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[Emtee]

Therein lies the rub Loz. There's a systemic disconnection in many large institutions between the operational raison d'etre of that institution and it's senior management. The reason lecturers don't dictate or even influence the strategic decisions of their university is because very often they can't. The oportunity has been largely removed. Sad thing is that when it does go wrong, it's the lecturers positions that are lost, not the very highly paid board positions. It's a sad day when the board in any business becomes entirely self-serving. It's done for banking for many years and it's only now that the top positions are toppling, and shall we get into the merits of the civil service, or Brussels? Administrative influence over many millions of 'share-holders' but without any accountability whatsoever.

 

[hodroyd]

A few years ago companies used to use the old trusted Personnel manager, a whiley old bird who knew people and usually got the right person in to a job. Nowadays we have Human Resources, who have technical graphs and brain teasers to decide who is right for a job and usually get it wrong?? The worst thing to happen to this country in years and a disease in my opinion. Management in the UK used to be world renowned, all were trained up through the ranks and the management courses were exceptional, to enhance people in to specific areas they were good at. Now we seem to have people in management that have absolutely no idea what they are doing, make a totoal mess of things and then get promoted with more money. I speak to supposedley top management personnel on a weely basis and sometimes cannot believe how bad they really are, it's pathetic. I came up through the ranks of management, was trained by the best and excelled as a result, obtaining management certification along the way. I am ashamed now of the management skills around in the UK, they are just not there and it is a real pity.