How to lead academic departments successfully / edited by Adam Lindgreen (Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Extraordinary Professor, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa), Alan Irwin (Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University) and Flemming Poulfelt (Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindgreen, Adam, editor.

Irwin, Alan, 1955- editor.

Poulfelt, Flemming, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

How to guides (Cheltenham, UK)

How to guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Departments--Personnel management.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--Departments--Management.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This timely second edition challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms. Including reflections and advice from experienced leaders, this book provides ideas and updated guidance to help current and aspiring leaders increase their own efficiency and effectiveness across the following areas: - Dealing with conflict - Engendering team spirit - Ensuring diversity and inclusion - Leading change in business schools - Leading research groups - Creating a triple crown business school - Collaborating with other disciplines and practitioners - NEW! Sustainable leadership - NEW! Digitalisation An experienced group of contributors reflects on their own successes and failures to shine new light on academic leadership to support your own sense of success as a practicing or aspiring departmental head. We also hope that this thoroughly revised second edition will be instructive for those who simply want to understand how this crucial aspect of academic life operates"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to how to lead academic departments successfully

Part I: Challenges of being an academic leader

1. On the particular challenges of managing professionals / Flemming Poulfelt

2. Relevant leadership: The dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic departments / Rickie A. Moore

3. The role of academic leaders of a business school: An internal tensions perspective / Matthew J. Robson

4. Leading a sustainable university: The four 'i's of sustainable leadership / Børge Obel and Pernille Kallehave

5. Authors of our own misfortune? Managing crises in university departments - the challenges around crisis incubation / Denis Fischbacher-Smith

Part II: Transformational and performance leadership

6. The head of department as the key transformational leader / Asbjørn Busk J. and Søren Barlebo Rasmussen

7. Leading with purpose: Developing the first business school for public good / Martin Kitchener

8. Leading academic departments / Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones

9. Individual performance management: Enabler or threat to academic performance? / Andreas Werr and Katja Einola

10. Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school / Michael C. Jackson OBE

Part III: Inclusivity, team spirit and career development

11. 'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': Dealing with conflict in an academic department / Alan Irwin

12. The 'we' of the department: Conjuring up team spirits / Peter Kjær

13. 'Now you see it': Gender, inclusion and diversity / Maja Horst

14. Leading faculty as teachers / Hanne Andersen

15. Inclusive onboarding in academic departments / Daniel J. Petzer, Nicola S. Kleyn and Michele Ruiters

Part IV: Building, leading and funding research groups

16. Building research groups / Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Peter Naudé

17. Dilemmas in university management: The case of copenhagen business school / Nanna Mik-Meyer

18. Pathways to external funding at departments: How to strengthen a change of culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership? / Enno Hofeldt

Part V: Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners

19. Collaborating with practitioners / C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Adam Lindgreen, Marianne Storgaard and Ann Højbjerg Clarke

20. Leading academics in a public-private partnership: Balancing value and performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change / Morten W. Jeppesen

21. Undertaking cross-disciplinary research / Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Michel van der Borgh

Part VI: Leadership in different contexts

22. Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: Issues around complexity and emergence / Denis Fischbacher-Smith

23. Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: Complex structures, executive education and accreditation / Kai Peters

24. Academic leadership: The danish case / Jacob Kjær Eskildsen and Børge Obel

25. Student success and retention / Moira Fischbacher-Smith

26. What do heads of academic departments need to know about digitalisation? / Sally Wyatt

Part VII: Personal leadership reflections

27. Responsibilities of the department chair: Lessons from the frontline / Thomas G. Cummings

28. How to lead an academic marketing department: Some personal observations and reflections / Gerrit van Bruggen

29. From head to dean: Academic leadership / Peter Møllgaard.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035333387 (e-book)

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