Richard T. Castallo

Dealing with Dysfunction (eBook, ePUB)

A Book for University Leaders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dealing with Dysfunction provides a real-life view of a college department gone awry. A complete lack of trust exists between faculty, department chairs past and present; and particularly within the faculty itself. Name calling, sabotage, and an unwillingness to even be in the same room with department colleaguesto discuss matters involving student and program concerns have become the norm. When pressed to participate in a meeting, one faculty member states: "You can make me come there, but you can't make me say a word, and I won't."
Acknowledging the professionalism of the vast majority of college professors that staff institutions of higher education, Dealing with Dysfunction looks at the options a chair and dean have available to them when dealing with a cadre of professors in a department that unable to work together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475834833
• Artikelnr.: 48568294

Autorenporträt

By Richard T. Castallo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Opportunity Chapter 2: A Bottle of Wine and a Lot
of Rumination Chapter 3: The Plan Chapter 4: Leadership in Universities:
Oxymoron in Action Chapter 5: Leadership in Departments Chapter 6: Getting
Started Chapter 7: Jennifer: Vulnerable Reluctant & Anthony: Senior
Resistor Chapter 8: Mary: Passive Resistor Chapter 9: Antoine:
Self-centered Chapter 10: Sandy: Committed Reluctant & Wanda: Junior Level
Committed Chapter 11: Andrew: Committed Reluctant & Bruce:
Passive-Aggressive Resistor Chapter 12: Bill: Committed and Angry Chapter
13: The Year Ends Chapter 14: Five Years Later Chapter 15: Suggestions