Resource based relative value scale: a new challenge and opportunity for health care cost management

Beginning in 1992, the use of resource based relative value scale (RBRVS) will greatly change the way physicians are reimbursed for services to Medicare patients. This new system will also have implications for trust funds and corporate providers of health care benefits.     

巴塞尔新资本协议：强化风险管理的范例

2003年5月,新成立的中国银行业监督管理委员会开始对《巴塞尔新资本协议》的第三次征求意见稿(以下简称新协议)公开征求意见。根据安排,巴塞尔银行监管委员会(以下简称巴塞尔委员会)将在2003年第四季度完成新协议的正式稿,并于2006年底在成员国开始实施。新协议框架的突出特点是改进了风险管理,提高了风险敏感性,提出了“三大”支柱的概念,即最低资本要求、监管当局对资本充足率的监督检查、信息披露。作为发展中国家,新协议的制定与实施将对完善我国的银行审慎监管制度和商业银行特别是大银行的风险管理及国际业务操作产生深远的影响,为此,监管当局、商业银行和有关部门正在深入研究,以新协议出台为契机,加强相关制度建设,努力使我国银行业的风险监管适应国际金融业风险管理发展和我国金融市场平稳发展的需要。     

Are you a strategist or just a manager?

Perhaps the greatest strategist of all time was not a business executive but a general. Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the Prussian and German general staffs from 1858 to 1888, issued "directives" to his officers rather than specific commands. These guidelines for autonomous decision making encouraged Moltke's subordinates to show individual initiative. In this article, Hans Hinterhuber and Wolfgang Popp translate Moltke's example into business terms. According to Moltke, strategy is applied common sense and cannot be taught. The authors suggest that good entrepreneurs and managers--along with generals--are born with the qualities that make them successful. But even if managers have the potential to be good strategists, they must develop and hone their natural talents. And CEOs and top management can help by identifying and promoting such talents in their employees. Hinterhuber and Popp have created a questionnaire that helps measure strategic management competence. Managers and entrepreneurs take this test themselves, answering ten questions such as, "Do I have an entrepreneurial vision?", "Do I have a corporate philosophy?", and "Do I have competitive advantages?" Using the questionnaire, company management can evaluate managers being considered for a promotion. At the same time, those who take the test can use it to determine their own performance as strategists. Strategic managers provide subordinates with general guidelines, just as Helmuth von Moltke issued directives to his officers. And outstanding entrepreneurs create a corporate culture in which their vision, philosophy, and business strategies are implemented by employees who think independently.     

Big hat, no cattle: managing human resources

When faced with business problems, managers naturally make identifying the trouble their priority. Once that is done, at least half the job is over; finding solutions is just a matter of time. This hasn't been so, however, with the human resources problem: how to motivate employees. Sixty years ago, the Hawthorne experiments revealed the issue, and ever since, managers, researchers, and consultants have been searching for the answer to the human resources problem. Why aren't employees as productive, loyal, and dedicated to their companies as their managers know they can be? The author of this article proposes four reasons why actuality has fallen so far below expectation in personnel management, namely, that managers' expectations have been too high in the first place, that the concepts staff professionals offer managers are frequently contradictory, that the corporate role of personnel has always been problematic, and finally, that managers hold assumptions concerning their employees that undermine efforts to motivate them.     

广州——远离我们故乡的家

今年3月,广州市同加拿大温哥华市结为友好城市。3月27日,广州市长叶选平往温哥华进行友好访问。从此,有着悠久历史的两市人民的友谊发展到一个新阶段。本刊发表中山大学两位加拿大籍客座教师的文章,谅能促进两市人民的相互了解。     

混合集成电路de化学镀镍

在陶瓷衬底的金属化图形及其互连上化学镀镍,对生产高可靠、结构坚固、高电路密度的电子设备中,起着重要的作用。金属化陶瓷衬底经化学镀镍后,能满足固体微电子器件的严格设计要求。