TY - BOOK ID - 7690685 TI - Higher education management and operational research : demonstrating new practices and metaphors AU - Bell, Gary. AU - Warwick, Jon. AU - Galbraith, P. PY - 2012 SN - 946091974X 9460919766 9460919758 PB - Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, DB - UniCat KW - Education -- Administration. KW - Education, Higher -- Administration. KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Theory & Practice of Education KW - Education - General KW - Education, Higher KW - Administration. KW - School management and organization. KW - Education, Higher. KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Educational administration KW - Inspection of schools KW - School administration KW - School inspection KW - School operation policies KW - School organization KW - Schools KW - Inspection KW - Management and organization KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - Educational planning KW - Management KW - College administrators UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7690685 AB - Higher Education in the UK operates in a rapidly changing and highly complex environment. Universities need to adapt quickly to this environment and managers must begin to explore ‘new angles’ and approaches in addressing the challenges they are now facing. This book offers a tool box of metaphors and associative Operational Research (OR) approaches. Metaphors are a powerful ‘way of seeing’ but also ‘a way of not seeing’. Furthermore, the OR discipline has significantly evolved over the last 30 years which has led to the emergence of three distinctive intellectual areas, namely Hard OR, Soft OR and Methodological Pluralism OR. Drawing on these intellectual areas and on the experience of educational and OR practitioners, the book highlights the use of various OR approaches to a variety of complex and uncertain problems encountered in higher education management. The book aims to explore ‘new perspectives’ in HE management thinking and to describe and illustrate the use of OR methodologies, methods and techniques in helping HE managers to make informed management decisions. ER -