Professional staff carve out a new space
Professional staff carve out a new space
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专业员工开拓新空间
DOI：
10.1080/1360080x.2011.621193
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Judy Szekeres
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作者：
Judy Szekeres
Szekeres 2004 年发表的一篇论文《看不见的工人》对澳大利亚高等教育中专业人员的“隐形”表示哀叹。即便如此，专业人员仍占大学劳动力的一半以上，但他们的定义是他们不属于（非学术）人员，并且他们在与学术人员及其机构的关系中经历了高度的挫败感。本文探讨了在此期间专业人员的情况是否发生了变化。到 2009 年，专业人士似乎已经在该领域开辟了比 2004 年更为关键的空间。在高级职位上，专业人士不再局限于人力资源、信息技术或建筑服务等专业职位，而是进入了副校长和副校长的职位，这些职位以前是为高级学者保留的。然而，初级或中层管理人员的角色是否发生了很大的变化？本文考虑了过去六年中与专业人员相关的文献，研究了澳大利亚有关专业人员就业的不断变化的统计数据，并考虑了各级专业人员发生了哪些变化。
A 2004 paper, ‘The invisible workers’ by Szekeres, lamented the ‘invisibility’ of professional staff in Australian higher education. Even then, professional staff constituted more than half the university workforce, but they were defined by what they were not (non-academic) and they experienced a high level of frustration in their relationships with academic staff and with their institutions. This paper examines whether the situation for professional staff has changed in the intervening period. It would seem that by 2009, professionals had carved out a more critical space in the sector than they had been able to do by 2004. At senior levels, professionals are no longer restricted to specialist roles such as human resources or information technology or building services but have moved into the Pro- and Deputy-Vice-Chancellor space, roles previously reserved for senior academics. However, has there been much change in the junior or middle management roles? This paper considers the literature over the last six years as it relates to professional staff, look at the changing statistics in Australia around employment of professional staff, and consider what changes have taken place for professional staff at all levels.