高职电子类模块化教学的探索

高职教育以培养技能型、应用型人才为宗旨,高职电子类教学中,实训教学尤为重要.本文以提高实训教学水平为出发点,提出模块化教学模式应注重的几个方面并探索其在实训教学中的实际应用.力求找到提高高职院校实训教学的新途径.     

高职电子类模块化教学的探索

高职教育以培养技能型、应用型人才为宗旨,高职电子类教学中,实训教学尤为重要。本文以提高实训教学水平为出发点,提出模块化教学模式应注重的几个方面并探索其在实训教学中的实际应用．力求找到提高高职院校实训教学的新途径。     

高职经管类跨专业综合实训体验实践教学模式的探究

教学的实践性是目前我国教育改革的重要内容,在高职院校的教学中更加需要加强学生实践能力的培养,这样才能帮助高职院校的学生获得更好的发展。经管类专业涉及的学习内容较多,要求学生掌握全面的企业管理类知识,但是现阶段经管类教学因为涉及面较广,造成教学效果不理想,所以需要对教学方法进行改进,将综合实训课程应用到高职经管类跨专业综合实训课程中,提升高职经管类的教学质量。文章主要对高职经管类跨专业综合实训体验实践教学模式进行探究。     

基于技能型人才培养的会计实训教学组织体系创新

高职院校会计专业以培养具备会计实践能力的技能型人才为目标,而会计实训教学是培养技能型人才的重要环节。着眼于技能型会计人才培养目标,应在构建有效的实训教学院系二级管理体制、加强实训教学组织指导和创新会计实训教学模式等方面创新会计实训教学组织体系。     

高职院校资产管理存在问题分析及对策研究

高职院校是高等教育的后起之秀。随着我国市场经济的不断发展以及国家对高职教育的逐步重视，一方面，高职院校的办学规模日益扩大，办学条件不断改善，国家及地方政府对职业教育的投入逐年增加，各高职院校的国有资产也在快速增加，特别是体现高职教育特色的实验实训场地的情景化教学模式、工学结合的教学过程，     

高职院校实验实训教学改革和管理分析

高职院校实验实训室是进行实验实训教学、专业综合教学,培养创新型、应用型人才的重要实践场所。高职院校实验实训教学是教学环节的一个重要组成部分,它在培养学生动手能力、操作技能方面具有十分重要作用。通过分析当前高职院校的实践教学现状,探索高职院校实验实训教学改革的途径。     

高职院校会计专业实训质量保障体系的构建与完善

高职院校强调实训教学,这是高职院校的特点、核心竞争力及优势,实训教学质量的保障和提高是高职院校生存与发展的关键.本文以高职会计专业为例,探讨如何建立有效的质量保障体系以保障高职实训教学效果,期望能对高职教育发展有一定建言.     

高职院校金融专业保险课程的教学模式探讨

本文立足当前高职院校金融专业保险课程的教学现状,明确了教学目标,并将教学模式分为知识培养、技能培养和素质培养三个阶段。知识培养强调模块化,致力于为保险代理人从业资格考试服务;技能目标强调单项实训、阶段性实训与综合实训的结合;素质目标贯穿整个教学模式的始终。在三阶段教学模式法实践的同时,给出了相应教学方式、教学资源的配套及考核方式的改革。     

电子电工实训教学创新与实践初探

电子实训教学是高职电子电工专业教学体系的重要组成部分,提高电子电工实训教学对于提高学生实践能力、促进高职教育发展具有积极意义,本文通过分析实训教学的重要性,阐述我国高职院校电子电工实训教学的现状,进而根据实训教学所存在的问题提出实训教学创新与实践的具体措施。     

高职院校汽车新技术实训教学探索

本文通过对汽车新技术发展现状和高职院校实施实训现状的分析,指出目前高职院校实施汽车新技术实训教学的必要性,提出了增强汽车新技术教学水平的可行方式。     

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.