Professional renewal as a condition of institutional change: rethinking academic work

Facilitating academic institutional change: redefining scholarship.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Academic institutions are typically resistant to change. Redefining scholarship is an important issue for academic health care institutions. This study examines the change process at institutions that have attempted to change the definition of scholarship. METHODS Five medical schools were identified that had recently redesigned their promotion and tenure systems bas...

Work on Oneself: Rethinking Authenticity

This article addresses the concept of authenticity, a characteristic of late modern Western culture. This characteristic is viewed by some as an ideal and by others as a root of the problems inherent within Western culture. After discussing various viewpoints, the author supports the idea that authenticity should not be totally accepted or rejected and sets forth a proposal based on the so-call...

Situating academic development in professional work: using peer learning

Academic development should be conceptualised not only as a university-wide process, but also as a local practice and as a process of peer learning in the workplace. The paper suggests that formal approaches need to more fully situate academic development in sites of academic practice. Two examples from the author’s own setting—teaching development projects and writing for publication groups—il...

When Institutional Work Backfires: Organizational Control of Professional Work in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Integrating institutional and role theories, this paper develops a Logics–Roles– Action (LRA) framework for understanding how for-profit organizations structure institutional work to managerially control the work of professionals they employ. Structurally, this institutional work involves three elements: (1) internalizing pluralistic logics (logics); (2) institutionalizing distinct roles embedd...

Rethinking First-Time Pass Rates as an Academic Quality Metric.