Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education

Bensimon, Prof Estela Mara Mara

ISBN 10: 080184956X / ISBN 13: 9780801849565

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press (edition Reprint), 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080184956X
• ISBN 13: 9780801849565
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. Redesigning Collegiate Leadership offers a different model, focusing instead on the complex ways that members of a leadership team interact, wield power, use language, and creat meaning. Estela Mara Bensimon and Anna Neumann describe the team as a culture and argue that effective team leadership depends on expecting, understanding, and appreciating the differences among individuals. Using interview with members of administrative teams on fifteen campuses - including research universities, public colleges, and community colleges - the authors examine teamwork as an essentially human activity.

About the Authors

Estela Mara Bensimon teaches at the Center for the Study of Higehr Education at Pennsylvania State University. She is co-director of the Organizational Structures and Policies Project for the National center for Postecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.

Anna Neumann is a professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University.