Introduction: Organizations, Risk and Regulation

abstract    Risk, regulation and practices of organizing are interrelated in a myriad of ways. Natural disasters, technical failures, and also processes of organizing are sources of risk to which organizations must respond and for which new managerial and regulatory practices are demanded. In this introduction we highlight three salient features of risk management: the (un)intended production of risk by organizations; the complex interrelationship between risk management and regulation; and the evolving and often contested nature of risk management knowledge. Each of these three themes is evident in the different contributions to this themed section.     

遵循规律 注重实效——供电企业文化建设现状与趋势

●从自发走向自觉,用科学方法构建企业文化体系,将企业文化建设与日常管理相结合,藉此提升企业管理水平,增强企业的凝聚力和核心竞争力●遵循市场规律,把握当今世界先进企业文化的前进方向,着眼于建立和完善现代企业制度及企业的管理创新,不断为企业植入优秀文化基因     

煤电联动：化解矛盾

电力作为国民经济的基础产业,在 国家的经济运行中起着十分重要的作 用。火力发电厂装机容量占我国电力总 装机容量的74％,是我国电力生产的主 要力量。近两年来,火力发电厂在“市场 煤”和“计划电”的双重价格体系等压 力下,经营中举步维艰,电厂的安全生产 也遇到了前所未有的挑战。统计资料显 示:2004年,全国1140家火电企业中有 440家亏损,亏损幅度达到了38．6％,总 亏损额达到78亿元。     

地市供电企业：核心业务流程优化

核心业务流程优化的背景苏州供电公司2002年获得国家电力公司首批“国际一流供电企业”称号,电网装备及运行管理现代化水平有了很大提高。在认真总结十多年来坚持不懈开展达标、创一流工作经验与不足的基础上,按照江苏省电力公司开展国际对标的工作部署,苏州供电公司积极主动向国内外同行先进企业学习,先后组织专业人员赴香港中华电力公司以及新加坡、德国斯图加特和美国亚特兰大等电力公司进行培训、考察,广泛收集国际同行先进水平的指标数据和管理信息,切实感受到与先进管理水平的差距所在。为了较快地缩小与国际先进水平的差距,公司选择…     

网住人心

信息网络技术的发展,使现代人的思想及信息交流更为频繁,企业思想政治工作面临新的挑战.但同时,思想政治工作也有了更大的空间和更快捷的渠道.辽宁省本溪供电公司党委积极抢占信息网络阵地,把思想政治工作在"网上做"与"网下做"有机地结合起来.     

Flexibility,Firm-Specific Turbulence and the Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm

The hypothesis that flexibility enhances the long run prospects of the small firm is explored by examining precipitating causes of organizational change within it, and consequential adjustments. The study is fieldwork based and uses evidence gathered directly from entrepreneurs. New measures of flexibility and firm-specific turbulence are used to explain long-run performance, measured over 28 distinct attributes. Econometric estimates (using GLS and Heckman selectivity correction) are reported, on the relationship between flexibility, firm-specific turbulence and performance. Firm-specific turbulence is shown to have a negative effect on performance, but the latter is enhanced by increasing the flexibility of the small firm.JEL classification: C42, D21, G33, L2, M13, M21.     

An Employer Analysis of Managed Care Costs and Satisfaction: Process, Effects, and Policy

ABSTRACT: Do managed care health plans truly control costs more effectively than nonmanaged care plans? Recent evidence suggests that employees are getting used to the managed care idea and that managed care is responsible for the sharp slowdown in health-care costs. This article examines recent changes in the delivery, financing, and consumption of health care from the perspective of a large multiple-site American corporation to see whether its health-care costs are controlled and whether this control occurs at the expense of employee satisfaction. A unique aspect of this study is that managed care was implemented more slowly and in phases at one of the six sites analyzed. The results suggest the following. First, the Study Corporation's health-care costs have not significantly increased four years following the change from an indemnity to a managed care plan. The authors interpret this result to mean that managed care has controlled costs because before the change, plan costs were increasing 15 percent per year. Second, the site with the underdeveloped network did not have higher costs than the other sites based on the analysis. Third, the authors show that employee satisfaction increased after implementation of the managed care plan. Moreover, satisfaction was higher at sites with more employees, higher usage, and higher health-care costs. Last, the results suggest that plan participant satisfaction increases as the managed care network becomes more developed. Policy and benefit manager recommendations are made on the basis of these reported findings.     

抓优质服务促作风建设

编者按:2001年,国家电力公司系统开展了大规模的"电力市场整顿和优质服务年"活动.这项活动取得了显著的成效,充分展示了电业职工,特别是供电系统广大干部职工实践"三个代表"重要思想和"人民电业为人民"行业宗旨的精神风貌,为新世纪第一年的国民经济发展和人民生活水平提高献上了一份厚礼.     

实施"素质工程"推进人力资源开发

2001年初,为建立与山东电力创建国际一流电力公司配套的人力资源开发机制,我们把提升自身素质作为突破点,在集团公司人事、劳动、社保系统,推进了以"转变管理理念,提升全员素质,推进学习创新"为核心的"素质工程",实施以来,收到了良好效果.     

"136管理创新工程"系列报道勇于创新推进电力党校改革

福建电力党校坚持与时俱进，转变观念，勇于创新，逐步建立以企业需求为导向的市场机制，不断提高服务意识和服务质量，多办班、办好班，取得了较好的成效。