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Direct linkField, Laurie – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Against a backdrop of new public management (NPM) thinking and managerialism generally applied to universities in a range of countries, this study examines one of its manifestations--performance management for academics. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 40 academics at an Australian university, this article identifies six stances regularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Administration, Governance
McNamara, R. P.; Booth, P. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1984
A management strategy that is potentially more fruitful for the nonprofit sector than traditional management toward a primary objective is a risk management approach to organizational effectiveness. The organization's effectiveness, its survival, can be analyzed by categorizing the risks facing it and assessing its performance in managing these…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Download full textWatkins, Peter – 1992
In all forms of workplaces administrators have been exhorted to introduce what are perceived to be the "best practices" operating in the more successful economies. The education "industry" in Australia appears to be no different in this regard from other industries. Invariably, the "best practices" proposed for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Educational Administration, Educational Change
