Abstract
Organisations require strategic foresight from management to exploit its human resources to achieve sustained competitive advantage. With 40% of Australian academics aged 50 and over, this raises crucial sustainability issues for universities in relation to human resource management (HRM) and knowledge management. This paper adopts the Resource-Based View (RBV) to examine university management within the Australian context to determine: 1. Do university management possess strategic foresight to maximize the knowledge and expertise of academics aged in their 50s? and 2. Do university management perceive academics aged in their 50s as a source of sustained competitive advantage? The findings from interviews with Australian university management reveal ambivalent and discriminatory attitudes towards older academics and academics aged in their 50s are largely neglected by senior management. The implication is that the RBV is a promising strategy approach for universities competing on the basis of talent and innovation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | BAM 2011 conference proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | building and sustaining high performance organisations in a challenging environment |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | British Academcy of Management (BAM) |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780954960834 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Event | British Academy of Management Conference - Birmingham, UK Duration: 13 Jan 2011 → 15 Jan 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | British Academy of Management Conference |
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| City | Birmingham, UK |
| Period | 13/01/11 → 15/01/11 |