Hotel Housekeeping Operational Audit

Cinderella in Babylon: the representation of housekeeping and housekeepers in the UK television series Hotel Babylon

This article examines representations of housekeeping and housekeepers in the popular television series Hotel Babylon. We take a reflective approach in considering how identities and roles in the Hotel Babylon series are constructed, regarding the housekeeping department and its workers. We identify that the representation of housekeeping work and employees is one of mainly sexualized victims, ...

Compliance Measurement and Workload Selection with Operational Audit Data

Audit of operational noise at the leicester royal infirmary aicu

Introduction Ambient noise and its impact on sleep is an important factor in the development of delirium [1]. Noise is a problem on intensive care units, being one of the main environmental stress inducing factors amongst patients [2]. A key source of noise is the signalling of alarms. As part of plans to decrease noise, we investigated the number and appropriateness of alarms sounded overnight...

Developing a Theoretical and Operational Knowledge Audit Model for Project- Based Organizations

Background/aim. Considering the underlying role played by knowledge management in project-based organizations; and, the fact that knowledge audit is the most important step in supplying, maintaining and updating the content of knowledge management systems; this research effort is aimed at designing an appropriate knowledge audit model based on the requirements and factors of knowledge audit in ...

Good Housekeeping

In this issue of Neuron, Tani et al. (2014) revisit a disputed issue where biochemical and physiological data have provided conflicting results. Using a novel stimulation protocol, the authors isolate the contribution of the glutamate-glutamine cycle to excitatory synaptic transmission.