• The Art of Decision Making: Issues and Cases in Higher Education by Patricia R. Plante
  • Bully in the Ivory Tower by Leah P. Hollis
  • The College Administrator’s Survival Guide by C. K. Gunsalus
  • “Culture, Climate and Collegiality,” in Success on the Tenure Track: Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction by Cathy Ann Trower (available CFI + electronically JMU Libraries)
  • The Department Chair (periodical)
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291936-4393
  • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
  • Evaluating Faculty Performance: A Practical Guide to Assessing Teaching, Research and Service by Peter Seldin et.al.
  • Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
  • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen
  • Leadership Skills for Department Chairs by Walter Gmelch and Val Miskin
  • Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
  • “What New Department Chairs Need to Know,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Rob Jenkins.
    http://chronicle.com/article/What-New-Department-Chairs/48835/
  • The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal

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