Research questions and literature pertaining to a conceptual model on productivity at the departmental level are discussed. The model can be pictured as involving three goal-achievement processes: faculty research, faculty teaching, and student learning. Items that constitute the goal achievement process are goals, committed resources, expended resources, and outcomes. Interactions between these items are commitment, utilization, efficiency, and effectiveness. A distinction is made that concerns both perspective and process. Central issues and illustrative research are cited from the standpoints of "within process,""across perspectives," and "within perspective, across processes." (SW)