They are also the ones who handle backlash when valued employees resign— conducting exit interviews, identifying the root cause of the resignation, and developing solutions to the true issue at hand.
The more immediate cause of her resignation was a tax scandal.
The immediate cause of my resignation, however, is the recent fiasco over senate preferences.
Yet if the divisions over Europe were not the immediate cause of the resignation, they unquestionably created the conditions for it.
His opposition to the rescue mission was the immediate cause of his resignation, but he had already come to see that Mr. Carter was increasingly rejecting his advice in favor of that of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
His opposition to the rescue mission was the immediate cause of his resignation, but he had already come to see that President Carter was increasingly rejecting his advice in favor of that of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
On October 16th Citi made good this relative dullness: Vikram Pandit, its chief executive (pictured), resigned abruptly along with John Havens, the bank's chief operating officer.Rumours about the cause of the resignation abound.
It is hard to disagree.The immediate cause of the resignation on November 22nd of four senior officials, headed by Luiz Carlos Mendonca de Barros, the communications minister, was the leaking of tapped telephone conversations between him and other officials concerning the privatisation on July 29th of Telebras, the telecommunications monopoly.
But the more immediate cause of his resignation was the effect of a crushing court verdict delivered in the spring of 2005, when a federal jury found that Mr. Jordan, this city's first black district attorney and a Democrat, had discriminated against 43 white employees when he summarily fired them soon after taking office in 2003.
Though it is always risky to identify the precise, proximate cause of a resignation, the straw on the groaning camel's back does appear to have been Duncan Smith's discovery on Friday that the reforms to the personal independence payment system for the disabled – reforms that he had been instructed to defend – were now being kicked into the "long grass".
While it was not the single most important cause of his resignation, there is no doubt that the redundancies of backroom staff at Rangers, including his loyal secretary, Laura Tarbet, contributed to manager Ally McCoist's controversial decision to hand in his notice.
