The collegial and managerial roles and qualifications of Canadian university deans

Lavigne, Eric

doi:10.1080/03075079.2018.1496409

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“…Due to these many repetitive activities, it is even harder for deans to think of doing other things and as a result, all other important academic activities are left pending. The findings above are in line with those from a study carried out by Lavigne (2019) indicating that academic leaders face multiple academic work as a result of the evolving managerial nature of work in both legal and chartered universities. This approach is supported by findings by Creaton and Heard-Lauréote (2021) who discovered an increasing amount of administration and bureaucratic work at the cost of the deans' teaching and research tasks.…”

Section: Multiple Rolessupporting

confidence: 88%

Perceived Changing Academic Roles of Deans in Higher Education: A case of Makerere University

Lutaaya,

Ronald,

Nakamanya

2024

East Afr. j. educ. stud.

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Existing literature shows that deans in higher education institutions are key in nurturing, facilitating growth, and setting high academic standards for faculty, staff, and students among other stakeholders to be able to achieve the academic goals and objectives in this changing and challenging higher education environment. They are also expected to create a positive work environment within schools, colleges, or departments. However, not much has been written on how these deans perceive their changing academic roles and how they reframe the same in the context of Makerere University. This qualitative and case study therefore set out to explore the perceived changing academic roles of deans in Makerere University. Findings reveal that deans perceive their changing academic roles as hectic, multiple, financially constraining, and politically constrained. The study concludes that the perceptions of deans are attributed to the growth and strategic direction of the university, the needs of the market, and the transformation of Makerere University to a collegiate system of governance and increased technology among others. The study recommends that deans can gradually draw on the associated benefits of the political frame including networking and partnerships to be able to manage financially and overcome financial constraints. Deans should leverage committees to establish grants and partnerships. The university and its governing body should withdraw or relieve the teaching loads from the deans to enable them to concentrate on curbing financial constraints

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Section: Multiple Rolessupporting

confidence: 88%

Perceived Changing Academic Roles of Deans in Higher Education: A case of Makerere University

Lutaaya,

Ronald,

Nakamanya

2024

East Afr. j. educ. stud.

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“…The results of the present study have contributed nuances to the literature that managerial roles can help form organizational climate in terms of the performing qualified relationships among principals, teachers, and students. Limited studies pointed out that managerial roles are a practical part of improving and neutralizing harmful elements of schools (Lavigne, 2019;Saah, 2017;Werang and Lena, 2019), and some of them highlight Mintzberg's views (Feldhoff et al, 2016;Hargreaves and Fink, 2008) or method (Tulowitzki, 2013). However, those did not investigate these by the revised managerial roles approach (Mintzberg, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, he (2009) pinpointed several theoretical arguments in his new view as people, information, and action planes. Various researchers have recently studied the details of roles in various organizations, including educational institutions and educators (Fink, 2011;Lavigne, 2019;Sandhu and Kulik, 2019;White, 2020). In addition, those are discussed with variables such as knowledge sharing (Bock et al, 2005), leadership (Kruse, 2020;Saah, 2017), and teachers' trust (Dogan, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Mediating Role of Organizational Climate in the Relationship Between School Principals' Managerial Roles and Teachers' Emotional Labors

MAVİ¹,

Özdemir

2023

Milli Eğitim Dergisi

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Educational researchers have recently focused on the relationships between various organizational variables. The managerial roles of the principals are also one of the issues discussed in this context. Because these roles are closely related to the school atmosphere and teachers' feelings. Current study examined the mediation of organizational climate in the relationship between the roles of principals and teachers' emotional labor. For this, a structural regression model designed by the authors was tested. Data were collected from 535 teachers working in elementary schools in Kahramanmaras (Turkiye) and analyzed with MPlus 8.3. The findings show statistically significant and positive correlations between managerial roles-organizational climate, organizational climate-deep acting, and organizational climate-genuine emotions. Surface acting has a statistically significant, negative correlation with genuine emotions, and no statistically significant correlation exists with other variables. The structural regression model shows that organizational climate predicted by managerial roles predicts deep acting and genuine emotions. However, surface acting is not predicted by the organizational climate in the model. According to these results, the fact that the principals fulfill their roles contributes to the climate in the schools and thus the teachers' feeling of deep and genuine emotions. It is expected that the study will make original contributions to the managerial roles revised approach and the approach's school/educational management framework. The authors suggest that scholars investigate the managerial roles of principals in their future studies by designing multi-level procedures with different variables.

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“…Search firms are responsible for the first formal interaction with candidates during the recruitment or pre-recruitment phases (Harvey et al, 2013;Lavigne, 2018;Usher et al, 2009). Firms use their network to broaden the scope and reach of a search (Bright & Richards, 2001;Dowdall, 1999;Ellis, 1995).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolving Role of the External Search Firm in the Canadian Decanal Search

Usunier

2022

CJHE

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Despite the critical role academic deans play in the leadership and success of universities, most of what we know about the Canadian deanship we know from an institutional perspective, including our understanding of the recruitment and selec-tion process. The findings presented in this article will facilitate a better understanding of how the increased involvement of external search firms in decanal searches has influenced both the decanal search process and the experiences of those candidates involved in the search. Provosts, deans, and search firm representatives participated in this study. The resultant findings have several important implications for search policy and process, and the conceptual framework proposed will support new research in the area of senior administrative hiring within Canadian universities.

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The collegial and managerial roles and qualifications of Canadian university deans

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Perceived Changing Academic Roles of Deans in Higher Education: A case of Makerere University

Perceived Changing Academic Roles of Deans in Higher Education: A case of Makerere University

The Mediating Role of Organizational Climate in the Relationship Between School Principals' Managerial Roles and Teachers' Emotional Labors

The Evolving Role of the External Search Firm in the Canadian Decanal Search

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