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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Academic shape shifting : gender, management and identities in Sweden and England
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 13:2, s. 275-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers gender and managerial identities in organizational life, taking the recent change in higher education in Sweden and England with the coming of the new public management as the context in which to explore these issues. In reviewing the literature on gender identity and organization/management, which has moved from a pre-occupation with difference to an examination of the complex inter-relationship between gender and organization, an attempt is made to operationalize the concept of ositionality, using insights from the work of Alcoff and Melucci. It is argued that Academic Shape Shifting is developed by academics during their time in academia, as well as in defensive and proactive response to the recent managerial reforms. A number of indicative responses to the recent changes are identified. These are: the Stressed Professor, the Managerial Advocate, the Administrative Patrician, the Accidental Female, the Academic Chameleon and the Resolute Researcher. As Academic Shape Shifting is used by social individuals in interaction with others, at particular moments in time and in different circumstances, it is concluded that the implications suggest complexity in the changing character of university life, with female academics in middle range positions facing more difficult compromises than their male counterparts. Key words. academic positioning; gender; higher education; identity; new public management; Sweden and England
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Between the ivory tower and the academic assembly line
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 38:1, s. 88-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers the impact of managerialism and the reactions it has engendered in university life. It examines the degree to which institutions of higher education in the UK have in recent years been subjected to what some commentators have seen as a managerial assault, alongside economic pressures to restructure and reform, and explores the reactions of academic and administrative staff in middle and junior levels through a case study of two universities. Consideration is given to attempts to introduce managerial controls, including the setting of targets, appraisals and peer review, as well as to the resistances which followed. It is argued that the notion of resistance to domination and control has been underplayed in the literature of organization and management. In exploring its various manifestations it is shown that managerialism is not fully embedded in university life and that matters are far from settled. It is contended that those engaged in academe in middle and junior levels of the organizational hierarchy are actively seeking to keep alive the craft of scholarship by mediating and moderating the harsher effects of the changes through supportive or transformational styles of working.
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Gender and management in the public sector
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Ingår i: Proceedings, EURAM 6th Annual Conference. ; , s. 81-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The public sector in Europe has been subject to much change in recent years, not least because of the pronounced but uneven impact of the New Public Management. But if change is prevalent, gender inequality, gender segregation and gender differences remain persistent - as much in the public sector as elsewhere. Papers in this track explore a number of these gender issues, including how public sector managerialism and leadership is ‘gendered', how managerialism is responded to (and sometimes resisted) by women and men, the patterns of gendered occupational segregation, and the continuing inequalities in opportunity despite decades of ‘equal opportunity' legislation and action. Papers also explore cross-cutting differences of ‘race' and ethnicity and ofsexualities. Generalisation across Europe and the public sector is, of course, problematic and the papers in this track understandably tend to focus on specific countries and specific parts of the public sector with studies of health, higher education and social care predominating. The track will thus provide an opportunity to discuss differences as well as similarities in the form gender relations and inequality take within the public sector in a range of European countries.
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Managing intellectual labour in Sweden and England
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Ingår i: Cross Cultural Management. - : Emerald. - 1352-7606 .- 1758-6089. ; 10:3, s. 3-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reports on findings from a research project, which has been examining the development of the New Public Management (NPM), a managerial reform movement for change in public sectors worldwide, and reports on a series of semi-structured interviews with academics in Sweden and England as elements of NPM are introduced into the daily routines of university work. The findings suggest that, despite evidence of common elements of the NPM appearing in Higher Education in the two countries in question, as well as many similarities of experience and response among those subjected to change, there are differences - with academics in England reporting longer hours and increased monitoring of their work than their Swedish counterparts. The article explores the nature of these similarities and differences.
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Movement and change in the public sector : Bringing social movements into the analysis
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:3, s. 433-448
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay seeks to develop a theoretical framework for public-sector managerial change that draws on social movement theory, an approach located within the domain of political sociology. The essay opens with a brief examination of the literature on the New Public Management and governance which, it is argued, draws on a neo-liberal agenda, displays a tendency to de-centre or marginalize considerations of democracy and politics and offers abstract, top – down, descriptions of change. Approaches to social movement theory are considered, with particular attention paid to two dominant schools: the political process approach and new social movement theory which account for ‘how’ and ‘why’ change occurs. By operating through grass-roots networks, and offering symbolic challenges to the dominant neo-liberal order, social movements help us to see more clearly the limitations of conventional wisdom on public-sector managerial change, and consider resistances, accommodations and messy compromises. The essay seeks to use such insights to re-conceptualize public-sector managerial change.
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