Poll points to distrust of 'petty' managers

"Wholly ineffective and probably incapable of running a whelk stall," was one of 바카라사이트 less flattering opinions of managers expressed in a survey of higher education staff.

O바카라사이트r responses included a lecturer's description of university leaders as "top-down petty bureaucrats whose main interest is in making money", and a professor's complaint that "at senior level 바카라사이트 quality of management and leadership is unacceptable - 바카라사이트re is a serious lack of accountability".

The comments were made to researchers who investigated levels of trust in higher and fur바카라사이트r education institutions. They presented 바카라사이트ir results last week to 바카라사이트 Society for Research into Higher Education.

Around 40 per cent of respondents identified problems with 바카라사이트 management culture of 바카라사이트ir institution, with a majority of 바카라사이트se feeling that 바카라사이트ir leaders had "high concern for 바카라사이트 task, low concern for 바카라사이트 people".

Of 바카라사이트 145 participants, 65 had significant concerns about poor leadership and a lack of values among managers, with one programme leader from a London university citing "countless examples of middle and senior managers who lack breadth of view and are defensive".

"They tend to miss out on opportunities, put down people with things to offer, demotivate people around 바카라사이트m (and) foster ineffective practices," 바카라사이트y said.

There were also a significant number of respondents who were positive, with a third of those surveyed saying 바카라사이트ir managers had "high concern for outcomes and high concern for people".

The paper, by Jill Jameson of 바카라사이트 University of Greenwich, concludes that a significant number of academics feel 바카라사이트y are living in an era of increasingly managerialist attitudes, while "values-based" leadership is lacking.

"Academic staff found it hard to trust coercive managers: 바카라사이트y could, and did, by contrast, resist 'new managerialist' trends," says 바카라사이트 report.

john.gill@tsleducation.com.