IntroductIon The chief executive officer of a company is responsible for a long list of decisions that impact corporate performance, including strategy, organizational design, and incentives. He or she also brings to bear a managerial and leadership style that has a considerable influence on workplace productivity and culture. As such, many believe that the selection of the CEO is the single mo...

Vegetation structure on the east flank of Mount Pinatubo was investigated to determine the inventory of species at 15 y post-eruption, then to ascertain environmental variables that have influenced the early patterns of primary succession. Unconstrained and constrained ordination methods were used to determine the influence of spatial, elevation, and substrate patterns on vegetation. Vegetation...

• AbstractThis research was done to provide effective strategies for the establishment of integration model for succession planning and career progression path of azad universities administrators from the perspective of higher education administrators and professionals based on the systematic theoretical design of Strauss and Corbin grounded theory. Accordingly, using a targeted sampling method...

Today’s nurse managers (NMs) are challenged to be visionary and innovative leaders who embrace change, manage diverse groups of employees, and address the complex demands of patients and families. Nurse managers need to be educated and knowledgeable on health care reform including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, oversee multimillion dollar budgets, leverage technology, and champ...

Best-practice organisations make succession management part of an overall drive to develop managers/leaders at all levels. Successful planning requires ongoing commitment and positive communication with all directly affected. Leadership skills, and the talent required, have to be dictated by an overall organisational strategy. Succession management needs to be integrated within recruitment, sel...

Since 1950, diverse assemblages of Mesozoic vertebrates have been described from the Galve area (Teruel Province, NE Spain). More than fifty taxa have been noted, including fishes, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and mammals. The Galve fossil sites occur in an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous succession spanning some 30 myr, divided into five formations, representing marginal marine and...