title: The management of managers: A review and conceptual framework

authors: Boxall, Peter

subjects: management

abstract: The management of managers is an important contemporary concern, but the literature on the issue is not well integrated. This paper reviews key sources on the topic across organizational economics, human resource development and strategic human resource management. It presents a novel interdisciplinary framework for analysing how firms manage senior managers and for guiding future research, arguing that firms adopt different styles to attract–defend, develop–renew and motivate–harvest their senior managerial resource, depending on their contexts and choices that are made in the firm over time. The notion that some styles draw on early identification of élites while others treat management identification as more of an emergent problem is central to the typology. Within each of the styles identified, effectiveness in the management of managers hinges on recognizing and handling certain strategic tensions and problems.

text: The management of managers: A review and conceptual framework The management of managers is an important contemporary concern, but the literature on the issue is not well integrated. This paper reviews key sources on the topic across organizational economics, human resource development and strategic human resource management. It presents a novel interdisciplinary framework for analysing how firms manage senior managers and for guiding future research, arguing that firms adopt different styles to attract–defend, develop–renew and motivate–harvest their senior managerial resource, depending on their contexts and choices that are made in the firm over time. The notion that some styles draw on early identification of élites while others treat management identification as more of an emergent problem is central to the typology. Within each of the styles identified, effectiveness in the management of managers hinges on recognizing and handling certain strategic tensions and problems.

year: 2007

title: Cyclometalated gold(III) iminophosphoranes which incorporate carbohydrate groups

authors: Jarman, Bevan P.

subjects: gold complexes

abstract: Iminophosphoranes with organic groups derived from d-glucose, d-galactose and l-arabinose have been used to prepare gold(III) dichloride complexes via mercurated intermediates, since direct cyclometallation was unsuccessful. Structures and full spectroscopic data are reported. Replacement of one or more of the chloride ligands by PPh3, or by thiosalicylate gave new derivatives. Biological screening showed no enhanced activity relative to other alkyl or aryl analogues.

text: Cyclometalated gold(III) iminophosphoranes which incorporate carbohydrate groups Iminophosphoranes with organic groups derived from d-glucose, d-galactose and l-arabinose have been used to prepare gold(III) dichloride complexes via mercurated intermediates, since direct cyclometallation was unsuccessful. Structures and full spectroscopic data are reported. Replacement of one or more of the chloride ligands by PPh3, or by thiosalicylate gave new derivatives. Biological screening showed no enhanced activity relative to other alkyl or aryl analogues.

year: 2012

title: What a difference a default setting makes

authors: Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory

subjects: computer science

abstract: This paper examines the effect of the default interface language on the usage of a bilingual digital library. In 2005 the default interface language of a bilingual digital library was alternated on a monthly basis between Māori and English. A comprehensive transaction log analysis over this period reveals that not only did usage in a particular language increase when the default interface language was set to that language but that the way the interface was used, in both languages, was quite different depending on the default language.

text: What a difference a default setting makes This paper examines the effect of the default interface language on the usage of a bilingual digital library. In 2005 the default interface language of a bilingual digital library was alternated on a monthly basis between Māori and English. A comprehensive transaction log analysis over this period reveals that not only did usage in a particular language increase when the default interface language was set to that language but that the way the interface was used, in both languages, was quite different depending on the default language.

year: 2008