From Chaos to Competency: Implementing a New Competency Model in a Multihospital System.

The demonstration of nurses' competency has been a challenge for nurse educators for a multitude of reasons. Standardizing competencies across a health care system is especially challenging. One multihospital health care system embarked on a journey to standardize and implement competencies across the system.

From white-collar crime to red-collar crime.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of violence with respect to white-collar criminals.

Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is conceptual, focusing on the historical underpinnings of white-collar crime and reviewing the evolution of white-collar criminals.

Findings: Findings suggest that white-collar criminals do display violent tendencies and, contrary to popular belief, can become dangerous individuals.

Identity theft and consumers' reaction to preventive technological innovations.

The use of identification technology by commercial entities has broad and, for some consumers, disturbing social implications. This two-phase study was done to specify consumers' concerns regarding various identification technologies which may be encountered in retail environments. From the qualitative findings, a 26-item survey was constructed to quantify identified areas of concern with 303 survey participants (147 women and 156 men), whose mean age category was 30 to 39 years.

Influence of prior involvement on employees' ratings.

Surveys show that the majority of firms provide merit pay to outstanding employees. Despite the widespread use of merit pay programs, there is no consensus as to their effectiveness. While some plans have been successful in motivating employees to achieve higher performance, others have caused employees' dissatisfaction and discouragement.