Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 1998

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Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 2001

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Boston College Law School Magazine Fall 1995

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Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 1995

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Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family

Interviews with more than 40 leaders in the Boston area health care industry have identified a range of broadly-felt critical problems. This document synthesizes these problems and places them in the context of work and family issues implicit in the organization of health care workplaces. It concludes with questions about possible ways to address such issues. The defining circumstance for the health care industry nationally as well as regionally at present is an extraordinary reorganization, not yet fully negotiated, in the provision and financing of health care. Hoped-for controls on increased costs of medical care – specifically the widespread replacement of indemnity insurance by market-based managed care and business models of operation--have fallen far short of their promise. Pressures to limit expenditures have produced dispiriting conditions for the entire healthcare workforce, from technicians and aides to nurses and physicians. Under such strains, relations between managers and workers providing care are uneasy, ranging from determined efforts to maintain respectful cooperation to adversarial negotiation. Taken together, the interviews identify five key issues affecting a broad cross-section of occupational groups, albeit in different ways: Staffing shortages of various kinds throughout the health care workforce create problems for managers and workers and also for the quality of patient care. Long work hours and inflexible schedules place pressure on virtually every part of the healthcare workforce, including physicians. Degraded and unsupportive working conditions, often the result of workplace "deskilling" and "speed up," undercut previous modes of clinical practice. Lack of opportunities for training and advancement exacerbate workforce problems in an industry where occupational categories and terms of work are in a constant state of flux. Professional and employee voices are insufficiently heard in conditions of rapid institutional reorganization and consolidation. Interviewees describe multiple impacts of these issues--on the operation of health care workplaces, on the well being of the health care workforce, and on the quality of patient care. Also apparent in the interviews, but not clearly named and defined, is the impact of these issues on the ability of workers to attend well to the needs of their families--and the reciprocal impact of workers' family tensions on workplace performance. In other words, the same things that affect patient care also affect families, and vice versa. Some workers describe feeling both guilty about raising their own family issues when their patients' needs are at stake, and resentful about the exploitation of these feelings by administrators making workplace policy. The different institutions making up the health care system have responded to their most pressing issues with a variety of specific stratagems but few that address the complexities connecting relations between work and family. The MIT Workplace Center proposes a collaborative exploration of next steps to probe these complications and to identify possible locations within the health care system for workplace experimentation with outcomes benefiting all parties.

Predicting random level and seasonality of hotel prices. A structural equation growth curve approach

This article examines the effect on price of different characteristics of holiday hotels in the sun-and-beach segment, under the hedonic function perspective. Monthly prices of the majority of hotels in the Spanish continental Mediterranean coast are gathered from May to October 1999 from the tour operator catalogues. Hedonic functions are specified as random-effect models and parametrized as structural equation models with two latent variables, a random peak season price and a random width of seasonal fluctuations. Characteristics of the hotel and the region where they are located are used as predictors of both latent variables. Besides hotel category, region, distance to the beach, availability of parking place and room equipment have an effect on peak price and also on seasonality. 3- star hotels have the highest seasonality and hotels located in the southern regions the lowest, which could be explained by a warmer climate in autumn

Projecte d’instal·lacions d’aigua calenta sanitària per a un hotel de quatre estrelles a Platja d’Aro amb aportació d’energia solar

En el present projecte final de carrera s’han dissenyat i pressupostat les instal·lacions de fontaneria, energia solar i gas natural per abastir d’aigua les dependències d’un hotel. L’hotel es troba situat a municipi de Platja d’Aro, a la província de Girona. La seva categoria és de quatre estrelles i això comporta un nivell alt de qualitat en els serveis oferts, en aquest cas el subministrament d’aigua freda i aigua calenta sanitària (ACS) als seus clients

Projecte constructiu d’una plataforma inclinable adaptada a la sala polivalent d’un hotel

Disseny constructiu d’una plataforma inclinable per ser automatitzada adaptada al terra de la sala polivalent d’un hotel, de manera que permeti convertir-la en un moment donat, en un saló de congressos tot facilitant la visió i audició als assistents. El projecte respon a la necessitat d’un establiment hoteler de crear una nova línia de negoci no estacional. El projecte queda emmarcat en un hotel que està en funcionament, el qual condiciona el projecte amb unes especificacions de partida molt restrictives i que condicionen el seu disseny i dimensionament pensant amb la posterior posada en obra de la instal•lació

Plan de mercadeo para el Hotel Campestre: La Margarita. Ubicado en el municipio de Nimaima – Cudinamarca

En el trabajo de grado se realiza un análisis del mercado y se propone una planeación estratégica para el Hotel Campestre La Margarita, ubicado en Nimaima – Cundinamarca, con el propósito de aumentar los indicadores de rentabilidad para sus propietarios, con base a un Plan de Mercadeo que permita identificar factores claves de éxito y estrategias para lograr el posicionamiento deseado en los mercados objetivos.

Análisis estratégico del sector hotelero para el Hotel Tequendama en Bogotá

Este documento presenta un estudio del sector hotelero en Colombia, específicamente en Bogotá, donde se identificó la situación actual del mismo y cómo influye en el desarrollo de la economía y en los hoteles. Seguido a esto, mediante la realización de cuatro pruebas no económicas (análisis de hacinamiento, panorama competitivo, análisis estructural de fuerzas del mercado y estudio de competidores), que corresponden al Análisis Estructural de Sectores Estratégicos (AESE), permitió que el Hotel Tequendama (hotel de estudio) reconociera sus fortalezas y debilidades en comparación con sus competidores en pro de identificar las oportunidades que no se están atendiendo dentro del sector.

Análisis del entorno y del mercado para la puesta en marcha del plan de rebranding de un hotel de playa en Panamá: caso Sheraton Bijao Beach Resort

La cadena hotelera colombiana GHL Hoteles Ltda., obtuvo el manejo operacional de un hotel existente en Santa Clara – Panamá, para que de ésta manera soportara un cambio de marca, convirtiéndose así en un Sheraton. Con la ayuda de un gran equipo de trabajo fue posible ésta transición y actualmente se perfeccionan los detalles para cumplir con los estándares dictados y exigidos por la marca. Contando con el soporte de una oficina de mercadeo y ventas ubicada en la ciudad de Panamá, es menester respaldar todos los logros en estrategias de mercadeo y ventas para el éxito y la rentabilidad del negocio.

Análisis de la instrumentalización de las organizaciones internacionales por parte de los estados para construir su identidad de rol. Un estudio a partir de la experiencia de Francia entre 1940 y 1946 en el marco de los primeros años de la ONU

Analisis de la transformación de la identidad de rol francesa durante la segunda guerra mundial y la importancia de la fundación de la onu para la reconstrucción de dicha identidad.