Persuaded to Lead: What is the Cost of Managerial Post for an Academic Career?

0551297 - PSÚ 2022 RIV eng A3 - Přednáška/prezentace nepublikovaná
Machovcová, Kateřina - Cidlinská, Kateřina - Mudrák, J. - Zábrodská, Kateřina
Persuaded to Lead: What is the Cost of Managerial Post for an Academic Career?
[European conference on Educational Research 2021. Geneva (Online), 06.09.2021-10.09.2021]
Způsob prezentace: Prezentace
URL akce: https://eera-ecer.de/previous-ecers/ecer-2021-geneva/ 
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-13732S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: academic leadership * middle management * career development
Obor OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations)

On the background of changes within higher education, such as increased marketization, constant assessment, and performance pressures, academic middle managers need to deal with increasing bureaucratic and managerial workload. In the situation where increased demands on both quality and quantity of academic performance require strong academic middle management, it is crucial to understand their experience, understand the motives why they eventually become managers, what demands the role brings, and how they evaluate its impact on the career. In this presentation, we will provide some insight into the lived experience of academic middle managers in the role of heads of departments. The narratives evolve from issues such as circumstances of the decision to become an academic manager, how that feeds into increased demands of the academic middle manager role, and finally, we provide a brief evaluation of the career impact at the moment of the interview. This presentation is built on the data collected in 2015-2016, and currently, we are planning a follow-up study with the same set of respondents.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0326734