Effective Corporate Codes of Ethics: Perceptions of Code Users

The study examines employee, managerial, and ethics officer perceptions regarding their companies codes of ethics. The study moves beyond examining the mere existence of a code of ethics to consider the role that code content and code process (i.e. creation, implementation, and administration) might play with respect to the effectiveness of codes in influencing behavior. Fifty-seven in-depth, semi-structured interviews of employees, managers, and ethics officers were conducted at four large Canadian companies. The factors viewed by respondents to be important with respect to code effectiveness include: provisions of examples; readability; tone; relevance; realism; senior management support; training; reinforcement; living up to standards; reporting requirement; anonymous phone line; communicating violations; and enforcement. The factors found to be potentially important include: justification for provisions; employee involvement; and sign-off requirements. Factors found not to be important include: objectives for the code; prior distribution; testing; and relating ones performance review to compliance with the code.     

Emotional advertising: Revisiting the role of product category

In contrast to the Affect Infusion Model, popular advertising planning grids suggest that emotional advertising is effective for low involvement and hedonic products, but not for high involvement or utilitarian products. In two experiments, 400 and 392 consumers respectively evaluate a non-emotional and a product-congruent or product-incongruent emotional appeal promoting four different product types. In a third study, 909 respondents evaluate 323 existing TV commercials. The findings confirm expectations based on the Affect Infusion Model and indicate that for none of the product types negative effects of emotional advertisements appear. However, emotional ads do work better for some than other product types. In addition to clearing out the moderating role of product type, this paper contributes to the literature by showing that previous poorer results of emotional ads for some products may be partly due to less positive attitudes towards the products themselves instead of to the inappropriateness of the appeal.     

机构投资者对内部控制有效性的影响

从机构投资者角度考察内部控制有效性是已有研究很少涉及的一个主题。文章选取2011-2012年沪深主板A股上市公司作为样本,研究了机构投资者对内部控制有效性的影响。实证结果表明,机构投资者整体上对内部控制有效性具有提升作用;对机构投资者分类后发现,“压力抵制型”机构投资者对内部控制有效性的提升作用强于“压力敏感型”机构投资者。进一步的研究还发现,国有控股削弱了机构投资者对内部控制有效性的正面作用。     

引入价格因素的蒙代尔-弗莱明模型及其在中国的适用性

文章利用汇率理论的“超调”和行为金融学的“过度反应”等概念,引入价格和真实汇率等因素对固定汇率、资本完全不流动条件下的蒙代尔-弗莱明模型进行讨论,说明在其它条件不变时,扩张的货币政策导致紧缩经济的结果,反之反是;文章还讨论了中国货币政策的有效性和蒙代尔-弗莱明模型在中国的适用性等问题。     

从消费者的搜寻成本看Internet的市场效率

本文从商品价格和商品属性两个方面分析了Internet市场中消费者的信息搜寻成本,并说明由搜寻成本所造成的Internet市场中价格水平和价格离散程度的现状,以及由这两个指标所测度的市场效率。     

提高少数民族大学生思想政治课教学效果探索

对于正处在转型时期的大学生,尤其是少数民族大学生来说,通过《毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论》课的有效教授,正面引导学生对国际社会的风云变化以及国内政治、经济变革的认知,不断增强少数民族大学生对中华民族的认同感,坚定中国特色社会主义理想信念,这一点尤为重要.此文根据内蒙古地区高校思想政治课教学实际,针对少数民族大学生特点,从教学理念、案例教材等方面对课程的课堂教学效果进行了研究.     

浅谈煤矿物资计划的管理

物资计划管理是企业管理的一部分,它是确定煤矿企业在生产经营过程中对物资的需要量,是一项繁重、复杂的基础工作,也是企业计划管理的重要组成。笔者对煤矿企业的物资计划管理做了阐述。     

Exploring a possible route through which training affects organizational performance: the case of a Greek bank

Despite the dithyramb on training found throughout the literature, its impact on organizational performance still remains a ‘black box’ yet to be unlocked. Indeed, neither the intervening process nor the factors that mediate training effectiveness have been substantively explored or linked together in a framework. In this paper, gaining insights from the concept of the balanced scorecard and using the service profit chain as a strategy map, an attempt is made to formulate a casual linkage value chain that highlights one possible route through which training can impact organizational performance. Using a predictive design, data were collected from multiple sources (employees, customers, and the bank's financial records) and raters from a sample of 30 branches of a Greek bank. The findings confirmed a framework illuminating a value exchange process ignited by training. More precisely, the results suggested that a formal, structured, and long-term approach to training, as well as certain pre- and post-training conditions and activities, improve training effectiveness by creating positive perceptions about the training's value. The generated for employees value results to higher levels of job satisfaction which boosts employee loyalty, creating in this sense value for the organization. This value is reflected to customers, in terms of better service quality, and reciprocated to the organization through higher customer satisfaction and branch loyalty leading to improved profitability at the branch level.     

The mediating role of training utility in the relationship between training needs assessment and organizational effectiveness

In a survey among respondents from 96 organizations, we found that the utility of training partially mediated the relationship between Training Needs Assessment (TNA) comprehensiveness and the effectiveness of the organization. We did not find an effect of training quantity on training utility and organization effectiveness. Both TNA comprehensiveness and training quantity were found to be unrelated to organizational size. The results support the importance of conducting TNA in practice.     

浅论同城快运物流服务的内容和实效性

2013年新年第一个月,中国多达17个省市被雾霾笼罩,空气质量极度恶劣,国人调侃要“厚德载雾,自强不吸”,我国的环境质量受到了全世界的关注与质疑;空气质量恶化的原因众说纷纭,归纳起来主要是以下三点：工业废气污染、建筑灰尘污染、汽车尾气污染,三者的贡献各占三分之一;通过对物品的分理、集同、包装、信息管理,以城市公共交通系统（包括城市公交、BRT、地铁、轻轨等）为主要运输方式,非公共汽车、自行车等为辅助运输方式,在最短的时间（不超过5小时）实现物品在同一个城市区域范围内位置有效转移的物流活动,从而提高物流效率从而降低汽车尾气对空气的污染。