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Show moreOrganizations requiring their employees to maintain consistent standards of ethical behavior have need of a means of disseminating the required standards throughout the organization. The use of selected workplace programs, such as workplace ethics programs, has been found to fulfill that requirement. The creation of certain types of workplace ethics programs requires the establishment of employee commitment to those programs, as well as a means of reinforcing that commitment. This paper provides a preliminary conceptual framework for identifying and studying those elements that aid in the long-term sustainability of workplace ethics programs. Two related theories, work commitment theory and innovation theory, provide the basis for future research. Further, research questions are identified for this study.
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Show morePatient medical errors cause thousands of individual injuries and deaths each year. Avoidable medical errors occur every day, thus creating serious concern as to the safety, ethical and legal implications in healthcare delivery. A literature review of scholarly work indicates medical errors are underreported both at the institutional level and on the individual level. This paper attempts to explain why medical errors are underreported. It considers reporting practices from other industries that are applicable to the medical industry, the importance of reporting medical errors along with those incidents that have the potential to improve patient safety and patient quality of care, and the impact of regulatory factors on reporting. The paper concludes with a discussion and recommendations for further research to close the practice gap between what occurs and/or is observed and what is reported.
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Show moreGeneration and transfer of capital by Nigerian immigrants to their homeland for development of their society and relatives seems to be the right things to do. From pure philanthropy concepts and theory, these goals should be easy to accomplish because of purposive benefits to the immigrants and their strong ethnic identity ties back home. Unfortunately there is a significant gap between existing theory and the actual practice. From personal experience and literature reviews, an individual immigrant’s desire to transfer economic capital for assisting relatives and home communities have mixed results of success and failure with continuing frustrations and unintended consequences. The focus of this research work is centered on Nigerian immigrants in ethnic-based affiliations in the United States that embark on activities of creating and transferring capital for the development of their home communities. It is the belief of this author that the use of social capital and collective action concepts among immigrants coupled with transnationalism has the potential of helping the Nigerian immigrants to achieve their goals of giving back to their home communities. The research study is based on the following two overarching questions: What factors explain variation in creation and transfer of economic and social capital to home communities by Nigerian immigrants’ sociocultural ethnic organizations? The second question is, how effective are these organizations in creating and transfer capital to achieve their goals? Why are some organizations more effective than others?
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