Towards professionalisation? Restructuring of administrative work force in universities |
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| Authors: | Åse Gornitzka Ingvild Marheim Larsen |
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| Institution: | (1) Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education (NIFU), Hegdehaugsveien 31, 0352 Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the restructuring ofadministrative staff in universities throughempirically documenting such processes andproviding a theoretically foundedinterpretation and analysis of change. Theempirical material is drawn from a context ofNorwegian universities the last two decades.Two major changes can be observed in thisperiod. First, a period of steep growth inuniversity administration in early 1990sfollowed by a period of moderate growth and insome cases even decline. The second dominantdevelopment pattern in the 1980s and 1990s isthe change within administrative staff,which could be interpreted as a professionalisation of administrative staff.The article concludes by presenting possibleexplanations to the structuring of theadministrative work force in universities onthe basis of different theoretical approachesto organisational change. |
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| Keywords: | administrative staff leadership management organisational change professionalisation professional roles university administration |
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