以新农村建设为机遇促进新疆少数民族大学生就业

在新疆少数民族大学生就业形势严峻的状况下,少数民族大学生应认清形势,抓住新疆社会主义新农村建设的历史机遇,自觉调整就业期望,转变就业观念,积极参与到新疆社会主义新农村建设当中,进而实现人生价值。     

经济发展新常态与产业结构优化

自改革开放以来,中国一直保持着较高的经济发展速度,而近几年,增长速度逐渐放缓并趋于平稳,这表明中国已经进入经济发展新常态阶段. 产业结构优化是新常态背景下经济工作的重要任务,通过解读新常态的内涵机制,结合中国当前在产业结构调整转型过程中碰到的问题,有针对性地提出了几点优化升级产业结构以适应并引领新常态下实际工作的建议.     

Outsourcing and strategic alliances for product development: a case of Banta Digital Group

Banta Digital Group (BDG) is a pre media company needing to fill a void in the market it serves. This need could be met by an application that consisted of software and database development. A problem arose due to two conditions. First, the company was late getting to the market with this product. Second, the company did not have dedicated resources to work on this project. BDG needed to adopt a solution that comprised of outsourcing and strategic alliances to fill this market need. The study reports how the company selected and managed strategic alliances through the creation of a virtual team. It also reviews details of the new business operating system instituted to foster an environment for further product and process innovation. Finally, the proposed approach used in this unique type of product development is described, which is also applicable in many business situations.     

新西兰国家科学挑战计划概况

新西兰是个小国,科技资源有限。为了提高资金使用效率,从战略高度整合科技资源,加大科研机构和科研人员协作力度,解决国家经济和社会发展未来10年面临的关键重大问题,新西兰政府制定了国家科学挑战计划。该计划涉及民众健康、营养食品开发、生物多样性和安全性、水资源与土地、海洋资源利用、南极和南大洋研究、技术创新以及应对自然灾害等十大领域。该计划的实施提升了科学和创新在新西兰民众中的地位,提高了全民科学意识。通过对该计划的背景、重点领域与研究主题及社会各界对其的反应进行介绍和分析,以期为我国开展国际科技合作、发展科学技术提供借鉴。     

新西兰最新研发统计数据及其分析

近年来,新西兰全社会研发投入呈增长态势。2013年8月,新西兰发布了《研发调查报告(2012)》。2012年,新西兰研发支出为26.25亿新元,占GDP的比重为1.27%,但在OECD国家中,比例偏低;研发经费主要来源企业、政府、高等院校、海外机构和其他群体,其中,政府和企业超过总投入的80%;研发活动分为基础研究、应用研究和实验开发三大类,其中,应用研究支出首次超过10亿新元,占全部研发支出的41%;制造业研发支出列首位,占总支出的20%;政府在生命科学研发支出中,占比最大;研发人员规模呈现持续增长态势。在新西兰,研发是企业进入市场的立足点,人员交流是建立联系的最主要途径。     

Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility to Internal Stakeholders: Walking the Walk or Just Talking the Talk?

As organizations recognize the need to engage in CSR and sustainability initiatives, it is integral to success to communicate that they are doing so. However, the research focus is more often on communicating with external stakeholders to draw attention to corporate responsibility initiatives. Internal stakeholders as employees are not researched as often, despite their integral role in communicating the organization's CSR vision and sustainability as they interact with external stakeholders. In order to explore employee perceptions of CSR communication, a two‐phase mixed‐method study was undertaken, including semi‐structured interviews with 20 CSR managers in NZ organizations to provide content to inform an online questionnaire survey to seek feedback from employees in these same organizations. This paper contributes to research on internal stakeholders in revealing the influence of the perceived value congruence between managers and employees in influencing internal stakeholder perceptions of CSR and sustainability initiatives. The findings have implications for public policy, enhancing organizational communication, the need for authenticity and managerial recognition of their role in facilitating employee commitment to CSR initiatives. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

Unwilling Subjects of Financialization

This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is increasingly relevant since the global financial crisis. Situated in New York City, the research focuses on an aggressive wave of investment in affordable rent‐stabilized properties by private equity firms, their efforts to release value from these properties, and the implications of the 2008 financial crisis for their investment strategies and thus for tenants’ experience of home. Through detailed empirical analysis tracing the connections between how rental housing has been constituted as a new site for private equity investment globally, the local conditions facilitating this process in New York and how it reshaped everyday life for tenants, the article theorizes tenants as unwilling subjects of financialization. Yet unwillingness does not necessarily translate into being overtaken; it also connotes reluctance and indeed struggle. This novel conceptualization highlights the ways in which financialization meets with dissent, and its necessarily contingent and incomplete nature. The article therefore develops the wider intellectual project of understanding financialization not as a monolithic and inevitable process, but as one characterized by resistance from without and contradiction from within.     

‘It is the People that Have Made Glen Innes’: State‐led Gentrification and the Reconfiguration of Urban Life in Auckland

Public or state housing has ordinarily been viewed as an impediment to the forces of gentrification, as private property owners or developers are limited in their ability to purchase, renovate or redevelop houses in otherwise desirable areas. As a result, neighbourhoods with significant proportions of state‐housing and low‐income residents have often been able to establish unique identity and character, sense of place and belonging and strong social support networks. This article examines changes underway in Glen Innes, a central suburb of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland. Here, established norms around community and urban life are being rapidly and radically reworked through a wave of state‐led gentrification. We focus on experiences of displacement, the disruption of long‐established community forms, and the reconfiguration of urban life. Our particular contribution is to consider the speed and trauma of gentrification when the state is involved, the slippage between rhetoric and reality on the ground, and the challenges of researchers seeking to trace the impacts of gentrification in the lives of those who have been displaced.     

Challenges for the boundaryless career odyssey

The boundaryless career, which challenges the assumptions of the traditional hierarchical career, has proved to be a remarkably popular and influential concept. However, we argue that it remains theoretically and empirically undeveloped, which limits its explanatory potential. We draw on some New Zealand empirical research highlighting the issue of who gets studied. Focusing on women's career experience, local ethnic groups and collective cultures we argue that these experiences represent a challenge to boundaryless career theory. Some of the theoretical assumptions on which boundaryless careers have been built are also interrogated: freedom from boundaries, individual volition and minimal influences from societal structures. We conclude that the boundaryless career story/odyssey is in danger of becoming a narrow career theory applicable only to the minority, if there is no engagement with theoretical and empirical critiques.     

The ‘post-bureaucratic’ public sector organization. New organizational forms and HRM in ten UK public sector organizations

This paper evaluates the extent to which ‘post-bureaucratic’ organizational forms have been introduced to the UK public sector and the implications for human resource management policies and practices in the sector. The study draws from interview data at ten public sector organizations including local authorities, the National Health Service, the Civil Service, police authorities, broadcasting and transport. It concludes that certain structural changes have been made, but that older functional lines of authority still exist and thus post-bureaucratic claims are misleading. However, a harsher working environment has arisen for managers in these public sector organizations, with longer hours and a more complex working environment. Older certainties such as job security, a safe career path and seniority-based pay have all been eroded.