A self-teaching guide that shows how to cope with managerial stress. Discusses the Stress Syndrome, identifies healthy and unhealthy types of stress, and presents a seven-step plan for managing stress. Questionnaires and exercises help readers to identify their own stress situations and respond effectively.

Beyond Stress to Effective Management (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

Business & Money

Gmelch, Walter H.

Business Culture

wiley

This monograph identifies, examines, and analyzes selected issues related to the career development of the department chair with a special focus on how colleges and universities can assist faculty in preparing themselves for this role, and how chairs can be supported during their term of service. Chapters examine how chairs can continue to develop their skills while serving in this leadership role, and how they can prepare themselves for academic life after they conclude their administrative duties as chair. 
This is the 126th issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education.

The Life Cycle of a Department Chair (New Directions for Higher Education, No. 126)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Coping with Faculty Stress (Survival Skills for Scholars)

Coping With Faculty Stress (Survival Skills for Scholars)

Schools & Teaching

Sage Publications, Inc.

This useful book outlines the chief forms and major causes of academic stress. Practical advice shows how to distinguish negative from positive stress and how to deal with negative stressors in life and at work. The book includes exercises to help the academic understand how stress affects him or her, as well as forms to help design programmes for coping with stress.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Full of practical advice and examples, this useful guide describes the four key functions of a successful departmental chair: recruiting and developing the faculty; managing the department′s resources; leading the department; and maintaining the dual role of scholar and manager.

Chairing an Academic Department (Survival Skills for Scholars) Volume 15

Miskin, Val D.

Full of practical advice and examples, this useful guide describes the four key functions of a successful departmental chair: recruiting and developing the faculty; managing the department′s resources; leading the department; and maintaining the dual role of scholar and manager.

Chairing an Academic Department (Survival Skills for Scholars)

This book explores the links between stress and performance in schools and helps principals actually thrive on stress for their success. Gmelch and Chan explore ways to generate the proper amounts of stress for optimum stimulation and performance: first to stimulate the principals to become effective and second to control stress in order to achieve success. The first part of the book provides a stress check up assessment and foundation for using stress for success. The second part assists with the problems of rustout and burnout. Self-assessments and coping techniques are provided along with foundations for maintaining peak performance. The book concludes with a compilation of helpful stress resource guide material.

Thriving on Stress for Success (Principals Taking Action)

Self-Help

Chan, Wilbert

Stress Management

Corwin

Education & Reference

A clear, systematic road map to effective campus leadership development Building Academic Leadership Capacity gives institutions the knowledge they need to invest in the next generation of academic leaders. With a clear, generalizable, systematic approach, this book provides insight into the elements of successful academic leadership and the training that makes it effective. Readers will explore original research that facilitates systematic, continuous program development, augmented by the authors' own insight drawn from experience establishing such programs. Numerous examples of current campus programs illustrate the concepts in action, and reflection questions lead readers to assess how they can apply these concepts to their own programs. The academic leader is the least studied and most misunderstood management position in America. Demands for accountability and the complexities of higher education leadership are increasing, and institutions need ways to shape leaders at the department chair, dean, and executive levels of all functions and responsibilities. This book provides a road map to an effective development program, whether the goal is to revamp an existing program or build one from the ground up. Readers will learn to: <ul>
<li>Develop campus leadership programs in a more systematic manner</li> <li>Examine approaches that have been proven effective at other institutions</li> <li>Consider how these approaches could be applied to your institution</li> <li>Give leaders the skills they need to overcome any challenge</li> </ul>
The field of higher education offers limited opportunity to develop leaders, so institutions must invest in and grow campus leaders themselves. All development programs are not created equal, so it's important to have the most effective methods in place from day one. For the institution seeking a better way to invest in the next generation of campus leaders, Building Academic Leadership Capacity is a valuable resource.

Building Academic Leadership Capacity: A Guide to Best Practices

Buller, Jeffrey L.

College Deans is based on the National Deans Survey, which was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Academic Leadership and included 800 deans from all U.S. 4-year academic institutions. The book consists of two main sections: 'Deans: Their Campuses and Colleges' and 'Dimensions: Duties and Challenges.' The first section describes the deanship in general, the national study in particular, and the background of current academic deans. It then gives a profile of deans: who they are and where they work. The second section of the book discusses the position of dean itself. This section looks at academic leadership in general and, more specifically, at what deans in this study believe were their primary roles and responsibilities, where role ambiguity and conflict came into play, and how they characterized stress and its relationship to job satisfaction. In addition, this section has a separate segment devoted to gender-related issues and a final chapter that highlights the most pressing challenges deans see in the near future.

College Deans: Leading From Within

Wolverton, Mimi

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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