关于全过程工程咨询管理的实践与思考

近年来,随着工程项目建设行业的快速发展,工程全过程咨询也成为人们的工作要点,促进工程咨询企业发展的同时也促进工程项目建设行业的发展.本文通过对我国目前工程咨询行业的现状进行分析,提出了建设项目全过程工程咨询的作用和控制要点的阶段措施,为以后工程项目建设行业咨询控制提供一些参考.     

我国工程造价咨询业现状及其对策研究

随着国内市场经济的不断完善和发展,工程建设投资的不断扩大,作为建设市场主体之一,工程造价咨询行业也得到空前的发展。众所周知,工程造价咨询是面向全社会并接受业主委托,承担管理建设项目的造价职责。本文从我国现阶段工程造价咨询业的实际情况出发,通过分析我国工程造价咨询业所存在的问题和面临的挑战,针对我国造价咨询行业未来的发展做出一些合理化建议。     

监理单位开展全过程工程咨询的挑战及解决对策

现如今,我国的工程建设领域正在大力推行全过程工程咨询业务,监理单位作为重要的市场主体之一,也在积极地参与其中。然而受各种因素制约,监理单位在开展全过程工程咨询业务时面临着企业资质不足、缺乏全面服务能力、人员素质有待提高等诸多挑战,有些挑战甚至成为企业发展的"瓶颈"问题。为了解决这些问题,本文分析了全过程工程咨询的业务范围和特点,提出了以发展促发展、加强对外合作、并购重组、加强培训等有针对性的应对措施,以期能够使得监理单位顺利地开展全过程工程咨询。     

试论工程咨询在经济建设中的作用

工程咨询行业的诞生至今已经有一百多年历史了,最早出现在国外,而工程咨询在我国则是改革开放才出现的新行业、新领域。虽然在我国起步晚,但随着我国社会建设各项事业的稳步推进和快速发展,工程咨询的作用和意义也越来越得到各界关注,取得较高的重视和较快的发展。本文从工程咨询的服务范围和特点入手,分析了其在我国经济建设中的优势和作用,并对工程咨询如何更好开展提出了几点对策。     

全过程咨询服务在规划设计项目中的应用探索

在我国改革开放不断发展过程中,现代工程咨询业务也获得巨大的发展空间,不仅为我国工程行业提供信息技术促进行业的发展,而且也成为工程行业建立创新发展模式奠定坚实的基础。许多工程咨询业务已经采用EPC总承包模式,将业务发展转向既能满足客户需求,还能按照国际工程咨询市场需求实施业务管理措施,而且将全过程咨询服务在规划设计项目中的应用进行探索,为建立符合我国工程咨询模式奠定坚实的基础。     

新形势下咨询服务企业财务管理的发展趋势研究

随着现代市场经济的持续发展,咨询服务行业发展迅速,财务管理作为咨询服务企业内部管理不可或缺的一部分,决定着其成本效益和管理效率,值得重点研究.文章阐述了咨询服务行业财务管理发展现状和面临的挑战,分析了财务管理所发挥的作用,从多个角度对新形势下咨询服务业财务管理的具体策略及发展趋势进行了探究.     

公路工程咨询是保证公路可持续发展的前提

我国工程咨询行业历经多年的发展,已经达到了一定的工程咨询水平。如何为公路建设更好的发展提供保证,是工程咨询发展的方向。随着我国公路建设的大规模发展,工程咨询的重要性凸显,只有做好公路建设前期的工程咨询,才能保证公路建设可持续发展。     

监理企业转型全过程咨询企业的探讨

工程监理制度已发展三十多年,在我国工程建设中发挥了重要作用,但随着信息技术、新材料、新设备、新工艺的发展,以及新型组织模式的出现,监理企业已面临发展瓶颈.响应国家号召,转型全过程咨询企业是越来越多监理企业的共识,监理企业本身的制度、经验、人才优势也有利于发展全过程咨询业务,顺利转型能够对工程建设行业管理能力的提升发挥作用.     

浅谈我国工程咨询行业的发展方向

高质量发展模式对工程咨询行业提出更高要求,如何适应新形势下的工程咨询竞争氛围成为工程咨询机构面对的课题.本文结合传统工程咨询模式,从八个方面说明工程咨询的未来发展方向.     

小议工程质量检测行业存在的问题与未来发展对策

随着我国加入WTO,对整个建筑业将产生强大的冲击波.作为建筑业重要组成部分的工程质量检测工作同样面临着很多新情况和新问题,挑战和机遇并存.也就是说,检测市场的潜力非常大,同时市场竞争也将异常激烈.因此,本文通过分析该行业的现状,找出行业发展中存在的问题以及面临的挑战,并对行业发展的对策进行了探讨.     

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.