Deanship in the Global South

Bridging Troubled Waters
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45984-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 305 g

Reihe: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives

The university today is a postmodern, neo-liberal, competitive, boundary-less knowledge conglomerate, a far cry from its historical traditional classical and collegial roots. There is a body of literature on deanship that points to its evolving nature in the contemporary academe characterised by complexity and change. Balancing academic demands simultaneously with the requirements for effective performance, leadership and management, lies at the heart of this very challenging bridging role nowadays. Deans are generally former academics, emerging from a traditional collegial space and often catapulted into the relatively unknown domain of executive management, with its related problems. Deans nowadays are required to be more than collegial, intellectual leaders. They are also meant to be fiscal and human resource experts, fundraisers, politicians, and diplomats.

Deanship in the Global South: Bridging Troubled Waters is about the deans’ lived reality, as they try to balance the demands of both the academe from which they emerge, and the administration to whom they now need to account. Their lack of preparation and inadequate support points to the need for a more strategic, integrated approach to leadership development within their critical bridging roles between the academe and administration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seale, Oliver J J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

About the Author

1 Deanship in the Contemporary University: Notions, Traditions and Developments

1 Introduction

2 Theory and Method

3 The Dean: Conception, Genesis and Evolution

4 Deanship in the University Today: ‘Neither Fish Nor Fowl’

5 Deans in Post-Democratic South Africa

6 Bridges Are Burning

2 Leading and Managing the 21st Century University

1 Introduction

2 The Times They Are A-Changing

3 The Only Constants Are Complexity and Change

4 Show Me the Money

5 Efficiency and Effectiveness

6 The Advent of Managerialism in Universities

7 Competition from Private Higher Education

8 Responsiveness to Economic Demands

9 Gender Equity and Access to the C-Suite

10 The Case of South African Higher Education

11 Leadership Effectiveness and Performance Management in Universities

12 Leading and Managing in Complexity and Change

13 No Longer Just Doves of Peace

14 It’s the End of the World as We Know It

3 The Rise and Rise of Executivism in South African Universities

1 Introduction

2 Genesis of the Executive Dean

3 Notion and Emergence of Executive Deanship in South Africa

4 Institutional Management Implications of Executive Deanship

5 Managing Definitional Ambiguity and Role Conflict

6 Am I Executive or Not

4 Becoming a Dean: Trails, Tenure and Triumphs

1 Introduction

2 Transition to Deanship

3 Decanal Routes in South African Universities

4 Preparation and Support for Deans

5 Functions, Power and Authority of Deans

6 Tenure and Transition

7 To Dean or Not to Dean

5 Leadership Development in Universities

1 Introduction

2 Leadership (Capacity) Development Notions and Praxis

3 Leadership Development in Universities

4 Ready, Steady, … No: Capacity of Deans to Lead and Manage

5 Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM) Programme

6 Learning Should Be Greater Than Change

6 Managed Organisational Leadership Development for Deans

1 Introduction

2 Reframing Leadership Development for Deans

3 Grounding Leadership Development for Deans

4 A Systemic and Integrated Approach to Leadership Development for Deans

5 Towards Holistic Bespoke Leadership Development

7 Beyond the Decanal Role: Preparation and Planning for Exit

1 Introduction

2 Time to Say Goodbye

3 Career Planning and Management for Deans

4 Decanal Reflections and Learning

5 Riding into the Sunset

8 Quo Vadis Decanus, in the South

1 May You Live in Interesting Times

2 In Sum

Epilogue

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver J. J. Seale, Ph.D. (2015), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is Director of the Higher Education Leadership and Management programme at Universities South Africa. He is also a published researcher and lecturer on university leadership, management and leadership development.