基于学习领域的高职建筑装饰材料课程教学探索

学习领域课程开发的实质是如何创设给学生的工作。以建筑装饰材料教学为例,强调的要让学生站起来,行动起来,认真思考如何将老师布置的任务解决掉的学习领域课程教学方式来代替传统的教学方式,并进行了相关的研究和探讨。     

社会服务类学习领域课程开发的现状与发展

本文针对现阶段职业教育领域重要课程开发理念——学习领域课程在社会服务类领域的发展现状进行了系统论述和详细分析,阐述了现阶段基于工作过程的社会服务类学习领域课程开发中存在的问题,并有针对性地提出了发展策略。     

基于EPC模型的学习领域课程方案设计

学习领域的课程应该在真实工作的基础上生成。如何从＂企业业务流程＂中提炼＂教学任务（又称学习任务）＂是必须解决的首要问题。本文根据德国汉堡大学泰费德（Tenfelde）教授所讲授的学习领域构造过程与利用＂事件驱动过程链（EPC）＂这一建模工具提炼教学任务,再采用德国罗斯托克（Rostock）大学技术教育研究所艾克尔（Eicker）教授的＂教学设计七步法＂进行课程方案设计,从而达到培养学生具有解决实际问题的综合能力的职业教育的最终目标。     

《无线电技术分析与应用》课程建设方案设计

以高职应用电子专业岗位核心能力学习领域课程《无线电技术分析与应用》开发为例，介绍了工作过程系统化课程的开发过程，探讨了在高职课程教学中突出学生职业能力培养以及将学习过程与工作过程结合起来的教育实施方法。     

学习领域课程模式在审计教学中的应用

现有的审计教学模式重理论、轻实践,难以调动学生积极性,无法激发学生的学习兴趣。本文借鉴学习领域课程模式的思想,将其应用于审计教学,并对该课程的学习提出一些建议。     

基于工作过程的“冲压模具设计与制造”课程学习领域开发

基于工作过程的培养模式为主线,研究开发一种全新的冲压模具设计与制造课程学习模式。开发过程以学生获得职业能力为目标,结合当地制造业特色,选取典型岗位任务,分析职业能力,设计学习情境,进而设计教学活动。     

以行动为导向,以项目为载体,构建《电子技术》课程教学体系

<电子技术>课程的构建主要是培养学生的基本操作技能和职业能力.这门课程将把教学与实际工作情境相结合,通过电子产品的设计、开发和制作等学习领域的实际项目训练,使学习者的专业知识与实操技能有机地结合起来,以获得就业所必备的工作过程知识.     

基于工作过程《电工电子技术》的课程探索

传统的学科体系课程结构已经不适应培养学生的职业关键能力，通过基于工作过程的课程改革，激发学生的学习兴趣，利用“工学结合”的项目载体对学生进行全面培养。     

基于工作过程导向的《成本会计》课程开发

进行以工作过程为导向的项目课程开发,是当前职业教育课程改革的引领方向。本文在分析基于工作过程确定课程原则的基础上,以高职高专会计专业的专业学习领域课程《成本会计》为例,按照企业成本会计工作主要任务,基于工作过程展开。各项任务的教学过程从内容到实践,自成一体,构成一个完整的学习单元。     

工作过程导向的AutoCAD课程构建

根据高等职业院校以工学结合模式进行教学改革的思路,针对"AutoCAD"课程,提出了基于工作过程系统化的"AutoCAD"课程构建方案,分析了"AutoCAD"典型工作任务、课程目标、行动领域和学习领域,并进行了"AutoCAD"课程学习情境的设计,在实际应用中对AutoCAD课程的教学有一定参考价值.     

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.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

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.     

Introduction of New Technology with a Sound Transition of the Input-Output Structure

We examine the general equilibrium repercussions associated with the introduction of new technologies, using the generalized Leontief system that allows technological substitutions. We show that an untested introduction of cost-increasing technologies in any industry may result in creating a non-productive technological structure that does not satisfy the Hawkins-Simon condition, following the autonomous dynamic adjustment process with structural transitions in the economic system. Therefore, we propose a practicable control scheme of introducing cost-increasing technologies that strictly avoids the creation of non-productive structures in all periods of structural transition, using the available information on the ex ante technological structure.     

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.