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245 0 0 _aHow To Lead Academic Departments Successfully /
_cedited by Adam Lindgreen, Alan Irwin, Flemming Poulfelt, and Thyra Uth Thomsen.
264 1 _aCheltenham, UK ;
_aNorthampton, MA :
_bEdward Elgar Publishing,
_c[2021].
264 4 _c©2021
300 _axxix, 386 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aIt 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.
_bPART 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.
650 0 _aUniversities and colleges
_xAdministration.
650 0 _aEducational leadership.
650 6 _aUniversités
_xAdministration.
650 6 _aLeadership en éducation.
650 7 _aEducational leadership.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00903527
650 7 _aUniversities and colleges
_xAdministration.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01161604
700 1 _aLindgreen, Adam,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aIrwin, Alan,
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700 1 _aPoulfelt, Flemming,
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700 1 _aThomsen, Thyra Uth,
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