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Professor Robert Allison Vice-Chancellor & President, Loughborough University

Professor Robert Allison Vice-Chancellor & President, Loughborough University. Understanding the management role in improving performance. Understanding the management role in improving performance. Who manages the University. External policy environment. Polarisation of the system

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Professor Robert Allison Vice-Chancellor & President, Loughborough University

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  1. Professor Robert Allison Vice-Chancellor & President, Loughborough University

  2. Understanding the management role in improving performance

  3. Understanding the management role in improving performance Who manages the University

  4. External policy environment • Polarisation of the system • Concentration of research funding • Uncertainty around PGT and PGR • Research Excellence Framework • BIS Innovation and Research Strategy all results in:

  5. Paradoxes: external influences on management framework • Internal professional or External amateur • Growth or Contraction • Deregulation or Control • Blue skies research or Business driver • Top down management or Academic freedom

  6. Understanding the management role in improving performance What is the best management style

  7. Ten management benchmarks • Proactive vs. reactive institutions • Clarity of mission • Know limits of possibility • Financial headroom and investment • Income diversity

  8. Ten management benchmarks • Pipeline • Workforce • High performance culture • Responsiveness, agility, flexibility • Writing the institutional strategy’s the easy bit

  9. Improving performance: management framework • Vision • Size, shape, quality, distinctiveness • Institution strategic plan • Priorities • Evidence base • Deliverables • Implementation pathways

  10. Improving performance: management implementation • Right people in the right roles • Responsibility • Management cascade • Operational accountability • Training and development • Implementation support

  11. The future challenge • Challenge: winds of change • Challenge: declining public sector funding • Challenge: staff and student response to government intervention • Challenge: external view of sector • Challenge……………….. Is around leadership and management

  12. Understanding the management role in improving performance Any questions?

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