Is academic leadership really independent from academic management
Paper presented at the 26th Biennial NFF Conference, Nordic Academy of Management (NFF), Proceeding, Örebro, August, 23 – 26.
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Universities are communities that are rooted in a tradition of passing on knowledge, exploratory thinking, and exchanging ideas through language, based on acceptance of viewpoint diversity. This work climate is protected by principles of academic freedom granted by the EU. Recently, signs that academic freedom is being suppressed are showing across the globe; professors in Australia, Canada, India, Sweden, and the USA have been warned or fired because they exercised their freedom of speech. In Finland, a researcher contacted a local newspaper to reveal suppression of freedom of speech at one faculty. Several questions emerge: (1) Why do academic managers suppress researchers freedom of speech? (2) Is this suppression of academic freedom of speech a new thing? (3) What factors have influenced the work climate in this direction? Modern thinking was shaped by evolution and by the many changes in the environment and the diet: social cognition, executive functions,constructive memory, and prospection - a four-part taxonomy: prediction, intention, simulation, and planning, that allows elaborating scenarios. The Milesian School of thinkers and the University of Bologna were founded as communities. Later, during the renaissance, the Copernicus model of heliocentrism was promoted by Galileo Galiei (1564 – 1642), but was met by resistance. The tractate was banned, and Galileo was sentenced to house arrest. In the early 1990s the university management changed with the advent of New public management. Instead of the traditions that emerged from Aesthetics, philosophy, and science, a more business oriented way of running universities was applied. Between 2016 to the present, university professors have been warned, fired and sent alarm about the deteriorating work climate. The way forward is to apply the principles which saw the emergence of the Milesian School of thinkers and the university of Bologna: assignment of learning goals, and decentralization of decision making to attain that goal to the level of operation. Keywords: Academic bullying, Leadership, Management, decentralization, university work climate, heterodoxy. Link to paper (ResearchGate).
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Universities are communities that are rooted in a tradition of passing on knowledge, exploratory thinking, and exchanging ideas through language, based on acceptance of viewpoint diversity. This work climate is protected by principles of academic freedom granted by the EU. Recently, signs that academic freedom is being suppressed are showing across the globe; professors in Australia, Canada, India, Sweden, and the USA have been warned or fired because they exercised their freedom of speech. In Finland, a researcher contacted a local newspaper to reveal suppression of freedom of speech at one faculty. Several questions emerge: (1) Why do academic managers suppress researchers freedom of speech? (2) Is this suppression of academic freedom of speech a new thing? (3) What factors have influenced the work climate in this direction? Modern thinking was shaped by evolution and by the many changes in the environment and the diet: social cognition, executive functions,constructive memory, and prospection - a four-part taxonomy: prediction, intention, simulation, and planning, that allows elaborating scenarios. The Milesian School of thinkers and the University of Bologna were founded as communities. Later, during the renaissance, the Copernicus model of heliocentrism was promoted by Galileo Galiei (1564 – 1642), but was met by resistance. The tractate was banned, and Galileo was sentenced to house arrest. In the early 1990s the university management changed with the advent of New public management. Instead of the traditions that emerged from Aesthetics, philosophy, and science, a more business oriented way of running universities was applied. Between 2016 to the present, university professors have been warned, fired and sent alarm about the deteriorating work climate. The way forward is to apply the principles which saw the emergence of the Milesian School of thinkers and the university of Bologna: assignment of learning goals, and decentralization of decision making to attain that goal to the level of operation. Keywords: Academic bullying, Leadership, Management, decentralization, university work climate, heterodoxy. Link to paper (ResearchGate).
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Executive coaching for CEOs/managers and workshops to facilitate Organizational Performance, Learning, and Creativity for Problem Solving | Lectures: Nutrition for physical and mental health | Course/lecture: children's emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development | Language training - Swedish | Academy Competency | CV | Teaching skills and experience | Summary of research project | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube-channel | TikTok | X
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