Are you running out of time?

In a perfect world we would all have a written daily plan of action that would be inviolate. Every task, every action, every conversation would be precisely timed to move us toward our ultimate personal goals. No one would trespass on our sacred schedule. But this is most definitely not a perfect world.     

Property rights out of anarchy? The Demsetz hypothesis in a game of conflict

The Demsetz hypothesis states that secure claims to property arise when the value of creating those rights is sufficiently high. This paper examines the conditions under which this holds in an anarchy equilibrium in which players may allocate labor to production, to conflict, or to the public good of secure claims to property protection. In a simultaneous choice Nash equilibrium, no secure claims to property are created. However, if players play a sequential choice game in which secure claims to property protection occurs in the first stage, then the strategic benefit of reducing others’ subsequent conflict allocation causes secure claims to property to arise. Secure claims to property in a social contract are imperfect, but for sufficiently high productivity of resources, the social contract welfare dominates autocracy.     

Living in and living out: a qualitative study of incarcerated mothers’ narratives of their children’s living condition

The number of incarcerated mothers is increasing significantly. There are many risks and harmful consequences for the children of the incarcerated mothers. In Iran, there is not a systematic research and information on these children. Therefore, this study aims at utilizing a qualitative methodology, to investigate the living conditions of this group, based on their mothers’ narratives. The grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbin 1998 was used to analyze the consequences of the incarceration of mothers on the living conditions of children. The participants of the study include 16 incarcerated mothers who were on leave. The data were gathered via in-depth and open-ended interviews. During the coding process six categories were extracted which describe the living condition of the children: behavioral, mental, and physical challenges; escape; experience of poverty and destructive economy of family; dilemma of caring; mother-child visitation; difficulties suicide and mother’s emotional challenges. Children of incarcerated mothers encountered challenges such as mental, behavioral and economic. Many of them escape from home and school. Mothers prefer informal caring of their children than formal. The mother-child visits include some difficulties such as long distance, transportation costs, and undesirable visiting atmosphere. Mothers pointed to their deep psychological problems and sometimes committing suicide due to the separation of their children.     

拒绝out——2010职场利器

我在目前就职的这家公司工作了4年之后,终于不可避免地迎来了个人职业生涯的"低潮"阶段. 2009年下半年以来,工作上一直心气很足的自己,却发现突然之间开始变得越来越平庸,原本已经驾轻就熟、异常熟悉的工作内容总是不断地出现或大或小的错误,正如一条看上去完好的船突然间开始变得四处渗水:     

Fading out of local government ownership: recent ownership reform in China’s township and village enterprises

Local government ownership has dominated China’s township and village enterprises (TVEs) and made a significant contribution to the TVE growth miracle for many years. However, since the mid-1990s, TVEs have conducted a series of radical and successful restructuring in their ownership and governance arrangements. The most striking feature of the restructuring is the fading out of local government ownership. This paper discusses why local government ownership could dominate private ownership in the first two decades of China’s transition and identifies what factors have driven the fading out of local government ownership over TVEs in recent years. It then characterizes one of the emerging joint-ownership forms called “joint-stock cooperative” (JSC) (gufen hezuozhi) and shows the adaptive efficiency of the new form. In this way, the paper also sheds light on the roles that an alternative form of ownership and governance can play in an alternative institutional environment.     

Relied upon for the heavy lifting: can employment protection legislation reforms lead the EU out of the jobs crisis?

This article examines the current drive within the European Union to weaken employment protection legislation. It subjects the case for reform to critical scrutiny and argues that labour market deregulation and the erosion of employment and social protections are reducing workers' security while failing to stimulate economic recovery.     

Working sick and out of sorts: a cross-cultural approach on presenteeism climate,organizational justice and work–family conflict*

Abstract

A climate of presenteeism has important effects on employee well-being and the organization itself. Our study, based on surveys of health sector employees in six different countries (Brazil, Ecuador, Lebanon, Portugal, Russia and Spain) examines whether organizational justice plays a mediating role in the relationship between a presenteeism climate in the organization and work–family conflict (WFC). Our results indicate that the perception of organizational justice and the presenteeism climate do influence WFC. Moreover, higher levels of WFC were found in non-Latin countries. This study contributes to the work attendance and life balance field by providing cross-cultural empirical evidence corroborating the effect of justice and presenteeism climate on the WFC.     

Pushed out or pulled in? Self-employment among ethnic minorities in England and Wales

High rates of self-employment among ethnic minorities in England and Wales are investigated using a framework in which the self-employment decision is influenced by ethnic-specific attributes as well as sectoral earnings differentials. As expected, differences in an individual's predicted earnings in paid and self-employment are strongly correlated with self-employment decisions. Individuals with low English fluency, and recent immigrants, are less likely than other members of ethnic minorities to be self-employed. Perhaps surprisingly, this is also true of individuals living in “enclaves” — areas with a high percentage of their own ethnic group. The relatively deprived nature of such areas of England and Wales may explain this.     

Reaching out for strength within? ‘Social movement unionism’ in a small country setting

Trade unions around the developed world face common challenges in terms of declining membership and influence, and ‘conventional’ union revival strategies have yielded limited success. A relatively recent innovation has been the embrace of ‘social movement unionism’ (SMU), which challenges traditional workplace conceptions of trade union roles via alliances with campaigning civil society organisations. This empirical study examines how SMU is conceived and applied in a small country context, focusing on the role of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. The findings suggest that SMU can appeal to trade union associations in smaller national (or regional) settings owing to a combination of institutional and size effects which concentrate networks. This has implications for unions and union federations interested in advancing both workplace and wider social justice concerns.     

General Situation of the Experiments of Enterprise Groups

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Grey Relational Evaluation of Financial Situation of Listed Company

The financial comprehensive evaluation of listed company is a grey problem. In this paper, a grey relational analysis method is used to evaluate the financial situation of listed companies. A grey relational evaluation model is set up and studied practically, and then a conclusion about the order of the comprehensive financial situation of these six listed companies is drawn. This analysis method is flexible and can avoid the disadvantages of evaluating financial situation from only one aspect in the past.     

King of Kungfu

《辛亥革命》、《白蛇传说》、《关云长》、《七侠五义》即将来袭……2011年,荧屏上的功夫巨星们到底有多能打？其实重要的不是拳头,而是财富和影响力。为了配得起身份,各位大佬得从衣食行等各方面来包装,当然也包括他们的豪宅。     

Predictors of the adoption of work–care arrangements: a study of South African firms

This study examines predictors of work–care arrangements in South African organisations. It investigates the adoption of 23 work–care arrangements in organisations listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Organisational size, female presence in the organisation and in trade unions, female leadership and trade union density are tested as predictors of the adoption of these arrangements. In addition, foreign ownership, a previously untested variable predicting the adoption of work–care arrangements, is included in this study. The findings show that the level of adoption of work–care arrangements in South African organisations is low. Organisational size and female presence in senior managerial positions are found to be associated with the greater adoption of work–care arrangements. The study adds to existing work–family research by examining work–care integration in a non-Western context. Furthermore, the study is innovative in the addition of foreign ownership as an independent variable and the inclusion of a broader range of work–care arrangements in the study. The study is relevant for other developing nations and extends the existing research on employer involvement in work and care in developed nations.     

Nurturance of the Interpreter＇s Awareness of Cross-cultural Communication

The special status of an interpreter in the cross-cultural communication impels him or her nurture and use cross-cultural awareness in communication. The cross-cultural awareness promotes the understanding of both sides,avoid communication barrier in cross-cultural communication. Therefore,cross-cuhurul awareness is undoubtedly significant. This text introduces the concept of cross-cultural awareness, the relationship between cross-cultural awareness and interpreting, the significance of cross-cultural awareness to an interpreter,and carries on preliminary research in how an interpreter nurtures cross-cultural awareness.     

Evaluation of Several Phases in the Development of Management Accounting

This paper discusses three issues, raised by Relevance Lost （Johnson ＆ Kaplan, 1987）, about historical evaluation of the development of management accounting. The first issue is when management accounting system was formed; the second is how to evaluate its development in subsequent decades; the third is how to evaluate the development of practice and research of management accounting in almost twenty years after Relevance Lost was published. The role of Relevance Lost in practice and theoretical research of management accounting is widely recognized, and the disagreement with it in this paper is in the specific area of the development history of management accounting. The authors of this paper believe that the development, through having its ups and downs over time, is generally speaking a continuous process, not separated by disconnected phases, leaping from one to another. Along with the progress in practice and research, researchers and practitioners are deepening their understanding about the theoretical foundation and practical development of management accounting. The history of development of management accounting is consistent with the process people gradually understand it.