Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store for more details. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Vintage Birnbaum––crisp and ironic, with a contrarian touch. Management fads in higher education will never be the same. Birnbaum′s penetrating analysis reveals in the clearest possible terms why fads die an early death."(Burton R. Clark, Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
"College and university leaders will welcome Bob Birnbaum′s new book, Management Fads in Higher Education, largely because the environment for learning is changing so swiftly. It has become increasingly difficult to separate passing fads from best–practice imperatives. Birnbaum′s analysis will be helpful to those who must strain to discern the distinction."(Stanley O. Ikenberry, president, American Council on Education)
"This study will provide chapter and verse for university mid–rank administrators and their faculty colleagues who have to absorb and react to the latest Bright Idea imposed on the system by business–oriented members of the board or state legislature. In showing how such fads have come and gone in the past forty years, Birnbaum also indicates that change has to take the university culture into account: its politics, its working consensus, and––most of all––its values."(Mary Burgan, general secretary, American Association of University Professors)
"Anyone in higher education leadership should read this critical and amusing book. It goes much further than the dull descriptions of management techniques for universities and colleges. It is fair, convincing, and well documented."(Frans van Vught, Rector Magnificus, University of Twente, The Netherlands)
"College and university leaders will welcome Bob Birnbaum′s new book, Management Fads in Higher Education, largely because the environment for learning is changing so swiftly. It has become increasingly difficult to separate passing fads from best–practice imperatives. Birnbaum′s analysis will be helpful to those who must strain to discern the distinction."(Stanley O. Ikenberry, president, American Council on Education)
"This study will provide chapter and verse for university mid–rank administrators and their faculty colleagues who have to absorb and react to the latest Bright Idea imposed on the system by business–oriented members of the board or state legislature. In showing how such fads have come and gone in the past forty years, Birnbaum also indicates that change has to take the university culture into account: its politics, its working consensus, and––most of all––its values."(Mary Burgan, general secretary, American Association of University Professors)
"Anyone in higher education leadership should read this critical and amusing book. It goes much further than the dull descriptions of management techniques for universities and colleges. It is fair, convincing, and well documented."(Frans van Vught, Rector Magnificus, University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Product Description
"Management fads in higher education will never be the same. Birnbaum′s penetrating analysis reveals in the clearest possible terms why fads die an early death."
––Burton R. Clark, Allan M. Carter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
"Anyone in higher education leadership should read this critical and amusing book. It goes much further than the dull descriptions of management techniques for universities and colleges. It is fair, convincing, and well documented."
––Frans van Vught, Rector Magnificus, University of Twente, The Netherlands
When is a management innovation truly a good idea, and when is it only a fad? In this thoughtful book, Robert Birnbaum scrutinizes the rise and fall of management fads in higher education since the 1960s. He shows administrators and faculty how to move beyond the hype of new fads to make wise, informed decisions and adopt sound management policies.
Birnbaum begins by analyzing the historical development of seven major management systems in higher education. From these histories, he develops a model for understanding the life cycle of management innovations, including their creation, development, and eventual adoption or abandonment. He then explains the social and environmental factors that make institutions vulnerable to fads, plus the psychological issues that may lead academic managers to support failing fads. This comprehensive resource is for anyone who wants to understand how management innovations can be used to strengthen the educational and social purposes of higher education.
To read the first chapter of this book, Seeking the Grail: The Never–Ending Quest, click here.
––Burton R. Clark, Allan M. Carter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
"Anyone in higher education leadership should read this critical and amusing book. It goes much further than the dull descriptions of management techniques for universities and colleges. It is fair, convincing, and well documented."
––Frans van Vught, Rector Magnificus, University of Twente, The Netherlands
When is a management innovation truly a good idea, and when is it only a fad? In this thoughtful book, Robert Birnbaum scrutinizes the rise and fall of management fads in higher education since the 1960s. He shows administrators and faculty how to move beyond the hype of new fads to make wise, informed decisions and adopt sound management policies.
Birnbaum begins by analyzing the historical development of seven major management systems in higher education. From these histories, he develops a model for understanding the life cycle of management innovations, including their creation, development, and eventual adoption or abandonment. He then explains the social and environmental factors that make institutions vulnerable to fads, plus the psychological issues that may lead academic managers to support failing fads. This comprehensive resource is for anyone who wants to understand how management innovations can be used to strengthen the educational and social purposes of higher education.
To read the first chapter of this book, Seeking the Grail: The Never–Ending Quest, click here.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
This is a book about academic management fads-where they come from, why they are adopted, what their consequences are for academic institutions and the educational enterprise more generally, and how they can be made more helpful. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
This is a book about academic management fads-where they come from, why they are adopted, what their consequences are for academic institutions and the educational enterprise more generally, and how they can be made more helpful. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Book on HE management,
By
This review is from: Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come from, What They Do, Why They Fail (Higher education series) (Paperback)
This is just about the best book for HE managers. It combines that critical edge that we need in universities, a dose of academic cynicism and a wonderful dollop of common sense.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta) Amazon.com:
3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A rewarding simplification,
By Dennis D. Davis "Remembrance Brings Redemption" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come from, What They Do, Why They Fail (Higher education series) (Paperback)
Birnbaum provides an interesting analysis of educational institutions between 1960 and 2000 groping for silver bullets to salve perceived failures and save their positions of influence. The book is worth reading to understand something of the nature of education institutions' political climate. Birnbaum's premise is well stated and discussed admirably, not withstanding some simplification to accomplish this in under 300 pages. His writing style is quite readable, as always.
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
