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Deconstructing Faculty Status: Research and Assumptions.

Rachel Applegate
- 01 Jul 1993 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 3, pp 158-164
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This article found that almost no empirical research on the status, roles, and benefits of faculty, librarians, and administrators to support this model, and posits several alternative approaches to the faculty status issue.
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This article is published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.The article was published on 1993-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Empirical research & Higher education.

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A Report on Librarian-Faculty Relations from a Sociological Perspective

Lars Christiansen, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2004 - 
TL;DR: This paper reviewed social science and library studies literatures on librarian-faculty relations, and presented a preliminary sociological analysis of these relations, finding an asymmetrical disconnection between both groups: Librarians and faculty identify a disconnection that keeps the two separated, but only librarians view this disconnection as problematic.
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Job Satisfaction of Canadian University Librarians: A National Survey.

Gloria J. Leckie, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: This paper investigated the job satisfaction of Canadian university librarians, using a replication of a 1993 American study to facilitate international comparisons, and found that librarian involvement in library planning and decision-making, university affairs, and professional activities was correlated with job satisfaction.
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Wearing our own clothes: Librarians as faculty

Janet Swan Hill
- 01 May 1994 - 
TL;DR: For librarians already on the tenure track, philosophy matters less than the practical matter of achieving tenure as mentioned in this paper... but they need to understand the functions and circumtances of non-librarian faculty so that librarianhip and individual accomplishments can be described in terms that teaching faculty understand.
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Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations

Charles A. Rarick
- 01 Apr 1985 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the book "Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations, by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal." The review is based on the work presented in this article.
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The Opportunity Costs of Faculty Status for Academic Librarians

Bruce R. Kingma, +1 more
- 01 May 1995 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out and document the economic costs of this model, while at the same time encouraging campus and library managers generally to employ economic principles as a methodology by which to analyze their institutions.
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Images of Organization

Gareth Morgan
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the history of the use of metaphor in organizational life can be found, including the origins of mechanistic organization, the role of human beings in the management of organizations, and the evolution of the human brain in the formation of an organization.
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Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled systems

Karl E. Weick
- 01 Mar 1976 - 
TL;DR: Weick as discussed by the authors argued that the concept of loose coupling incorporates a surprising number of disparate observations about organizations, suggests novel functions, creates stubborn problems for methodologists, and generates intriguing questions for scholars.
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Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations

Lee G. Bolman, +1 more
TL;DR: Bolman and Deal break them all down to four basic approaches any manager can understand, and demonstrate when and how each approach should be employed, and what outcomes can be anticipated.
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Dimensions of stress among university faculty: Factor-analytic results from a national study

Walter H. Gmelch, +2 more
- 01 Sep 1986 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated identifiable patterns of faculty stress and identified five distinct dimensions of perceived stress: reward and recognition, time constraints, departmental influence, professional identity, and student interaction.
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Factors Predicting Staff's Intentions to Leave the University.

Terje Manger, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated factors related to the intention to leave the university job among Norwegian university staff and found that colleagial relations (i.e. relations between colleagues) constituted the clearest reason to leave.
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Q1. What are the important determinants of performance?

12 Professional competence and effective group interaction were the most important determinants of performance (as rated by superiors), suggesting that the model of "loosely coupled" autonomy and informal collegiality often proposed for faculty is appropriate for librarians as well. 

Two types of work categories were typically inhabited by librarians: problem-solving/decision-making groups (committees, task forces), and individual problem-solving/professional service (reference). 

Arguments for faculty status have traditionally been based upon a comparative model: librarians want their roles to be compared to those of faculty, not administrators. 

The roles of men and women in the library profession--particularly the overrepresentation of men in administrative ranks---and the history and sociology of librarianship as a femaledominated profession are issues frequently addressed in library literature. 

"Insufficient teaching," however, was the reason most frequently cited by those Albion faculty who did not believe that librarians should be granted "tenure eligibility and faculty status. 

Only 18 percent of respondents felt that librarians contributed "very little or nothing" to the instruction of students, 65 percent viewed librarians as "professionals," and 57 percent felt that librarians should have faculty status. 

The model is founded on an assumed equivalence between librarians and teaching faculty, an assumed lack of equivalence between librarians and administrators/staff, and the assumed benefits of faculty status for librarians, their libraries, and their institutions. 

In addition to this disagreement, two other problems limit the usefulness of past studies for validating the faculty status model: inter-institutional variance was not ruled out and salary data for administrators were not collected.