Work and Peace in Academe: Leveraging Time, Money, and Intellectual Energy Through Managing Conflict (JB - Anker)
Language: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005
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- Title
- Work and Peace in Academe: Leveraging Time, Money, and Intellectual Energy Through Managing Conflict (JB - Anker)
- Author
- Coffman, James R.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1882982843
- ISBN 13
- 9781882982844
Work and Peace in Academe assesses the nature of conflict in academic environments and describes practical ways to prevent and resolve unproductive disputes. Through stories, vignettes, and case studies, the author emphasizes the importance of integrity and trust to the ongoing success of any approach to managing conflict. To help readers develop effective conflict resolution systems, the book includes
- A framework for understanding conflict in an academic environment
- Suggested methods of conflict resolution
- Identification of key players and resources involved in effective systems
- Ideas for integrating dispute prevention, resolution, and management
- Best practices in conflict management
Written for administrators and faculty leaders, Work and Peace in Academe will guide readers in developing a systematic approach to dispute resolution that preserves an institution’s culture, history, procedures, and practices.
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About the Author
As a chief academic officer for 17 years, Coffman developed an ever greater interest in the prevention, resolution, and management of unproductive conflict, recognizing the injurious effect on individuals and the very large attendant loss of human and financial resources to the institution. These interests included extensive involvement in and furtherance of success for women and people of color, as well as conflict related to race and gender. He worked with faculty, staff, and other administrators to develop and refine policies and procedures to deal with conflict by addressing its causes and effects. This include policy facilitating the individualization of faculty work, along with improved approaches to post-tenure review, appeal, grievance, affirmative action, and alternative means of dispute resolution. This effort came to include creation of an institution-level, integrated systematic approach to resolution of disputes that preserved the value of productive conflict and the importance of informal methods.
Coffman’s background includes immediate family members who were or are attorneys. One of these was his father and the other is one of his sons. This, coupled with experience in private veterinary medicine (equine) practice, fourteen years as a faculty member, three years as head of a large academic department, three years as a dean, leadership roles in large, complex state and national organizations and projects, and seventeen years at the chief academic officer of a land-grant university, comprises a body of experience that is unique and affords a fresh look at how to evaluate and address conflict in the academic environment.
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