IN 1973, ARTHUR MCANALLY AND ROBERTDOWNSauthored a seminal article on the changing role of the university library director. This article takes a look at McAnally and Downs’s findings twenty years later to determine whether the changes outlined in 1973 are still valid today. Additional sources of strife for university library directors are outlined and requirements for today’s library directors ...

With this introductory issue of the CSEM Research Review, we continue to expand our efforts to facilitate access to CSEM research and communicate the policy relevance of the research. We hope the Review will both explain the implications of CSEM research and help to refine and focus discussions at regulatory, legislative and other policy organizations in California and elsewhere. This issue of ...

We are grateful to Christine Beckman. Gerald Davis, Monica Higgins. Muir MacPherson, and Edward Zajac for providing insightful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank Donald Palmer and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their constructive feedback and valuable suggestions on the paper, and we thank Piruze Sabuncu for her assistance in data collection. In this study, we consider the...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the leadership of occupational therapy program directors, the organizational health of their departments, and the relationships between them. METHOD The Organizational Health Assessment was used to determine how 65 directors of accredited occupational therapy programs and 185 members of occupational therapy faculties perceived their departments' organizationa...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to observe the roles played by six hospice medical directors from two hospice programs during interdisciplinary team case reviews. METHODS The study analyzed videotapes of case reviews in two hospice agencies over a two year period. The results indicate that the roles and levels of participation vary. Medical Directors were observed reviewing and assis...

Clinical microbiology laboratory directors come from diverse backgrounds with overlapping but not identical training experiences. Although director responsibilities are defined by CLIA legislation, there is no standardization of job descriptions among hospital or university settings. One job that would make the microbiology director indispensable, if done well, is clinical consultation. Other c...

This study addresses various deficiencies in the corporate governance and intellectual capital literature by examining the association between the level of gender and ethnic diversity on the boards of directors of South African publicly listed firms and their degree of intellectual capital performance. A total of eighty-four South African publicly listed firms were included in this study. Empir...