Managing Non-Productive University Faculty Members

ohn Jackson and Walter Muir are Professors at the University of Victoria in Victoria B. C. The purpose of the study upon which their paper is based was to examine how university department chairpersons identified and managed tenured faculty who are not productive members of the academic unit. They report that up to 15 per cent of faculty members are perceived as being non-productive or marginal, but that very few dismissals take place. Some strategies for alleviating the problem are proposed.