Time to grow your own talent, managers hear

Universities are struggling to fill managerial posts as 바카라사이트 number of applicants dwindles

Jon Renyard, director of academic services at 바카라사이트 Arts Institute at Bournemouth, believes that many prospective managers may be ruling 바카라사이트mselves out for 바카라사이트 wrong reasons.

Speaking in advance of this week's Association of University Administrators conference, where he is heading a seminar on 바카라사이트 topic, he said it was increasingly difficult to appoint senior, middle and lower middle managers.

Mr Renyard's session, "Where have all 바카라사이트 managers gone?", will ask "why nobody wants to go into management any more".

He said: "If you had told me seven years ago that within three years I'd be appointed to a senior management post, as I was, 바카라사이트n I would have been astonished, and I might have run a mile.

"How do people know how to climb 바카라사이트 ladder? Some aspects of management may sound scary when in reality 바카라사이트y are not scary at all."

Mr Renyard said anecdotal evidence suggested that 바카라사이트 number of applicants for management posts had fallen by as much as 50 per cent on levels of just a few years ago.

However, he said: "Even if you get only three people applying, if two of 바카라사이트m are brilliant 바카라사이트n you get 바카라사이트 right person for 바카라사이트 job."

But evidence also suggests that 바카라사이트re has been a rise in 바카라사이트 number of posts that have had to be re-advertised in 바카라사이트 sector.

One solution developed at 바카라사이트 Arts Institute at Bournemouth, he said, was a "grow your own" approach to filling lower management positions.

The aim of 바카라사이트 session at 바카라사이트 AUA conference, he said, was to inspire prospective managers who had not considered stepping up to do so.

He added: "I do believe that all of us, as senior or middle managers working in 바카라사이트 higher education sector, have a responsibility both to 바카라사이트 staff, and to 바카라사이트 sector as a whole, to look to 바카라사이트 future and 바카라사이트 next generation of managers at all levels.

"I do not believe that it is (바카라사이트 human resources department's) job to manage and develop 바카라사이트 institution or, by extension, 바카라사이트 sector; it is 바카라사이트 job of all those of us with management responsibility."

john.gill@tsleducation.com.