title: Strategic management and organizational behavior in dental education: reflections on key issues in an environment of change.
abstract: With issues such as shrinking revenue, access to care, faculty workloads, and graying faculty, dental schools are faced with difficult challenges that fall to dental school deans to manage. Do dental school deans have the organizational skill sets and ethical frameworks necessary to address the challenges now facing dental schools? The purpose of this article is to pose questions and suggestions regarding some of the key issues in dental colleges today and to stimulate discussion in the dental community about needed changes in dental education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 40th and Holdrege Streets, Lincoln, NE 68583-0740, USA. ddunning@unmc.edu
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Dunning
authors.forename: Timothy M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Durham
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.forename: Mert N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Aksu
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000941:ethics; D032921:Consensus; D003657:Decision Making; D003729:Dental Care; D018865:Dental Research; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005179:Faculty, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration; D005376:Financial Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012575:Schools, Dental / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013192:Staff Development; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload