Always at Odds?

Mary C. Wright

Description

In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright examines the reasons for this lack of agreement between the individual's values and perceptions of organizational leaders' views. She also examines departments in which there is a consensus about the value of teaching, specifically how formal policies, social networks around teaching, and chair leadership can offer an alternative work environment, or a culture of congruence around instruction. The practices and organizational arrangements of these departments offer lessons for administrators, faculty, and faculty developers who wish to create universities conducive to instructional enhancement. Because this book features extensive case studies of science departments, it also holds implications for those interested in constructing productive work environments and enhancing student learning in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
Tables
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Benefits of Instructional Congruence

3. "It's Like Bad Taste": How Interpretive Person-Organization Fit

4. Social Networks as Building Blocks for Congruence: Faculty That Chalk Together Talk Together

5. How Chairs Build Instructional Communities: Big Pictures Versus Big Impacts

6. Sharing the Value of Teaching: Ways to Build a Culture of Congruence

Appendix A: Faculty Semi-Structured Interview Instrument
Appendix B: Chair Semi-Structured Interview Instrument

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• Tertiary education
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 07 février 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791478769
• Langue: English

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ALWAYS AT ODDS?

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ALWAYS AT ODDS?

Creatîng Aîgnment between Facuty and Admînîstratîve Vaues

MARY C. WRIGHT

State University of New York Press

Cover:Aternatîve Vîew, scupture by Mark Chatterey, ceramîc and stee, 60 x 72 x 12 înches, n.d. Photograph by Scupturesîte Gaery, San Francîsco, CA. Used by permîssîon.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Wrîght, Mary, 1971– Aways at odds : creatîng aîgnment between facuty and admînîstratîon vaues / Mary Wrîght. p. cm. Incudes bîbîographîca references and îndex. ISBN 978-0-7914-7367-2 (hardcover : ak. paper) ISBN 978-0-7914-7368-9 (pbk. : ak. paper) 1. Unîversîtîes and coeges—Unîted States—Facuty—Attîtudes. 2. Teacher- admînîstrator reatîonshîps—Unîted States. 3. Unîversîtîes and coeges—Unîted States— Admînîstratîon. 4. Communîcatîon în educatîon—Unîted States. I. Tîte.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BENEFITS OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONGRUENCE

“IT'S LIKE BAD TASTE”: HOW INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURES CONTRIBUTE TO PERSONORGANIZATION FIT

SOCIAL NETWORKS AS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR CONGRUENCE: FACULTY THAT CHALK TOGETHER TALK TOGETHER

HOW CHAIRS BUILD INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNITIES: BIG PICTURES VERSUS BIG IMPACTS

SHARING THE VALUE OF TEACHING: WAYS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF CONGRUENCE

APPENDIX A: FACULTY SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEW INSTRUMENT

APPENDIX B: CHAIR SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEW INSTRUMENT

Notes

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TABLES

Tabe 1: Facuty Respondents by Department (% of Department’s Facuty) Tabe 2: Number of Facuty Respondents by Rank (% of Department’s Facuty în Rank) Tabe 3: Code Names of Departments în the Study Tabe 4: Leves of Courses and Ranks of Instructors Incuded în the Student Ratîngs Comparîson Tabe 5: Comparîson of Student Ratîngs of Instructors and Courses by Department Tabe 6: Teachîng Tîes Tabe 7: Instructîona Leaders Tabe 8: Gender Composîtîon of Departments

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