Dramatic increase in the use of mandatory overtime as a staffing tool‚ is a dangerous staffing practice. This dangerous staffing practice‚ in part due to a nursing shortages is having a negative impact on patient care‚ fostering medical errors‚ and driving nurses away from the bedside. The main law dealing with wage and hour limits is the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or FSLA‚ passed in 1938. Although the FSLA establishes the 40-hour work per week‚ it does not put an upper limit on the number
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Study The responsibilities of entry-level managers in the hospitality industry are continuously changing. Obtaining and keeping a management job in a restaurant or hotel requires that a person have the ability to change. Successful managers have the enthusiasm to respond to the changing needs and challenges of their organization (Woods & King‚ 2002). Some of these challenges are due to the changes affecting the hospitality industry today‚ Consequently‚ the curriculum and the methods used to
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Nurse staffing ratios Running head: NURSE STAFFING RATIOS Nurse Staffing Ratios Maureen K. Halstead Grand Canyon University: Theories and Concepts in Leadership and Management/451V September 15‚ 2012 Nurse Staffing Ratios Over the past number of years there has been a nursing shortage which has led to the need of more registered nurses in the hospital setting. This is due to the uprising acuity of patient care and a decrease in there overall hospital stay
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Firms in the textile industry can compete using pricing or non-pricing strategies. Pricing strategies involves the use and manipulation of prices to increase market share and reduce potential and existing competition in the textile industry. Non pricing strategies on the other hand refer to all the alternatives‚ excluding price‚ that a firm uses to achieve the same objectives. One of the most common pricing strategies used in the textile industry is the use of limit pricing. This involves a firm
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provides an ideal process for account managers and specialists to work together to serve a client. "The place and time to use team-selling is when customer solutions is more important than price" (Dalrymple et al 2001). The Case Study Imaginative Staffing Inc. is a temporary services firm‚ formed in 1990. With $17 million in revenue; the CEO Angie Roberts is unhappy concerning the length of time to close a sale once a prospect has been identified. Roberts has found the average length of time to close
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Hospitality in the Odyssey It is very important for the people of the ancient world to practice hospitality. In the Odyssey‚ Athena‚ disguising herself as a seafaring man‚ appears at Odysseus’ palace. She is ignored at the front door by the suitors of Penelope. Later‚ Odysseus’ son‚ Telemachus‚ apologizes to her for the suitors’ lack of hospitality. He invites her to have a meal. In return‚ Athena offers the young prince a piece of good advice that he should go abroad in order to seek his father’s
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Optimizing the Nurse Staffing and Schduling Program: The Abstract When we obtain knowledge and learnings through lessons‚ it is important to share this information with others. As a professional‚ dissemination this knowledge is even more important. When professors and faculty publish their work‚ they increase their own prestige along with the institution where they are working (Jeffress & Lyle‚ 2012). More importantly‚ as Forsyth‚ Wright‚ Scherb‚ and Gaspar (2010‚ p. 15) state‚ “Knowledge synthesis
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HOSPITALITY The Maranao are concentrated around Lake Lanao in the province of Lanao del Sur. The area is geographically isolated by mountain ranges. Because of the past inaccessibility of the land of the Maranao‚ an important role has been done which helped them to mold their distinct tradition. As they are free from direct cultural assaults‚ the Maranao tradition has been flourished. One of their performances in their musical tradition is the playing of kulintang ensemble. This kulintang performance
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handbooks can be construed as employment contracts. True False 6. The "one year rule" ensures that oral agreements for time intervals greater than one year are legally enforceable. True False 7. If a letter of acceptance says an employee needs to work on weekends‚ but the employer makes an oral promise that the employee will not have to work on weekends‚ the oral statement could be legally binding. True False 8. If a co-worker promises a prospective employee overtime hours while
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care has been to mandate nurse staffing ratios. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. California is not the only state to enact minimum nurse staffing ratios for hospitals‚ over the past four years at least eighteen other states have considered legislation regarding nurse staffing in hospitals. Policymakers are forced to consider alternatives to nurses ratios due to nurse shortages. Whether minimum staffing ratios will improve working conditions
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