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Overtime and Redundancy, 2005.
This paper discusses and analyzes why some firms will reduce working hours before making staff redundant and increase overtime just before hiring new staff.
1,870 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper explains that the model of labor demand in terms of hours worked by employees assumes that firms instantly adjust their employment when the economic environment or business cycle changes; hence, rational firms will always try to minimize their adjustment costs when making decision on altering their labor force, whether through hiring new workers or laying-off staff. The author points out that adjustment costs tend to produce the familiar phenomena of labor hoarding or reduction of working hours during a slump and increased use of extending overtime during a boom. The paper deduces that the relationship between output, hours worked and employment follows a lagged pro-cyclical trend but so must labor productivity, especially if it is measured as output pertaining to each employee; thus, as output and hours worked fall during the economic recession then so does the level of output per worker.
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"Figure 1 below, illustrates the cost structure faced by any given firm in choosing between alternative lengths of the working week at any given time. The variable parts of wage costs are especially crucial: (i) the basic wage, w0 per hour, which operates under normal working hours; (ii) the basic wage augmented by overtime premium, w1 above normal working hours. The basic wage is constant up to normal hours HN. Hence, in the absence of guaranteed wages of any sort, the average variable cost per hour is equal to marginal cost, AVC = w0H/H = w0 = MC, and shown by the line ae."
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Registered Nurses and Mandatory Overtime, 2005.
A look at the problem of mandatory overtime and its consequences in the nursing field.
1,153 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper provides an overview of the developing trend in many hospitals of mandatory overtime for nurses. The paper reviews literature regarding the issue to discuss the effects of mandatory overtime on the overall health care of patients and the nurses themselves.
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"With increasing number of patients requiring inpatient care, nationwide, hospitals are faced with a stiff resource crisis. Invariably, this shortage of nurses is met by implementing mandatory overtime regulations for the nursing staff. However, this has proved to be an unhealthy and dangerous practice affecting the quality of patient care as well as overburdening the nursing staff. Providing extended hours of service on a regular basis, nurses become tired and stressed out which not only increases the attrition rate but also affects the outcome of the patient. Foley of the ANA says, "By far the riskiest result of understaffing is the abuse of mandatory overtime as a staffing tool," [Robert Steinbrook]. Over extended, burnt out and even underpaid, nurses develop job dissatisfaction and as statistics indicate one out of five nurses are contemplating on quitting the profession altogether. Further the increasing patient/ nurse ratio directly implies a serious compromise on personal care to patients. Let us now look into some recent research studies that also confirm the negative effects of mandatory overwork among nurses."
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Mandatory Overtime for Nurses, 2002.
A critique discussing the recent ongoing problem of mandatory overtime in the healthcare workplace.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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A discussion of the recent problem of mandatory overtime, the legislation and its effects on the worker. The essay is a two-article complementary critique on eliminating the unsafe working practice of mandatory overtime.
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"Nurses are becoming tired and overworked! As an Emergency Room RN , I can sympathize with the emerging nursing shortage. Mandatory overtime is becoming commonplace, and it is unsafe. In Mandatory Overtime-when enough is enough, M. O?Leary looks at why the nursing profession is not treated like other jobs that deal with the responsibility of human lives. ?When pilots fly, they do not have to work unsafe overtime because lives are in their hands. Semi- truck drivers also do not have to work unsafe overtime because lives are in their hands.? (O?Leary, 2000) Now, the mandatory overtime discussed is not the type when a nurse needs to stay later and catch up on charting. We all know it gets busy. This overtime is the type that employers require one to stay for a set number of hours after their regular hours have already been worked. ?As a result we must take additional actions in order to protect nurses from being forced into unsafe staffing environments by the growing risk of unsafe overtime.? (O?Leary, 2000)"
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The New Overtime Laws, 2004.
An analysis of the new overtime laws issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.
1,567 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper examines the changes to overtime legislation in the United States. The paper discusses the guidelines presented by the Department of Labor, explaining the new terminology employed. The paper analyzes the "Working Families Flexibility Act" (Ballenger's bill) and the "Family Friendly Workplace Act" (Ashcroft's bill). The paper contends that these titles are misleading as the changes in the overtime laws seem to benefit only the corporations and not the employees.
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"In the winter of 2004, The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued what it called "guidance" about President Bush's overtime legislation. Along with the guidance, they invented new obfuscatory language. When they discussed "payroll adjustment," a relatively benign-sounding term, they were really referring to "cutting base worker salaries so the additional overtime payments would bring their total pay to their old salaries, or raising salaries just to the $22,100 threshold so workers do not qualify for overtime" (Economic Opportunity Report). On the face of it, guidelines such as those, which advocated diminishing compensation for the work being done, might have been issued by a government department called the Department of Corporation Welfare, if we had one. Clearly, the suggested changes would benefit no one except the employer."
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Maryland Nurses and Mandatory Overtime, 2001.
This paper illustrates the mandatory overtime legislation through the example of Maryland nurses' over extended workload.
1,305 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper describes the political battle in the Maryland state legislature over mandatory overtime for nurses. The paper examines the issues involved in the debate pitting insurance companies and HMOS against nurses association, patients? rights and consumer groups. One side of the argument is concerned with the financial profit of private organizations and the other side voices issues of public health and voter anger over declining health-care standards.
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"Nearly anyone who has ever been in the workforce has been faced at one time or another with the issue of mandatory overtime ? that is, being asked to work more than eight hours in a day or forty hours in a week. This situation is sometimes perfectly acceptable to the employee. For example, an accountant might reasonably be expected to be called upon to work more than 40 hours in the weeks leading up to April 15. Assuming that she is being paid for the hours worked, she is more than likely to agree that such a ?request? on the part of her employer is a reasonable one."
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John B. Lee's "The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition", 2007.
This paper discuses the ways in which the poems in John B. Lee's book "The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition" contribute to the mythology of hockey as a quasi-religion.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper argues that the poems in John Lee's "The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition" are myths not because they attribute hockey to divine intervention or planning but rather because they contribute to establishing a man--made spiritual world, a religion of hockey for Canada. The author points out that the poems contribute to the mythology of Canadian hockey in that they are a system of hereditary stories, which explains the rationale for social customs and observances. The paper relates that the mythology of hockey is clearly a male mythology even though females have been trying to join it for some time. The author concludes that this idealized world of Canadian hockey is very well mirrored by Lee's poems so that they, in themselves, contribute to the hockey mythology of Canada. The paper quotes some of the poems from this book and analyzes them.
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"This is a regrettable state of affairs for all those women who would like to be more included in hockey. However, the fact of the matter is that most mythology has been male - male mythology created by males for other males. Consider the very earliest mythology, Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad". Both of these are stories of male endeavours - lyrical hymns to the traditionally male pastimes of war and conquest, rape and pillaging. The only role the women play is to stay home and wait, as Penelope does so very well. The fact that this mythology was exclusively male does not mean it is not mythology."
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Overtime and Insurance for Nurses, 2002.
A paper which discusses the concept of mandatory overtime for nurses, studies its effect on them and their patients and how it is linked to the insurance industry.
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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The author of this paper discusses the cumulative effective of poor health on the patients of overworked and overstressed nurses. It illustrates how mandatory overtime is disadvantageous for all in the end and ties this in with the whole insurance debate. The paper takes an individual case to asses and illustrate the points raised in the paper.
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"In the particular case of the Maryland nurses, we can see how the interests of health care professionals and patients can in many ways be seen to be in opposition to the interests of insurance companies. While the bill was supported by the Maryland State Board of Nursing and the Maryland Nurses Association as well as by a number of patients' rights and consumer groups, it was opposed by hospitals and insurance companies and HMOS."
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Mandatory Overtime in Nursing, 2002.
An examination of the stress on nurses being forced to work overtime and how this affects their caregiving.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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The writers shows that mandatory overtime can be a source of stress for the nurses in all aspects of their lives. It examines how this escalating crisis is affecting nurses' physical health and how their overworked, overtired and burned out bodies are really having an impact on the way they care for patients.
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"This problem is best explained starting with how it affects the nurse physically. These problems mainly consist of prolonged exposure to hazards, fatigue and stress. ?Longer shifts mean that nurses spend more time being exposed to the risks of chemical exposure, infectious agents, and injury (Worthington, 2001). Biohazards and chronic injuries also exist, ?They complain of back injuries and risky accidents with contaminated needles? (2001). Nurses are in the business of making decisions that can affect whether a patient lives or dies. Nurses are also expected to care for themselves during these times. This includes transportation to and from work. ? There are few statistics on the number of car accidents related to fatigue from having to work extended hours because fatalities that occur while driving home after double shifts are not counted as workplace fatalities? (2001). Stress can also have a profound effect on the body making nurses prone to having poor physical condition."
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?The Redundancy of Courage?, 2002.
Examines the use of irony in Timothy Mo?s novel.
1,054 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 37.95
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Timothy Mo's novel "The Redundancy of Courage", as narrated by the character of Adolph Ng, makes use of ironic literary devices, as well as creates a new form of irony, an ideological irony of the post-modern, post-colonial condition of the author and protagonist. The paper explains how Adolph Ng lives in Danu, an ex-Portuguese colony and over the course of the book, the land is shown before and after an invasion by its neighbors. Thus the first kind of irony that the reader is exposed to is a kind of irony of place, or a narrative irony of thwarted expectations.
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"The Redundancy of Courage thus exposes an ironic narrative and ideological tension between a particular set of cultural expectations and the actual realization of those expectations. Ironies of character and of speech are also used throughout Timothy Mo?s work, to further expose such post-colonial narrative and ideological ironies. For instance, the narrator of the novel experiences a personal sense of division between who he is and what his world is composed of, between what he says and who he actually is. Rather than view his identity in a nationalistic fashion, Ng constantly switches his alliances out of a desire for self-preservation. There is always a tension between what Ng says and what the reader knows means."
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The Redundancy of Stalkerazzi Laws, 2006.
An examination of modern stalkerazzi law.
1,001 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the redundancy of today's stalkerazzi, or paparazzi, laws. These laws essentially establish the same regulations as pre-existing laws. The paper questions whether more laws against the paparazzi are really necessary.
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"Paparazzi, "the celebrity photographers who trail stars looking for shots of them in unguarded moments," have grown increasingly aggressive as the monetary sums paid for their work continue to rise. The paparazzi are often dubbed as 'stalkerazzi' because of their tendency to invade the privacy of their subjects through physical trespass and the use technological equipment."
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Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), 2005.
An over view of the ten major types of Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) used today and their key characteristics.
1,413 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines how Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) describes array configuration and applications for multiple, inexpensive hard disks, providing fault tolerance (redundancy) and improved access rates (RAID concept). RAID provides a way to access multiple individual disks as if the array were one larger disk, spreading data access out over these multiple disks, reducing the risk of losing all data if one drive fails, and improving access time. It looks at how RAID is commonly used in large file servers, transaction of application servers, where data accessibility is critical and fault tolerance is required, and explores ten types of RAID, presenting a myriad of feature trade-offs that must be appropriately mapped to critical implementation requirements.
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"RAID 1 allows two or more disks to mirror each other (Achieving fault tolerance by using RAID). This configuration produces slow writes, but relatively quick reads, and facilitates high data availability on servers because a single disk can be lost without any loss of data. When more than two disks make up the mirror, the RAID 1 array can lose multiple disks as long as a complete mirrored pair is not lost. On the downside, the amount of physical disk space required is twice the space required to store the data. Therefore, Level 1 is most often used for applications that require very high data availability."
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Hockey, Poetry and Myths, 2006.
A review and analysis of John Lee's poems in "The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents a positive review of John Lee's poems in "The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime Edition", describing them as a rich reflection of myths that will be familiar to many Canadians. As such, they would make a pleasant and even nostalgic read for many people. The writer of the paper explains that, although the poems don't have the same effect on her as they would on someone who grew up with the particular heritage discussed by the poems, they do contribute to her understanding of the myths surrounding the game of hockey in Canada. The paper also notes that the poems offer a variety of perspectives on the myths and evoke a number of clear pictures of a particular lifestyle.
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Joan of Arc, 2002.
Looks at the life of Joan of Arc in a 'transformation and redundancy' context.
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This paper examines the life of Joan of Arc. It introduces feminist, class and theological analysis of her life and execution. However, it concludes that recent management theory offers the most appropriate alternative view of Joan as a charismatic leader in a transformational role, discarded when the transformation was accomplished.
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RAID, 2004.
An analysis of RAID, Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses RAID, the Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks. The paper describes this as a type of computer disk drive or storage media that uses two or more drives in association for fault tolerance and performance. The paper contends that RAID is important because the sudden eventuality of data losses can be overcome by an organization so that information and data can be securely recovered. The paper explains that RAID is used to provide real-time, around-the-clock backup of the hard disk.
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"RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks, a type of Computer Disk drives or storage media that uses two or more drives in association for fault tolerance and performance. The use of RAID disk drives are normally made on servers in a computer network environment. (RAID: www.webopedia.com) Fault tolerance is the capability to react smoothly and thereafter recover from a sudden hardware or software breakdown. Several stages of fault tolerance exist, the lowest stage being the capability to continue running the system in the event of power disruption. A lot of fault-tolerant computer systems emulate every function which indicates every function is executed on two or more identical systems, such that in the event of breakdown of a particular system the other one can continue operation from that stage onwards."
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