A decentralized selection procedure in which building principals and teachers chose new teachers would result in a better match between job requirements and teacher qualifications, more support of new teachers by the faculty, and more consistency between criteria for initial employment and criteria for evaluation. (Author/IRT)

Approved as policy by the Board of Directors of the Association of College & Research Libraries in June, 1977. This statement is an expansion and extension of the recommendations in ACRL's "Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for Appointment, Promotion in Academic Rank and Tenure for College and University Libraries." (Author)

Examines the strategic role of management development and explores various forms of management development as strategy. Concludes that management development has an important role in promoting organizational success, developing individual and organizational effectiveness, and differentiating the quality of a company and its people from the…

Describes a mathematical salary-growth model which serves as the basis of an objective conversion procedure (providing a more equitable merit-pay plan). Also demonstrates how this procedure was used and discusses additional benefits (particularly pertinent to institutions using arbitrary criteria to determine pay increments and have lock-step…

The author provides background on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and reviews employers' responsibilities both to infected employees and all employees. She recommends that organizations develop a policy on the issue, including when AIDS testing will be used. AIDS training of all employees is discussed. (CH)

Outlines the package of special incentives the teacher recruitment program in Prince George County (MD) Schools was able to develop with the assistance of the Advisory Council for Business and Industry in the county. (MD)

After examining recruitment as a dual process in Detroit and Yokohama (Japan), the author states that discrepant findings result in part from different temporal focus in the recruitment process. He advocates study of the entire recruitment process and the need to isolate contingencies that influence employee selection. (Author/CH)

Recognizing that termination is viewed by the employee as the equivalent to capital punishment of a career, an administrative contract can reduce the emotional and financial entanglements that often result. Administrative contracts are described. (MLW)

Explains why personnel and career management practices must be upgraded if organizations want to increase profits and productivity. (JOW)

The literature on the use of part-time faculty has concentrated on three general themes: (1) demographics of part time faculty, (2) perceptions of advantages and disadvantages, and (3) organizational policies regarding part-time employment. Studies on criteria used to evaluate part-time faculty are needed. (CH)

The causes for executive dismissal are discussed, including the special problems involved in the development of effective administration in the educational field. The importance of ethics and honesty in professional organizations is emphasized. (MD)

Greater attention has been focused on the role that employer-sponsored retirement plans and individual savings must play in ensuring retirement income security. Alternative tax retirement planning opportunities currently available to college personnel are explored. (MLW)

"Casebook I: Faculty Employment Policies" presents six cases developed by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "Teaching Notes to Casebook I" provides detailed suggestions and strategies for leading an effective classroom or workshop discussion about each of the casebook's six case studies, all of which…

Scholars of higher education have long recognized that existing reward systems and structures in academic communities do not weight faculty professional service as they do teaching and research. This paper examines how four colleges and universities with exemplary programs for assessing services as scholarship implemented these policies within…

This book discusses what it means to be a faculty member at a university that enjoys neither reputation nor distinction. The discussion illuminates the everyday conditions under which academic work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded. Following an introduction, Representing Exclusion, Writing Personal Narrative, and…