The recent resignation of Argentina's vice president, Carlos "Chacho" Alvarez, is the latest chapter in that nation's political melodrama. The reform-minded Chief Minister Rodolfo Terragno had already resigned, and President Fernando de la Rua has announced sweeping cabinet changes. At the center of these developments is a major political scandal involving allegations that top presidential aids...

‘this paper examines the relation between the monitoring of CEOs by inside aud outside directors and CEO resignations. CEO resignations are predicted using stock returns and earnings changes as measures of prior performance. There is a stronger association between prior performance and the prhability of a resignation for companies with outsider-dominated boards than for companies with insider-d...

This article focuses on new teachers who leave the profession in Canada. Using a questionnaire targeting drop-out teachers and other education actors who witnessed the events surrounding the teachers’ resignation, the research objectives were to : 1) determine professional aspirations to enter the teaching profession; 2) identify the main reasons for new teachers to leave the profession; and 3)...

London's Royal Opera House has undertaken a much-needed redevelopment. The management of the operation has been problematic, bringing the House close to insolvency, and causing the resignation of many senior staff. This paper summarises these events, and earlier papers analysing them using systemic methods. It examines the organisation's structure using Beer's Viable Systems Model. The manageme...

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has implications for the weakening of global economy. Many companies cannot operate or optimally. In making efficiency with company expenses, reduces number employees, and some even close business permanently. To reduce costs incurred by in mechanism termination employment, uses a voluntary resignation statement. This condition is certainly detrimental to workers....

The study investigated age and gender effects on coping with common stressors among 494 Austrian children and adolescents (age 8-14 years). Participants were subdivided into subgroups of late children comprising third and fourth graders, early adolescents consisting of fifth and sixth graders, and middle adolescents including seventh graders. Middle adolescents showed a maladaptive coping patte...

The May issue of the BJGP made my mouth fall open with disbelief. What was the leading article about?1 The latest NSF? The GPC resignation ballot? The Shipman inquiry? The recent spate of TB outbreaks? The RCGP’s ideas about GP specialists and intermediate care? 24/48 hour access? NICE and the relevance of its guidance to Primary Care? What to do with your free copy of Clinical Evidence? No. It...

Rural exodus is a significant issue for the livelihood of outback communities. Institutional arrangements structure the incentives for a community's viability and stability. This study investigated the institutional arrangements related to natural resource management and social processes in the Etheridge Shire (Queensland, Australia) through qualitative research and quantitative modelling. The ...

This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale (BHSS). The measure was designed to assess reasons men identify for not seeking professional help for mental and physical health problems. Exploratory factor analyses in a sample of 537 undergraduate men revealed a 5-factor solution of internally consistent subscales, including Need for Cont...