Exploring managerial skills of Pakistan Public Universities (PPUs)’ middle managers for campus sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of business model with reference to the operations of higher education management and administration have been used to define the success or failure of an institution in higher education.
Abstract: Management of an institution determines its success or failure. Educational management and administration borrow the characteristics of business model with reference to the operations of higher edu...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored barriers that Pakistani public universities (PPUs) face in embedding sustainability at their campuses and offered potential opportunities to take initiatives to minimize barriers and move towards a sustainable future.
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Purpose
Sustainability has globally become a mantra to address complex and unprecedented survival, social, political and peace issues. Higher education institutions bear responsibility to address them. This paper aims to explore barriers that Pakistani public universities (PPUs) face in embedding sustainability at their campuses. This paper also offers potential opportunities to take initiatives to minimize barriers and move towards a sustainable future.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on case study approach, and data were gathered through interviews and documents. Interviews with 11 academic administrators were conducted to gain deeper understanding on issues of governance and its influence on sustainability. Data were analysed using thematic analysis that created thematic map/model.
Findings
Key findings include, firstly, that majority of participants think poor governance is the biggest issue in demoting sustainability. This barrier causes an array of interconnected barriers. Secondly, participants strongly associate unsustainability with lack of institutional change and training. Finally, lack of resources was the most frequently articulated barrier. Findings provided a rationale to propose suggestions to promote sustainability.
Originality/value
Developed countries are leaders in promoting sustainability, whereas developing countries are laggards. Pakistan, a developing country, does not have substantial research to reveal the barriers PPUs are facing to promote sustainability. This paper is an attempt to address research gap in identifying barriers to sustainability.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors report on the development and factor analysis of an instrument to measure service-learning management, which may be used for measuring challenges and issues in service learning management.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative explorative research design was employed to investigate the impact of online service learning on the students' social justice and civic attitudes through web-based instruction, and the results showed that the online service-learning experience greatly improved their social justice attitudes.
Abstract: Students working in a laboratory context hardly find an opportunity for civic interaction and social justice learning which is mostly possible through live interaction with community and outside world during an academic carrier. However, online service-learning is considered to be one of the effective approaches to solve this issue. This research study aimed to explore perceptions of students working in a chemistry laboratory about changes in their social justice and civic attitudes after participating in an online service-learning project. A qualitative explorative research design was employed to investigate the impact of online service-learning on the students’ social justice and civic attitudes through web-based instruction. The results showed that the online service-learning experience greatly improved their social justice and civic attitudes. The students showed readiness to help out needy people in the local community. They also expressed willingness to work with diverse social groups and people from other socio-cultural and linguistic groups. The students appreciated the importance of teamwork and wanted to make decisions collaboratively. They learned to behave positively during an online interaction with local community people. Based on the results, it is concluded that online service-learning is a useful approach for promoting social justice attitudes and civic attitudes of students working in a laboratory context.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the effect of personality traits (extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness) on the entrepreneurial intentions along with the mediating role of financial risk taking (FRT).
Abstract: The interaction between environment and individual personality determines career. Over the past decades, the role of personality traits in explaining entrepreneurship cannot get much attention of researchers. To fill this gap, this study aims to investigate the effect of personality traits (extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness) on the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) along with the mediating role of financial risk taking (FRT). Sample size consists of 500 students of business and management of different universities of Pakistan, out of which 466 useable questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The results of the study are consistent with conventional wisdom as explored by past studies. In line with past studies and proposed hypothesis, we found that both extraversion and openness to experience have a positive association with FRT, whereas neuroticism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness have negative association with FRT. The results also revealed that there is positive association between FRT and EI; however, FRT did not mediate the relationship between agreeableness and EI.
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TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development, which is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term through specific types of network and decision-making processes.
Abstract: This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (Western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term (decades or more) through specific types of network and decision-making processes. Based on interdisciplinary research into complex processes of long term, structural change in society, basic tenets for complexity-based governance are formulated. These tenets are translated into a framework that distinguishes between four different types of governance activities and their respective roles in societal transitions. This framework can be used for implementation of governance strategies and instruments. The approach and framework have been developed deductively and inductively in the Netherlands since 2000. This article presents the theoretical basis of transition management and will be illustrated by examples from transition management practice, especially the Dutch national energy transition program.
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TL;DR: Transition management as mentioned in this paper is a multilevel model of governance which shapes processes of co-evolution using visions, transition experiments and cycles of learning and adaptation, which helps societies to transform themselves in a gradual, reflexive way through guided processes of variation and selection, the outcomes of which are stepping stones for further change.
Abstract: Sustainable development requires changes in socio-technical systems and wider societal change – in beliefs, values and governance that co-evolve with technology changes. In this article we present a practical model for managing processes of co-evolution: transition management. Transition management is a multilevel model of governance which shapes processes of co-evolution using visions, transition experiments and cycles of learning and adaptation. Transition management helps societies to transform themselves in a gradual, reflexive way through guided processes of variation and selection, the outcomes of which are stepping stones for further change. It shows that societies can break free from existing practices and technologies, by engaging in co-evolutionary steering. This is illustrated by the Dutch waste management transition. Perhaps transition management constitutes the third way that policy scientists have been looking for all the time, combining the advantages of incrementalism (based on mutual adap...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey with 84 respondents from 70 higher education institutions and found that academic leadership's commitment was a leading cause for signing a declaration, charter, or initiative, and implementing sustainable development.
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