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External facilitation has been shown to increase the implementation and aid sustainment of new clinical practices. The purpose of this paper is to describe the addition of facilitation to web-based training on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to promote adoption of this intervention among diverse mental health providers at US Veterans Health Administration facilities.

In total, 41 participants completed six web-based modules and met in two groups monthly over nine months by telephone with a facilitator who was also an experienced DBT skills group therapist. All participants agreed to conduct a DBT skills group as part of training. The facilitators employed a variety of engagement strategies to meet the evolving needs of participants during the training period. Participants completed an online evaluation of the modules and their facilitation experience at six weeks post-training and responded to an e-mail query at five months post-training about conducting a DBT group.

Overall, participants found the training and monthly interprofessional calls with the facilitator useful. Five months post-training, 33 of 41 participants reported conducting a DBT skills group, thus improving access to this intervention. Participants said the biggest barrier to training was finding time during clinic hours to complete the modules, despite assurances of support from local leaders.

This project provides evidence that virtual facilitation enhances training and promotes the adoption of new clinical practices.

A model integrating work‐role expectations of employees, work‐family conflict, family‐work conflict, and a component of burnout was proposed and empirically tested on 163 employees, who were also part of dual‐earner couples. Gender differences were found in the proposed model. For males, work‐family conflict mediated the relationship between work‐role expectations and emotional exhaustion. Although the same indirect relationship was found for females, a direct relationship also existed between work‐role expectations and emotional exhaustion. Additionally, for females, family‐work conflict was found to be a key contributor to work‐family conflict and emotional exhaustion. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.

In organisations today it is essential that the budgeting process be not just effective in the determination of the allocation of resources, but also be perceived by all those involved within the organisation to be fair and equitable. The budgeting process must also be participatory, in that, those who will be held accountable for the results are also involved in the determination of the resource allocation.

UNTIL 1952 Queen's University was fortunate to have one main library building. With the establishment of the Institute of Clinical Science in the hospital area 1½ miles from the main university site, the formation of a separate medical library near the hospitals was considered essential.

The purpose of this paper is to inform information and communication design (ICD) for multi-national projects through the presentation of an example that does not rely on expensive expertise in graphic design.

Action research involving participants from five different sectors.

Successful ICD is not necessarily dependent upon costly graphic design of elaborate explanatory methods such as storyboards.

The action research involved participants from only five differect sectors.

Economical ICD can facilitate development of understanding among multi-sector multi-national project participants.

The originality of this research note is that it addresses recent developments in ICD. The value of this research note is that an example is provided of application in a multi-sector multi-national project.

Corporate governance has as ancient a pedigree as the formation of companies. However, six contemporary developments have provided a focus which makes this the era par excellence of corporate governance. Under review are a representative set of the economies of the world. A start is made with the UK and the Cadbury Report, which in similar fashion to the development of British Quality Standard 5750 into ISO 9000, has now itself taken on world currency. The end piece of Cadbury‐related developments was the final Report of the Hampel Committee of January 1998. The USA spawned several reports which fed into the Cadbury initiative, notably the Treadway and COSO Reports, as well as the influence of the Securities and Exchange Commission. A consideration of Canada is followed by the European dimension and the study carried out by Ernst and Young. Finally South Africa, Australia and Japan are treated and conclusions drawn, including the collaborative partnership that may be formed between management accountants and internal auditors.

Here is the long‐awaited fourth edition of Ralph De Sola's classic Abbreviations Dictionary. This updated edition of a work first published in 1958 is the largest, most complete compilation of its kind — a reference book far surpassing all others in the field. Mr. De Sola has expanded his work to include more than 130,000 definitions and entries — over 77,000 definitions, over 54,000 entries. The current edition offers abbreviations, acronyms, anonyms, contradictions, initials and nicknames, short forms and slang shortcuts, and signs and symbols covering disciplines which range from the arts to the advanced sciences and embrace all areas of human knowledge and activity.