How WBS works
Warwick Business School is a department of the University of Warwick. The University was founded by Royal Charter in March 1965, and WBS was created as the School of Industrial and Business Studies (SIBS) in 1967. WBS took its present name in 1987.
WBS is managed by a Dean and two Deputy Deans who share responsibilities for strategic business development and academic affairs. A team of Associate Deans, both professional and academic, manage functional divisions.
A range of internal and external consultative bodies and committees support and are referenced by the senior management team. In all governance, WBS operates within the regulatory framework of the University.
The 209 academic staff are members either of a teaching subject group or a research centre or unit, and sometimes of both. Each teaching subject group has a group convenor or head, and devolved group management. Each research centre has a director, and has similarly devolved management. Research centres may have a board with external representation to ensure practical relevance of research strategy. Research units are typically less formally structured, allowing members to share knowledge and experience within a discipline. Faculty members are often affiliated with more than one research group.
WBS is unusual among university-based business schools in the UK, having a strategy of employing professional management and administrative staff, to allow faculty to focus on delivery of teaching and research. The 210 non-academic staff are managed in functional groups. There are groups performing central activities such as marketing and communications, finance, information systems and personnel management. Other staff members work in programme teams or in roles which support academic research activity.
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