ABSTRACT
This study explores whether senior managers and academics have different views on governance practices in Korean higher education institutions. This study focuses on how senior managers and academics perceive decision-making powers in the core areas such as finance, appointing key personnel, academic personnel, and substantive decisions. The data for this study are from the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) conducted by an international comparative research team and the Senior Managers’ Survey developed by a Japanese research team for analysing senior managers’ perceptions on the governance and management. This study found that senior managers tend to underestimate their power, whereas academics perceive senior managers to have a strong say on matters relating to finance, key personnel, academic personnel (hiring and promotion/tenure), and academic areas (approval of new academic programme and internal research priority setting). Moreover, there are perception gaps between public and private universities on the influence of senior managers in the areas of key personnel and academic personnel (promotion/tenure).
