When an employee needs to take time off or request an accommodation, be it for medical, religious or other reasons, her supervisor is a likely point of contact about the request. And yet, in numerous ...

The queasy feeling troubling one Marin supervisor had nothing to do with the county board’s breakfast buffet of bacon and scrambled eggs. With the Civic Center’s $30 million computer debacle serving ...

The Orange County Board of Supervisors needs some training in the concept of open government, after a string of questionable decisions that seem designed to reduce public scrutiny of their actions ...

There’s an unofficial rule of safety management that goes like this: a safety program will only be as strong as the least-effective shift supervisor. Every rule has its exceptions, but it’s ...

The arrangements that trap PhD students in toxic relationships with abusive supervisors must be reformed – here’s how, says Timothy Ijoyemi In recent years, a chorus of former PhD students have broken ...

Old papers never die, they just get recycled. The Den Uyl lecture I gave in Amsterdam on 15 December 2008 has been under continuous redevelopment since then. Its latest outing was as background paper ...

Özge Özden lays out the pros and cons you need to consider when choosing a PhD supervisor, as well as five key qualities to look out for Selecting a PhD supervisor is one of the most crucial – and ...