Books in the Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guides series

Offers managers ideas for how to use meetings to accomplish specific purposes and to build a sense of community among the participants. This book is part of the "Jossey Bass Academic Administrator's Guide" series, which is designed to help new managers in academic settings tackle specific tasks or issues in their new role.

Includes an array of strategies for identifying and managing conflict between individuals, within a department, and between departments. This book shows how to turn conflicts into problems to be solved. It offers approaches academic administrators can use to analyze conflicts and design effective interventions.

This is one of a series of books designed to help new managers in academic settings tackle specific tasks or issues in their new role. In this volume the authors address basic issues of hiring in campus departments, including candidate evaluation and decision-making.