‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy

IF 2.8 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Management Learning Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1177/13505076231181670

Simone Faulkner, Mihajla Gavin, N. Hassanli, Anja Hergesell, P. Jasovska, E. Kaya, A. Klettner, J. Small, Christopher N Walker, R. Weatherall

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Tension between individual and communal interests is endemic in neoliberal universities. As a group of 10 academics from a Business School in an Australian University, we employed the collective research method of memory-work to investigate how collegiality is experienced and learnt by academics. Although collegiality is employed to enable productivity and efficiency in the neoliberal university, our diverse yet intersecting experiences of collegiality diverged from this institutional construct. We shared and explored our memories of collegiality together during the COVID-19 pandemic and learnt how collegiality emerges through acts of care which produce feelings of support, visibility, and equality, thereby improving our wellbeing at work. We propose the concept of ‘collective collegiality’ as sitting alongside institutionalised notions of collegiality, representing a ‘counter space’ to performative notions of collegiality and enabling us to learn from each other how to navigate, survive, and even thrive, in the neoliberal academy. By enacting the lived experience of collective collegiality, we bring to light alternatives to neoliberal workplace ideals which may foster more organic, flexible workplaces and ways of working together.

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“也许有一条前进的道路”:在新自由主义学术界打造集体合作

个人利益与公共利益之间的紧张关系在新自由主义大学中十分普遍。作为一组来自澳大利亚一所大学商学院的10名学者，我们采用了记忆工作的集体研究方法来调查学者们是如何体验和学习合作的。虽然在新自由主义大学中，同僚关系被用来提高生产力和效率，但我们对同僚关系的不同而交叉的经验与这种制度结构不同。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，我们分享并探讨了我们在一起共事的记忆，并了解了如何通过关爱行为产生团队合作，从而产生支持感、可见度和平等感，从而改善我们的工作幸福感。我们提出“集体合作”的概念与制度化的合作概念并列，代表了合作行为概念的“对抗空间”，使我们能够相互学习如何在新自由主义学院中导航，生存，甚至茁壮成长。通过制定集体合作的生活经验，我们揭示了新自由主义工作场所理想的替代方案，这些理想可能会促进更有机、更灵活的工作场所和合作方式。

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Management Learning MANAGEMENT-

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6.10

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29.20%

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期刊介绍： The nature of management learning - the nature of individual and organizational learning, and the relationships between them; "learning" organizations; learning from the past and for the future; the changing nature of management, of organizations, and of learning The process of learning - learning methods and techniques; processes of thinking; experience and learning; perception and reasoning; agendas of management learning Learning and outcomes - the nature of managerial knowledge, thinking, learning and action; ethics values and skills; expertise; competence; personal and organizational change