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College and University Middle Management and Institutional Strategy
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Fugazzotto, Sam J. – College and University, 2009
Colleges and universities generally do not allow for the top-down style of leadership that many definitions of strategy assume. Rather, postsecondary institutions are loosely coupled professional bureaucracies composed of individual employees and academic units that can pursue individual strategies with little or no input from management…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Middle Management, Leadership Styles, Case Studies
Effective Middle Management in Higher Education
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Price, William C. – College and University, 1977
Middle managers will be under the greatest strain as colleges and universities continue to adopt more efficient administrative practices and cut costs. They will meet the challenge by watching their time carefully and by maintaining professional development. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Deans, Department Heads
Middle-Level Collegiate Administration in a Period of Retrenchment
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Scott, Robert A. – College and University, 1977
Suggestions for ways that middle managers can help themselves are offered in this discussion of administrative and staffing issues affecting the deans, directors, and assistants of support services. (LBH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Management Styles of Registrars and Officers of Admission. A Study of How Higher Education's Key Middle Managers Manage.
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Grossman, Robert J.; Ross, Elizabeth D. – College and University, 1991
Based on results of a national survey, the managerial behavior of college registrars (n=303) and admissions officers (n=343) is defined and analyzed, pointing out similarities and differences in management styles (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching) and identifying situations in which particular management…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Admissions Officers, College Administration, College Admission
Professional Associations: The Off-Campus Organizations of Collegiate Middle-Managers.
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Scott, Robert A. – College and University, 1980
The dramatic growth of complex national associations as important organizations for middle-managers is seen as the result of the demand for information, guidance, and training, as well as the desire for recognition and the status that comes from being part of a recognized group. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Federal Government, Higher Education, Lobbying
Beleagured Yeomen: Comments on the Condition of Collegiate Middle-Managers.
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Scott, Robert A. – College and University, 1979
The role of middle-management in college administration is addressed. Focus is on financial aid officers who are good representatives of the major dilemmas faced by middle-managers. For example: their contact with students is limited by paperwork duties; they must look off-campus for training and recognition; and federal regulations greatly affect…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators