Robert Birnbaum

Estela Mara Bensimon

Maintaining Diversity in Higher Education

What makes an academic leader effective? How can the myths surrounding academic leadership induce college presidents to make poor judgments? Can a college president really make a difference in whether an institution is successful in achieving its goals? In this book, Robert Birnbaum reveals the complex factors that influence the real and perceived effectiveness of academic leaders. Drawing on the results of a five-year longitudinal study by the Institutional Leadership Project, he explains how college and university leaders in various types of institutions interact and communicate, assess their own and others' effectiveness, establish goals, transmit values, and make sense of the ambiguous and dynamic organizations in which they work. And Birnbaum tells how presidents can maintain critical constituent support, increase their effectiveness, and ultimately help renew their college's values and spirit.

Understanding Success and Failure in the College Presidency

How Academic Leadership Works

Estela M. Bensimon

Anna Neuman

An integration and synthesis of the theoretical literature on leadership with the literature concerning higher education as a social institution is presented. The literature on a conceptual explanation of leadership is reviewed and related directly to higher education and its sociological and organizational uniqueness. The first four of the report's five sections discuss the following topics and subtopics: (1) the contemporary context and calls for leadership (constraints in responding to the calls for leadership and overcoming constraints to leadership); (2) conceptual explanations of leadership (theories and models of leadership and organizational theory and images of leadership); (3) higher education and leadership theory (trait theories, power and influence theories, behavioral theories, contingency theories, cultural and symbolic theories, and cognitive theories); and (4) higher education and organizational theory (the university as bureaucracy--the structural frame, the university as collegium--the human resource frame, the university as political system--the political frame, the University as organized anarchy--the symbolic frame, the university as cybernetic system, and an integrated perspective of leadership in higher education). The fifth and final section, Overview and Integration, discusses the effectiveness of leadership, cognitive complexity, transformational and transactional leadership, leadership paradigms, thinking about leadership, and an agenda for research on leadership in higher education. The report contains approximately 250 references. (SM)

Making Sense of Administrative Leadership

Benjamin Roth

David J. Petersen

Daniel Willers

Esther M. Schmitt

Jan H. E. Meyerhoff

Sebastian Gießler

Der Sammelband zeigt einerseits die Vielfalt und das Potential einer pluralen Ökonomik auf, indem einführende Überblicke sowie exemplarische Vertiefungen von ökonomischen Perspektiven und Diskursen erfolgen. Andererseits versteht er sich als Debattenimpuls, bei dem auch die grundsätzliche Frage nach der Relevanz und Verantwortung einer Wirtschaftswissenschaft und -praxis in den Fokus gerückt wird, die sich den Herausforderungen dieser Zeit adäquater zu stellen vermag. Es werden zentrale wissenschaftstheoretische, ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Kritiken, Herausforderungen und mögliche Lösungsansätze diskutiert.Mehr Hintergründe zum Projekt und aktuelle Lesetour-Termine unter www.plural-hannover.de/sammelband

Perspektiven einer pluralen Ökonomik

Robert Birnbaum

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