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II. Higher Education, Higher Education Policy (Higher Education Law, Higher Education Organisation, Personnel Structure, Student Body, Educational Assistance, Higher Education Statistics)
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author KRÜCKEN, Georg (BLÜMEL, Albrecht; KLOCKE, Katharina)
Title The managerial turn in higher education? : on the interplay of organizational and occupational change in German academia / Georg Krücken ; Albrecht Blümel ; Katharina Klocke
Publication year 2013
Source/Footnote In: Minerva. - 51 (2013) 4, S. 417 - 442
Inventory number 35617
Keywords Hochschule : Verwaltung allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein ; Hochschulreform : allgemein
Abstract The managerial turn in academia is currently broadly discussed. Based on empirical data gathered from a sample that includes all German universities, we can give a broad and fine-grained account of this turn. What we can clearly see is that whole new categories of administrative management positions have been created over the last years. Furthermore, within the non-academic staff we can see a profound restructuration. Lower-level positions like those for clerical work decreased, while higher-level positions in the administration increased. However, and in contrast to studies of countries, we do not observe a general shift from academic to non-academic positions. In addition to the statistical analysis of survey data and personnel data, we conducted seventy in-depth interviews with heads of administrative management units, in particular those being created over the last two decades, for example, on quality control, technology transfer, and career service. Although we clearly see important changes indicating a managerial turn in higher education, core characteristics of a professional organization whose basic processes are ultimately controlled by academics and not by administrators or managers have been retained. These findings call for further cross-national research. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)