Developments in human resource management in manufacturing in modern Britain

In this paper, developments in human resource management in manufacturing in modern Britain based on a national sample are examined. The organization and role of human resource management, employee involvement, training and development, work practices and rewards are all targeted for an assessment of current practices. This is a prelude for a contrast between manufacturing and non-manufacturing. The conclusion is that the similarities between manufacturing and non-manufacturing substantially outweigh the differences. By inference, too, developments in human resource management practices are likely to reflect changes in the broader environment of businesses (and differences between companies) rather than being specific to the main industrial sectors.     

关于高职院校数学教学中开放题的有关问题初探

本文着重于讲解在高职院校数学教学中常出现的几种开放题,对它们的解法加以研究,归纳其一般思路、解法及其解答技巧,希望能有助于今后高职院校数学教学研究活动,供参考之用。     

Trends in multiculturalism in health care

Materiel managers are faced with a shrinking world and changing work environment. The needs and expectations of the customer have shifted because of the increasing number of multicultural groups. These groups will continue to assert their right to culturally sensitive care. Materiel managers also need to learn to support and enhance the skills of a multicultural work force. One important tool for change will be technology. However, technology that brings the world closer together also creates new challenges for managers, who will have to deal with multicultural colleagues, buyers, sellers, and manufacturers of goods and services.     

Mediation in industrial disputes in Britain

This article presents an overview of mediation in industrial disputes, and examines the British experience of using this form of third-party intervention since the establishment of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in 1974. The Author concludes that there is scope for the development of mediation in dealing with particular types of industrial disputes.     

坚持以人为本是企业管理之道

随着科学技术的迅速发展，现代企业管理较之过去发生了巨大变化，能不能坚持以人为本的管理，关系到企业能否搞好经营活动，关系到现代企业制度能否顺利建成。     

Errors in variables in panel data

Panel data based studies in econometrics use the analysis of covariance approach to control for various ‘individual effects’ by estimating coefficients from the ‘within’ dimension of the data. Often, however, the results are unsatisfactory, with ‘too low’ and insignificant coefficients. Errors of measurement in the independent variables whose relative importance gets magnified in the within dimension are then blamed for this outcome.Errors-in-variables models have not been used widely, in part because they seem to require extraneous information to be identified. We show how a variety of errors-in-variables models may be identifiable and estimable in panel data without the use of external instruments and apply it to a relatively simple but not uninteresting case: the estimation of ‘labor demand’ relationships, also known as the ‘short-run increasing returns to scale’ puzzle.     

Explaining Inter-Provincial Inequality in Productivity Growth in Crop Production in Pakistan

Abstract

Data on crop production are assembled for four provinces—Punjab, Sindh, North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan—for the period from 1980/81 to 2005/06 to examine inter-provincial differences in productivity growth rates. Propositions are put forward and examined to explain the superior productivity performance of Punjabi crop producers over those in Sindh and North-West Frontier Province, and the unusual productivity trends in Balochistan. The major factors relate to economic infrastructure and human capital. The impact of agricultural research is difficult to discern, and further work is required to assess the lagged effects of research expenditures on TFP growth.

Explication des déséquilibres interprovinciaux dans l'augmentation de la productivité dans la production de cultures au Pakistan

RÉSUMÉ On a rassemblé des données pour les quatre provinces suivantes: Penjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, et Baloutchistan, pour la période 1980/81 à 2005/06, afin d'examiner les différences interprovinciales dans les taux d'expansion de la productivité. On présente et on examine des hypothèses pour expliquer le rendement supérieur des producteurs du Penjab par rapport à ceux du Sindh et du Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, ainsi que les tendances de productivité inhabituelles du Baloutchistan. Les principaux facteurs se rapportent à l'infrastructure économique et au capital humain. L'impact de la recherche sur l'agriculture est difficile à établir, et des travaux supplémentaires seront nécessaires pour évaluer les effets décalés des frais de recherche sur l'expansion du TFP.

Explicación de la desigualdad inter-provincial en el crecimiento de la productividad de la producción de cultivos en Pakistán

EXTRACTO Se recopilan datos sobre la producción de cultivos de cuatro provincias: Punjab, Sindh, Provincia de la Frontera Norte-Oeste y Balochistan, durante el período de 1980/81 a 2005/06, para examinar las diferencias inter-provinciales en los índices de crecimiento de la productividad. Se plantean y examinan propuestas para explicar el mayor rendimiento de la productividad de los productores de cultivos Punjabi con respecto a los de Sindh y la Provincia de la Frontera Norte-Oeste, y las inusuales tendencias de la productividad de Balochistan. Los factores principales se relacionan con la infraestructura económica y el capital humano. El impacto de la investigación agrícola es difícil de discernir, y se requiere más trabajo para evaluar los efectos retrasados de los gastos de investigación en el crecimiento TFP.      

我国电子商务物流模式及选择因素探析

通过分析我国电子商务物流的现状,对当前我国电子商务发展可以选择的物流模式进行分析,最后提出我国电子商务企业进行物流模式选择时所需考虑的因素,以期为我国电子商务企业的发展提供参考。     

银行卡产业特征与反垄断难题

本文基于最近银行卡经济学的发展,分析银行卡产业的经济特征对传统的反垄断规制所带来的挑战。深入理解这些问题是正确运用反垄断制度、维护市场竞争和保护消费者利益的基础。     

Trends in local government in Europe

Abstract

The article explores which reform trends are expected to play a significant role in the further development of local government in European countries. Analysis is based on an adopted Delphi survey of (mainly academic) local government experts from thirty-two countries. Results include a list of trends structured by the perceived importance for the coming ten years. Redistributing responsibilities and duties across levels of government constitute the highest ratings out of all trends. Furthermore, results do not provide clear evidence to support a shift from public management to governance as has recently been proclaimed in academic debate and literature. Management topics continue to be of great importance. Last but not least, clusters extracted point to different reform groups, which highlight more reluctant or enthusiastic attitudes to the relevance of the suggested trends of the study.     

高职院校物流管理专业校企合作中存在问题与对策研究

通过对高职物流专业在校企合作中的外部保障、内部共同需求以及合作机制的分析,提出了校企深度合作模式下合作办学、合作育人、合作就业、合作发展的一些具体措施,以实现物流专业校企合作中的共赢。     

Labour relations in transition in Eastern Europe

This article discusses the emerging models of labour relations in Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Poland. It focuses on the institutions of trade unions, tripartism, collective bargaining and participation and considers the degrees of similarity and difference between the countries.     

Computerizing Barriers in Quality Management in Poland

Speed and flexibility in managing the information is of bigger and bigger importance in management at present. Efficient management of a company requires an access to current information which constitutes the key potential of a company, difficult to forge and of a unique character, thanks to which an appropriate managing the information is an important factor of competitive domination. The best way to achieve such an effect is to computerize the management. The application of computer equipment facilitates the information flow and therefore it dispenses managers from mechanical duties and allows them to focus on conceptual work connected with using the gathered information, whereas a tedious effort of its processing is done by a computer system.     

速录技术在高校开设应注意的问题

随着当今社会经济迅猛发展,社会分工不断精细和高效化,速录作为一个新兴的、强有力的社会职业正悄然兴起,并如火如荼的发展着。一些高等院校看到速录行业在社会上广阔的就业前景,纷纷开始在院校的相关专业开设亚伟速录课程。结合速录技术作为专业技能课程开设的实际,其教学需要不断的改进和提高,本文章仅就亚伟速录技术作为在高校开设的专业技能课程应注意的几个问题进行简单论述。     

Recent trends in collective bargaining in Nigeria

During the 1970s Nigerian industrial relations moved away from the voluntarist tradition into much greater formalisation of processes and practices. This article describes the present structure and scope of collective bargaining in Nigeria in the light of this development.     

Accounting in transition in the transitional economy

The paper provides a theoretical construct as a frame of reference for understand-ing the possibilities for, and the nature of, accounting change in the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Within its context some of the practical issues arising from the accounting reform measures are considered.     

Choice in Currency in Iceland

An Icelandic post-graduate student at Oxford outlines a method of preventing inflation that could be applied in other countries.     

Entrepreneurial Brokers in Disaster Response Network in Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

Abstract

Entrepreneurial brokers play a major role in governance networks in a disaster response setting. By identifying patterns of interactions between members in a network of embedded ties, we can explore the strategic use of brokers to mobilize an effective coordination system in the case of the 2013 Philippines disaster. Empirical data were gathered from reported interactions beginning 2 days after Typhoon Haiyan for the following 4 weeks. This paper concludes with practical-based recommendations for international and local agencies to enhance their organizational competencies to serve as entrepreneurial brokers in emergency management.     

Technologies in transition,policies in transition: foresight in the risk society

The emergence of formal Foresight programmes in science policy across Europe is examined in terms of government's response to the changes in, and especially the uncertainties of, contemporary innovation. The paper explores this through deploying Beck's notion of the “risk society”, asking how far Foresight can be construed as the management of new technologies by the transition towards the “negotiation state”. It shows how, through a discussion of the social management of new health technologies, a tension arises between the priorities and regimes of the new “negotiation” and those of the former “provident” (or welfare) state. The emergence of new technologies will be shaped by the institutional assumptions and processes operating within the different policy regimes.     

Marketing in medium-sized manufacturing firms: The state-of-the-art in France and in Quebec

An examination of the relationship between marketing and SMEs raises two kinds of questions: the first relates to the categories of SMEs studied, and it goes without saying that their responses will depend on their size (very small, small, and medium); the second depends on the elements likely or not to bring out a marketing approach. In fact, we can infer a large part of this approach from the answers having to do with segmentation practices, positioning, and information research. These three practices constitute the foundation of this approach. For all that, to ask questions directly (especially with regard to segmentation) would lead to biased responses. Taking these premises into account and with understanding of marketing behaviour in the medium-sized firms as an objective, we conducted two surveys in two locations, France and Québec (Canada), in which only enterprises with 50 to 250 employees were retained. The results show that if the marketing approach of the medium-sized firms is always focused on client distinction (more than on the market as such), competition leading to positioning is very much a part of their preoccupations; finally, these enterprises commonly practice commercial intelligence. This implies structuring commercial activity in general and marketing in particular, the two not always well delimited. These last two traits differentiate them from the other categories of SMEs, the very small enterprises (VSEs) and the small enterprises (SEs).