加强“双师型”教学团队建设 推动高职教育内涵式发展

搭建校企合作平台,加强"双师素质"教学团队建设,是广西高职院校教学团队特别是重点建设专业都正在做或开始做的一项具有战略意义的示范建设措施。广西电力职业技术学院应用电子技术专业教学团队经历了十六年的教学改革和探索实践,通过加强"双师素质"团队建设,由学校专任教师为主体和企业兼职教师共同开发并实施本专业人才培养方案,实现团队分工,共育人才,推动高职教育内涵式发展。     

中等职业教育师资队伍建设

<正>2006年11月,中华人民共和国教育部《关于全面提高职业教育教学质量的若干意见》明确指出,要大力推行工学结合、校企合作的培养模式,注重教师队伍的"双师"结构,改革人事分配和管理制度,加强专兼结合的专业教学团队建设。建设一支高素质的适应现代化社会发展要求的、人员精干、素质优良、专     

高职教育财经类专业教学改革探析

高职教育财经类专业教学改革应当以培养面向生产、建设、管理、服务第一线的高素质的技能型人才为目标,从课程体系和教学内容、人才培养模式、教学方法和手段等入手,贯彻理论与实践并重的"双轨同步"原则,体现高职教育的职业性特点,同时要特别注重教师队伍的"双师素质"培养和"双师结构"教学团队建设。     

技能大赛对高职烹饪专业教学改革影响——以无锡商业职业技术学院为例

技能大赛对专业建设和发展具有促进作用,特别是针对烹饪专业而言,技能大赛赛项设置与竞赛规则等对专业教学改革具有深远影响具有深远影响。以无锡商业职业技术学院烹饪专业教学改革为例,突出表现在课程体系构建、课程内容设计、教学过程组织、"双师"团队培养、评价制度建设等方面。     

软件技术专业“双师”结构教学团队建设的研究与实践

由于高职软件技术专业招生的扩大,软件技术专业"双师"结构教师团队建设被提到了日程上,采用企业教研、毕业生回访、同类高职院校的调研等形式展开,解决了软件技术专业教师团队建设的问题。教师的团队建设搞好了,教学质量就提高了,学生的动手能力、创新能力提高了。     

“双导向”视域下专业群构建的职教集团创新研究——以长沙环境保护职业技术学院为例

本文提出利用职教集团优势资源服务"双导向"视域下专业群构建的创新方案。作者通过充分调研,从构建"多方联动"预警机制、打造"双师素质"教学团队、搭建"成果共享"合作平台、拓展"共建共享"实习基地四个方面对职教集团提出了创新的具体措施。     

高职服装设计专业教学团队建设的实践与思考

我国高职服装设计专业团队建设时间不长,还存在一些问题。笔者结合工作体会,根据高职服装专业的特点,提出了完善教学团队建设管理体制、培养优秀的教学团队负责人、组建"工学结合"的教学团队、组建"专兼结合"的教学团队等四个方面的建议。     

“定岗双元”模式下物流管理专业“双元双优”实践教学团队建设的探索与实践

实践教学团队的专业水平和业务素质决定着实践教学效果和质量。文章以物流管理专业为例,剖析了实践教学中存在的师资问题,阐述了"定岗双元"模式下"双元双优"实践教学团队建设的内涵、特征、运行机制和保障机制,并从校内和企业两个层面阐述了实施该模式的具体做法,为高职院校建设实践教学团队提供可供借鉴的思路和经验。     

我校药物制剂技术专业的成长历程

介绍苏州卫生职业技术学院药物制剂技术专业建设的经验与举措。专业建设中要以就业为导向,以服务为宗旨,结合行业的要求,改革课程体系,体现专业特色,加强"双师"队伍建设。     

示范项目建设对提升高职院校内涵建设的作用

对于立项示范建设的高职院校来说,通过示范性项目建设推动的方式,解决内涵建设中诸多发展瓶颈,有效促进了工学结合的人才培养模式创新,突出了重点建设专业优势,促进了基于工作过程课程体系的构建,优化了"双师"结构教师队伍,加强了实习实训基地建设,提升了学院的整体管理水平,全面促进了高职学院的内涵建设,提高了人才培养质量。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.