The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility [3] treatment, medical services ancillary to infertility [3] treatment such as embryo storage, and all human embryological research performed in the UK. The law also defines a legal concept of the parent of a child conceived with assisted reproductive technologies. Section Five of the Act es...

organizational commitment has been defined as the extent that an individual accepts, internalizes, and views his or her role based on organizational values and goals. the three components –affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment– form the basis of a new conceptualization of organizational commitment. job stress has become one of the most serious health issues in t...

Inspection has been identified as one the forms of ‘governing at a distance’ associated with the rise of what has been variously defined as audit culture, audit society, performance management, the evaluative state or the competitive-evaluative nexus (see Strathern, 2000; Power, 1997; Pollitt et al, 1999; Neave, 1998 and Clarke, 2005). It takes its place alongside a battery of other technologie...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility [3] treatment, medical services ancillary to infertility [3] treatment such as embryo storage, and all human embryological research performed in the UK. The law also defines a legal concept of the parent of a child conceived with assisted reproductive technologies. Section Five of the Act es...

We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Department for International Development (DFID) for funding the survey and of UNIDO for its continuing support of work on manufacturing enterprise in Africa. We also particularly need to thank the survey team members for their commitment and enthusiasm and the firms, their managers and employees for their willingness to participate. All errors...

spect.8 At our own institution, the breakthrough that allowed us to move toward a culture of safety was sharing with practitioners the pain of a mother whose toddler had died from medical errors. This gave our staff an emotional commitment to improving safety. Care should be both effective and safe. Treating patients with the same respect and regard that we have for family members can motivate ...

Implementing a comprehensive approach to decreasing tobacco use in a large health plan requires hard work and commitment on the part of many individuals. We found that major organisational change can be accomplished and sustained. Keys to our success included our decision to remove access barriers to our cessation programmes (including cost); obtaining top leadership buy-in; identifying account...

This paper describes our experiences from creating a two year software engineering education program at Karlskrona/Ronneby University College where we have included professionalism as a major educational element. As the basis for teaching professionalism we use the concept of commitment culture, a working atmosphere built on voluntarily taking responsibility. A large proportion of the curriculu...