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It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This timely second edition challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
Including reflections and advice from experienced leaders, this book provides ideas and updated guidance to help current and aspiring leaders increase their own efficiency and effectiveness across the following areas:
Dealing with conflict
Engendering team spirit
Ensuring diversity and inclusion
Leading change in business schools
Leading research groups
Creating a triple crown business school
Collaborating with other disciplines and practitioners
NEW! Sustainable leadership
NEW! Digitalisation
An experienced group of contributors reflects on their own successes and failures to shine new light on academic leadership to support your own sense of success as a practicing or aspiring departmental head. We also hope that this thoroughly revised second edition will be instructive for those who simply want to understand how this crucial aspect of academic life operates.
Contents
Contents
Introduction to How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully 1
PART I Challenges of being an academic leader
1 On the particular challenges of managing professionals 14
Flemming Poulfelt
2 Relevant leadership: the dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading
academic departments 25
Rickie A. Moore
3 The role of academic leaders of a business school: an internal tensions
perspective 31
Matthew J. Robson
4 Leading a sustainable university: the four 'I's of sustainable leadership 39
Børge Obel and Pernille Kallehave
5 Authors of our own misfortune? Managing crises in university departments -
the challenges around crisis incubation 50
Denis Fischbacher-Smith
PART II Transformational and performance leadership
6 The head of department as the key transformational leader 66
Asbjørn Busk J. and Søren Barlebo Rasmussen
7 Leading with purpose: developing the first business school for public good 89
Martin Kitchener
8 Leading academic departments 106
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
9 Individual performance management: enabler or threat to academic
performance? 117
Andreas Werr and Katja Einola
10 Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school 137
Michael C. Jackson OBE
PART III Inclusivity, team spirit and career development
11 'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': dealing with conflict in an
academic department 156
Alan Irwin
12 The 'we' of the department: conjuring up team spirits 165
Peter Kjær
13 'Now you see it': gender, inclusion and diversity 174
Maja Horst
14 Leading faculty as teachers 184
Hanne Andersen
15 Inclusive onboarding in academic departments 202
Daniel J. Petzer, Nicola S. Kleyn and Michele Ruiters
PART IV Building, leading and funding research groups
16 Building research groups 219
Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Peter Naudé
17 Dilemmas in university management: the case of Copenhagen Business
School 247
Nanna Mik-Meyer
18 Pathways to external funding at departments: how to strengthen a change of
culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership? 262
Enno Hofeldt
PART V Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners
19 Collaborating with practitioners 283
C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Adam Lindgreen, Marianne Storgaard and Ann
Højbjerg Clarke
20 Leading academics in a public-private partnership: balancing value and
performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change 300
Morten W. Jeppesen
21 Undertaking cross-disciplinary research 312
Adam Lindgreen, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Roderick J. Brodie and Michel
van der Borgh
PART VI Leadership in different contexts
22 Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: issues around
complexity and emergence 322
Denis Fischbacher-Smith
23 Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: complex
structures, executive education and accreditation 339
Kai Peters
24 Academic leadership: the Danish case 350
Jacob Kjær Eskildsen and Børge Obel
25 Student success and retention 355
Moira Fischbacher-Smith
26 What do heads of academic departments need to know about digitalisation? 366
Sally Wyatt
PART VII Personal leadership reflections
27 Responsibilities of the department chair: lessons from the frontline 377
Thomas G. Cummings
28 How to lead an academic marketing department: some personal observations
and reflections 394
Gerrit van Bruggen
29 From head to dean: academic leadership 404
Peter Møllgaard
