论“以人为本”企业价值观的功用

随着我国企业文化理论研究和实践日趋成熟,现代企业的价值观赋予了人更重要的作用,特别在科学发展观提出以后,“以人为本”已经成为现代企业价值观的核心内容。“以人为本”企业价值观在促进企业内部的和谐发展,树立企业良好的外部形象,抵御不良企业文化的消极影响等方面都有着重要的功用。     

论"以人为本"企业价值观的功用

随着我国企业文化理论研究和实践日趋成熟,现代企业的价值观赋予了人更重要的作用,特别在科学发展观提出以后,‘以人为本'已经成为现代企业价值观的核心内容."以人为本"企业价值观在促进企业内部的和谐发展,树立企业良好的外部形象,抵御不良企业文化的消极影响等方面都有着重要的功用.     

确立“以人为本”的核心价值观加强酒店企业文化建设初探

摘要：酒店业是国民经济较为重要的服务行业和窗口行业，酒店企业文化不仅是酒店在激烈竞争中的制胜法宝，更是酒店特色经营、可持续发展的源泉。“以人为本”是酒店文化的核心内涵，成功的酒店管理也都是以人才和企业文化建设取胜。因此，在酒店企业文化建设中，“以人为本”，重视员工自我价值的实现就是酒店企业文化建设中的核心任务。本文就酒店企业文化建设确立“以人为本”核心价值观的必要性进行了分析，同时提出了加强酒店企业文化建设的相关途径，为酒店的企业文化建设提供了新的视角。     

加强企业文化建设 增强企业凝聚力

薛德平认为，强有力的企业文化是企业取得成功的“金科玉律”。培植企业文化就是要铸就企业之魂，把企业与职工的命运紧密结合，形成企业共同价值观。企业文化的形成源于高素质的员工队伍、科学的管理方法和多种形式的培养教育。在培植企业文化中，他们结合实际，做到“以人为本、以德治企、和谐发展”。     

新时期中国石油企业文化建设问题探讨

建设优秀的企业文化，有利于增强企业竞争力、凝聚力。中国石油企业文化建设过程中，经过长期的积累，形成了以“大庆精神”、“铁人精神”为代表的优秀企业文化，增强了企业竞争力。但是，企业文化建设依然存在体制约束、落后于时代建设步伐等问题。在提出把企业文化融入到生产经营管理过程中，要赋予企业价值观新的时代内涵，树立以人为本的管理思想，加强制度建设等建议。     

试想论企业价值观

企业价值观在企业文化中居核心地位，这种核心地位决定了企业价值观在企业发展中有其独特的作用。企业价值观的发展趋势呈现为：企业目标与社会目标的统一，把握企业特点，培植有个性的企业价值观和建设企业命运共同体中培植企业价值观。随着我国从计划经济向市场经济的转变，企业价值观发生了历史性的变化。我国企业价值观的建立至少应该包括下列几个方面：集体主义的企业价值观．以人为本的企业价值观，追求卓越的企业价值观和创新的企业价值观。     

赖达雄的"绿色事业"

明骏人在赖达雄带领下，始终坚持以“关爱人生”为主题的“爱心文化”和以“奉献社会”为主体的价值观，执着追求至善至美的人本文化，一如既往地实践奉献社会的价值观，这是明骏“绿色长城”的灵魂。     

浅谈如何加强保险公司企业文化建设

通过对企业文化的定义及构成、企业文化基本内涵和作用进行分析，提出在现今保险业大力发展的前景下，在《国务院关于加快发展现代保险服务业的若干意见》（下称“新国十条”）政策出台后，保险业迎来了新的发展机遇时期，通过积极开发有利于保险公司文化建设的制度体系，扎实推进企业文化培训，以人为本培育良好的企业文化，塑造企业价值观等多方面，逐步论述如何加强保险公司企业文化建设和企业文化建设在保险公司发展中的重要作用。     

强化以人为本理念，构建现代企业文化

企业文化是企业的灵魂。面对生存和发展的新环境，构建“以人为本”的现代企业文化已成为21世纪企业管理的主题。但是如何构建“以人为本”的现代企业文化，如何把“以人为本”落实到企业生产和管理的实践中仍是一个需要探讨的问题。     

企业塑造人力资源管理文化的切入点

管理深植于文化之中 ,核心是以人为本 ,是贯彻“人高于一切”的价值观。以企业即人、企业为人、企业靠人为切入点 ,在企业中倡导“人性尊重” ,使人才与团队文化氛围实现强优结合 ,从而永葆企业充满生机和活力。     

Pleasure and belief in Hume's Decision Process

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – we lay emphasis less on continuity than on the specific kind of hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays). Such hedonism clearly contrasts to its standard modern inheritance, expressed by the relation between preferences and utility.

The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well as with intertemporal decision and indiscrimination problems.

The latter are explored within a formal framework, and it is shown that the relation of pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder.     

Globalization,Neoliberalism and the attack on social security

Neoliberal political movements advocate privatization of public pension systems. Globalization imposes pressure on nations to conform to neoliberal policy views with respect to the design and structure of social insurance, including public pension systems. The paper begins with an investigation of the economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the privatization debates in the U.S.; it argues that privatization advocates may be largely moved by ideology, since the other reasons advanced appear weak or unfounded. The second part discusses the history of Social Security, the purposes for its creation, and some of its economic effects. Differences between public and private pension systems are considered. A brief international comparison of some aspects of public pension system finance and benefit structures is presented. The final section considers the ethical, macroeconomic and distributional implications of privatization, prefunding and payroll tax funding, and argues for a pay as you go system financed with income taxes. In order to promote equity, economic security, community, and social cohesion, public pension systems should be universal in coverage. In order to reduce the inequality, income insecurity, and aged poverty generated by market economies, public pension systems ought to be progressive: benefit/contribution ratios should be inversely proportional to income, and progressive income taxes should finance the system. To promote economic growth, the systems should be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and should not be prefunded except for an emergency reserve. The fiscal policy recommendations partially depend upon the theory developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s, and recently advanced by Wynne Godley and Randy Wray: Lerner's “principle of functional finance.”     

Interest on reserves and inflation

The payment of interest on reserves has been a common practice in inflationary economies. This policy may seem paradoxical since it involves returning part of the seigniorage, generated by the inflation process, with the intention to finance the fiscal deficit. This paper argues that the motivation for this policy can be captured by the discretionary regime, where the policymaker pays interest on reserves because he is concerned with the erosion of real liquidity by inflation, which is in part beyond his control. However, this policy is an unlikely outcome in the commitment regime, where the policymaker is in full control of inflation.     

Bayesian estimation of duration models: An application of the multiperiod probit model

The multiperiod probit model is presented and Bayesian estimation using the Gibbs sampler with data augmentation is described. As an empirical illustration, the multiperiod probit model is then used to estimate a duration model using employment duration data for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Bayesian estimation with unobserved heterogeneity is shown to be a simple extension of estimation of a duration model with no unobserved heterogeneity. More importantly, perhaps, some numerical problems encountered by other authors using Maximum Likelihood are avoided.I would like to thank M. Baker, G. Koop, A. Melino and D. Poirier for helpful comments and discussions. I would also like to thank M. Baker for providing his data.     

Scenarios and creativity: Thinking in new boxes

To be creative and make change happen, leaders must do more than simply ‘think outside the box’, as the traditional business manuals suggest, using the popular American expression. After all, the space outside the box is infinitely expansive. Moreover, there can be no guarantee that a solution to the problem will be found. The answer: ‘Think in new boxes.’ This requires developing the right new box; in other words, useful new models, a helpful new approach to a problem. That is the real art of practical creativity. This short article outlines the approach (Thinking in New Boxes) and its application to classic scenario planning with a few examples. The authors also present the ‘Expressway to Scenarios’, an approach that wins in impact and practicality what it loses in deep analysis, by having top executives involved in key steps.     

Forecasting the price of gold

This article seeks to evaluate the appropriateness of a variety of existing forecasting techniques (17 methods) at providing accurate and statistically significant forecasts for gold price. We report the results from the nine most competitive techniques. Special consideration is given to the ability of these techniques to provide forecasts which outperforms the random walk (RW) as we noticed that certain multivariate models (which included prices of silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, besides gold) were also unable to outperform the RW in this case. Interestingly, the results show that none of the forecasting techniques are able to outperform the RW at horizons of 1 and 9 steps ahead, and on average, the exponential smoothing model is seen providing the best forecasts in terms of the lowest root mean squared error over the 24-month forecasting horizons. Moreover, we find that the univariate models used in this article are able to outperform the Bayesian autoregression and Bayesian vector autoregressive models, with exponential smoothing reporting statistically significant results in comparison with the former models, and classical autoregressive and the vector autoregressive models in most cases.     

How chaebol restructuring after the 1997 crisis has affected corporate decision and performance in Korea: debt financing,ownership structure,and investment

ABSTRACT

Korean chaebol firms, characterized by excessive debt financing and overinvestment, experienced restructuring after the 1997 crisis. By reducing debt financing and thus overinvestment, they tried to reorganize financing structure and ownership structure. Chaebols’ debt reduction turns out to have improved performance. However, polarization between chaebol and non-chaebol firms has become more significant. Even after the crisis, firms that give higher cash flows to a controlling shareholder take more capital investment, indicating that agency problems still exist within chaebols. Chaebol-affiliated firms continue to be more active in R&D than non-chaebol firms. However, the pattern is limited to the group of top 10 chaebols after the crisis.

Abbreviations: KFTC: Korea Fair Trade Commission     

On the Role of Paradigms in Understanding Economic Globalization

Any adequate analysis of economic globalization necessarily requires fundamental understanding of the worldviews underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization. This paper is based on the premise that any worldview can be associated with one of the four basic paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It argues that any view expressed with respect to economic globalization is based on one of the four paradigms or worldviews. It, therefore, discusses four views with respect to the nature and role of economic globalization which correspond to the four broad worldviews. The paper emphasizes that the four views expressed are equally scientific and informative; they look at the nature and role of economic globalization from a certain paradigmatic viewpoint. Emphasizing this example in the area of economic globalization, the paper concludes that there are opportunities for each paradigm to benefit from contributions coming from the other three paradigms.     

A Humean theory of choice of which rationality may be one consequence

For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume's discussion of the determinants of action in the Treatise of Human Nature (1739?–?40), in the Enquiry on Human Understanding (1748) and in the Dissertation on Passions (1757) deserves attention. However, according to some modern commentators, Hume does not seem to have given any evidence that would favour what nowadays we would consider as the kind of rationality involved in modern theories of rational choice. On the contrary, this paper arrives at the conclusion that consistency between preferences and choice, like the usual properties of completeness and transitivity, may be considered as outcomes of a mental process, described by means of a decision algorithm that aims to represent Hume's theory of choice.     

The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development--a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen

Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employedin economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution ofthe concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It tracesthe development of Sen's thought from the capability analysisof the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom intoits opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciativeof Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, thepaper identifies some difficulties arising from his definitionof capability as a set of options as well as from his separationof the opportunity and process aspects of freedom. Aspects ofthe relationship between Sen's conception of freedom and thatof Marx are discussed briefly in the context of Sen's recentdiscussion of the market as a source of freedom.