Fish-Out-of-Office: How Managerialised University Conditions Make Administrative Knowledge Inaccessible to Academics

Autor/inn/en	Wheeldon, Anita Louise; Whitty, Stephen Jonathan; van der Hoorn, Bronte
Titel	Fish-Out-of-Office: How Managerialised University Conditions Make Administrative Knowledge Inaccessible to Academics
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 77 (2023) 2, S.342-355 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wheeldon, Anita Louise) ORCID (Whitty, Stephen Jonathan) ORCID (van der Hoorn, Bronte)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12404
Schlagwörter	Management Systems; Universities; Teacher Administrator Relationship; College Faculty; School Personnel; Foreign Countries; Social Capital; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? University; Universität; Fakultät; Schulpersonal; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Australien
Abstract	Academics report feeling unable to cope in the managerialised university. To confirm these feelings are symptoms of managerialism's tightening grip, we use Bourdieusian concepts of field and capital to compare academics and professional staff experiential statements in an Australian university. We compare their field conditions and examine how their differences enable or hinder the accumulation of capital that defines their field. Findings show that managerialism requires professional staff to share work tasks and be on-campus, which enables them to accumulate the capital they require. Managerialism also permits and resources academics to working out-of-office to accumulate their required capital. Consequentially though, university operational knowledge becomes informal and only accessible to professional staff who accumulate the required social capital to access it. Professional staff are thus fish-in-water; easily accumulating social capital through day-to-day activities. But academics become fish-out-of-water (office); they flounder to access operational knowledge, which leads to feelings of not coping. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01