Research on the organizational culture in higher education affirms that congruent cultures are better than fragmented ones, and that managing culture is oxymoron. Such analyses often lead to the assumptions that unity of purpose is essential and leadership is impossible. This book reframes rather than suppresses these notions, and by respecting the differences, builds a commonality between them.
Using data on faculty socialization in academe, the authors consider how the work of cultural leadership becomes interpretation and facilitation rather than management. Through a series of interviews using experimental forms of ethnographic presentation, Tierney and Bensimon articulate salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color, and address the issue of individuals voluntarily leaving the tenure-track. They offer a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Il volume comprende un'ampia parte introduttiva sulle recenti ricerche sull'antico centro romano - oggi Porto Torres - ed un itinerario lungo e dettagliato.

Sulla base di un quadro teorico, volto a tratteggiare la complessità dei rapporti fra individuo, conoscenza e media, il libro vuole offrire spunti per la riflessione e un orientamento per la pratica didattica. I temi indagati sono: i rapporti fra "reale" e "virtuale", le rappresentazioni simboliche e l'intreccio fra dimensione cognitiva e mondo affettivo; le nuove frontiere tecnologiche della scrittura, il ruolo dei linguaggi pubblicitari e la fruizione dell'arte figurativa; l'inserimento della cultura dei media nel curricolo scolastico, i compiti e le prospettive della valutazione.

Three management and technology consultants argue that rather than either letting research and development departments have a free hand, or subjecting them to strict conditions, corporate managers should integrate the department's directions into the company's overall strategy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.