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The overlap model provides an analytic framework for the analysis of roles and tasks of academic, of management, and of administrative work in universities.
The overlap model was first presented in a literature review about The New Higher Education Professionals (HEPROs) (see “ Higher Education Professionals (HEPROs)”) by Schneijderberg and Merkator (2012). The overlap model consists of an analytic continuum of roles of university personnel ranging from academic personnel via HEPROs to administrative personnel (see “Academic Profession”). The term personnel is used to refer to the legal status of academic and administrative staff. In between the groups of academic personnel and of HEPROs the “academic overlap” deals with the tasks differentiating the university functions or missions of research, of teaching, and of knowledge and technology transfer. In between the groups of HEPROs and of administrative personnel the...
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Schneijderberg, C. (2017). Overlap Model of Roles and Tasks in University Organizations. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_306-1
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