Cross-cultural perceptions of clan control in Korean multinational companies: a conceptual investigation of employees' fairness monitoring based on cultural values

While enjoying success in their home territory in terms of human resource management (HRM) and employee commitment, Korean multinational companies (MNCs) seem to struggle in their overseas subsidiaries to replicate this success in attracting/retaining talent. To explain the HRM challenges seen in many Korean MNCs, we adapt the notion of employees' fairness monitoring in developing a model which illustrates the relationships between clan control in Korean MNCs, employee's perceived fairness and the cultural values of individualism and collectivism. We offer our first set of propositions concerning associations between fairness monitoring and cultural values, before suggesting another set of propositions about relationships between employees' fairness judgement and clan control in Korean MNCs. Figures graphically illustrating of some of our propositions are also presented. Our model proposes that clan control in Korean MNCs may cause perceived low fairness judgement during employees' fairness monitoring in both individualistic and collectivistic cultures. We believe this paper should stimulate further enquiries in international HRM, cross-culture and fairness literatures.     

试论高职会计教师职业能力提升

高职教师应具备良好的职业能力,但目前高职会计教师职业能力方面存在专业知识与实践能力、教学科研能力、职业道德方面的系列问题,本文试从不同方面探讨如何提升高职会计教师职业能力。     

代建单位项目管理核心能力测量

基于企业核心能力理论,提出了项目管理核心能力的概念。从策划能力、控制能力、组织创新能力和沟通协调能力4个维度构建代建单位项目管理核心能力的24个构成要素,并据此开发了代建单位项目管理核心能力的初始测量量表。利用基于初始测量量表所得的问卷调研数据,检验了初始测量量表的信度和效度,经过删减题项后,得到代建单位项目管理能力的最终测量量表,并验证了该测量量表的可靠性和有效性。     

基于生态位的我国电信运营企业核心竞争力研究

现代研究表明,企业所处的环境关系将导致不同的经营后果,动态适应其与环境关系的变化和优化序参量机制的能力是保持企业核心竞争力优势的重要因素。运用企业生态位理论,结合国内电信运营企业特点及其内涵,提出企业核心竞争力的评价体系,并运用模糊综合评价法进行实证研究。     

内容依托教学理念下英语专业学生语用能力的培养

在英语专业教学中,传统教学法旨在提高学生的语言能力,重点教授语言系统知识,而忽视了学生语用能力的培养.随着交际教学法的引入,语用能力的作用日益突显,但是,目前学界对语用能力的本质尚未达成共识,而且如何提高学生的语用能力更无定论.通过以内容依托教学理念为基础,对语用能力的内涵加以澄清,并从教师、教材和课堂组织三个方面探讨了语用意识的提高以及语用能力的培养问题.     

Information systems project manager soft competencies: A project‐phase investigation

This article investigates the soft competencies by project phase that information systems (IS) project managers require for project success. The authors conducted 33 qualitative interviews to collect data from a sample of 22 IS project managers and business leaders located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The authors identified the key competencies for each of the IS project phases (initiation, planning, implementation, and closeout). The competencies were sorted into competency categories: personal attributes (e.g., eye for details), communication (e.g., effective questioning), leadership (e.g., create an effective project environment), negotiations (e.g., consensus building), professionalism (e.g., lifelong learning), social skills (e.g., charisma), and project management competencies (e.g., manage expectations). Each of the most important competencies is discussed and interconnections among competencies identified. How this research can be used by the practitioner and academic communities and the broader implications of this research are examined.     

浅析中西文化差异对委婉语翻译的影响

素有礼仪之邦的中国在跨文化交际中却因为对中西文化差异缺乏了解最终造成用语失误。本文将从中西文化的差异入手,从委婉语的概述,语用功能和翻译策略等方面来阐述委婉用语在跨文化交际中的有效运用。只用充分了解中西文化的差异,尊重他国文化,才能在跨文化交际中实现双赢。     

Firms as the source of innovation and growth: the evolution of technological competence

It is argued that the firm is the principal source of innovation and growth, a device for the establishment of technological competence, and for its continued development over time. Markets, products and background knowledge may change quite dramatically over time. Yet as a result of the cumulative nature of learning in the production processes of firms, the profile of corporate technological competence will tend to persist over quite long periods, provided there is institutional continuity. Within the same firm, competence may evolve into related areas, but the firm's technological origins will remain identifiable in its subsequent trajectories. However, if the institution itself changes more dramatically, this technological persistence may be disrupted. Supporting evidence is provided from data on the patenting of 30 large US and European companies, which have been continuously active since the interwar period. The science and the knowledge base, and the composition of products and markets may shift quite radically, but the firm's productive and technological system itself is potentially more stable. The firm provides a vehicle for potential institutional continuity and a device for managing transitions within the economic system.     

认知视角下大学生隐喻能力的培养

文化差异性是制约大学英语教学中隐喻能力发展的主要因素。建议培养学生用目的语思维,培养隐喻能力,通过一词多义教学使学生了解隐喻的普遍性,突破学生记单词的瓶颈,在外语教学中融入西方文化,提示学生注意隐喻概念文化的一致性和差异性。     

Changes in perceptions of risk and competence among beginning scuba divers

The adventure experience paradigm theorizes that individuals engaging in high‐risk recreation exhibit changes in perceptions of risk and competence. While previous research has examined changes in perceptions for individuals engaged in short‐term, high‐risk recreation, there is no research examining patterns of perceptual change through extended involvement in risk recreation activities. The purpose of this study was to examine changes in perceived risk and perceived competence throughout a 14‐week basic scuba diving course. Participants (n = 57) completed the dimensions of an adventure experience (DAE) at the start and end of the course as well as before and after their first time on scuba, first open water dive, and first off shore dive. Changes in perceived risk and perceived competence were examined. Results indicated a significant decrease in perceived risk and a significant increase in both competence factors (attitudes and abilities) pre‐to‐post course and at most time intervals. Although statistically significant, changes in perceived risk and attitude may be of less practical significance (around 0.6 on a 10‐point scale). However, perceived ability increased more noticeably (2.6 on a 10‐point scale). The findings of this study support and further confirm the literature, which indicates repeated involvement in high‐risk recreation decreases participants' perceptions of risk and increases perceptions of competence. Recommendations include further study of DAE psychometrics and research on how changes in perceptions of risk and competence are related to outcomes in adventure recreation.