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This paper provides two essays on compliance with NCAA regulations and bylaws. The first essay describes the issue of drug abuse at Baylor University and discusses the NCAA penalties imposed as a result. The second essay studies the University of Nebraska's violation of NCAA gambling regulations and bylaws.

Tags:honesty, ethics, unethical conduct, institutional control, sanctions, penalties, infractions committee, college athletics, wrestling, football, benefits, marijuana

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This paper examines and analyzes how corporate compliance is handled by two disparate companies, Baptist Health and Wal-Mart. It further discusses government regulations and guidelines, and self-regulation to meet standards for patients. Wal-Mart's interaction with unions is also considered.

From the Paper
"Health care services are among the leaders in requiring corporate compliance both in terms of governmental regulations and guidelines as well as self-regulation to meet standards for patients and their families, resident staff and government priorities. For behavioral health care providers, working within a context of tight budgets and limited resources, any strategy that preserves a major funding base while reducing liability in a federal audit is worth considering. Enter the corporate compliance program, which many experts say is an essential risk management tool particularly..."

Tags:corporate compliance, commitment, anti-union, Baptist Health, Wal-Mart, government regulation

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This paper describes the research and statistical analysis of a problem experienced at a hypothetical automobile manufacturing plant. The author examines two alternative approaches to to quality assurance and selects one for implementation.

From the Paper
"An automobile manufacturing company located in the United States faced a problem related to product quality in relation to the introduction of anew model to the production line. The added work and new design issues required a change in quality assurance procedures to make sure that important factors were not overlooked across models. Quality assurance managers formulated two alternative approaches to quality assurance and it was necessary to select one of the methods for implementation. "

Tags:statistics, business, manufacturing, anova, quality assurance

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This paper addresses the concern for quality assurance in health care through focusing on the standards that have emerged from the Education and Training Act of 1999 in the United Kingdom, with an emphasis on its impact on the practices of nursing and midwifery via the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Tags:NURSING, HEALTHCARE / HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE ISSUES, quality assurance health

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This paper addresses the concern for quality assurance in health care through focusing on the standards that have emerged from the Education and Training Act of 1999 in the United Kingdom, with an emphasis on its impact on the practices of nursing and midwifery via the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Tags:NURSING, HEALTHCARE / HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE ISSUES, quality assurance health

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This paper examines how managers gain compliance from their employees and how they get their employees to perform well. The paper discusses the compliance gaming theory, which states that leaders can effectively make use of informal communication strategies to motivate their employees, so that supervisors who encourage employees with positive feedback are most likely to achieve task compliance. The paper quotes various theories used to motivate employees and discusses the game theory, which is part of a group of theories often grouped together under the heading of rational choice theory. In addition, the paper explains that this theory may function either positively or normatively and may provide a contribution to predicting or explaining the behavior of an individual and may result in offering advice to an individual concerning what choice should be made.

Outline:
Introduction
Summary & Conclusion

From the Paper
"The work of Kellerman and Cole (1994) entitled: "Classifying Compliance Gaming Messages: Taxonomic Disorder and Strategic Confusion" states that the compliance gaming strategies includes the method of the 'actor takes responsibility' in attempting to gain compliance of others to assist them through offering to do it themselves as a method of getting them to do what is wanted. Another method is referred to as 'altercasting' and is a negative form of attempting to gain compliance of others by noting that only a "bad person would not do what is wanted" intimating that the individual who will not comply is one with negative qualities."

Tags:compliance, substitution, hypothesis, negative, goading, galvanizing

Abstract
This paper explains that the ultimate irony for the United States' passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and similar acts is that this type of legislation is fueling an entire IT industry that is called upon to deliver both compliance and business process improvement. The author points out that a service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform is the best practice for line-of-business managers, who want to get the most critical information to the sales, service and pricing managers, and still remain in compliance. The paper relates that the greatest motivator for the development of compliance programs and governance in IT management has not been top-line revenue growth but rather having an air-tight set of financial records when Sarbanes-Oxley auditors arrive to look over transactions

From the Paper
"Keeping in mind that the majority of IT professionals prefer to view their IT platforms from the context of layered model that has a strong focus on integration and pervasive layers of functionality, and the role of an all encompassing layer of analytics begins to take hold. This alone however does not completely negate the issue of the politicization and siloing of information. What analytics layers do however is force the issue of performance from just within one organization and shows the impacts (or lack thereof) of collaboration across the organization."

Tags:compliance, elt, soa, audit, sarbanes-oxley

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An explanation of hypertension and the failure to achieve compliance with anti-hypertensive therapy. The paper begins by explaining that hypertension is associated with many factors that have been found to reduce compliance. Factors that reduce compliance to anti-hypertensive therapy include patient and disease characteristics and treatment characteristics. The paper then shows what solutions can be provided by the medical care facility to improve the treatment. The paper includes many direct quotes from medical journals and offers details of the various treatments and therapies available.

From the Paper
"The 1988-1991 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) found that only about one-half of hypertensive patients in the United States are being treated and less than one-half of those being treated have their blood pressure well controlled (below 140/90 mmHg). A major reason for this shortfall is lack of patient compliance with therapy. This problem persists even though individual programs have shown excellent adherence to and results from both non drug and drug regimens."

Tags:compliance, hypertension, nursing, patient

Abstract
This paper discusses compliance, and examines its behavioral, social and psychosocial aspects. Several health promotion strategies are discussed. Mediators that prevent compliance also are discussed.

Tags:compliance

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This paper explains that the tragedy of the Sago Mining crisis, one of the worst mining-related disasters in United States history, goes beyond the deaths of the miners and includes a vast network of miscommunication and uncoordinated response, which were partially responsible for the wide-spread death caused by the explosion. The paper presents a case study of this crisis that includes an in-depth overview of the crisis timeline, with pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis events, and an analysis of the crisis management plan and its implementations. The paper concludes that the crisis management failures were a lack of communication, especially underground, because of out-of-date technologies, rescue process plan and the rescue teams.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Research Questions
Crisis Timeline
Methods of Research
Analysis
Conclusion
Implications

From the Paper
"Prior to the Sago Mine explosion, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration cited the Sago mine two hundred and eight separate times for regulation violations in 2005 alone. Out of these, ninety-six were considered to be significant and substantial violations. Further, the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training issued 144 citations on Sago Mines in 2005, many of them for violations that were most likely factors in causing the accident (such as a failure to maintain control over methane and dust accumulation or fix shafts)."

Tags:mass-media violations malfunctioning, compliance assurance regulations, out-of-date