Career success across 11 countries: implications for international human resource management

This qualitative study examines perceived meanings of career success across 11 countries. The results show that people define career success in ways that enrich and illuminate the basic dichotomy of objective and subjective career success and establish their relative strengths across countries. Juxtaposing our data with human resource management (HRM) practices, we contribute to the universalist versus contextualist debate in HRM by adding the career management angle. We shed light on the relative importance of cultural and institutional factors for HRM in the area of careers and add a global perspective to the discussion about agentic careers. In our discussion we offer practical suggestions for multinational companies including how to individualize HRM to address diverse views of career success.     

A comparative analysis of the work values of Greece's ‘Millennial’ generation

This study adds to the growing body of international evidence concerning the millennial generation (i.e. those born after 1980), by documenting the work values of millennial-aged undergraduate students (N = 649) in Greece, using an adapted version of the Lyons Work Value Survey. Our results show that millennial-aged Greeks place most importance on intrinsic and social aspects of work, and less importance on extrinsic and prestige values. We statistically compare our results to those of published studies of millennial-aged respondents from other countries and find that Greek respondents hold a unique work value profile, although they demonstrate some similarities to counterparts in other countries. Our findings do not clearly support the notion of a ‘global youth generation’, as young people in various countries hold different work value priorities. This suggests that employers seeking to recruit, engage and retain young workers internationally must tailor their offerings to the specific cultural context.     

本科生毕业设计实践教学环节的中日比较和借鉴

毕业设计是培养学生实践能力、动手能力和创新能力的重要实践环节。日本高校在实践型人才培养方面积累了丰富的经验。本文比较分析了中El两国高校在毕业设计选题、毕业设计管理、毕业设计评价机制等方面的异同,对我国高校毕业设计实践教学模式进行了思考,提出了以创新思维能力培养为目标的思想,并提出了改革的对策和建议。     

Information provision and preferences for education spending: Evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries

Do citizens' preferences about education policies differ across industrialized countries? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 percent and for increased teacher salaries from 27 to 19 percent, respectively. The broad patterns of education policy preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account.     

全球价值链、贸易增长“失速”与中国对策

通过对比G20经济体的货物出口增速与其GDP增速之间的差距,本文发现2012年后世界主要经济体货物出口增速大多低于其GDP增速,此轮出口增长"失速"并非是中国特例,而是全球性现象。本文从全球价值链分工的视角分析了造成此轮全球性出口增长"失速"的主要原因,发现近年来全球价值链分工模式出现的"天花板"现象、发展中经济体价值链分工位置升级和国内价值链的延伸以及发达经济体国内价值链的收缩都会导致世界贸易规模萎缩。本文认为,以"一带一路"战略为平台扩张全球价值链分工网络的外部空间和以自贸区战略为依托推进中国对外开放水平由"边境上"向"边境内"深化,是中国应对出口增速下降可能的对策思路。     

云南省个旧地区把南组地层岩性对比探究

本文通过新测制个旧地区把南组(T3b)剖面(共计2900米)与云南省地质局1970年测制的鸟格组(T3n)剖面的对比发现,认为鸟格组地层应归属到把南组地层内,而把南组地层岩性显示为浅海相,沉积方向由上层至下层。     

QC成果的总结与发表

介绍了QC小组总结与发表需要把握的重点,对QC成果的总结和发表需注意的问题进行了分析。指出,成果发表要注意仪态、语速等各个细节,用通俗易懂的语言把小组活动的亮点展示出来,起到交流经验、鼓舞士气的作用。     

Second‐Order Discrimination and Generalized Lorenz Dominance

We propose a definition of second‐order discrimination that does not require the reference distribution to first‐order dominate the comparison one, and allows rankings of discrimination patterns when both the reference and the comparison distributions differ. It involves comparing the probabilities that randomly selected individuals in the reference and comparison distributions belong to subgroups having the same cumulative mean income, yields orderings of distributions equivalent to those from generalized Lorenz dominance, and allows orderings of discrimination patterns, partial or complete, across pairs of distributions. We compare discrimination against U.S. seniors (inter‐distributional inequality between seniors and non‐seniors) by ethnicity.     

Water safety and spatial development: An institutional comparison between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are known for their different traditions of river flood risk management, which is reflected in their respective institutional frameworks. Whereas the Dutch have focused almost exclusively on reducing the probability of flooding by defining high safety standards, British flood managers are known for their propensity to influence spatial planning decisions as a means to reduce the potential impacts of flood events. This paper scrutinizes this alleged major difference in institutional arrangements and planning practices, so as to evaluate the room for elements of the risk approach in the Netherlands. Using Ostrom's IAD framework, we analyze the rules-in-use in two cases in which a new hospital is being planned in a flood-prone area. It will be shown that in spite of some important differences observed in the rules-in-use, the Dutch institutional configuration has absorbed several elements of the risk approach, and displays a higher similarity in planning practice to the UK than expected. It thus seems that Dutch flood risk management is gradually evolving into the direction of a more integral approach to water safety in spatial planning.     

模糊相似比分析在市场比较法可比实例选取中的应用

市场比较法是目前运用最多最方便的房地产估价方法之一,但在可比实例的选取上存在主观性强,缺乏定量分析的问题。文章在对市场比较法相关原理、估价步骤及存在问题进行总结的基础上,将模糊数学的思想应用于估价可比实例的选取,通过构建模糊优先比矩阵模型,对若干可比实例进行模糊相似比分析,从而找出与待估对象最为接近的可比实例,以达到精确估价结果的目的。