Labor education as a method of enhancing employee rights and responsibilities

University-based labor education programs conduct classes designed to provide union members with the skills necessary to perform their organizational and civic responsibilities and to provide union members with opportunities for personal growth and development. In conducting these programs, university labor educators enhance the protection of employee rights and the fulfillment of employee responsibilities. This article describes the manner in which labor education enhances collective and individual rights and responsibilities within unions, vis-à-vis employers and within the larger society.     

Integration of collective bargaining and formal worker participation processes: Boon or barrier to worker rights?

Many employers are extending workplace rights by allowing for more employee voice in decision making. Numerous unionized organizations have established formal worker participation processes to help achieve this end and to improve organizational performance. Based largely on theory, such processes are normally designed to operate independently from the bargaining process. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between participation and bargaining processes, and the effect of this relationship on workplace satisfaction. A total of 712 Midwest union officials were surveyed, and the results indicate that the processes tend to become integrated in the workplace. Further, union officials' workplace satisfaction was greater where formal worker participation is institutionalized within the bargaining process.     

Unit determination: National Labor Relations Board rule making in the health care industry

This article reviews the events leading up to the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) historic decision to engage in substantive rule making over appropriate bargaining units in the health care industry. It describes the rule-making process and outcomes, and the reaction of hospital unions and management to the rules. Finally, the potential for the use of rule making for other issues facing the NLRB is analyzed. This analysis uses a cost/benefit framework from the agency's perspective to predict the likelihood of future rule making. The article concludes that rule making is sufficiently costly to make extensive use in other situations unlikely.The order of the author's names was determined randomly and should not be interpreted as implying an unequal contribution.     

Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the termination of collective bargaining contracts

In 1984 the Supreme Court ruled that employers can unilaterally break an existing collective bargaining contract upon filing a chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. This ruling changed both the contractual responsibilities of the employer to honor the collective bargaining agreement and the rights that workers have under the National Labor Relations Act. The purpose of this article is to show the conditions under which a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding will lead to the termination of a labor contract. Our results suggest that (a) legal rulings that reduce the costs of bankruptcy will increase the number of contractual dissolutions and (b) a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is more likely to occur when a firm operates in a climate of uncertain expectations.     

“开放性”课程教学模式实践探讨——以山东工商学院《劳动关系与劳动法》课程改革为例

"开放性"课程教学模式是把教学系统与社会系统、课堂内与课堂外系统进行有机结合,实现理论与实践之间、学生与教师之间、学生与专家之间、同学与同学之间进行系统融合的现代化教学模式。本文以作者近8年来从事《劳动关系与劳动法》课程教学模式改革与创新的经历,以"开放性"教学模式为研究主题,从教学思想、教学过程、教学内容、教学空间、教学手段、考核评价等6个方面进行了改革与探索。     

大数据时代计算机远程网络通信技术变革分析

随着科技的发展,大数据时代已经来临,计算机远程通信技术必须与时俱进地发展,才能在大数据时代发挥作用,计算机远程通信经过多年的运营出现了一些问题,在大数据背景下可以利用大数据技术发展计算机远程通信。     

妇女缠足、性别分工和经济变革:19世纪和20世纪早期的中国农村

妇女缠足在中国持续了一千年左右,晚清时已发展到了中国绝大部分地区农村劳动阶级的妇女也普遍缠足的程度。除缠足外还有一系列的习俗束缚着妇女参与社会劳动,强化着农村家庭内两性间的性别分工。本文通过家庭经济学中的性别分工理论研究传统农家生产的性别分工和效率,以及缠足等习俗对经济效率的损失和对性别分工的强化作用。性别分工的强化不仅仅是强化了女性的被奴役地位,在经济上还强化了家庭农业和家庭手工业的结合,增强了农家的自给性质。在这种生产方式下,生产资料和劳动力没有分离,社会分工和专业化生产不发达,同时束缚了经济的变革。     

企业劳务派遣用工方式的利弊及风险控制

随着我国人事管理管理模式的转变,劳务派遣用工方式成为解决企业用人困难、提高人力资源配置效率的重要举措。虽然企业采用劳务派遣用工方式具有明显的优势,但是其中也存在一定风险。因此,论文立足多年工作实践,阐述了企业劳务派遣用工方式的利弊,进而提出控制企业劳务派遣用工风险的具体对策。     

基于隐性知识价值的产业集群创新优势研究

通过对隐性知识"粘滞性"特点的把握,分析了产业集群有利于技术创新的内在机理,指出产业集群是隐性知识的栖息地。这为获取隐性知识提供了"集体学习"的平台,并降低了隐性知识的不确定性。     

Patenting Strategy of Entrepreneurial Orientated Firms in New Zealand

Patenting is regarded as an important area for firms wanting to capture the strategic value of intellectual property. Further, patents are often used as a proxy for innovation— i.e., a firm with a large number of patents is said to be innovative. At the same time, a firm that is innovative is also said to have an entrepreneurial orientation (EO). In spite of this apparent linkage between an EO and patenting, little empirical evidence strategically links the two constructs. This paper addresses this gap by providing one of the first studies examining the relationship between an EO and patenting.     

Technological evolution as creative destruction of process heterogeneity: evidence from US plant-level data

Change in evolutionary economics is predicated on the creative destruction of variety. Despite the importance of the concept of variety, or heterogeneity, in evolutionary economic theory, empirical work that examines the character of variety – its extent and its persistence – is still scarce. Drawing on unpublished, micro-level data from the US Bureau of the Census, this paper examines the characteristics of process heterogeneity in selected US manufacturing industries. More specifically the paper has three goals. First, to demonstrate that heterogeneity in plant technologies exists and that it persists over time even within relatively mature industrial sectors. Second, to examine the veracity of the processes that generate and destroy heterogeneity in production technology within narrowly defined industries. Third, to link the heterogeneity of plant-level techniques of production to the pace and direction of technological change at the level of the industry.     

后发企业“逆向创新”成功因素研究——以海尔“小小神童”系列产品创新为例

本文通过对海尔“小小神童”洗衣机产品逆向创新的案例分析,总结了后发企业取得逆向创新成功的若干重要影响因素,即：选择同领先企业技术势差较小的产业领域,后发企业实现逆向创新的机会更多;后发企业在逆向创新过程中,必须充分发挥具有本土比较优势的创新资源要素;后发企业在逆向创新过程中需要依靠开放创新策略、技术与市场和管理创新紧密协同的策略支撑。     

中小企业技术创新的优势及策略

我国中小企业占企业总数99％以上,是技术创新的主体。文章分析了中小企业技术创新对企业发展的重要影响以及意义,结合中小企业技术创新的优势提出了相应的创新策略。     

Interrelated Factor Demands and Technological Change: An Empirical Assessment of Adjustment for Sectors of the Dutch Economy

Using a translog cost functional form, a formal operational model with an adjustment process according to a first-order autoregressive scheme is presented, that allows the simultaneous determination of factor demands and of technological change in an input–output system. The analysis is carried out for sectors of the Dutch economy over the period 1954–83 and it reveals evidence of the dependence of factor demands on relative prices and on technological change.     

组织文化:会计师事务所质量控制的新视角

会计师事务所文化是联结会计师事务所人力资本和各项质量控制制度的一种机制,该机制的有效发挥将最终体现为会计师事务所整体执业质量的提高。基于新审计准则关于“会计师事务所应当建立以质量为导向的内部文化“的规定,本文探讨了会计师事务所组织文化对会计师事务所质量控制制度的建立、实施的影响及相互作用机理,并提出了培育质量导向的会计师事务所文化的若干建议。     

基于制度创新的旅游企业战略联盟优势——以广州岭南国际企业集团为例

基于制度创新和战略联盟理论,以广州岭南国际企业集团为例,研究了战略联盟作为制度创新的一种方式给联盟企业带来的优势.这些优势主要表现为提高联盟内企业的竞争力和在企业间进行资源共享与相互学习.     

RFID技术在图书馆管理中的优势和问题研究

由于条型码技术在图书馆管理过程中存在缺陷,目前越来越多的图书馆采用了RFID技术。RFID技术的使用提高了图书馆的管理效率,使馆员向读者提供更多有价值的附加服务,也使读者可以及时、准确的获得自己所需要的资源,最终提高图书馆管理水平和服务质量。但是RFID技术在图书馆管理中的应用也存在一些问题,如有关个人隐私和安全问题,标准化和费用问题。     

试论计划用水在灌区中的应用

和平渠供水分公司承担着全市的绿化、农业及工业供水的主要任务。实行计划用水,在灌区用水的实践中,对促进灌溉技术改革有着重大的意义。     

产品市场竞争:企业负债融资决策的新视角

20世纪80年代中期以来,企业负债融资对产品市场竞争的影响引起经济学家的广泛关注,并发展成为资本结构理论一项重要内容。本文拟就国外理论界对企业负债融资和产品市场竞争的研究成果进行述评,进而提出了我国深入开展该领域工作的政策建议。