Strengthening Departmental Leadership: A Team-Building Guide for Chairs in Colleges and Universities (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) [Hardcover]

Ann F. Lucas (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787900125 | ISBN-13: 978-0787900120 | Publication Date: October 4, 1994 | Edition: 1st

A first-rate book, well worth reading. Ann Lucas has taken years of research and reflection and distilled them into an easily understood, useful volume designed to help department chairs develop their leadership skills.
--William E. Cashin, director, Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University

A practical guide to developing the survival skills that chairs need in order to function as leaders and build cohesive teams in departments.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A first-rate book, well worth reading....Ann Lucas has taken years of research and reflection and distilled them into an easily understood, useful volume designed to help department chairs develop their leadership skills." --William E. Cashin, director, Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University

"No else in the field has a background like Ann Lucas' (including clinical psychology and organizational development), and no else offers such knowledgeable guidance for chairs as motivators and mentors, as jugglers of difficult and unexpected situations, as action researchers who determine and document their own effectiveness. Highly recommAnded!" --Robert Boice, professor of pyschology, SUNY, Stony Brook

From the Inside Flap

This book is a practical guide to developing the survival skills that chairs need in order to function as leaders and build cohesive teams in departments.Those who become department chairs for the first time often find that their experience as faculty members does not equip them for the transition. The conflicts inherent in representing administration to faculty colleagues as well as taking the concerns of the faculty back to administration can leave department chairs feeling alone, overwhelmed by paperwork, and unsupported. Strengthening Departmental Leadership is a practical guide to developing the survival skills chairs need to function as leaders and build cohesive teams in departments.Drawing on her experience working with over 6,000 department chairs at more than 125 campuses in the United States and abroad, Ann F. Lucas presents specific practical techniques for overcoming the most common problems that chairs must struggle with, including:

• team-building with members of the department
• creating a supportive communication climate
• facilitating faculty development
• motivating faculty--particularly difficult colleagues, poor teachers, and mid-career faculty
• handling faculty evaluation and making feedback interviews meaningful
• managing conflict
• developing an effective relationship with the
• developing coping mechanisms to ensure their own survival.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (October 4, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787900125
• ISBN-13: 978-0787900120
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,083,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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