高职院校系主任在专业建设中的角色定位

高等职业院校根据专业大类按系科设置管理机构,系主任在系部工作中通常扮演管理和领导的双重角色。本文就系主任在专业建设过程中的几个方面如何进行自身的角色定位做出了分析和探讨。     

Organizational Learning Is Essential to Achieving and Sustaining Change in Higher Education

Organizational change is often temporary or unsuccessful. This literature review of organizational change in higher education explores research in higher education, sociology, and organizational studies focusing on the problem of sustaining successful change. Indicators of successful change are distilled from the recent research. Establishing conditions for continued organizational learning in a college or university is identified as an essential aspect of sustaining successful organizational change.     

组织学视域中的系主任分析

系主任职位是以系科为组织支撑的大学基层管理职位,它兼具学术性、教育性、学科性、行政性等多重特性。系主任的遴选是借助于学术权力与行政权力之间的彼此互动而实现的,因此系主任往往具有双重身份———它既是学者,又是学术行政管理者。     

高等教育:从政府单一管理到公共治理的转变

新公共管理运动于20世纪中叶兴起于英国、美国、澳大利亚、新西兰等国,后为许多国家接受并借鉴。1989年,作为对实践的理论概括和提升,世界银行在《世界发展报告》中首先提出了“治理”的概念。公共治理理论的创新和发展,成为指导包括高等教育在内的全球社会事业公共管理实践的新理念和新思想。本文从中国高等教育由政府单一行政管理向公共治理转变及发展趋势的角度着手,对其理论和实践作一初步探索。     

The Concept of Readiness in the Academic Department: A Case Study of Undergraduate Education Reform

While there has been emphasis on the institution and individual classroom as loci of learning and reform, less attention has been paid to the academic department. However, precisely because its structure is so endemic to institutions of higher education, the academic department may be the most logical and potent site for change. Using a case study approach, this paper examines the conditions under which change in undergraduate education takes hold and flourishes in the academic department, advances the concept of readiness, and explores its implications for those who wish to promote change in the department. Virginia S. Lee  is managing member and consultant, Virginia S. Lee & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. She received her B.A. from Smith College, her M.B.A. from New York University, and her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Special interests include the design and implementation of institution-wide curriculum reform efforts, course and curriculum design, inquiry-guided learning, intensive learning, outcomes-based assessment, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Michael R. Hyman  is Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. from University College, London, his M.B.A. from Oregon State University, and his Ph.D. from Bristol University. His major research interest is the biodegradation of environmental pollutants. Geraldine Luginbuhl  is Interim Department Head and Professor in the Department of Microbiology at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a longstanding interest in undergraduate education and, recently, inquiry-guided learning.     

教育改革的战略变革对高等教育的启示

通过对组织变革与教育改革的关系分析、学校变革与重建策略、教育变革的三阶段解析、中央集权式教育变革失败分析以及学校变革的基本框架构建等高等教育变革的特殊性研究,指出高等教育改革和发展需要遵守的基本原则。     

论组织变革模式及领导者在变革中的主导作用

企业获得可持续的竞争优势的根本途径在于做出有效地变革,并持续鼓励创新。领导在一次成功的变革中,发挥着至关重要作用。他们应该加入最初的变更计划,引导和鼓励他们的同伴和员工,建立并描绘未来的愿景。人力资源管理专业有关变革和变革领导者关系的经典理论,以及变革领导者应具备的素质和特点对于组织变革都有深远的影响。     

Factors Affecting the Decision to Merge: The case of strategic mergers in Norwegian higher education

Students (N = 1,883) from 10 European countries answered a web questionnaire pertaining to three dimensions of what they expect and what they experience from their teachers. The dimensions were personality, classroom environment, and teaching style characteristics. Parametric statistics identified high communalities among variables, while gender, program type, and program level were found to have an influence on factor groupings. Overall, the gap between the expected and the experienced proved to be overwhelmingly significant.     

Quality development in university administration: A case study

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the decision-making styles of department chairs employed by three public institutions in Jordan. A total of 95 department chairs participated in the study by completing the General Decision-Making Styles survey. The results indicated that department chairs under study have the rational decision-making style as their primary style (following a systematic approach to evaluate options and arrive at one optimal solution) and the dependent style as their backup style (consult with others in the organization when making important decisions). Moreover, there were no significant differences between decision-making styles and the proposed demographic variables (faculty and experience). Finally, several recommendations were suggested for the field of study.     

Higher education leadership in Russia: a case study of mid-level academic management at an elite State university

This paper analyzes the Head of Department (HoD) role at an elite State university in Russia. It draws upon documentary analysis of government texts and focus groups with both HoDs and lecturers. It concludes that most HoDs are invited to apply for the role by more senior university colleagues. Once in post, they are offered a range of helpful courses, but also learn from experience and by observing others. The primary purpose of the role is seen as clarifying and interpreting central university expectations, though there is scope for influencing the departmental vision. Whilst the role is very time-consuming, it does not seem to generate the kind of managerialist ‘values' conflict reported elsewhere. The paper ends with a tentative framework for explaining how certain contextual factors (motivation, mode of appointment, perceived level of surveillance and previous experience of higher and/or lower levels of centralized control) might increase or decrease ‘values' conflict.     

组织变革准备对组织承诺的实证分析

基于浙江民营企业的实际情况,从4个维度的组织变革准备和3个维度组织承诺进行系统分析和研究。收集了浙江企业员工的223份问卷,从组织变革准备各个维度探讨对组织承诺的关联性及其影响,并提出企业要提高员工的组织承诺应努力提升管理者的沟通能力,培养变革管理的团队精神和正确对待变革实施时投入成本与获得效益之间的时间差,创造短期成果。     

Organizational Change: A Case Study

Universities are often characterized as highly resistant to change, but this is not always true. In circumstances of major threat to institutional survival they may be as susceptible to change as any other large complex organization. This article presents a case study of major organizational change in a mid-sized (17,000 students) university in Ontario, Canada. It concludes that, while formal internal processes may vary from one institution to another, many of the tenets of change theory applicable to other organizations also apply in universities. Lessons about when and how such change can be effected are suggested.     

高等职业教育班主任必备能力分析

高等职业教育班主任的班级学生管理培育工作,既有与普通高校班级管理培养工作的共通性,又有其特殊性。除了具备一般普通高校班级管理培养工作的能力外,还需要根据其职业性的本质属性特点,开展科学创新的班级管理培养工作。因此,当好高职班主任需要具备班主任角色的定位力、愿景力、策划力、休闲力、执行力、评估力等六种能力。     

组织变革准备对心理授权的影响研究——基于浙江民营企业的实证分析

基于浙江民营企业的实际情况,对4个维度的组织变革准备和4个维度心理授权进行相关分析和回归分析。通过198份问卷样本,从组织变革准备各个维度探讨其与心理的关联性及影响,并提出企业提高员工的心理授权,就应加强组织沟通,使员工积极参与变革。     

普通高等学校院系党组织书记岗位胜任力探讨

近年来,高校党的基层组织负责人的选拔问题,引起了诸多学者和高层党的领导人的关注,在普通高等学校,院系党组织书记到底需要具备哪些胜任特征呢？本文研究的核心是高校院系党组织书记胜任力模型的构建。主要运用SPSS17．0软件对调查问卷的结果进行处里,最终得出了构成党组织书记胜任力模型的11项胜任特征,该模型的构建,一定程度上可以用来作为高校院系党组织书记岗位要求的参考标准,具有一定的现实意义。     

高职教育改革背景下校企合作处的职责探析——以闽西职业技术学院为例

广泛、深入、持续、有效地开展校企合作,是实现高职教育高素质技能型专门人才培养目标的重要途径。本着实现校企双方“互惠互利、合作共赢”的合作原则。闽西职业技术学院成立专门的校企合作处。践行校企合作的各项工作职责,并在新的历史环境下,在与政府、企业、学校三方的协调中,拓展了校企合作处的工作职责。     

Long-term Strategic Incrementalism: An Approach and a Model for Bringing About Change in Higher Education

Innovation and reform are crucial to progress, but higher education institutions are by nature highly resistant to change. This article describes long-term strategic incrementalism, an approach to change advocated by L. Cuban, How scholars trumped teachers: Change without reform in university curriculum, teaching, and research, 1890–1990, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 1999, and proposes a model based on this approach as a proven way of successfully carrying out change within higher education. The approach and model are illustrated through two cases involving reforms—one at the department level and another at the institutional level. Norman Evans  (Ed.D., University of Southern California) is a member of the Linguistics and English Language Department at Brigham Young University. He is the former chair of the English Language Teaching and Learning Department at Brigham Young University Hawaii. Lynn Henrichsen  (Ed.D., University of Hawaii) is a member of the Linguistics and English Language Department at Brigham Young University. He is the former chair of that department.     

Successful Women Researchers in the Social Sciences: A case study of Catalan public universities

This article examines the factors which contribute to the success of female academics engaging in research in social sciences. The data were obtained through a series of interviews carried out at public universities in Catalonia with women, all of whom were the heads of research groups recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government). These results reveal several aspects relevant for women academics, at both the individual and institutional levels, in terms of employment opportunities, management of research programmes, development of teaching strategies and individual time management. This should assist the development of institutional policies and practices within higher education to help women build successful research careers.     

量变与质变：世纪之交的中国高等教育

世纪之交的中国高等教育体制改革和高等教育大众化进程推动着高等教育快速童变,本科教学工作水平评估和“质量工程”引导着高等教育从量变走向质变,进入提高办学质量的关键时期。     

我国高等教育大众化进程中的量变与质变

我国高等教育大众化进程中存有量变与质变的关系，分析了局部质变超前总的量变的“超前”现象的特点，并预测了出现全局性质变落后于总的量变的“滞后”现象的可能性，指出正确认识滞后性对我国高等教育从精英教育向大众化教育成功过渡具有积极意义。