Culture Clash or Ties That Bind? What Australian Academics Think of Professional Staff

Autor/in	Gray, Stephen
Titel	Culture Clash or Ties That Bind? What Australian Academics Think of Professional Staff
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 37 (2015) 5, S.545-557 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-080X
DOI	10.1080/1360080X.2015.1079397
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Professional Personnel; School Personnel; Opinions; Online Surveys; Teacher Surveys; Semi Structured Interviews; Interprofessional Relationship; Social Distance; Commercialization; Administrative Organization; Models; College Administration; Leadership; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Personalbestand; Schulpersonal; Lehrmeinung; Analogiemodell; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Führung; Führungsposition; Australien
Abstract	This paper uses a framework analysis to explore the opinions a cohort of Australian academic staff hold towards professional staff. Five indicative themes were identified from the extant literature on university professional staff: the professional other; managerialism; an expensive bureaucracy; complementary agendas; and the third space and beyond. These five themes formed the basis of an online survey and semi-structured interviews that gathered data on academics' opinions towards professional staff at both the local, departmental level and of those in central, divisional units. The interview and survey results revealed that the academics involved in this project held departmental professional staff in high esteem but that there was ambivalence directed to those in central units. The second part of this paper uses Sharrock's "Four Agendas" model to consider ways in which institutional leaders can capitalise on the existing strengths in the academic-professional working relationship towards fulfilling their strategic goals in a rapidly changing environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01