Preface.

Introduction.

Part I • What Chairs Need to Know to Understand Their Departments and

Their New Roles.

1 Departments and Colleges as Open and Closed Systems.

2 Understanding the Institution and Its Processes.

3 When a Faculty Member Becomes a Department Chair.

Part II • What Chairs Need to Know to Do Their Jobs.

4 What Chairs Need to Know Their First Day on the Job.

5 Department Climate.

6 Politics.

7 Budget.

8 Department Meetings.

9 Time Management.

10 Personnel Evaluation and Performance Counseling.

11 Challenging Personnel.

12 Legal Considerations.

13 Professional Development.

14 Workload Considerations.

15 How to Support Teaching and Learning.

16 Chair-Dean Relations.

Part III • Leading, Managing, and Changing the Academic Department.

17 The Department Chair as Manager and Leader.

18 Changing the Academic Department.

19 The Winds of Change and Department Operations: A Case Study.

Additional Resources.

Bibliography.

Index.