Download or read book Gouvernance Des Universit s Et Comp tences Des Managers Universitaires written by Ramzi Maamer and published by Editions Universitaires Européennes. This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En sciences de gestion, plusieurs études et recherches récentes réaffirment la nécessité de comprendre le système universitaire à partir de plusieurs angles de réflexion (finance, contrôle de gestion, management stratégique, gestion des ressources humaines...); cette nécessité tient en compte le contexte de mutations et de changement dans lequel vivent aujourd'hui les universités. Dans cet ouvrage, il s'agit d'apporter un éclairage sur les évolutions majeurs, le mode de fonctionnement et les relations entre les différents acteurs de l'enseignement supérieur tout en apportant une réflexion sur les modes de gestion par les compétences des "managers universitaires," leur rôle ainsi que leur positionnement dans les universités. Nous essayerons de soulever quelques interrogations quant à la manière dont ces enseignants chercheurs construisent leurs compétences individuelles nécessaires à la réalisation de leurs missions de management des universités.
Download or read book Introduction a la gouvernance des universite s written by Jean-François Denef and published by Archives contemporaines. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce « guide de gouvernance et d’évaluation à l’usage des recteurs et présidents d’universités ou d’institutions d’enseignement supérieur » n’a pas la prétention d’offrir une revue complète de l’ensemble des aspects liés à la gouvernance et à l’évaluation des universités et institutions d’enseignement supérieur. Il se veut un outil simple, rapidement accessible, clair et pratique permettant aux recteurs, présidents d’université ou à tout responsable institutionnel de trouver rapidement des réponses aux questions qu’ils se posent et/ou des informations, méthodes et bonnes pratiques leur permettant d’assumer leur fonction de responsable. Le guide est construit de manière à pouvoir accéder rapidement à des notions de base telles que : « Qu’est-ce que la gouvernance universitaire, le leadership relationnel ou stratégique » ou découvrir de bonnes pratiques telles que « comment se gérer soi-même, animer son équipe rectorale ou de direction, communiquer et motiver ses enseignants ? Comment introduire des réformes dans l’enseignement ? Promouvoir la recherche ? Evaluer quoi, qui, quand et comment ? » Cet ouvrage collectif, réalisé sous la direction de Jean-François Denef et Bonaventure Mvé-Ondo, rassemble les contributions de onze experts, actifs dans l’enseignement supérieur en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et en Afrique, et qui apportent un regard réellement international sur la gouvernance et l’évaluation des universités.
Download or read book Processus d acquisition et de construction des comp tences written by Ramzi Maamer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse porte sur l’acquisition et la construction des compétences chez les enseignants-chercheurs ayant une mission de management dans des universités françaises (présidence, vice-présidence, direction de composantes...). Dans le contexte changeant et compétitif dans lequel vivent actuellement les universités, manager l’organisation universitaire revient à concilier une multitude de tâches complexes, gérer des relations interpersonnelles assez difficiles et, souvent, atteindre les résultats attendus avec des moyens de plus en plus limités. Les managers universitaires dans les établissements publics doivent concilier à la fois les valeurs de l’enseignement supérieur public et les exigences de performance et de bonne gouvernance. Face à cela, les enseignants-chercheurs managers se retrouvent tenus de répondre à de multiples attentes et expectatives émanant des différentes parties prenantes des organisations universitaires. Dans cette recherche, nous montrerons que, lorsqu’ils assument ces missions de management et de gouvernance, les enseignants-chercheurs acquièrent et construisent leurs compétences essentiellement par l’expérience pratique, les capacités générales de logique et le mimétisme. Les compétences acquises et construites sont des compétences formalisées, opératoires et managériales. Nous montrerons aussi qu’il n’est plus possible aujourd’hui d’élire des dirigeants universitaires uniquement sur des performances académiques ou sur la base de l’ancienneté professionnelle, mais aussi et surtout sur des performances individuelles et collectives ainsi que sur des aptitudes et des capacités managériales et relationnelles
Download or read book L universit fran aise written by Pierre Balme and published by PUG. This book was released on 2012 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est sans doute le plus exhaustif sur l'université française, les enjeux de son développement, son organisation et sa gestion, ainsi que l'évolution de ses missions dans le nouveau contexte de la LRU. Visant à décrire l'organisation et le fonctionnement des universités en mettant l'accent sur les bouleversements considérables liés à la loi d'août 2007 et à la mise en oeuvre des responsabilités et compétences élargies depuis 2009, il présente le cadre juridique et le mode de fonctionnement des universités, l'organisation interuniversitaire, et les enjeux de la gouvernance. Décrivant de façon détaillée les principales fonctions de gestion des universités, avant de présenter les missions de base (la formation, la vie étudiante et enfin la recherche scientifique), il est conçu comme un véritable manuel pratique destiné à ceux qui interviennent à tout niveau dans la gestion universitaire. S'inscrivant dans l'actualité de la réforme universitaire en cours, du plan Campus, et des investissements d'avenir, il appuie la position selon laquelle la croissance dans les sociétés postindustrielles découle essentiellement de l'intensité de la recherche, des formations supérieures, et de l'innovation qu'elles permettent grâce aux échanges entre acteurs académiques et économiques. [Source : d'après la 4e de couverture]
Download or read book University Governance written by Catherine Paradeise and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies. While university systems are deeply embedded in national settings, the ex post rationale of still on-going reforms is surprisingly uniform and “de-nationalized”. They promote (1) the “organizational turn” of universities, to varying extent substituting collegial loosely coupled entities by “integrated, goal-oriented entities deliberately choosing their own actions (and therefore open to differentiation), that can thus be held responsible for what they do” (2) the diversification of stakeholders, supposedly offering solutions to problems as various as the democratisation of universities, the shrinking of State budget resources and the diversification of university missions offering answers to changes in the making and in the use of science. When it comes to accounting for these reforms, two grand narratives of public management share the floor. NPM implies a strengthening of the capacity of the core State to direct public services organizations through management by objectives and results or contractualization, assessment, evaluation and. “Governance” focuses on “network-based” governance systems, where coordinating power and control are collectively shared between the major ‘social actors or partners’ at all levels of the decision-making system. Our results suggest that all higher education systems under study were more or less transformed according to both these narratives. It is therefore needed to understand how they combine or create contradictions. This leads us to test a third neo-weberian model. This model reaffirms the role of the State, of representative democracy, (central, regional and local), of public law (suitably modernized), preserves the idea of a public service with a distinctive status, culture and terms and conditions. It shifts from an internal orientation to bureaucratic rules towards an external orientation in meeting citizens’ needs and wishes by means of standardization of work processes and their products, based on a distinctive public service and a particular legal order survived as the foundations beneath the various packages of modernizing reforms. This book traces the national dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools in seven European higher education and research systems, using these narratives to interpret and test the actual changes and the degree of national specificities and European convergence. This book is not a sum of national chapters like other presumably comparative. It does not intend to tell once again the story of the transformation of the relationships between the state and universities. It tries to use Higher education system to discuss issues on state intervention and steering and more generally the NPM, governance and neo-weberian models in a specific field. Furthermore, this book intends breaking the walls between specialists in higher education and specialist in public management and research policy. This well rooted division of labour is less that ever justified as the university mission in research (fundamental, applied, strategic) is underscored by commentors and reformers themselves. For that reason, we have chosen to observe the consequences of the dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools on two specific issues related to the development of research training and organizing within universities: the transformation of research funding on the one hand and the expansion of graduate studies and doctoral schools on the other.
Download or read book Governance in the Twenty First Century University Approaches to Effective Leadership and Strategic Management written by Dennis John Gayle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores approaches to effective leadership and strategic management in the twenty-first century university that recognize and respond to the perceptions and attitudes of university leaders toward institutional structures. It examines the differences between treating universities as businesses and managing universities in a businesslike manner, what kinds of leadership will best address challenges, and how to gain consensus among constituents that change is needed. From historical background to modern e-learning techniques, we look at governance to find systems that are effectively structured to balance the needs of students, educators, administrators, trustees, and legislators.
Download or read book Academic Governance in the Contemporary University written by Julie Rowlands and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses three central questions in contemporary university governance: (1) How and why has academic governance in Anglophone nations changed in recent years and what impact have these changes had on current practices? (2) How do power relations within universities affect decisions about teaching and research and what are the implications for academic voices? (3) How can those involved in university governance and management improve academic governance processes and outcomes and why is it important that they do so? The book explores these issues in clear, concise and accessible language that will appeal to higher education researchers and governance practitioners alike. It draws on extensive empirical data from key national systems in the Anglophone world but goes beyond the simply descriptive to analyse and explain.
Download or read book Skills Management written by Alain Roger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing skills is at the core of Human Resources Management. Based on previous literature and realized with researchers from Magellan, the Research Center in Management of iaeLyon, Skills Management examines how skills can be analyzed at the individual and collective levels, and investigates the focus on different types of skills – including technical, soft, learning, leadership and emotional skills. The book examines how skills management is applied in various contexts and for various populations, cultures and profiles, with examples ranging from middle managers having to develop organizational skills in a changing environment, to engineers having to develop soft skills beyond their technical skills; from police officers developing emotional skills, to the new skills that are needed when a hospital introduces a new approach to shared leadership. In the concluding chapter, this book also investigates how it is sometimes difficult to focus on skills development when organization needs are focused on flexibility.
Download or read book Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector written by Martial Pasquier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fields of marketing and communication have become increasingly important for modern public administrations in recent years but the focus on these subjects has been geared mainly towards the generation of outputs, leaving somewhat behind the analysis and deeper reflections on the impact they make and their limitations. This book provides a thorough overview of the major concepts in marketing and communication which is done by utilizing an exclusive and decisive public-sector approach, with an unambiguous international outlook. The possibilities and limits of the application of marketing and communication, from strategic aspects to the more concrete questions of instruments and implementation, are discussed and if the realities of the public sector are the key to any understanding of marketing and communication, the international scene is the only possible ground to do this in. Aided by a multitude of pedagogical features, Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector is a key read for all students, practitioners and scholars working or studying in this field.
Download or read book Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education written by Frank Adamson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.
Download or read book Institutional Logics in Action written by Michael Lounsbury and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012). Building on early efforts by Friedland & Alford (1991) to "bring society back in" to the study of organizational dynamics, this new scholarly domain has revived institutional analysis by embracing a
Download or read book DayWater written by Daniel R. Thevenot and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European DayWater project has developed a prototype of an Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) related to urban stormwater pollution source control. The DayWater ADSS greatly facilitates decision-making for stormwater source control, which is currently impeded by the large number of stakeholders involved and by the necessary multidisciplinary knowledge. This book presents the results of this project, providing new insights into both technical and management issues. The main objectives of its technical chapters are pollution source control modelling, risk and impact assessment, and evaluation and comparison of best management practices. It also covers management aspects, such as the analysis of the decision-making processes in stormwater source control, at a European scale, and stormwater management strategies in general. The combination of scientific-technical and socio-managerial knowledge, with the strong cooperation of numerous end-users, reflects the innovative character of this book which includes actual applications of the ADSS prototype in significant case studies. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management contains 26 chapters collectively prepared by DayWater scientific partners and end-users associated with this European Research and Development project. It includes: A general presentation of the DayWater Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) structure and operation modes A detailed description of the major components of this ADSS prototype The assessment of its components in significant case studies in France, Germany and Sweden The proceedings of the International Conference on Decision Support Systems for Integrated Urban Water Management, held in Paris on 3-4 November 2005. The book presents the ADSS prototype including a combination of freely accessible on-line databases, guidance documents, “road maps” and modelling or multi-criteria analysis tools. As demonstrated in several significant case studies the challenge for stormwater managers is to make the benefits of urban stormwater management visible to society, resulting in active co-operation of a diversity of stakeholders. Only then, will sustainable management succeed. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management advances this cause of sustainable urban management through Urban stormwater management, and makes achievable (by means of risk and vulnerability tools which are included) the goal of integrated urban water management (IUWM).
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning written by William R. King and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge management (KM) is a set of relatively-new organizational activities that are aimed at improving knowledge, knowledge-related practices, organizational behaviors and decisions and organizational performance. KM focuses on knowledge processes—knowledge creation, acquisition, refinement, storage, transfer, sharing and utilization. These processes support organizational processes involving innovation, individual learning, collective learning and collaborative decision-making. The “intermediate outcomes” of KM are improved organizational behaviors, decisions, products, services, processes and relationships that enable the organization to improve its overall performance. Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning presents some 20 papers organized into five sections covering basic concepts of knowledge management; knowledge management issues; knowledge management applications; measurement and evaluation of knowledge management and organizational learning; and organizational learning.
Download or read book The French Nonprofit Sector written by Laura Nirello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article deals with the literature on the French nonprofit sector (NPS). A preliminary part is devoted to presenting and discussing the characteristics that shape the approaches to this sector in France. We stress the strong influence of legal categories on the sector’s definition and, in this context, the importance of the status inherited from the 1901 Act on contracts of association. This raises a problem for a more analytical approach to the sector, because the diversity of the nonprofit organizations (NPOs) regulated under this Act risks being overshadowed. In this first part, we also underline the primacy accorded in France to the concept of the social economy, which has today become the social and solidarity economy (SSE), over that of the nonprofit sector. In the second part, the article outlines some landmarks in the history of the French NPS. French NPOs were for many years objects of suspicion, arbitrariness and repression on the part of the public authorities and this persisted until the 1901 legislation on contracts of association was enacted. However, this hostile context did not prevent the sector from having a richer existence than is sometimes admitted. This literature review also focuses on empirical studies of the sector, placing a particular emphasis on the more recent ones. These French studies basically adopt two types of approach. The first is concerned essentially with the NPOs and focuses its attention on their economic importance, whether measured in terms of financial resources, employment, or, less frequently, added value. The second approach investigates the kinds of individual participation the sector engenders by examining the various forms it takes, such as membership of NPOs or voluntary work. This review ends with the analysis of the challenges that NPS faces in a context characterized by the increasing constraints on public funding, changes in the nature of such funding with a substitution of contracts for subsidies, an increased competition among NPOs as well as between NPOs and for-profit enterprises. The article concludes that, despite the advances in research on the French NPS, some aspects—like formal volunteering and the role of voluntary associations—are still understudied, while others—like informal groups and informal volunteering—are almost totally ignored.
Download or read book Yearbook of International Organizations 2013 2014 Volumes 1a 1b written by Union Of International Associations and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 (A and B) covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.
Download or read book Social Innovations in the Urban Context written by Taco Brandsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has significantly progressed, thanks to an abundance of studies on social innovation both general and sector-specific. However, despite the valuable research conducted over the past years, the systematic analysis of social innovation is still contested and incomplete. The questions asked in the book will be the following: 1. What is the nature of social innovations? 2.What patterns can be identified in social innovations emerging at the local level? 3.How is the emergence and spread of social innovations related to urban governance? More precisely, which conditions and arrangements facilitate and hinders social innovation? We explore these questions using different types of data and methods, and studying different contexts. In particular, we focus on innovations that aim at solving problems of the young unemployed, single parents and migrants. This analysis is based on original research carried out in the period 2010-2013 in the framework of a European project with a specific empirical research strategy. Research was carried out in 20 cities in 10 different European countries.
Download or read book Public Management Old and New written by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective, it establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management. Taking a boldly integrative approach, Laurence E. Lynn Jr. combines topics of best practice, performance, accountability and rule of law to provide a much-needed umbrella view of the topic. Well-written and illustrated with case study examples, this is one of the most exciting books on public management available today. As such it is an essential read for every student of public management, administration and public policy.
