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The Essential Department Chair: A Practical Guide to College Administration (JosseyBass Resources for Department Chairs),New
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This book is the quintessential manual for what department chairs must know to excel at the many administrative tasks assigned to them on a daytoday basis. For instance, how do you cultivate a potential donor for muchneeded departmental resources? How do you interview someone when your dean assigns you to a committee searching for an administrator in a different academic area? How do you fire someone? How do you get your department members to work together more harmoniously? How do you keep the people who report to you motivated and capable of seeing the big picture?This book is about the how of academic administration. Based on a series of workshops given by the author in the area of faculty and administrative development, each topic deals concisely with the most important information chairs will want to have at their fingertips when faced with a particular challenge or opportunity. Intended to be a ready reference that chairs turn to as needed, this book emphasizes proven solutions and stresses what chairs need to know now in order to be most successful in their administrative positions.
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