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Author Kindsiko, Eneli, author

Title Organisational Control in University Management : a Multiparadigm Approach / by Eneli Kindsiko
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Emerald points
Emerald points.
Contents Front Cover; Organisational Control in University Management: A Multiparadigm Approach; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Multiparadigm Review of Organisational Control: Drawing an Elephant; The Concept of a Paradigm in Social Sciences and the Need to Systemise Existing Treatises on Control; Exploring Paradigms on Organisational Control; Modernist Paradigm on Control; Ontology; Epistemology; Methodology; Symbolic Paradigm on Control; Ontology; Epistemology; Methodology; Postmodern Paradigm on Control; Ontology
EpistemologyMethodology; Summation; The Complexity of Organisational Control in University Management; The Modernist Paradigm on Control in Higher Education Institution Management; The Symbolic Paradigm on Control in University Management; The Postmodern Paradigm on Control in Higher Education Institution Management; Summation; Notes; Chapter 2 Change Management in Universities: Deciding over an Elephant; Postmodern Paradigm: University as a Battlefield of Discourses; Paradox of Particular and Universal: Institutionalisation in Scope
Paradox of Stability and Change: Institutionalisation in MotionSummation; Symbolic Paradigm: Interplay between Sensegiving and Sensemaking; Coding and Analysis: Developing New Categories; Developing a Grounded Theory and Linking to Existing Stock of Literature; Summation; Modernist Paradigm: The Ambiguity of Sensemaking; Summation; Notes; Chapter 3 Metaparadigm Theory Building: Seeing an Elephant; Notes; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix 1. Simplified Structure Map of the University of Tartu
Appendix 2. Statistical Significance of the Differences in Involvement, Awareness and Objectives by Gender, Mann-Whitney TestAppendix 3. Statistical Significance of the Differences in Involvement, Awareness and Objectives by Employee Category, Mann ... ; Appendix 4. Statistical Significance of the Differences in Involvement, Awareness and Objectives Within the Principal Domai ... ; Appendix 5. Statistical Significance of the Differences in Involvement, Awareness and Objectives Within the Principal Domai ... ; References; Index
Summary Organisational Control in University Management focuses on reform and change in large organisations. The book takes as its primary focus the example of management reform at the University of Tartu, Estonia, foregrounding the complexity of change and reform of the management structures at a HE institution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 23, 2018)
Subject Universities and colleges -- Management
Organizational change.
Organizational Innovation
Organizational theory & behaviour.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Organizational change
Universities and colleges -- Management
Form Electronic book
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