Academic Administrator's Guide to Conflict Resolution: 5 (Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guides) - Softcover

Cheldelin, Sandra I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787960535 ISBN 13: 9780787960537

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2003

Synopsis

Dealing with conflict is an evitable part of any academic administrator's job. Often, however, new administrators lack the skills they need to successfully resolve campus conflicts. This important resource includes an array of strategies for identifying and managing conflict between individuals, within a department, and between departments. "The Jossey Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Conflict Resolution" shows how to turn conflicts into problems to be solved. Authors Sandra I. Cheldelin and Ann F. Lucas offer concrete approaches academic administrators can use to analyze conflicts and design effective interventions. "The Jossey Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Conflict Resolution" is an invaluable tool that includes: guidelines for knowing when it is appropriate to intervene in a conflict; strategies for helping to change irrational and negative thinking to positive rational thought; methods for handling interpersonal conflict between two parties within a department; an outline of the major approaches for managing conflict and information when they work and when they don't; and, effective strategies for preventing and solving specific problems.

About this title

Review:

"This series addresses the crucial tasks facing administrators who oversee programs, services and departments in colleges and universities" ?Barbara Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Provost, UC Berkeley School of Education

About the Author:

Sandra I. Cheldelin is an associate professor and former director of the Institute for Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a licensed psychologist and expert in organizational behavior, and coeditor of Conflict: From Analysis to Intervention. Ann F. Lucas is a consultant and professor emerita at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she served as campus chair in the Department of Management and also the Department of Psychology. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and author of Leading Academic Change and Strengthening Departmental Leadership both from Jossey-Bass.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0787960535
• ISBN 13: 9780787960537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130