基于任务式的士官晋升培训模式

新时期中国特色军事变革不断深入,部队新装备战斗力和保障能力的形成对装备技术保障士官岗位能力提出了新要求。通过部队实际调研、深入院校座谈、广泛征求专家意见,在学校士官晋升培训中实施了任务式培训模式。基于任务式的士官晋升培训模式是以任务为牵引,搭建提升初级士官分析问题、解决问题实现知识的自我更新平台;在解决任务的过程中实现能力的提升。     

深化初级预选士官实战化训练的探索与实践

在新的形势下推进初级预选士官教育创新发展,应把实战化训练融入专业培训全过程,强化近似实战的训练实践,使受训学员具备全面扎实的素质能力基础,更好地适应岗位需求和实战需要。文章从加强初级预选士官培训实战化训练的现实要求、初级预选士官培训实战化训练存在的矛盾与差距、推进装备保障类专业初级预选士官实战化训练的探索实践等3个方面,探讨了装备保障类专业初级预选士官实战化训练应重点把握的问题。     

基层部队士官择偶现状研究

基层部队士官是作战部队的骨干力量,在部队建设中起着重要的作用。随着社会环境的日新月异和军队改革的深入发展,当代士官的婚恋发生着悄无声息的衍变,带有深刻的时代印记和鲜明的职业特点。     

探讨当前形势下的高校财务审核

随着经济形势的不断变化,高校参与社会经济活动的程度越来越高,经济活动的内容和领域也随着经济环境的变化而不断拓展和多元化,对财务审核岗位的要求也随之提高。文章从高校财务审核的岗位职责出发,指出了目前高校财务审核岗位存在不适应新形势的六方面问题,并提出了相应的解决对策。     

基于战斗力标准的军队院校教员队伍建设要求

大量高新技术装备陆续装备部队,教员队伍在装备技术保障人才培养过程中具有重要作用,是军队院校战斗力生成的重要力量,本文通过围绕新装备专业知识要求、围绕部队作战保障需求、围绕学员任职岗位能力培养的三方面建设,论述把战斗力标准摆在重要的位置突出出来,实现军队院校人才培养任务。     

信息化条件下军交运输保障装备建设

伴随着我军信息化进程的发展,军交运输保障装备逐渐装备部队,并在部队现代化建设中发挥着越来越重要的作用。本文主要针对未来信息化战争对军交运输保障装备的要求,分析了我军现阶段军交运输保障装备的建设现状,对我军军交运输保障装备信息化建设进行了初探。     

我国石油装备产业发展现状与存在问题分析

伴随中国石油、石化行业的不断发展,石油装备产业作为其上游产业也取得了长足的进步。但是,随着石油、石化行业技术要求的不断提高,加上国际石油装备巨头的全球扩张,中国石油装备产业发展面临重重困难。本文在系统梳理中国石油装备产业发展现状的基础上,针对其发展存在的问题进行深入分析,以期找到其背后深层次的原因,为中国石油装备产业的快速崛起提供决策支持。     

新时期党建和思想政治工作方法初探

随着改革开放的不断深入、市场经济的不断发展和人民生活水平的不断提高,使我国社会发生了深刻的变化:经济成分和经济利益﹑社会生活方式﹑社会组织形式﹑就业岗位和就业方式的多样化,这些多样化,使人们的思想认识﹑价值观念和思维方式变得多样化,人们的思想空前活跃。在这种新形势下,不断出现新情况、新问题和新矛盾,给党建工作和思想政治工作带来新的实际问题,提出了新的更高的要求。     

浅议实践性教学在士官任职教育中的应用

士官人才的岗位任职特点要求士官任职教育要突出管理能力、操作能力和综合素质的培养。实践性教学能深化和巩固学员所学理论知识,提高学员综合运用知识的实际能力,在士官任职教育中发挥着重要的作用。本文分析了实践性教学的内涵和在士官任职教育中作用,并探讨了构建科学合理的实践性教学平台的对策。     

新预算法下消防部队加强专项经费管理的思考

消防部队承担着防卫任务和应对社会突发事件两项基本职能,随着社会的发展,消防部队的职能履行本身在发生着变化,新预算法的出台也要求消防部队进一步加强专项经费管理工作,以适应环境的变化、本文对新预算法及消防部队专项经费管理进行概述,阐述对新预算法下加强消防部队专项经费管理的思考。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

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.