A CATEGORIZATION OF MODELS OF STAFF-DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER-EDUCATION

The author reviews models of staff development in higher education. Micro models of staff development practice are distinguished and evaluated. He categorises models into product-orientation, prescription-orientation, process-orientation, problem-orientation and eclecticism and commends the latter model. He identifies three macro models of staff development responsibility: 'management', 'shopfloor' and 'partnership', and a variation of the latter, 'decentralisation'. Of the various micro-macro combinations which are possible, eclectic decentralisation is commended to higher education institutions for the advantages that it offers.