Organizational structure and effective environmental management

Success in ‘greening’ a business organization is likely to depend on an appropriate environmental management structure being developed in accordance with the general structure of the organization and then receiving the appropriate support from senior and middle management. The failure to assure such a relationship may provide an explanation of the development of gaps between policy and practice. This article explores differing choices in the structure of the environmental function in a number of UK regional electricity companies and how these choices impact upon the management of environmental issues, producing different outcomes. The paper argues that the environmental structure that is, either consciously or by default, adopted by a company would seem to have some impact on how environmental issues are perceived and dealt with by that company. Therefore, such a decision has the capacity to shape environmental strategy in its implementation and possibly even its conception. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

如何加强电力工程EPC总承包项目施工分包招标管理

本文针对EPC总承包项目管理的加强进行了重点讨论。对国内电力工程EPC总承包的应用及存在问题进行了深入剖析,对制约电力工程开展EPC总承包管理的因素进行了分析,并且就加强EPC总承包项目管理提出了一些有意义的建议,希望能够对相关研究和工作者起到帮助和参考的作用。     

基于团队的人力资源绩效考核与管理策略

当今人力资源管理理论正在不断地发展,而绩效考核与管理作为人力资源管理中的核心事宜,其当前更是得到了较为广泛的关注。通过对部分企事业单位人力资源绩效考核与管理状况进行分析可以发现,绩效考核与管理进程存在着一些明显不足,在其相关因素的影响和作用下,一系列不足也演变为了具体的绩效考核与管理问题。基于团队的人力资源绩效考核与管理带有一定特殊性,论文对相应问题进行分析,并就如何在团队视角下进行人力资源绩效考核与管理提出合理建议。     

Does obligational contracting lead to better performance? A comparison of global carmakers’ supply chain management approaches in Australia

Supply chain management (SCM) has been recognised as key to automobile manufacturers’ (‘buyers’) competitive advantage. However, the performance implication of two different approaches towards SCM, obligational contracting (OCR) vs. arm’s length contracting (ACR), remains inconclusive in the current literature. By focusing on examining how multiple global automobile manufacturers’ SCM practices result in different performance outcomes in the one-country setting of Australia, we are able to ascertain the direct impact of SCM approaches on buyers’ performance. We also provide detailed analysis on the specific influence of each distinguishing feature of the OCR/ACR approaches on different aspects of performance. Through a more nuanced investigation of the links between SCM approaches and automobile manufacturers’ performance at the firm level, this research contributes to a better understanding of the topic with managerially applicable insights.     

浅析影响小型机性能的根源

大家知道即使再强劲的机器如果没有得到规范的管理和监控,以及使用一些防范手段和应急处理机制,系统也会因为业务系统或数据库系统让系统长时间满负荷运转造成可怕的后果,本文主要讨论如何快速找到影响服务器性能下降的根源。     

Organizational Cultural Intelligence: A Competitive Capability for Strategic Alliances in the International Construction Industry

Cultural intelligence (CQ) on the organizational level is an organization's capacity to reconfigure its capability to function and manage effectively in culturally diverse environments and to gain and sustain its competitive advantages. This study aims to present a model, examining how organizational CQ through competitiveness framework might potentially affect the strategic alliancing ability of contracting firms operating abroad. The research involves a questionnaire survey conducted with the contracting firms. The research findings support the contracting firms leveraging their cultural intelligence as their main cross‐cultural competence for establishing and increasing the performance of international strategic alliances.     

加纳凯蓬供水扩建工程里程碑支付的探讨

里程碑支付是国际工程总承包中一种常见的支付方式,具有操作程序简单、管理工作量小等优点受到业主方的青睐,同样,总包商如果能利用好这种支付手段,在减少支付工作量的同时又能取得最大的经济效益,本文以加纳凯蓬供水扩建工程为例,重点从支付项目设置、分解以及各项比例的确定等方面做了分析和研究。     

关于防范建设领域工程款拖欠的长效机制构建探讨

分析了建设领域工程款拖欠的原因,结合国家政策文件,阐述对工程款拖欠应采取规范建筑市场、健全建设领域法律制度、完善工程担保制度、加强建设领域信用体系建设、提高承包企业风险防范意识等相应措施,提出防范工程款拖欠的长效机制构建思路.     

论建筑施工管理和质量控制措施

项目管理在现代建筑工程项目实施中具有十分重要的作用,本文对如何加强工程项目管理问题进行了探讨。     

对团队绩效考核体系的战略性思考

绩效考核如何反映企业战略要求一直是困扰人力资源管理理论研究者和实践者的一个棘手问题。而如何对团队进行绩效考核更是一个时下急需解决的问题。本文将从对团队绩效考核的有关实践来说明绩效考核中的一些主要问题,并对团队绩效考核体系的设计提出一些建议。     

论检察院如何应对涉检网络舆情危机

近年来,互联网上涉检公共事件和热点话题不断出现,不断地冲击着基层检察机关的公信力和执行力,危及检察工作的开展和检察队伍的建设。妥善化解涉检网络舆情危机,成为深入推进3项重点工作的必然选择。文章试图从涉检网络舆情的现状、如何化解涉检网络舆情危机2个方面作一些探索,为基层检察院应对网络舆情危机提供参考。     

浅论越南水电工程总承包项目风险管理

中国企业在越南的水电总承包项目具有复杂性和诸多不确定性，存在巨大的承包风险。文章以越南昆江等多个水电站总承包项目为实例，对风险因素、识别风险、分解风险、化解风险等项目风险管理办法进行了论述。     

The complexity of managing human resources in Peru

This article describes how the politics of human resources have changed in Peru, and how this change played an important role in the reforms that occurred throughout the 1990s. Throughout the article, we examine how the size and the type of organization influence the generation of human resource management. For example, some medium-sized businesses have successfully integrated their human resource management with its central competencies, experiencing positive economic and financial business results. Other companies chose to circumvent human resource management issues by outsourcing or using contract workers, relegating the role of human resources to a peripheral role. Transnational organizations bring many methods and selection processes, promotions, evaluations, training and salary determination. The article ends with a comparative analysis between the formal and informal sector of the national economy with respect to human resources practices.     

The new public management and the UK Police Service

This article explores the impact of the introduction of the New Public Management (NPM) within the UK Police Service since the mid-1990s. A specific focus upon individual performance management (one of the central features of NPM) is examined from the perspective of the police sergeant who has primary responsibility for managing performance and ultimately the delivery of policing services within one of the UK's ‘essential’ public services. After a discussion of the literature on individual performance management within the context of the NPM, the article identifies four major research questions relating to: the job role demands of performance management; access to valid and reliable performance management information; the capacity to provide follow-up development and support; and the wider integration of performance management with organization strategy and service objectives. After reporting on interview data collected from role sets in which the sergeant is a focal member, the article concludes with a discussion of the constraints upon effective performance management within the NPM.     

关于国有施工企业人才问题的几点思考

随着建筑市场的日益成熟和完善，人才问题已成为国有施工企业面临的头等人力资源管理问题。本文就目前我国国有施工企业存在的人力资源问题，提出了如何通过改革人力资源管理，吸引和留住人才的几点建议。     

海外电力承包工程的风险管理及防范措施

工程承包风险管理能力的高低直接影响着我国的海外电力承包工程的经济利益,工程承包单位一定要创建合理的机构用来评估、检测承包风险,不仅如此,企业还要加大风险管理的力度,提升企业自身抵抗风险的本领,确保企业能够实现高收益。下面文章中主要讲述了四川电力设计咨询有限责任公司在海外执行某电力总承包项目过程中的实际情况,分析海外电力工程承包风险的管理与防范措施。     

PMC模式下的合同管理研究及建议

随着项目管理承包(PMC)模式在国际舞台上的作用日趋显著,掌握这种先进的管理模式、管理理念和管理方法已成为项目管理者的必修课,但对如何划分业主和项目管理承包方的权利和责任没有清晰的规则,作者从这个角度对PMC模式下的合同管理进行了分析及建议。     

Sector choices for public service delivery The transaction cost implications of executive turnover

The question of whether private firms should contract out for products and services or provide them internally (i.e. become more vertically integrated) has been a topic that has concerned scholars for many years. This article argues that the transaction costs in local contracting choices are linked to the characteristics of political systems that influence political and administrative uncertainty. Our analysis examines the transaction costs that result from executive turnover. Specifically, we are concerned with how uncertainty resulting from turnover in leadership positions in city government affects the ability of a municipality to negotiate contracts, make credible commitments to suppliers and faithfully uphold and enforce contracts once they are in force. We find that manager turnover reduces the likelihood of contracting with private sector providers. Mayor turnover has the opposite effect increasing contracting with both government and for-profit providers.     

Independent and dependent contracting: Meaning and implications

In the context of the changing nature of work and the continuing growth of contingent employment contracts, this article examines the consequences associated with various forms of individually-negotiated, fixed-term contracts. This article first draws a distinction between what can be labeled as independent contracting arrangements, where the workers are autonomous and mobile, and other situations where contractors are more “dependent” on their clients. This investigation then provides an overview of the consequences associated with the employment of “independent” and “dependent” contractors. Based on a review of the existing research literature, the article examines the prescribed and realized benefits of individual contracting from the perspectives of the organization, the permanent employees, and the contractors themselves. Finally, the article concludes with some suggestions for human resource management (HRM) practice as well as areas in need of future research attention.     

Disaggregating and reaggregating work: Workers,management and the struggle over creating coherency and purpose in a context of work degradation

The article argues that whilst there is a growing sense of degradation and worsening conditions (disaggregation) of work in the cleaning sector in general, there are some important contradictions which require complex organisational responses. In the main, there is a growing sense of isolation in this work, yet also a growing perception of autonomy and workers having to use discretion in new and challenging ways. This article focuses on these issues and management responses to reaggregate the nature of such work, creating new forms of identity and activities intended to enhance (or address) the levels of stability and sustainability at work as well as in operational processes. This management conundrum means that they need to deal with a range of job‐related, skill‐oriented worker learning and also representation issues. These responses bring to the fore the contested nature of such forms of work and how they are changing.