ABSTRACT
This volume draws on the contributions of twelve international researchers and practitioners to review the diversification of institutional communities, current thinking about roles and identities in higher education, and examples of innovation and good practice. This final chapter reflects back on these contributions to review common issues and problems, and different approaches that may be adopted in providing opportunities and environments that are attractive to talented staff, at the same time acknowledging local, national, and institutional constraints. It suggests that key challenges arise from diversifying staff profiles, changing staff expectations and aspirations, new forms of recognition and reward, the dispersal of management and leadership activity, and the emergence of more fluid, ‘amoeba’-like institutions. A further challenge arises from the fact that these changes are occurring concurrently, so that formal, organizational structures and processes continue to coexist with the emergence of lateral relationships and networks.
