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A toolkit for department chairs / Jeffrey L. Buller and Robert E. Cipriano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buller, Jeffrey L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College department heads--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- College department heads.
- Educational leadership--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Educational leadership.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--Administration.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Toolkit for Department Chairs is designed to give academic administrators the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical advice, and problem solving activities, the book offers chairs a valuable resource for negotiating the real-life challenges they face as academic leaders. Many of the case studies and scenarios included in this book have been field tested by the co-authors in over thirty years of administrative training workshops.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hiring and Evaluating Faculty Members; 2 Mentoring Faculty Members; 3 Promoting Teamwork and Collegiality; 4 Communicating Effectively; 5 Managing Conflict; 6 Making Decisions; 7 Budgeting; Epilogue; Appendix A; References; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40639-6
- 1-4758-1420-8
- OCLC:
- 917153559
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