Eliminating Professors: A Guide to the Dismissal Process - Softcover

Westhues, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773408223 ISBN 13: 9780773408227

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Chapters treat the role of administration, faculty association, arbitrators, courts, harassment tribunals, and internal appeal mechanisms. Based on 25 actual case histories, in some of which the professor has been removed, in others not, the book includes additional cases from non-academic settings. It describes in detail a five-stage process that begins with ostracization and ends with removal though one of ten different exit-doors; draws upon the latest studies of conflict surrounding race and gender, and shows the pitfalls and potential this conflict holds for academic administration.; identifies the elements of organizational infrastructure that must be in place if an elimination effort is to succeed; devotes a chapter to the 1992 murder of four professors at Concordia University by a member of the engineering faculty, and draws practical lessons from the tragedy; lists 25 essential guidelines for the effective operation of harassment tribunals; integrates findings from Dr. Heinz Leymann's research in Scandinavia, widely publicized in Europe but until now little known in North America; confronts head-on the question of psychiatric disorders among professors, relying especially on New York psychologist Dr. Carl Goldberg's Speaking with the Devil. It also directs readers in an afterword to two dozen film depictions of the phenomenon under study.

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About the Author

Kenneth Westhues (Ph.D. Vanderbilt, 1970) teaches the Sociology of Work in the Human Resources Management Program at the University of Waterloo, where he has been Professor of Sociology since 1983.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773408223
• ISBN 13: 9780773408227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234