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summer 2013 | Volume 24 | number 1
Department Chair
The A resource for AcAdemic AdministrAtors Featuring in-depth, practical leaders from around the world.
inside ▼ maximizing staff Productivity and articles, The Department Chair Our books focus on the universal skills
maximizing staff Productivity and satisfaction through Performance
satisfaction through Performance
by Jane R. Williams and N. Douglas b y J a n e R . W i l l i a m s a n d n . d o u g l a s l e e s
management
management
Lees | 1
Regular evaluations can make staf contributions
change is rapid and roles are evolving quickly.
taking on the role of department to update job descriptions at a time when
uch attention has been given to faculty
by Sarah Willie-LeBreton | 3
chair
negotiating the chair Position’s mevaluation, especially in recent years in more visible and can be an opportunity for is an essential quarterly all department chairs need to have no
recognition. Tey can also uncover previously
terms of Acceptance and exit
by Dennie L. Smith | 5
department and can identify staf aspirations.
faculty Assessment and evaluation: response to calls for accountability. However, unknown talents that may beneft the Through the Wiley Learning
team in all departments—its staf—often are not
another essential component of the personnel
Finally, evaluations can provide a mechanism to
fair, formative, and focused
by Karen Silva and Donna
associated with unit quality, productivity, and
address performance that is below expectations.
Why, then, are staf performance reviews not
Thomsen | 9
examples where they do not undergo systematic
do as i do: modeling scholarly constituent satisfaction. Hence, there are many conducted with the same scrutiny and regularity
reviews. Tis oversight seems common even with
of faculty reviews? Te institutional mandate for
by Jackie L. Booth and Susan
leadership as chair
that their units would struggle in every way
will have little impact. a recommendation here
Adragna | 11 Prioritizing the mission in times the admission from department chairs as a group these is often not as strong and some perceive they resource to help you matter the discipline. We provide new
is that a uniform system for staf evaluation be
without competent and professional staf.
developed and the responsibility for conducting
of economic uncertainty: Pragmatic
staf members are found in academic
recommendations for chairs
by Craig D. Hlavac | 13
numbers. Ratios of faculty to staf can vary from
or delegated to immediate supervisors who
Peer-led chair development series departments in a variety of positions and in varying evaluations be assumed by chairs directly and/ Institute, department chairs
very high (ten or more to one) to very low (from
might be faculty or other staf members. Finally,
navigating Waves of change: A
one to one or less) depending on the institution,
chairs may not always feel competent to evaluate
by Kara E. Stooksbury, Christine
departmental mission, and discipline complexity.
individuals with wide-ranging and specialized skill
N. Dalton, Laura Wadlington, and
Jeremy J. Buckner | 16
How to become a refective and staf roles may range from advising students and sets. Te evaluation system suggested here seeks successfully lead an
managing budgets to providing instructional
laboratory support or doing a variety of technical
a framework and process that is conducted in
compassionate leader
by Daryl L. Nardick | 18
work. Tese individuals vary widely in expertise,
collaboration with the staf member.
leading faculty through times of educational attainment, and long-term career goals. to overcome some of this hesitancy by presenting and experienced department chairs
change: the chair’s evolving role
by Domenick Pinto | 20
A six-Year study of department Clearly, the evaluation paradigm needed here is due Process Approach can subscribe to a year’s worth of online
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Te due process approach to staf evaluation or
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chairs
by Robert E. Cipriano and
the main tenets of our justice system: adequate
Tere is value to both the unit and
research, and service.
Richard L. Riccardi | 22
career Pathways: retention and
recruitment strategies for Academic staf member for conducting regular staf notice, judgment based on evidence, and fair
hearing. systems structured in this way increase
staf perceptions of fairness, satisfaction with the
performance reviews. evaluations promote
by Richard S. Rafes, Shauna L. Malta, development and allow for opportunities academic department.
departments and institutions
to strategize about ways to improve the
and Mary T. Siniscarco | 26
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