The effect of participative management on organizational performance: the case of Taiwan

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of participative management on the behaviour of employees and the financial effectiveness of the enterprise. The analytical data are based on the survey of 308 Taiwan enterprises. Multiple regression results show that both suggestion system and labour-management committee have a positive impact on employees' behaviour in terms of turnover and absenteeism rates. Likewise, the quality control circle (QCC) and profit sharing have a positive impact on organizational effectiveness as seen in profit and revenue growth rates. However, employee stock-ownership plans and grievance-handling systems have negative effects on both performance indicators - employee behaviour and organizational effectiveness. The practical implications are also discussed.     

浅议我国资产评估管理体制的重构

20世纪80年代末,随着国有企业的重组改制、产权交易和中外合资、合作等经济活动的不断增多,资产评估作为为产权交易、合资合作等经济活动提供价值咨询服务的社会中介行业便应运而生.十多年来,资产评估积极参与改革,服务改革,已成为我国经济建设中不可或缺的公证性社会中介服务行业.随着我国加入WTO,我国资产评估行业既面临着前所未有的发展机遇,同时也承受着巨大的挑战,在评估理论上有很多问题需要深入研究,在评估实践操作上还亟待总结规范,尤其是评估管理体制更是存在着许多错综复杂的问题需要解决.     

Enhancing adaptive transfer of cross-cultural training: Lessons learned from the broader training literature

Drawing insights from the broader training literature, we argue that evaluation of cross-cultural training effectiveness should adopt comprehensive criteria, including cognitive, skill-based, and affective learning outcomes as well as adaptive transfer. We propose that the integration of an error management supplement in cross-cultural training can enhance trainee acquisition of self-regulation skills and self-efficacy that facilitate adaptive application of learning to novel cultural situations. In addition to the traditional error management training designs (i.e., positive error framing), the current paper describes additional design elements to promote acquisition of cognitive strategies, prevent premature automaticity, alleviate concerns about error occurrence during learning, and enhance readiness to transfer. In addition, we offer propositions regarding the effects of the supplement on learning and transfer outcomes, along with implications for future research and practice on cross-cultural training.     

Experiencing meaningfulness climate in teams: How spiritual leadership enhances team effectiveness when facing uncertain tasks

This study integrates social information processing theory with leadership and climate literature, and aims to produce novel theoretical insights into whether and how spiritual leadership and task uncertainty foster conditions to enhance meaningfulness climate and subsequent team effectiveness in China. Team effectiveness was operationalized as team performance and team organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Based on data collected at three time points over 12 months from multiple sources of 123 teams in China, we found that spiritual leadership was positively related to team performance and team OCB through meaningfulness climate. Further, the relationship between spiritual leadership and meaningfulness climate was stronger for teams with high task uncertainty than teams with low task uncertainty.     

A context-based service matching approach towards functional reliability for industrial systems

ABSTRACT

As service-oriented computing is commonly used in industrial systems to deal with the continually changing business environment, matching processes with existing services becomes one of the most important phases in constructing, integrating and optimizing information systems. The precision of semantic service matching becomes a critical factor in ensuring the correctness of functionalities in system processes. However, the dependability of semantic service matching cannot be warranted in complex contexts. To improve semantic service matching for industrial systems, a context-based semantic service matching approach named ‘Process-Based service MatchMaker’(PBMM) is proposed in this paper. It selects the suitable services for the process from candidate services through taking the dependencies of related services process into consideration.     

A performance-oriented risk management framework for innovative R&D projects

Uncertainty is one of the major inherent difficulties in developing innovative products, due to their highly dynamic markets and technologies. The presence of a large degree of uncertainty leads to high R&D risks, resulting in many R&D failures. Therefore, it is important to manage R&D risks through all R&D stages to improve R&D project success rates. This paper proposes a new risk management framework that aligns project risk management with corporate strategy and a performance measurement system to increase success rates of R&D projects and to accomplish corporate strategic goals. The balanced scorecard is used to identify major performance measures of an R&D organization based on the firm vision and strategy. Quality function deployment is adapted to transform organizational performance measures into project performance measures and a systematic procedure is developed for risk identification, assessment, response planning, and control. The proposed risk management framework enables an R&D project to be focused on achieving the corporate goals and provides a more effective way to identify, assess, analyze, and monitor R&D risks along the project cycle. The proposed methodology is illustrated with a drug development project.     

鼻内镜手术治疗慢性鼻窦炎患者115例护理分析

临床实践中,鼻内镜手术作为一种比较常规的鼻窦炎手术治疗方法,具有治疗效果显著的特征,且复发率低。本文主要就鼻内镜手术治疗慢性鼻窦炎患者115例患者的情况,对手术前和手术后的护理措施进行了分析和探讨。     

后危机时代福建省机电出口企业发展策略探析

面板数据分析显示,福建省机电产品出口存在出口竞争力弱、依存度高、市场集中、核心技术缺乏等主要问题。后危机时代福建省机电出口企业应积极开拓国内外市场,进一步转变外贸增长方式,多渠道降低汇率风险。     

我国货币政策对股市的影响:基于牛熊市的计量研究

本文利用计量经济分析方法,运用EVIEWS软件,研究了货币政策对股市的具体影响。得出的主要结论是：熊市时,货币政策对股市的影响微乎其微;牛市时,货币政策的影响较为明显。     

提高水平和质量:云南进一步扩大对外开放的战略思考

本文论述了云南进一步扩大对外开放的总体战略思路:以科学发展观为指导,充分利用国际国内两种资源两个市场,在进一步扩大进出口贸易和引进内外资的同时,实施"走出去"战略.提高对外投资和国际经济技术合作的水平和质量;在进一步改善投资环境、优化产业结构的同时,实施引进外资与引进国内资金并重的战略.提高利用国内外资金的水平和质量;在进一步加快发展出口贸易的同吨,实施优化出口结构和扩大进口规模战略,提高对外贸易的水平和质量;在进一步巩固和发展与周边国家经贸关系的同时,实施市场多元化战略,重点扩大与东南亚、南亚、非洲、南美等地区的贸易和投资关系.