ABSTRACT
As noted in the Preface, understandings about how institutions relate to their staff, and the expectations each have of the other, are undergoing change. There are significant collective organizational, as well as individual, implications for policies, practices, behaviors, and values. We recognize that the term ‘human resource management’, or even ‘management’, may be contested in academic environments. Our approach emphasizes the implications for academic and professional identities, relationships, and careers of a significant and probably accelerating worldwide diversification, albeit from different starting points and differing in detailed nature and pace of change, of those employed in higher education. In this chapter, attention is paid to both organizational and individual issues and perspectives, the complex interplay between them, and the influences of various pressures for change. The chapter builds on earlier work by Gordon and Whitchurch (2007), Gordon (2004), and Whitchurch (2008a, b).
