Petition to protect ‘nurse’ job title

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which dynamic pricing is utilized in North American professional sports. While industries such as airlines and travel services have employed dynamic pricing for decades, professional sports is only now starting to adopt it. Design/methodology/approach The authors survey and interview high ranking executives and managers in North American sports organizations. A total of 72 managers and executives from the four major North American professional sports leagues as well as other sport properties were surveyed. Descriptive statistics and a basic regression provide insight into perceptions v. actual practice among sports organizations. Findings While most sports organizations perceive high usage of dynamic pricing within their organization, current procedures lag. Nearly 70 percent of respondents believe that their organizations frequently or always apply business analytics to dynamic pricing, but only 30 percent update their prices daily. Fully 50 percent of organizations do not automate decision-making processes, which is a hallmark of dynamic pricing. The perception of constant use of analytics in dynamic pricing intensifies as job title increases. Originality/value As one of the initial surveys looking at the usage of dynamic pricing in North American professional sports, this study provides a glimpse into both the perception and the reality. It suggests that there is still ample room for improvement.

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Assessing the landscape of US postdoctoral salaries

Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education ◽

10.1108/sgpe-d-17-00048 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 213-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rodoniki Athanasiadou ◽

Adriana Bankston ◽

McKenzie Carlisle ◽

Caroline A. Niziolek ◽

Gary S. McDowell

Keyword(s):

Geographic Region ◽

Freedom Of Information ◽

Pay Gap ◽

Content Type ◽

Postdoctoral Position ◽

Job Titles ◽

University Systems ◽

The Usa ◽

Job Title ◽

Using Data

Purpose Postdocs make up a significant portion of the biomedical workforce. However, data about the postdoctoral position are generally scarce, and no systematic study of the landscape of individual postdoc salaries in the USA has previously been carried out. The purpose of this study was to assess actual salaries for postdocs using data gathered from US public institutions; determine how these salaries may vary with postdoc title, institutional funding and geographic region; and reflect on which institutional and federal policy measures may have the greatest impact on salaries nationally. Design/methodology/approach Freedom of Information Act Requests were submitted to US public universities or university systems containing campuses with at least 300 science, engineering and health postdocs, according to the 2015 National Science Foundation’s Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. Salaries and job titles of postdocs as of December 1, 2016, were requested. Findings Salaries and job titles for nearly 14,000 postdocs at 52 US institutions around December 1, 2016, were received. Individual postdoc names were also received for approximately 7,000 postdocs, and departmental affiliations were received for 4,000 postdocs. This exploratory study shows evidence of a postdoc gender pay gap, a significant influence of job title on postdoc salary and a complex relationship between salaries and the level of institutional National Institutes of Health/NSF funding. Originality/value These results provide insights into the ability of institutions to collate and report out annualized salary data on their postdocs, highlighting difficulties faced in tracking and reporting data on this population by institutional administration. Ultimately, these types of efforts, aimed at increasing transparency regarding the postdoctoral position, may lead to improved support for postdocs at all US institutions and allow greater agency for postdocs making decisions based on financial concerns.

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New job title blurs boundaries and will confuse the public

Nursing Standard ◽

10.7748/ns.30.25.32.s37 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (25) ◽

pp. 32-32

Author(s):

Trish Morris-Thompson

Keyword(s):

The Public ◽

Job Title

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Needle Stick and Sharp Injuries Among Healthcare Workers: A retrospective six-year study

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal [SQUMJ] ◽

10.18295/squmj.2020.20.01.008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 54

Author(s):

Rami Saadeh ◽

Khaled Khairallah ◽

Hussein Abozeid ◽

Lama Al Rashdan ◽

Mahmoud Alfaqih ◽

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Keyword(s):

Healthcare Workers ◽

Medical Center ◽

National Level ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Self Report ◽

Medicine Department ◽

Needle Stick ◽

Job Title ◽

Hospital Wards ◽

And Training

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the proportion of needle stick and sharp injuries (NSSIs) among healthcare workers at King Hussein Medical Center (KHMC), Amman, Jordan. Methods: All NSSI reports referred from departments at KHMC to the Preventive Medicine Department between 2013–2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Proportion of NSSIs were calculated and stratified according to age, gender, job title, place and site of injury and the procedure/task during which the injury occurred. Results: There were a total of 393 NSSIs. A significant association was found between the proportion of NSSIs and all tested variables (P <0.001). The reported proportion of NSSIs was highest among nurses (39.7%) followed by cleaners (36.3%), physicians (10.4%), other workers (7.4%) and lab technicians (5.9%) during the study’s six-year period. Hospital wards were the most common locations (46.1%) where injuries took place. Injuries also occurred most frequently during medical waste collection (38.2%). Conclusion: The proportion of NSSIs was highest among nurses and cleaners. Safety policies and training among high-risk groups should be reviewed to reduce the risk of NSSIs. Multicentre studies at a national level should be conducted to examine whether this study’s findings reflect national trends.Keywords: Needlestick Injuries; Safety; Self Report; Nurses; Accident Prevention; Jordan.

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Determinates of Employee Voluntary Turnover and Forecasting in R&D Departments: A Case Study

Studies in Engineering and Technology ◽

10.11114/set.v3i1.1635 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 64

Author(s):

Xiaojuan Zhu ◽

Rapinder Sawhney ◽

Girish Upreti

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Decision Tree ◽

Human Resource ◽

Voluntary Turnover ◽

Important Variable ◽

Validation Dataset ◽

Tree Model ◽

Job Title ◽

Decision Tree Method ◽

Employee Tenure

employee voluntary turnover factors using logistic regression and forecasts employee tenure using a decision tree for four research and development departments in a large U.S organization. Company job title, gender, ethnicity, age and years of service significantly affect employee voluntary turnover behavior determined by logistic regression. The findings assist managers and human resource departments in specific employee retention strategies to reduce R&D departments’ voluntary turnover rate. The decision tree method built a five-level depth tree model with 17 nodes. This model has the lowest AIC value and the best performance in the validation dataset. Age at hire, jobtitle, division, and race are statistically significant factors to predict employee tenure. The most important variable is age at hire located in the decision tree’s first, third, and fourth nodes. Classification rules assist managers and human resource departments in quickly predicting employee tenure and in making hiring decisions.

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Relating Enterprise, Application, and Infrastructure Architects

Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2199-2.ch001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Eoin Woods ◽

Nick Rozanski

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Academic Community ◽

Senior Member ◽

High Profile ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Business Goals ◽

Job Title ◽

The Many ◽

It Departments ◽

Tools And Techniques

The architect takes a high-profile role in many IT departments today. In fact, it can be quite difficult in some organizations to find a senior member of IT technical staff whose job title does not include the word “architect.” However there is little consensus in the academic community or amongst practitioners as to the responsibilities of the many different types of architect we encounter – or indeed, what they should even be called. In this chapter, the authors propose a simple, widely applicable taxonomy of architects, namely enterprise architects, application architects, and infrastructure architects. The authors define distinguishing characteristics, their responsibilities, the stakeholders with whom they engage, and the tools and techniques they use. The chapter shows how this taxonomy can be applied to most, if not all, practicing architects in the information systems domain, and explains how it helps us understand how such architects work together to help deliver the organization’s business goals.

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Job Title

The Copyright Librarian ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-100172-1.15003-8 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 113-114

Keyword(s):

Job Title

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The triumph of imagology—a paradise for tricksters?

The Triumph of Emptiness ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199660940.003.0014 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Mats Alvesson

Keyword(s):

Financial Crises ◽

Working Life ◽

Job Tasks ◽

The Road ◽

Job Title ◽

Broad Subject ◽

The Right ◽

Material Standard Of Living

Having addressed the three broad subject matters in Chapters 2–9—consumption, higher education, and working life/organizations—it is now time to connect these themes, to formulate additional ideas, insights, and results based on synthesis as well as summaries and conclusions. This will be done here and in the final chapter. Below I address further the significance of expectations and desire. The title of Kovel’s (1981) by now somewhat dated book, The Age of Desire, is probably much more appropriate today than 30 years ago. Recession and financial crises in some countries can temporarily attenuate the rampage of desire for some groups—with reduction in the material standard of living, concerns other than desire may require attention—but this does not disturb the overall picture of the dominant inclinations in post-affluent society. I start the chapter by addressing post-affluence and, in particular, how expectations of the good consumption and working life are gradually raised so that reality, when salient, may be a source of frustration and disappointment more often than delivering what it should. People in ads are always happier and more beautiful than the consumers trying to imitate them. The institution recruiting students seldom undersells the quality of its teaching, or the employment that may follow for graduates. The job title increasingly promises something better than the actual job tasks. Having pointed at the misfortunes of reality—or ‘shit happens’—I then make some specific links between education, work, and consumption, before moving quickly over to how statistics often support competitions in showing the right numbers to make things appear to be good, sometimes at the expense of the quality of the phenomena the numbers are supposed to say something about. I also address how the understanding of grandiosity and illusion tricks can be further developed through the use of Kundera’s concept imagology. Here, in particular, I draw upon Kundera’s claim that people occupied by imagology constitute a broad, diverse, but rapidly expanding set of occupations leading the road to grandiosity.

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