Management Department

Junior Faculty Mentoring Plan

The department had a number of discussions at the department
meetings on the opportunity and importance of designing a
mentoring and support system for FT NTT and tenure track
faculty, but also more generally to support research and career
progression of post-tenured faculty.
It was agreed that already there is a solid informal support system
in place. But that it would be appropriate to formalize some of the
existing practices and share information on such practices.
It was decided that a so called ‘network form’ of support and
mentoring is more appropriate in our department and that faculty
would involve different colleagues depending on the specific needs
and circumstances, given the wealth and spread of expertise in our
department and beyond.
Some existing best practices have been solidified these amount to a
bottom-up, collectively owned mentoring and support system
which includes the following:
  Chair meets with pre-tenured faculty each term to
discuss not only processes and deadlines but also any
relevant issue to the development and flourishing of the
faculty.
  Faculty members self-selected a number of
colleagues as support/critical friends. They will decide the
forms and contents of engagement involving the Chair as
necessary.
  Maintain a standing item on support on
service/research & teaching at the departmental meeting.
  On research we continue to develop our seminar
series, to share knowledge and information through our
collective email list and to engage in meetings designed to
develop further our research potential and reach.