At a time of increasing student diversity, concern about security,
demand for greater accountability, and of economic difficulty, what
does the future hold for higher education, and how can student
affairs organizations adapt to the increasing and changing demands?
How can university leaders position existing resources to
effectively address these and other emerging challenges with a
sense of opportunity rather than dread? How can organizations be
redesigned to sustain change while achieving excellence?As student
affairs organizations have grown and become increasingly complex in
order to meet new demands, they have often emphasized the expansion
of their missions to the detriment of focusing on understanding
their roles in relationship to other units, to reviewing their
cultures and structures, and to considering how they can improve
their effectiveness as organizations. This book provides the tools
for organizational analysis and sustainability.Intended for
practitioners, graduate students, interns and student affairs
leaders, this book presents the key ideas and concepts from
business-oriented organizational behavior and change theories, and
demonstrates how they can be useful in, and be applied to, student
affairs practice and, in particular, how readers can use these
theories to sustain change and enhance their organization s ability
to adapt to complex emerging challenges. At the same time it holds
to values and perspectives that support the human dimension of
organizational life.Recognizing the complexity of today s
organizations and the value of viewing them from multiple
perspectives, this book follows the emerging practice of providing
three general epistemological perspectives the Positivist, Social
Constructionist, and Postmodernist for analyzing often paradoxical
organizational structures, environments, and behavior.The book
explores the environmental context of student affairs, and how the
organization interacts with both the internal and external
environments; examines the human dimension of organizations,
through a review of individual attributes, human need and
motivation, social comparison theory and organizational learning
theory; presents the dimensions of structure and design theory and
discusses why student affairs organizations need to think
differently about how they organize their resources; considers the
context and process of organizational change, and the dynamics of
decision making, power, conflict and communication; addresses the
role of assessment and evaluation; and new forms of leadership.Each
chapter opens with a case study, and closes with a set of
reflective questions.The authors have all served as practitioners
within student affairs and now teach and advise graduate students
and future leaders in the field."
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