旅游业国际化背景下的饭店员工技能研究

研究针对旅游业国际化发展的现状,对中国四星级以上的酒店前厅员工的服务技能进行调研,并对他们的职业安排、工作认知、发展计划和技能需求进行了综合分析。数据表明,中国星级饭店员工的教育水平以职业教育为主,员工对职业安排、提升机会感到渺茫和不确定。他们一致认为要作好前台工作,口语交流是最重要的技能,职业和道德标准、团队工作及领导素质也发挥着重要的作用。在旅游业国际化进程的过程中,提高员工的服务技能,外语水平,进行职业规划是中国星级饭店吸引和留住人才的主要渠道。     

The Prevalence of Sexual Imagery in Ads Targeted to Young Adults

To determine if advertisers use sexual imagery to appeal to youth, 2,863 ads in magazines read by young and mature adults were compared. Results indicate that ads targeted to young adults were 65% more likely to contain provocatively dressed models and 128% more likely to contain sexual behavior than those for mature adults. In the ads for young adults, female models were 3.7 times more likely to be portrayed sexually than were male models. The findings suggest that advertisers use sexual imagery, primarily by means of female models, to appeal to young audiences. Education and consumer action implications are discussed.     

知识城邦中的艺术

近来,"知识生产"这个概念在艺术界中引起了新的关注并激起了强烈的评论。人们对该概念持相互冲突对立的观点的原因之一,是它与新自由主义教育政策的理念与实践相联系。在一封题为"致知识生产者"(To the Knowledge Producers)的公开信中,一位来自维也纳艺术学院的学生雄辩地批评了今天的教育和知识正在日益"商品化、工业化、经济化,并日益受到自由贸易的支配。"     

A Re-examination of Traditional Hypotheses about the Term Structure of Interest Rates

The term structure of interest rates is an important subject to economists, and has a long history of traditions. This paper re-examines many of these traditional hypotheses while employing recent advances in the theory of valuation and contingent claims. We show how the Expectations Hypothesis and the Preferred Habitat Theory must be reformulated if they are to obtain in a continuous-time, rational-expectations equilibrium. We also modify the linear adaptive interest rate forecasting models, which are common to the macroeconomic literature, so that they will be consistent in the same framework.     

AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF SUICIDE CYCLES IN JAPAN

Suicide rates in Japan have increased dramatically in recent years, making Japan's male rate the highest among developed economies. This study revises the standard economic model of suicide to accommodate Japan's experience, focusing on the change in human capital for the unemployed. We then use the new model and detrended data to empirically investigate the relationship between the suicide cycle and the unemployment cycle. Unlike previous aggregate time series studies, we find that the relationship between the suicide rate and the unemployment rate is significantly and robustly positive for both men and women even after controlling for several social variables. ( JEL I12, J60, E30)     

Industrial Relations Climate and Union Commitment: An Evaluation of Workplace‐Level Effects

This paper examines the relationship between industrial relations (IR) climate and union commitment. Using a multi‐workplace sample from North East England, aggregation analysis provided support for treating IR climate as a workplace‐level variable, and workplace IR climate was negatively associated with union commitment. However, IR climate moderated none of the relationships between individual‐level antecedents and union commitment.