compliance

Examples of compliance in the following topics:

• Factors Affecting Pulmonary Ventilation: Compliance of the Lungs

  • Lung compliance refers to the magnitude of change in lung volume as a result of the change in pulmonary pressure.
  • Compliance is the ability of lungs and pleural cavity to expand and contract based on changes in pressure.
  • Compliance depends on the elasticity and surface tension of the lungs.
  • Compliance is inversely related to the elastic recoil of the lungs, so thickening of lung tissue will decrease lung compliance.
  • A low lung compliance means that the lungs are "stiff" and have a higher than normal level of elastic recoil.

• Compliance

  • Compliance affects everyday behavior, especially in social interactions.
  • In studying compliance, social psychologists aim to examine overt and subtle social influences and their relationship to compliance.
  • Individuals can be coaxed into compliance in a number of ways, which we will discuss next.
  • Number: Compliance increases as the number of people in a group increases.
  • Low-balling gains compliance by offering the subject something at a low initial cost.

• Training Ethical Decision Making

  • Organizations use compliance and ethics programs to demonstrate and reinforce their commitment to ethical practices.
  • Many organizations implement compliance and ethics programs to help guide the decision making and behavior of employees.
  • Compliance with regulatory requirements and the organization's own policies are a critical component of effective risk management.
  • Monitoring and maintaining compliance is not just to keep the regulators happy—it is one of the most important ways for an organization to maintain its ethical health, support its long-term prosperity, and preserve and promote its values.
  • The presence of compliance and ethics programs demonstrates an organization's commitment to creating a work environment and corporate culture that values doing what is right, good, and just.

• The Work of Breathing

  • Breathing includes several components, including flow-resistive and elastic work; surfactant production; and lung resistance and compliance.
  • Two main causes of decreased gas exchange are compliance (how elastic the lung is) and resistance (how much obstruction exists in the airways).
  • In both diseases, the airways are less compliant and stiff or fibrotic, resulting in a decrease in compliance because the lung tissue cannot bend and move.
  • The overall compliance of the lungs is increased, because as the alveolar walls are damaged, lung elastic recoil decreases due to a loss of elastic fibers; more air is trapped in the lungs at the end of exhalation.
  • Explain the roles played by surfactant, flow-resistive and elastic work, and lung resistance and compliance in breathing

• Key Behaviors of Transactional Leaders

  • Transactional leaders focus on performance, promote success with rewards and punishments, and maintain compliance with organizational norms.
  • Transactional leaders seek to maintain compliance within existing goals and expectations and the current organizational culture.

• Calculating carbon footprints

  • Calculating a ‘carbon footprint' (i.e. the amount of carbon dioxide a process creates) is a trendy way to measure carbon emissions with the added benefit that, when lowered, the numbers can be used in public relations campaigns or to prove compliance with emissions legislation.

• A Leader's Influence

  • In 1958, Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three broad varieties of social influence: compliance, identification, and internalization.
  • Compliance involves people behaving the way others expect them to whether they agree with doing so or not.
  • Obeying the instructions of a crossing guard or an authority figure is an example of compliance.
  • For example, compliance is a means of maintaining order in the workplace, such as when employees are expected to follow the rules set by their supervisors.

• Affirmative Action

  • OFCCP conducts compliance reviews to investigate the employment practices of government contractors.
  • During a compliance review, a compliance officer examines the contractor's affirmative action program, checks personnel, payroll, and other employment records, interviews employees and company officials, and investigates virtually all aspects of employment in the company.

• Activities in the Human Resources Department

  • Ensuring compliance with legal and cultural expectations when it comes to employee compensation
  • Ensuring compliance with legal requirements based on job function for safety measures (i.e. hard hats in construction, available counseling for law enforcement, appropriate safety equipment for chemists, etc.)

• Conformity and Obedience

  • Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization.
  • Compliance is public conformity, while possibly keeping one's own original beliefs independent.
  • This can be motivated by the attractiveness of the source, and this is a deeper type of conformism than compliance.
  • Obedience differs from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority.
  • Differentiate among compliance, identification, and internalization; and between obedience and conformity