Open AccessProvisional selves, revolving teams & temporary workspaces
Author(s) -
Emelia Dunston
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
iris journal of scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2643-2633
DOI - 10.15695/iris.v2i0.4767
Subject(s) - public relations , organizational structure , persona , student affairs , management , workspace , business , engineering , political science , computer science , law , mechanical engineering , higher education , artificial intelligence , robot , economics
When you look at the division of staff responsibilities among student affairs units at most midsize to large institutions, you will see that many professionals have adopted a specialist persona. This is a common outcome found with the organizational structures used within student affairs. The overlap of roles and responsibilities does not occur, leading to silos. Silos perpetuate isolation, discourage collaboration, and make advancement difficult for professionals. To help our field combat this problem, we need to structure our units to develop professionals into generalists. Blending concepts developed by Ancona & Bresman (2007) and Petriglieri, Petriglieri & Wood (2017), this paper proposes a new workplace model for student affairs professionals that encourages the formation of provisional selves, revolving teams and temporary workspaces.