Friend or foe? New managerialism and technical, administrative and clerical support staff in Australian universities

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-23

  Pick, David ^a   Teo, Stephen ^a   Yeung, Melissa ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Administrative and clerical support staff; Higher education; Job satisfaction; Job stress; New managerialism; New public management; Technical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855555538     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2011.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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