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

Lucas, Ann F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787900125 ISBN 13: 9780787900120

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

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

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Review:

"A first-rate book, well worth reading....Ann Lucas has taken yearsof research and reflection and distilled them into an easilyunderstood, useful volume designed to help department chairsdevelop their leadership skills." --William E. Cashin, director, Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas StateUniversity

"No else in the field has a background like Ann Lucas' (includingclinical psychology and organizational development), and no elseoffers such knowledgeable guidance for chairs as motivators andmentors, as jugglers of difficult and unexpected situations, asaction researchers who determine and document their owneffectiveness. Highly recommAnded!" --Robert Boice, professor ofpyschology, SUNY, Stony Brook

About the Author:

ANN F. LUCAS is professor of organization development and former campus chair in the Department of Management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she is founder and former director of the Office of Professional and Organizational Development. She is the author of The Department Chair's Role in Enhancing College Teaching (Jossey--Bass, 1989).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0787900125
• ISBN 13: 9780787900120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320