888 December 2013, Vol. 103, No. 12 SAMJ The government will hold hospital line managers responsible for ensuring that consultants and doctors deliver at least 56 hours of State work per week – if they are to do any Remunerated Work Outside the Public Service (RWOPS) at all. This will be nationally legislated, Izindaba has learnt. This emerged from Dr Deon Menge, the South African Medical Assoc...

Fraud scandals can create incentives to change managers in an attempt to improve the firm’s performance, recover lost reputational capital, or limit the firm’s exposure to liabilities that arise from the fraud. It also is possible that the revelation of fraud creates incentives to change the composition of the firm’s board, to improve the external monitoring of managers, or to rent new director...

Melvin Mark is Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, and a social psychologist and program evaluator. Irwin Feller is Director, Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration, and Professor of Economics at Penn State University. Amy Glasmeier is Associate Professor of Geography at Penn State University. This paper provides a selective overview of an evaluation plan for six indu...

ast week, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) advanced another step in the nearly 1-year rigorous process of selecting its next director-general. Candidates for the position presented their vision of international health work and the role of this global health body. Having worked at WHO in a number of capacities in the area of infectious diseases, I know well that international...

The role of good management practices in organizations has recently been emphasized. Do the same principles also apply in government organizations, even the most bureaucratic and hierarchical of them? And can skilled, motivated managers identify how to improve these practices, or is there a role for outsiders to help them in this task? Two unique large-scale randomized trials conducted in colla...