铁路工程架子队管理模式存在的问题与对策

为适应大规模铁路建设需要,进一步规范铁路建设项目施工用工行为,杜绝铁路建设项目"违法转包、分包",确保铁路工程的质量和施工安全,创新劳务管理模式,自铁道部《关于积极倡导架子队管理模式的指导意见》(铁建设【2008】51号)文发布以来,笔者所在的项目部通过在项目上的推广和实施,对架子队的标准化建设进行探索与研究,指出架子队管理模式中存在的难点及在实施过程中存在的问题,并对架子队管理创新的进行了研究。     

公路项目管理模式探讨

为了杜绝公路建设项目的分包、转包,确保工程质量和安全,强化对施工作业队的管理,公路施工需要创新管理模式。本文在吸收铁路施工架子队管理模式精髓的基础上,结合公路施工的特殊性,提出公路项目需推行架子队核算模式的背景及意义。     

铁路工程项目架子队管理浅议

本文针对本单位推行架子队施工管理模式的实际,阐述了在某铁路工程项目试点期间的运行状况和存在不足,提出深化"架子队"施工组织模式的意见建议,为全面推行架子队建设提供借鉴和参考。     

公路项目管理模式探讨

为了杜绝公路建设项目的＂分包、转包＂,确保工程质量和安全,强化对施工作业队的管理,公路施工需要创新管理模式。本文在吸收铁路施工架子队管理模式精髓的基础上,结合公路施工的特殊性,提出公路项目需推行架子队核算模式的背景及意义。     

架子队管理与风险控制浅析

推行架子队管理模式特别是组建和使用职工架子队是施工企业的内在要求,施工企业在组建架子队的同时一定要注重制定架子队六项基本管理制度(质量管理制度、安全管理制度、教育培训制度、岗位管理制度、考核评比制度和日常管理制度)和实现制度标准化.     

浅谈项目架子队党建创新

项目架子队党建是企业项目党建基层组织建设的重要组成部分。本文通过阐述项目架子队党建创新工作的必要性,并结合党建工作的重要性给出了项目架子队党建工作的指导原则,在此基础上提出了做好创新项目架子队党建工作的举措,以促进企业经济发展,维护项目架子队和谐稳定。     

新管理模式下的机制体制创新与抑制腐败

随着社会主义市场经济的发展,一种新的管理理念注入建筑工程项目施工中去,那就是推行"架子队管理模式"。这种新型的劳动用工管理模式,是充分利用社会劳动力资源,实现施工企业现场管理层与作业层的有机衔接和有效运作,防止施工现场质量安全保证体系流于形式,对确保建设工程质量和施工安全具有重大意义。     

穿越贵州山

工期紧、成本高、资金缺,这三大难题成为摆在施工单位面前的三道坎。专业队伍迎难而上中国中铁五局机械化公司沪昆客专贵州段项目于2010年8月进场,施工标段全长36.4公里,线下投资额17.6亿元,工期47.7个月。为了加强施工力量,2012年项目在原有架子队资源基础上重组了10支架子队,进一步落实公司对架子队的经济承包责任制,采用工、料、机定额消耗加现场经费承包的模式,每月由项目部按控制标准进行考核;架子队领导人员实行项目年薪制,与完成计划产值、责任成本、安全质量、信誉评价和标准化建设、党建和精神文明五项考核指标挂钩,并建     

建设和谐高效的作业队文化

自2008年以来,为全面推进大规模、高标准铁路建设,原铁道部要求所有参建施工企业持续推进标准化管理,全面实施架子队建设.所谓架子队,就是工程项目基层施工作业队伍,是以施工企业管理、技术人员和生产骨干为施工作业管理与监控层、以劳务企业的劳务人员与施工企业签订劳动合同(统称劳务作业人员)为主要作业人员的工程队.大力加强架子队建设,建设和谐高效的作业队文化是关键.中铁五局四公司着力打造标准化架子队,通过狠抓管理文化、构建和谐文化、推进专项文化,形成了独具特色的中铁五局四公司架子队文化,全面提高了架子队的管理和施工水平,确保了承建的工程项目快速有序有效推进.     

“双标”共建架子队——中铁五局六公司架子队标准化建设纪实

以项目标准化管理促进架子队标准化建设,以项目党建标准化促进架子队作用日益发挥,新型架子队已显示出越来越明显的作用。中铁五局六公司在标准化架子队建设中,坚持按照铁道部、中国中铁股份公司和中铁五局集团公司关于加强工程项目架子队建设和标准化管理的相关精神来构建,坚持以标     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.