Prior to Greenberg's resignation, there was reason to believe that some of these pressures toward greater managerial and board accountability may have relaxed recently.
But externally driven reforms have proved rather ineffectual when it comes to improving boards' managerial oversight.
Board priority setting and planning strategies aligned with quality and safety goals were identified as Board managerial actions carried out in several studies.
Led primarily by McGill faculty, the executive courses and management training programs are designed for all managerial levels, from board members to senior-level executives to junior managers.
Against traditional managerial habits, the board is actually achieving transparency; making available the facts and information taxpayers, faculty, staff and students need to participate effectively and democratically in their colleges.
35 37 The use of the right measures to drive QI was raised in relation to Board managerial engagement in quality 35 and to impact on patient care improvement, 51 yet almost half of this sample did not formally adopt system-wide measures and standards for quality.
The extant literature emphasizes the complementarity of various governance mechanisms such as takeover threats, monitoring by large shareholders, industry competition, independent boards, and managerial share ownership (Cremers and Nair 2005, Bauguess and Stegemoller 2008, Bertrand and Mullainathan 2003, Chi and Lee 2010, Kim and Lu, 2011).
For those of us who work with boards, the managerial power idea is impossible to reconcile with our experience that the vast majority of today's directors are very conscientious, anxious to exercise their independence, and, if anything, wary about overpaying the chief.
Plus, the BBC Trust has annouced a wave of managerial cutbacks across the board.
