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    Trust into mistrust: the uncertain marriage between public and private sector practice for middle managers in education

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    Authors
    Thompson, Carol
    Wolstencroft, Peter
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2018-05-08
    Subjects
    management
    education
    public sector
    private sector
    N224 Management and Organisation of Education
    
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    Abstract
    The role of the middle manager has proved to be a difficult one to define due to the fluid nature of the tasks performed and the heterogeneity of understanding that exists for the term. This is further complicated by the differences associated with the context in which individual manager’s work. This research, which explores the drive towards neo-liberalism and the subsequent adoption of leadership and management practice from the private sector, makes a comparison between the roles of managers in English education with those in other settings. Using a questionnaire with 252 responses and interviews with 6 managers in the private and public sector, the role of middle managers was compared to identify the similarities and differences between organisations driven by social policy as opposed to profit. Participants surveyed were based in primary, secondary and further education and the interview respondents were employed in non-education contexts. The findings suggest that the initial reforms, which required higher levels of accountability through the introduction of key performance indicators, appear to be fully embedded within the education manager’s role and there is a high degree of convergence in relation to the expectation of managers at this level in all the settings. The findings also highlighted a fundamental difference in relation to how middle managers were expected to carry out their duties, the autonomy they had to do so and the authority that was bestowed upon them.
    Citation
    Thompson C, Wolstencroft P (2018) 'Trust into mistrust: the uncertain marriage between public and private sector practice for middle managers in education', Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23 (2), pp.213-230.
    Publisher
    Routledge
    Journal
    Research in Post-Compulsory Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623551
    DOI
    10.1080/13596748.2018.1444372
    Additional Links
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13596748.2018.1444372
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1359-6748
    EISSN
    1359-6748
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/13596748.2018.1444372
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