Het Indian Statistical Institute te Calcutta Organisatie en werkprogramma

The Indian Statistical Institute at Calcutta.
After an introductory statement on the organisation of official statistics in India the author describes the various departments of the Indian Statistical Institute, and its contributions to the development of sampling methods, in mathematical statistics and theory of probability, biometrics, psychometrics, statistical quality control, demography and economic development planning. The Institute occupies a leading position in India as a national and international centre of statistical research and training at very advanced levels.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Being Local Worldwide: ABB and the Challenge of Global Management, Tony Edwards Britain at Work, As depicted by the 1988 Workplace Employee Relations Surrey, Wendy Loretto Manufacturing Advantage: Why High‐Performance Work Systems Pay Off, Sue Hutchinson Talking About Organisation Science: Debates and Dialogues from Crossroads, Tony J Watson     

Book reviews

David Knights and Hugh Willmott, Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organisations Mike Ironside and Roger Seifert, Facing up to Thatcherism: The History of NALGO 1979–93 James A. Jaffe, Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in England 1815–65 Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present Tony Royle, Working for McDonalds in Europe: The Unequal Struggle     

A note on the uniform distribution on the arcsin points

In his book Pukelsheim [8] pointed out that designs supported at the arcsin points are very efficient for the statistical inference in a polynomial regression model. In this note we determine the canonical moments of a class of distributions which have nearly equal weights at the arcsin points. The class contains theD-optimal arcsin support design and theD ₁-optimal design for a polynomial regression. The results allow explicit representations ofD-, andD ₁-efficiencies of these designs in all polynomial models with a degree less than the number of support points of the design.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Managerial and Professional Staff Grading . By Joan Doulton and David Hay
Supervisory Management in the Office . By M. R. Williams
The Theory of Valuation . By C. L. Hubbard and C. A. Hawkins
British Railways in Transition . By Derek H. Aldcroft
The Economist in Business . By K. J. W. Alexander
Managerial Economics . By D. C. Hague
Efficiency of Business Enterprise . By L. R. Amey
Pricing Strategy . By Bernard Taylor and Gordon Wills (Editors)
Economic Analysis and Industrial Structure . By Douglas Needham
The Age of Discontinuity . By Peter Drucker
British Management Thought . By John Child
Immigrant School Leavers and the Youth Employment Service in Birmingham , By David Beetham
Immigrants in Employment: Two Case Studies in East London and in Croydon . By Klim McPherson and Julia Gaitskell
Indian Workers' Associations in Britain . By DeWitt John Jr.
Technological Man . By Victor C. Ferkiss
Technological Growth and Social Change . By Stanley A. Hetzler
Technological Forecasting . By R. V. Arnfield (Editor)
Role Playing for Supervisors . By J. Maxwell Towers
Participative Exercises for Management Training . Set 1 and 2. Edited by R. D. Ashall
Work Measurement: Some Research Studies . By N. A. Dudley
Motion and Time Study Design and Measurement of Work
A Manager's Guide to Work Study . By Owen Gilbert
Method Study . By Alan Fields
Work and Community . By Fred H. Blum
The Liberation of Work . By Folkett Wilken
Co-ownership, Co-operation and Control . By P. Derrick and J-F. Phipps
Workers' Participation in Management . By J. Y. Tabb and A. Goldfarb
Form and Content in Industrial Democracy . By F. E. Emery and Einar Thorsrud     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Carol Boyd. Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety.
Reviewed by Geraldine Healy
Queen Mary, University of London Anru Lee. In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring.
Reviewed by Peter Ross
University of Economics Prague, Griffith University, Australia Marek Korczynski. Human Resource Management in Service Work.
Reviewed by Joe Wallace
University of Limerick Jane Parker. Women's Groups and Equality in British Trade Unions.
Reviewed by Moira Calveley
University of Hertfordshire     

A relationship between efficiencies of marginal designs and the product design

We derive theD- andG-efficiencies of product designs in a multifactor experiment in terms of theD- andG-efficiencies of the designs in the marginal models. Work supported by grants Ku 719/2 and 477/645/96 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

BOOKS REVIEWS

Books Reviews is this articles Fineman, Stephen, White Collar Unemployment—Impact and Stress. Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. Reason, P. and Rowan, J. (Eds). Human Inquiry: A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research. McLean, Adrian, Sims, David, Mangham, Iain and Tuffield, David. Organization Development in Transition: Evidence of an Evolving Profession. Whitley, Richard, Thomas, Alan and Marceau, Jane. Masters of Business? Business Schools and Business Graduates in Britain and France. Thomson, Andrew and Warner, Malcolm (Eds). The Behavioural Sciences and Industrial Relations. Watts, A. G., Super, Donald E., and Kidd, Jennifer M. Career Development in Britain. Cook, John D., Hepworth, Susan J., Wall, Toby D. and Warr, Peter B., The Experience of Work A Compendium and Review of 249 Measures and Their Use. Singleton, W. T. (Ed.) Management Skills. Zammuto, Raymond F. Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Systems Change, Adaptation and Strategy. de Wolff, C. J., Shimmin, Sylvia and Montmollin, Maurice. Conflicts and Contradictions: Work Psychologists in Europe. Eilon, Samuel. Management Control.     

Extending design-optimality from an initial model to augmented models

We consider an initial linear model E(Y)=B a and an augmented model E(Y)=B a+C b. We show that, if a design is optimal for estimating K a in the initial model, then there exists a matrix L such that this design is also optimal for estimating K a+L b in the augmented model. Received: December 1998     

培训指标量化 检查纵横结合——衡供“立体式”培训工作对标管理创新实践

应用"同业对标"的工作理念,将培训重点工作纳入指标体系,利用指标体系开展培训工作对标。我公司出台了《培训工作对标管理办法》,办法中规定了《工区培训工作"同业对标"指标体系》和《班组培训工作"同业对标"指标体系》两套指标,实现了工区、班组培训管理工作量化管理,促进了培训工作整体水平的提升。     

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Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal Peter Ackers, Chris Smith and Paul Smith (eds), The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives in Work and Organization Raymond Markey and Jacques Monat (eds), Innovation and Employee Participation Through Works Councils—International Case Studies A. Goldsmith, D. Nickson, D. Sloan and R. Wood, Human Resource Management for Hospital Services Frank Burchill, Labour Relations. Second Edition     

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Beardwell, Ian Contemporary Relations: A Critical Analysis Cressey, Peter and Jones, Bryn Work and Employment in Europe: A New Convergence? Berger, Stefan and Broughton, David The Force of Labour Gennard, John and Bain, Peter A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades Hendry, Chris Human Resources Management: A Strategic Approach to Employment Deakin, Simon and Morris, Gillian S Labour Law     

The impact on the cultural diversity to employees' job satisfaction between mainland China and Taiwan: a comparison of Taiwanese invested companies

This study explores how the Chinese values (Integrations, Confucian Work Dynamism, Human-heartedness and Moral Discipline) impact employees' satisfaction (ES). Employees who work in mainland China for companies whose parent companies are based in Taiwan were surveyed. The results can be summarized as the following: ‘Integration’, ‘Confucian Work Dynamism’ and ‘Human-heartedness’ are significantly different between Taiwanese and Chinese employees, while ‘Moral discipline’ is not; Taiwanese employees have higher ES than Chinese employees; Taiwanese employees view ‘career planning’ is the most important, while Chinese employees think ‘management system’ is most important; For Taiwanese employees, ‘Salary and benefit’, ‘Working load’ and ‘Management system’ have effects on ES; Age and Education have effects on Chinese employees.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in This Articles Donaldson, Lex, American Anti-Management Theories of Organization: A Critique of Paradigm Proliferation. Book Reviewed in This Articles Clark, T. Managing Consultants - Consultancy As the Management of Impressions. Book Reviewed in This Articles Holliday, Ruth. Investigating Small Firms: Nice Work? Book Reviewed in This Articles Wren J. Thomas. The Leader's Companion: Insights On Leadership Through the Ages.     

Optimality and efficiency of circular neighbor balanced designs for correlated observations

The purpose of this paper is to apply the Kunert and Martins (2000b) method for finding optimal designs into the case of dependence. Using this method we study optimality of circular neighbor balanced designs at distances 1 and 2 under the one-dimensional interference model with errors correlated according to a circular autoregressive process. We determine the efficiency of binary designs for specified values of correlation coefficient, for which these designs are not optimal.Research partially supported by the KBN Grant Number 5 P03A 041 21.     

Corporate Governance and Performance of Indian Firms: The Effect of Board Size and Ownership

The paper reviews international literature on corporate governance and firm performance and investigates the relationship in the Indian context, taking into account the endogeneity in the relationship. Governance parameters include board size, directors’ shareholding, institutional and foreign shareholding, while the fragmentation in shareholding is captured by public shareholding. A simultaneous equation regression model for Tobin’s Q, as a measure of firm performance, is attempted using these variables, while controlling for industry effects and other non-governance variables. The data corresponds to a panel of 340 large, listed Indian firms for the period 1997–2001 spread across 24 industry groups.     

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Book Review in this Article Morgan , Gareth (Ed.) Beyond Method: Strategies For Social Research. Earl , Michael J. (Ed.) Perspectives On Management - A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Karabadse , Andrew The Politics of Management. Poole , M., Brown , W., Rubery , J., Sisson , K., Tarling , R. and Wilkinson , F. Industrial Relations In the Future: Trends and Possibilities In Britain Over the Next Decade. Bradley , Keith and Gelb , Alan Worker Capitalism: the New Industrial Relations. Durcan , J. W., Mccarthy , W. E. J. and Redman , G. P. Strikes In Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73.     

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David Coates and John Hillard (eds) UK Economic Decline: Key Texts Vaughan-Whitead, D. et al. Workers' Financial Participation – East–West Experiences Paul Thompson and David McHugh Work Organisations – A Critical Introduction (second edition) Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan (eds) Women in Organisation s– Challenging Gender Politics Harry Scarborough (ed.) The Management of Expertise John Storey (ed.) Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management Jack Eaton Globalization and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry Pamela Sugiman Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937–1979 Jeff Torrington The Devil's Carousel John Solomos and Les Back Race, Politics and Social Change     

Costly state verification and optimal investment

We model a lender-borrower relationship in a CSV framework. The project available with the firm is characterized by first-order stochastic dominance. The lender audits the borrower to prevent the latter from strategic default. In this setup, we find the optimal contract is the standard debt contract. However, a debt contract leads to overinvestment. This result is in sharp contrast to those obtained in the literature. The default probability of the project can be influenced by the nature of financial contract in place. The model also derives the relationship between the optimal debt equity ratio and the auditing costs. The work is based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation submitted at the Indian Statistical Institute. The author wishes to thank Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and the seminar participants at the Indian Statistical Institute, Jawaharlal Nehru University, MDI, and NIILM for useful comments on the earlier draft. The paper has also benefitted immensely from the valuable insights povided by the three anonymous referees of the journal. The remaining errors are mine.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this Article Alvesson , Mats . Organization Theory and Technocratic Consciousness. Dawson , Sandra . Analysing Organizations. Rowbottom , Ralph and Billis , David . Organizational Design. Moores , Brian . (Ed.) Are They Being Served? Boddy , David and Buchanan , David A. Managing New Technology. Francis , Arthur . New Technology At Work. Warner , Malcolm . (Ed.), Management Reforms In China.