Change Management at a Danish University: the Introduction of a common Market for Education

Helle Bundgaard

Change Management at a Danish University: the Introduction of a common Market for Education

Bidragets oversatte titel: Forandringsledelse ved Københavns universitet: indføringen af et indre marekd for uddannelse i Danmark

Helle Bundgaard

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Abstract

The article discusses the approach to the management of change used at the University of Copenhagen in an attempt to introduce a common market of education. I argue that the failure of implementation represents a classic exampleof misguided planned change management. Based on strategy papers, memorandums and detailed observations of meetings, I analyse the reception given by study boards and their heads to a specific social technology, a year and time table structure. I offer an explanation of their reactions which draws on an anthropological approach to organizations. I call for an alternative to the current authoritative and instrumental management and argue that university leadership will improve significantly if leaders aim for an experimental democratic process inspired by 'bricolage'.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Forandringsledelse ved Københavns universitet: indføringen af et indre marekd for uddannelse i Danmark
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Vol/bind	5
Udgave nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	5-26
Antal sider	21
ISSN	1740-5866
Status	Accepteret/In press - 2012

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