These latter might better go with your cultural types. People coming will recognize the difficulties in the set-up. The problem is that we have departments that have a number of different functions. This is in part true, but only in part. In general we find much of the meaning of what we do within departments.
Flexibility is the key.
Not in place of reviews but concurrent with them. As the above comments show, faculty are willing to be very flexible in their thinking. It is clear that the faculty sentiment is that this process be open, as we would expect under the emerging Gee administration, and that there be a give and take and lots of discussion. Thus far the process has been closed. Zare, whom I knew when he was a grad student making the usual grad-student errors, is now Chair of the National Science Board.