How to lead academic departments successfully /
How to lead academic departments successfully /
edited by Adam Lindgreen, Alan Irwin, Flemming Poulfelt, and Thyra Uth Thomsen.
- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022.
- xxix, 386 p. :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I Challenges of being an academic leader -- On the particular challenges of managing professionals -- Relevant leadership: the dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic departments -- The role of academic leaders of a business school: an internal tensions perspective -- PART II Transformational and performance leadership -- The head of department as the key transformational leader -- Leading with purpose: developing the first business school for public good -- Leading academic departments -- Individual performance management: enabler or threat to academic performance? -- Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school -- PART III Inclusivity, team spirit and career development -- 'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': dealing with conflict in an academic department -- Smells like team spirit: a user's guide for department heads -- 'Now you see it': gender, inclusion and diversity -- Leading faculty as teachers -- Inclusive onboarding in academic departments -- PART IV Building, leading and funding research groups -- Building research groups -- Dilemmas in university management: the case of Copenhagen Business School -- Pathways to external funding at departments: how to strengthen a change of culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership? -- PART V Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners -- Collaborating with practitioners -- Leading academics in a public-private partnership: balancing value and performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change -- Undertaking cross-disciplinary research -- PART VI Leadership in different contexts -- Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: issues around complexity and emergence -- Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: complex structures, executive education and accreditation -- Academic leadership: the Danish case -- PART VII Personal leadership reflections -- Responsibilities of the department chair: lessons from the frontline -- How to lead an academic marketing department: some personal observations and reflections -- From head to dean: academic leadership.
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
9781035309030
Universities and colleges
Educational leadership.
Universités
Leadership en éducation.
Educational leadership.
Universities and colleges
378.101 HOW
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I Challenges of being an academic leader -- On the particular challenges of managing professionals -- Relevant leadership: the dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic departments -- The role of academic leaders of a business school: an internal tensions perspective -- PART II Transformational and performance leadership -- The head of department as the key transformational leader -- Leading with purpose: developing the first business school for public good -- Leading academic departments -- Individual performance management: enabler or threat to academic performance? -- Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school -- PART III Inclusivity, team spirit and career development -- 'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': dealing with conflict in an academic department -- Smells like team spirit: a user's guide for department heads -- 'Now you see it': gender, inclusion and diversity -- Leading faculty as teachers -- Inclusive onboarding in academic departments -- PART IV Building, leading and funding research groups -- Building research groups -- Dilemmas in university management: the case of Copenhagen Business School -- Pathways to external funding at departments: how to strengthen a change of culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership? -- PART V Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners -- Collaborating with practitioners -- Leading academics in a public-private partnership: balancing value and performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change -- Undertaking cross-disciplinary research -- PART VI Leadership in different contexts -- Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: issues around complexity and emergence -- Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: complex structures, executive education and accreditation -- Academic leadership: the Danish case -- PART VII Personal leadership reflections -- Responsibilities of the department chair: lessons from the frontline -- How to lead an academic marketing department: some personal observations and reflections -- From head to dean: academic leadership.
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
9781035309030
Universities and colleges
Educational leadership.
Universités
Leadership en éducation.
Educational leadership.
Universities and colleges
378.101 HOW