*B. Tech, MBA, M. Phil, PhD Asso. Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, Maharajah's Postgraduate College, Phoolbaugh, Vizianagaram, AP
**MBA, M.SC, PGDMM, PGDAM, (PHD) Asst. Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, Maharajah's Postgraduate College, Phoolbaugh, Vizianagaram, AP
Online published on 27 January, 2015.
Continuity of human development education is a key tone, year by year it has to be progressive with new dawn in developing country. The saga of techno driven 21st century, 25 years ago enhanced a new discipline called organizational development, the goal of which was to focus on the gap that exists between where a group or organization is and where they would like to be. In this study the present day policies regarding diversity in higher education systems will be discussed. The first part presents an overview of the theoretical and empirical studies on differentiation and diversity. Based on this, a conceptual framework is presented, which intends to explain the processes of differentiation and dedifferentiation in higher education systems. Two crucial variables are identified, and both have a crucial impact on the behaviour of higher education institutions: the level of uniformity in the environment of higher education institutions and the level of influence of academic standards and values in these institutions. The second part of this contribution focuses on current higher education policies. Hoping to create better and stronger contributions by higher education institutions to the ‘knowledge society’, many governments nowadays develop education policies of less state control and more autonomy. It will be argued that these policies do not automatically lead to more diversity in higher education systems. The reason for this is simply that markets work improperly in higher education systems and that the behaviour of higher education institutions is triggered by antagonism for reputation, a process producing several inadvertent consequences. In this latter context the recent rankings and typologies in higher education are also discussed.
It illustrates how planned and focused organization development interventions can help in understanding of the system and guide the change process in today's unsettled higher education environment.
