[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-594678-105":59,"doc-detail-594678-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","australian-universities-review-promoting-leadership-in-australian-universities","Australian Universities’ Review - Promoting leadership in Australian universities","","This paper reviews current practices in Australian universities for developing and promoting academic leadership. It examines leadership forms suited to academic organisations and contrasts them with leadership expectations embedded in recruitment and promotion processes. Using the Australian higher education context, the study critiques a narrow, technically focused leadership model within disciplines rather than the wider capability set needed for effective academic leadership, and then outlines ways to foster those broader skills across academe.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/australian-universities-review-promoting-leadership-in-australian-universities/594678/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/australian-universities-review-promoting-leadership-in-australian-universities/594678.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Ben ","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-19","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":19},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What is the main focus of the paper on leadership in universities?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The paper reviews practices for developing and promoting academic leadership in Australian universities and evaluates whether current approaches support broader academic leadership skills.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the paper critique current leadership promotion practices?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It argues that recruitment and promotion processes tend to promote a restricted form of leadership focused mainly on technical leadership within disciplines.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What does the paper propose to improve academic leadership?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It considers ways the broader range of leadership skills necessary for effective academic leadership can be fostered and developed within universities.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},594678,1792167555,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":19,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":44,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144},2336478951081,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nPromoting leadership in Australian universities  \nAndrew P Bradley, Tim Grice & Neil Paulsen University of Queensland  \nIn this paper we review current practices for developing and promoting academic leadership in universities. We consider the forms of leadership that are appropriate for academic organisations, while exploring the types of leadership favoured by recruitment and promotion committees. Using the Australian higher education context as a case study, we critique the current situation as promoting a restricted form of leadership focused on technical leadership within an academic discipline, rather than the broader array of leadership skills necessary for effective academic leadership. We go on to consider a number of ways in which this broad range of leadership skills can be fostered and developed within academe.  \nKeywords: Leadership, leadership development, mentoring, public service management, universities  \nIntroduction  \nIn the last four decades, the Australian higher education system has undergone considerable change. Fuelled by a confluence of social, economic and demographic pressures, successive governments have introduced educational policies in Australia that have encouraged greater participation rates in post-secondary education and training, including higher education. As more and more students attend universities, there has been an expectation of increased accountability to government funders (Jones, 2011; Yielder & Codling, 2004), with a broad, but often ill-defined, dictum that universities contribute to the economic and social goals of society (see Fearn, 2010) . Since universities receive public funds, their employees, including academic staff, are often seen to be ‘public servants’ who must acquiesce to the expectations and reporting processes put in place by government (Jones, 2011) . The litany of quantitative performance metrics is one visible sign of these increased expectations of accountability in academe (see for instance Van Noorden, 2010) .  \nYet perhaps a more fundamental and pervasive manifestation of this increased scrutiny has been the move to corporatised governance structures and management approaches to administer the ‘business’ of academic institutions (Blackmore & Sachs, 2000; Deem & Brehony, 2005; Gosling, Bolden & Petrov, 2009; Jones et al., 2012; Kligyte & Barrie, 2014) . Universities are expected to be models of efficiency and cost effectiveness, to be flexible in their course offerings, and increasingly responsive to student needs and expectations. The relatively recent innovation and commercialisation zeitgeist–whereby research value is defined in terms of its more immediate‘real-world’ outcomes–has served to reinforce this more corporatised model of academic research and teaching (e.g. , Suresh, 2015) . These changes have resulted inan epochal shift in the academic landscape that has influenced the balance of teaching and research, and even the type of research undertaken (Abbott et al., 2010) . Further, the insistence upon the relevance of universities for the economic flourishing of society may have, somewhat ironically, resulted in the pursuit of increasingly ‘ivory tower’behaviours (Jones, 2011) .  \nvol. 59, no. 1, 2017 Promoting leadership in Australian universities Andrew P Bradley, Tim Grice & Neil Paulsen 97  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nSome commentators have also noted that these developments have resulted in a crisis of leadership and identity in the university sector (Bryman, 2007; Drew, 2006; Jones et al., 2012; Jones, 2011; Kligyte & Barrie, 2014; Lumby, 2012;Winter, 2009;Yielder & Codling, 2004) . Although universities undoubtedly share many features with corporations–such as the requirements for good governance, strategy formulation and execution–the corporate ideal of leadership has contested applicability to academe (Bolden et al., 2015; Kligyte & Barrie, 2014; Lum","cbCaijbaoeQzv3wn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijbaoeQzv3wn","pdf",166038,"English","# Introduction\n# Towards a definition of Academic Leadership","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper on leadership in universities?\",\"answer\":\"The paper reviews practices for developing and promoting academic leadership in Australian universities and evaluates whether current approaches support broader academic leadership skills.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper critique current leadership promotion practices?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that recruitment and promotion processes tend to promote a restricted form of leadership focused mainly on technical leadership within disciplines.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the paper propose to improve academic leadership?\",\"answer\":\"It considers ways the broader range of leadership skills necessary for effective academic leadership can be fostered and developed within universities.\"}]","Australian Universities’ Review - Promoting leadership in Australian universities | PDF",1792079624,23]