Director tenure attracts attention worldwide and is increasingly being recognised as a crucial element in assessing an external (independent non-executive) director’s independence. has recently come under the spotlight South Africa. Shareholder activists are expressing disapproval of lengthy tenures directors serving on boards listed public companies exerting pressure long-serving to resign fro...

of association directors revealed common reasons for volunteering were: enjoy working with youth and horses and a desire to contribute back to a program, which benefited them. Some of the challenges listed included trying to keep program costs minimal for leaders and youth, personal expense when attending association activities, and improving communication. Overall, directors consider the assoc...

NYSE and NASDAQ listed firms are required to have a majority of independent directors starting 2004. Since the regulation can weaken CEO influence over the board, affected CEOs may counter it by building a closely aligned team of top executives to strengthen their structural power. Using a differences-indifferences approach, we find that affected CEOs fill their executive suites with significan...

T otal compensation for senior medical managers in HMOs increased, on average, 5 percent last year — similar to growth rates of previous years. According to a study by the Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Executive Management Center, a physician executive search firm, compensation for these people (medical directors, vice presidents for medical affairs, and physicians with similar titles) varies lit...

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology recognizes an outstanding career contribution to the teaching of psychology. The 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award is Neil Lutsky. Dorothy W. Cantor, president of the APF, will present the APF Distinguished Teaching Award at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Ps...

Tosi and Gomez-Mejia, (1989) suggest that the challenge of corporate governance is to set up supervisory and incentive alignment mechanisms that alter the risk and effort orientation of agents to align them with the interests of principals. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of monitoring and incentive contracts given certain characteristics of the firm. That ...

please provide the name of that mentor.The cost of the program is registration for and travel to the 2 ADFM winter meetings and travel to the ADFM fall meeting held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Applications will be reviewed by the ADFM executive committee and the ADFM fellowship co-directors. Applicants are notifi ed by late November re...

The broadening controversy surrounding executive compensation packages has made it increasingly important to understand the process by which these packages are designed. We provide a deeper analysis of this process than exists elsewhere in the literature because we interview individuals actively involved in the design and implementation of CEO compensation contracts (CEOs, directors, compensati...

CUP, or Control Unit Port is a holdover from ESCON directors. In a FICON environment, CUP allows for in-band management, and opens the door to FICON director performance metrics via the RMF 74-7 record, more commonly known as the FICON Director Activity Report. In an effort to reduce acquisition costs and be more competitive on price, many vendors will try and make the case why you do not need ...