From Academic Communities to Managed Organisations: The Implications for Academic Careers in UK and German Universities

Autor/inn/en	Harley, Sandra; Muller-Camen, Michael; Collin, Andrey
Titel	From Academic Communities to Managed Organisations: The Implications for Academic Careers in UK and German Universities
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 64 (2004) 2, S.329-345 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2002.09.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Faculty College Relationship; Universities; Power Structure; Careers; Global Approach; Values; Germany; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; University; Universität; Career; Karriere; Globales Denken; Wertbegriff; Deutschland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper examines the implications for academic careers of the apparent global trend towards marketisation and managerialism in higher education with reference to the UK and Germany. It discusses how university employers might exercise greater control over their employees, privileging research and international publication, and fragmenting the traditional unity of the academic role. The effect is to challenge the values of academic communities, subject individuals to greater uncertainty, competition and insecurity, and influence the shape and direction of academic careers. The paper notes how today's academic careers could be understood in terms of Kanter's three forms of career as well as the boundaryless and protean career. However, it argues that these approaches do not address the key issue in both the UK and German cases: the changed locus and exercise of power within the employment relationship. It concludes that, to understand how careers are changing, this power relationship and the context of career in general have to be taken into account. (Author).
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