Título: How academic reforms change the organizational design of universities
Autor: Hagerer, Ilse
Resumen: [EN] The academic landscape is changing in the course of New Public
Management (NPM). More duties are assigned to universities and as a result
transferred to their faculties. Management knowledge is needed for solving
the problem of higher requirements for deans in terms of distribution of
resources, responsibility for personal and finances. Until now, deans do not
necessarily have this knowledge. One crucial approach for this problem is
professionalization, which can take shape in various forms, e. g. in
establishing positions for a new occupational group of academia
professionals. To reach the organization’s objective in an effective and
efficient way, there is no best solution corresponding to the contingency
approach, it rather depends on the framework requirements.
The results of an empiric inquiry of framework requirements and deanery
attributes on four German universities show that the infrastructures of the
faculties as decentral units depend less on the size of the faculty, but very
strong on university’s organizational setting. This becomes apparent by the
fact that at an elite university with strong research activities and with the
profile of an entrepreneurial university, but with small framework
requirements in the faculties has established many positions of academia
professionals. Smaller universities, but also big multi-discipline universities
with scientific excellence don’t reach as many academia professionals in
spite of having big framework requirements.