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This chapter examines the Japanese faculty’s perceptions of their institutions focusing on the governance models. The government has seemingly succeeded in controlling academics through the New Governance, and the shift of power from professoriate to administrator has changed the role of academics as professionals. With the increase of managerial involvement, feelings of distrust and alienation have occurred among Japanese academics. This chapter further seeks a way to resolve the tension between professors and administrators in Japanese universities. The way to avoid the tension between a formal authority (principal) and its designated, more specialized agency (the academic profession) is through trust and discretion. The hierarchy of the organization is approved only by cooperation with the subordinates. However, the Japanese academic community has now replaced the entrepreneurial model by one which focuses on the innovation and knowledge production for the company, emphasizing research and graduate education, and being bureaucratically controlled. The key to resolving the conflict between intellectual labor and the administrator is to widen the confidence interval for the faculty, because trust reduces the monitoring cost. But, today’s university is so exposed to hard managerialism that such an interval of confidence for the academics is very narrow.
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Fujimura, M. (2015). Governance, Administration, and Management. In: Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Huang, F., Shin, J. (eds) The Changing Academic Profession in Japan. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09468-7_7
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