Integrity and Global Leadership

This paper addresses the role of integrity in global leadership. It reviews the philosophy of ethics and suggests that both contractarianism and pluralism are particularly helpful in understanding ethics from a global leadership perspective. It also reviews the challenges to integrity that come through interactions that are both external and internal to the company. Finally, the paper provides helpful suggestions on how global leaders can define appropriate ethical standards for themselves and their organizations.     

Intrafamilial Homogeneity for Perceived Risk and Opinion Leadership

In recent years, attention has been focused on examining the implications of changing women's roles for advertising strategy. The study reported in this paper compares magazine readership habits of two small matched samples of working and non-working wives in the U.S. and France. No major differences emerge in the frequency and type of magazines read by working and non-working wives in either country. Thus emphasis on magazines as the major advertising vehicle does not necessarily imply a lopsided emphasis on non-working wives, as might have been expected, due to potentially greater time pressures as a working wife.     

制造业物流成本探析

物流作为“第三利润的源泉”已逐渐被企业界所重视 ,是企业提升核心竞争力的重要手段 ,是国民经济新的经济增长点。分析制造业物流成本的现状及构成 ,从而降低生产企业物流成本 ,有利于企业提高利润 ,增强竞争力。     

The Impact of Perceived Leader Integrity on Subordinates in a Work Team Environment

Over the last decade, the increased use of work teams within organizations has been one of the most influential and far-reaching trends to shape the business world. At the same time, corporations have continued to struggle with increased unethical employee behavior. Very little research has been conducted that specifically examines the developmental aspects of employee ethical decision-making in a team environment. This study examines the impact of a team leader’s perceived integrity on his or her subordinates’ behavior. The results, which came from a survey of 245 MBA students functioning for 2 years in a work team environment, indicate an interaction between leader integrity and team member ethical intentions.     

中国制造业升级路径的新视角:文化产业与制造业融合

前人的研究主要是从技术创新的视角来探讨产业升级,却忽视产业升级应该是多种路径的综合运用.文章认为中国制造业的升级在坚持技术创新传统路径的基础上,还可以开辟文化产业与制造业融合的新路径.通过文化产业与制造业的延伸融合、交叉融合以及关联融合,充分发挥文化产业既是消费服务业,又是生产服务业的作用,提升制造业的文化附加值,促进制造业升级.     

Authentic Leadership and Behavioral Integrity as Drivers of Follower Commitment and Performance

The literatures on both authentic leadership and behavioral integrity have argued that leader integrity drives follower performance. Yet, despite overlap in conceptualization and mechanisms, no research has investigated how authentic leadership and behavioral integrity relate to one another in driving follower performance. In this study, we propose and test the notion that authentic leadership behavior is an antecedent to perceptions of leader behavioral integrity, which in turn affects follower affective organizational commitment and follower work role performance. Analysis of a survey of 49 teams in the service industry supports the proposition that authentic leadership is related to follower affective organizational commitment, fully mediated through leader behavioral integrity. Next, we found that authentic leadership and leader behavioral integrity are related to follower work role performance, fully mediated through follower affective organizational commitment. These relationships hold when controlling for ethical organizational culture.     

The Challenge of Leadership Accountability for Integrity Capacity as a Strategic Asset

The authors identify the challenge of holding contemporary business leaders accountable for enhancing the intangible strategic asset of integrity capacity in organizations. After defining integrity capacity and framing it as part of a strategic resource model of sustainable global competitive advantage, the stakeholder costs of integrity capacity neglect are delineated. To address this neglect issue, the authors focus on the cultivation of judgment integrity to handle behavioral, moral and hypothesized economic complexities as key dimensions of integrity capacity. Finally, the authors recommend two leadership practices to build competence in business leaders to enhance integrity capacity as an organizational strategic asset.     

Understanding the Challenges Facing the Food Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

The Northeast's share of US food processing activity has decreased significantly over the last three decades as many food processing firms have exited the region and located elsewhere, particularly in the South and the West. This decline has been most severe in New Jersey, the state that is frequently cited as having the most stringent business and regulatory climate in the nation. To investigate why food processors have found the New Jersey environment to be so unfriendly, this study organized focus groups of food processing industry executives, trade organizations and researchers. The findings suggest that the area of environmental and other regulation is the most problematic for food processors. Other areas of concern include, in order of importance, taxation and fiscal problems, economic barriers to development and expansion, high cost of doing business, education, training and labor concerns, communication and public relations, and transportation. Policy makers in New Jersey, and in other northeastern states facing similar food processing declines, interested in the retention and economic development of food processing firms need to be cognizant of the impediments currently constraining the industry. Industry-based public policy recommendations for enhancing the business climate for food processors are presented.     

物流业与制造业协同发展问题研究

我国生产企业长期以来一直是重生产、轻流通,导致物流成本巨大。如何解决这些问题是企业面临的一个重要问题,本文分析了制造业和物流业存在的问题,并提出了解决这些问题的对策,为企业实现"双赢"提供理论上的指导。     

中国物流业首先从制造业突破

本文认为,现代物流业对企业竞争力具有重要影响,现代物流与宏观经济、企业发展及人民生活具有密切关系。文章指出,2007年中国物流业在油价上涨等不利因素冲击下实现了平稳增长;经过几年的发展、调整和重组,物流企业与物流市场集中度有所提高;物流业发展外部环境进一步改善。但我国物流业发展也存在诸多困难,如成本约束普遍加大、物流基础服务项目特别是公路运输环节竞争过度、物流供需双方有效需求不足等。为促进我国物流业发展,必须加速第二产业的"第三产业化"进程,把企业非核心业务全部或大部分外包,特别是把第二产业的物流服务业外包,以提高核心竞争力;必须认识供应链、走进供应链、构造供应链、优化供应链,供应链里无论主角还是配角,都要结成战略联盟,实现共赢;必须发展高端物流服务,从制造业寻找突破口,促进现代制造业与服务业的有机融合,从而降低我国制造业过高的物流成本,实现制造业与物流业的联动发展。     

上海先进制造业发展现状、问题与对策

本文通过对上海制造业的数据比较,以及研发投入和专利情况的比较,发现上海在先进制造业方面存在创新体系不完善、高端人才短缺、先进制造业产业结构不合理等问题,并针对这些问题提出建议。     

The Effects of the Perceived Behavioral Integrity of Managers on Employee Attitudes: A Meta-analysis

Perceived behavioral integrity involves the employee’s perception of the alignment of the manager’s words and deeds. This meta-analysis examined the relationship between perceived behavioral integrity of managers and the employee attitudes of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, satisfaction with the leader and affect toward the organization. Results indicate a strong positive relationship overall (average r = 0.48, p<0.01). With only 12 studies included, exploration of moderators was limited, but preliminary analysis suggested that the gender of the employees and the number of levels between the employee and the manager are potential moderators of the relationship. In the current sample of studies, country where the research was conducted did not seem to have any moderating effects. In addition to suggesting further investigation of potential moderators, we call for research that examines the relationship between behavioral integrity and outcomes that include individual behavior and organizational performance.     

现代服务业/制造业的发展与产品服务化的关系

产品服务化成为许多跨国制造企业新的经营策略,从单纯提供有形产品扩展到基于有形产品的增值服务,有形产品本身甚至只作为传送服务的媒介或平台,该现象将从现在的中间产品(即企业投入品)为主向最终消费品领域扩散,从大件耐用消费品向一般消费品延伸,客户从以企业为主转向消费者为主,成为服务业和经济发展的主要动力来源。     

东北装备制造业创新政策研究

《东北地区振兴规划》中重点提出将东北打造成具有国际竞争力的装备制造业基地。深入贯彻落实科学发展观,实施东北装备制造业振兴战略,在振兴中设计并不断完善符合现代东北装备制造业发展内在规律要求的制度安排,无疑是政府的重要职责。     

Perceived Behavioral Integrity: Relationships with Employee Attitudes, Well-Being, and Absenteeism

Relationships between the behavioral integrity of managers as perceived by employees and employee attitudes (job satisfaction and life satisfaction), well-being (stress and health), and behaviors (absenteeism) were tested using data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (n = 2,820). Using multivariate and univariate analysis, perceived behavioral integrity (PBI) was positively related to job and life satisfaction and negatively related to stress, poor health, and absenteeism. The effect size for the relationship with job satisfaction was medium-to-large while the effect sizes with respect to the other variables were small-to-medium. There was no support for the hypotheses that women would perceive lower levels of behavioral integrity and that the strength of the relationships between PBI and the outcomes variables would be stronger among women than among men.     

东莞先进制造业创新生态系统的构建研究

《粤港澳大湾区发展规划纲要》提出"以深圳、东莞为核心在珠江东岸打造具有全球影响力和竞争力的电子信息等世界级先进制造业产业集群",这为东莞制造业的发展指明了方向。对东莞先进制造业创新生态系统的构成和基础条件进行分析,通过实地调研找出东莞先进制造业创新生态系统面临的问题;在此基础上,从创新物种、创新资源、创新环境三个方面提出完善东莞先进制造业创新生态系统的具体措施。     

The Influence of Perceived Justice on Recovery Satisfaction in the Airline Industry

This study examines the influence of perceived justice on customer satisfaction with service recovery and on the future behavioral intentions of customers in the airline industry. The study uses an exploratory research design that is quantitative in nature. Questionnaires were used to collect data, and structural equation modeling was used for hypothesis testing. The study revealed that the three dimensions of perceived justice, namely interactional, distributive and procedural justice, influence satisfaction with service recovery in the South African airline industry. However, only interactional and distributive justice had a positive influence on future behavioral intention.     

The City of London and the Manufacturing Industry

Last October the Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry delivered the annual Gresham Special Lecture in Gresham College in the City of London, in which he considered ways of developing a closer and potentially more fruitful relationship between the City and the UK manufacturing industry. The lecture is here reproduced with permission.