Study Of The Effectiveness Of Governance Structure In University Of Warwick

University governance structure is an important issue of modern university institution. Research of the effectiveness of governance structure in some successful university may provide some helpful reference to this matter. The University of Warwick was founded in the 60th last century, developing at an inconceivable speed, it has became the one of the top ten universities in the Great Britain during several decades. It embraces leadership groups and academic departments, and operationally reconciles new managerial values with traditional academic ones, creating a structure that embodies entrepreneurial characteristic as well as emphasizing academic center. Such a structure allows a quick decision-making process for its flat structure and strong central leadership. Its interactive committees'structure and collegial decision-making model coordinate administrative matters with the academic ones. And the faculty participation in important decisions making makes the strategy at university level coincide with the plans at unites level, which integrate to pull the university forward. Its departments and research centers develop a flexible matrix structure, which connects with the outside closely, and also responses to the requirement and change of circumstance quickly.If we regard the governance structure of university of Warwick as an effective one, not only for its efficiency, openness and applicability, furthermore, it reflects a core value of academic, and injects in it with new dynamics in an innovative way. At the same time, the structure coincides with the "entrepreneurism" culture of the university, stimulating departments look outward for resource, but inward they integrate as whole at the advantage of university's sustainable development.