From stress and burnout, to anxiety and depression, teachers are suffering from various mental health issues. Teacher mental health concerns are affecting school and classroom climates, attrition rates, and student performance. Teachers are in need of school district-provided mental health supports, practices, and programs. This mixed-methods…

In 2009, the researchers, with funding from the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), began conducting the annual Chief Human Resource Officers (CHRO) Survey. The 2009 survey was sent to CHROs at the U.S. Fortune 150 companies, as well as to ten other CHROs at CAHRS partner companies. That survey focused on understanding how CHROs…

The working relationship between the college president and personnel director requires constant attention and monitoring to be successful. The president must be able to rely on the personnel director for attention to both mechanical details and human issues to create the proper learning and teaching environment on campus. (MSE)

The personnel function of top management is examined by first studying the environment in which top management functions. The basic skills required to perform the function are discussed. Against this background, six elements of personnel management in colleges and universities are considered: goals and objectives, organization for personnel…

Components of an effective human resource management function are identified and the position a personnel administrator must hold in the organizational structure in order to provide these services is discussed. Functions include personnel selection, institutional research and human resource planning, human resource development, and labor…

With a major portion of all community college budgets being spent on personnel and related costs and with personnel management becoming extremely complex, new approaches toward human resources management are crucial to the continuing vitality of community colleges. Advocates centralization of human resource services and mainstreaming academic…

Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dramatic reforms in the health service in recent years. Design/methodology/approach--Examines management development in health care, and explores the experiences of clinical nurse managers. Findings--Duplication of agencies and multiplication of roles have led to tensions in terms of both…