ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Caplow and McGees original research framework and materials and, examines the faculty personnel system in research universities. Caplow and McGee noted that the most striking feature of academic hiring procedures was the time and effort that most departments devoted to appointments. The recruiting process is still an extremely time-consuming task; one chair characterized it as gut-wrenching and tiring. Another change is that todays search is public knowledge through advertising in various forms. The market and policy category showed a great deal of change that is continuing. Colleagues of resigning assistant professors frequently cited intellectual isolation and intellectual incompatibility with senior colleagues as mobility motivators. The organizational problem that emerged from the dissertation focused on the tension between department and institution, raising the question of how to integrate the departmental culturethe culture of the claninto the broader organizational culture that seems necessary in a competitive environment.
