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9780335235605

The Question of Morale Searching for Happiness in University Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780335235605

  • ISBN10:

    0335235603

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-10-01
  • Publisher: Open University Press
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Summary

Why is so much discourse about contemporary higher education structured around (real and imagined) unhappiness?

Author Biography

David Watson is Professor of Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. ix
List of tablesp. ix
Forewordp. xi
Abbreviationsp. xiii
Introduction: why morale?p. 1
Higher education and our present conditionp. 11
The science of happinessp. 12
An unhappy land: social change and the mood of the timesp. 17
Generational fracturep. 22
parents and childrenp. 27
Unhappy studentsp. 29
The student estatep. 29
The global campusp. 33
Student satisfaction: complaining and appealingp. 39
falling in (and out of) lovep. 43
Unhappy staffp. 46
The staff estatep. 46
A tale of two surveysp. 52
The legislative frameworkp. 71
when grievance becomes obsessionp. 75
'Academic populism' vs. 'new managerialism'p. 77
hunting the headhuntersp. 78
Unhappy stakeholdersp. 84
Stakeholders: who owns the university?p. 84
football and a divided communityp. 86
Cassandra and the politiciansp. 90
Hard questionsp. 92
what should go into a new VC's welcome pack?p. 93
Managing moralep. 97
the 'green ink file'p. 97
Story-tellingp. 99
harmony and counterpoint, conducting and captaincyp. 100
I do like to be beside the seasidep. 105
Leadership, governance and managementp. 118
The psychological contractp. 122
A grown-up culturep. 129
Codap. 135
The quantum of happinessp. 135
Marcus Aurelius and the power of the adagep. 137
Learning from good and bad practicep. 138
Final digression: the third envelopep. 139
List of websitesp. 143
Referencesp. 145
Indexp. 155
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