Pedro N. Teixeira 3 The changing context of academic work: fragmentation, institutional horizontal diversity and vertical stratification 36 Glen A. Jones and Julian Weinrib 4 Academic power and institutional control of academia in Argentine public universities within the context of a managerial governance model 47 Mónica Marquina, Cristian Pérez Centeno and Nicolás Reznik 5 Publishing as epistemic governance of academics: the cognitive and social frontier of university–industry linkages and commercial indicators 64 Christian Schneijderberg and Nicolai Götze PART II THE ROLE OF ACADEMICS AND OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS 6 The rise and work of new professionals in higher education 89 Jürgen Enders and Rajani Naidoo 7 Borderlessness between academic and non-academic professionals: an analysis of occupational (re)classifications in the UK 99 Roxana D. Baltaru 8 Researchers in and beyond higher education 111 Timo Aarrevaara and Raija Pyykkö 9 Academic leaders and leadership in the changing higher education landscape 121 Maarja Beerkens and Marieke van der Hoek 10 Developing the ‘new’ academic 137 Andrea Adam and Natalie Brown 11 Cultivating designed academics: leading development of future work, roles and experts 153 Hamish Coates and Adrianna Kezar PART III GENDERED ACADEMIC CAREERS 12 Managing and leading gender equality change in academia 165 Helen Peterson and Birgitta Jordansson 13 Climbing the ladder: equal chances for women and men? 175 Nicoline Frølich and Rune Borgan Reiling 14 A typology of STEM academics and researchers’ responses to managerialist performativity in higher education 189 Pat O’Connor PART IV THE PERFORMANCE OF ACADEMIC STAFF 15 Optimizing the productivity and performance of academic staff: principles based on the us experience 203 Martin Finkelstein and Qi Li 16 Performance management under surveillance capitalism in higher education 218 Liudvika Leišytė 17 Academic careerism 232 Peodair Leihy and José Miguel Salazar PART V HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF ACADEMICS 18 The impact of human resource management policies on higher education in Europe 251 Attila Pausits, Jussi Kivistö, Elias Pekkola, Florian Reisky and Henry Mugabi 19 Academic careers in Latvia: reforms in a European context 268 Nina Arnhold, Elias Pekkola, Vitus Püttmann and Andrée Sursock 20 HR challenges in a twenty-first-century global context: the case of Antwerp university 283 Karen Vandevelde, Bart Bozek, Marjolijn De Clercq and Nel Grillaert 21 The irresistible rise of managerial control? The case of workload allocation models in British universities 298 Tatiana Fumasoli and Giulio Marini PART VI MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMICS 22 Academic staff mobility across higher education institutions and issues of inbreeding 311 Andrey Lovakov, Maria Yudkevich and Viktoria Kryachko 23 International staff mobility 324 Jeroen Huisman 24 International faculty members in China, Japan, and Korea: their characteristics and the challenges facing them 337 Futao Huang and Yangson Kim 25 Internationality of academic work 355 Ulrich Teichler PART VII AGE AND GENERATIONAL GAPS IN ACADEMIC CAREERS 26 Managing seniority in academia: three perspectives 374 Elias Pekkola, Taru Siekkinen, Hanna Salminen and Emmi-Niina Kujala 27 Polarization of academic career building: a generational perspective on the early-career phase 389 Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Lea Henriksson 28 The Early Stage Academic and the contemporary university: communities of practice versus new managerialism 404 Rosemary Deem 29 The university as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: early career academics on competition, collaboration, and performance requirements 419 Lars Geschwind, Jenny Wiklund Pasia and Linda Barman Index
