This study, funded by Australia's ALTC for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, has
identified the capabilities that characterise effective academic leaders in a range of roles …

This book is primarily aimed at those who have, or will have, a role in leading departments
or teams in higher education institutions. It examines the ways in which mainstream …

This study describes the quality of academic worklife (QAWL) within a comprehensive
university in Australia. Academics responded to the Academic Work Environment Survey, a …

This paper examines the relationships between academic deans' roles, conflict, and
ambiguity, and postulates that the same roles in which they engage today are regarded as …

This book, based on the National Deans Survey, which was sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Academic Leadership and to which 800 deans from all US four-year academic …

This monograph provides a compilation of scholarly literature written about academic deans.
The premise on which it rests suggests that changes external to the academy have affected …

Much of the writing on higher education in recent years has tended to assume that the new
management push in higher education is both universal and irreversible. This paper …

The academic deanship is the least studied andmost misunderstood position in the
academy. The work ofadministration and the pursuit of scholarly endeavors donot make …

University department chairs/heads in the United States and Australia function under
increased uncertainty and stress: a diverse student population, funding shortages, demands …

Purpose The purpose of this eight-country study is to examine what drives performance at
the individual worker's level and compare the explanatory power of such drivers between …