Food for thought: Robots,jobs and skills in food and drink processing in Norway and the UK

There is intense debate surrounding digitalisation and its implications for work. However, empirical research within established workplaces, especially international comparative studies, remains limited. This article uses cross-country research to further analysis of the relative importance of different institutions, actors and power relations in shaping digitalisation and worker outcomes. Through a multi-level approach, it compares the use of industrial robots in the food and drink processing sector in Norway and the UK. Drawing on qualitative research, it explores the pace of digitalisation, the process of implementation and job and skills outcomes. The study finds strong national differences in the pace of digitalisation, and the role of unions in the process of implementation. In Norway, union power at workplace and national level, embedded in institutional arrangements, underpins more advanced use of technology and improved outcomes for workers.     

The Bologna process: how student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: (1) a competition effect that raises quality, (2) a free-rider effect that lowers quality, and (3) a composition effect that influences the relative strengths of the two previous effects. The effects lead to a trade-off between the two goals. Full mobility may be optimal only when externalities are high. In this case, student mobility yields inefficiently high educational quality. For moderate externalities, partial mobility is optimal and yields an inefficiently low quality of education.      

Students’ conceptions of learning in the context of an accounting degree

Students' conceptions of learning (CoL) play an important role in the learning process leading to the development of generic skills. This paper investigates whether CoL of accounting students can be developed by incorporating high-level cognitive skills progressively within the accounting curriculum. First, the study explored, using phenomenography, the variation in accounting students' CoL. The findings highlighted some nuances in accountings students' CoL and that lower-order CoL were prevalent among accounting students. However, more (less) third-year students than second-year students adopted higher- (lower-) order CoL. Upon examining the learning objectives, teaching methods and assessment of all units comprising the accounting major of the host university, evidence was found that CoL are progressively developed and shaped, albeit in a limited way, based on the levels of cognitive domain emphasised within the curriculum. The findings highlight the need for accounting educators to take a whole of the programme approach to developing higher-order CoL.     

“十二五”职业教育国家规划教材中高职英语类教材对比研究

通过对“十二五”职业教育国家规划教材中的若干种高职英语教材的编写理念、结构、内容、形式和编写团队进行对比研究,直观地呈现教材编写者的编写理念和编写方法,并结合自身教学实践提出针对性的建议,为教师如何挑选适合高职学生的英语教材提供有益的参考,从而更好地发挥教材在教学中的作用,服务于教学实践。     

SOCO's impact on individual sales performance: The integration of selling skills as a missing link

Conventional wisdom suggests that a customer orientation is a vital cornerstone upon which the success of salespeople is predicated in terms of serving their customers and prospects. However, at a pragmatic level, not all salespeople practice a customer-oriented philosophy in their day-to-day selling. In fact, decades of sales research provide largely inconclusive results with respect to individual salespersons' customer orientation and performance outcomes. We argue that for customer orientation to be a predictor of sales performance, specific selling skills must be present. Furthermore, we empirically demonstrate that without these requisite selling skills, salespeople are better off utilizing a sales orientation approach, as opposed to a customer orientation approach. More provocatively, this research shows that a “missing link” in the long standing body of research on the SOCO (sales orientation/customer orientation) perspective is that specific selling skills can impact sales performance directly as well as moderate the impact that both a “sales orientation” and a “customer orientation” ultimately have on sales performance.     

公路工程施工投标报价技巧

文章结合工作经验对施工企业在公路工程施工投标活动中,应注意的哪些问题、如何确定投标报价、以及投标报价的策略和常用的方法等进行了分析、探讨。     

高职教改课程系统优化与延伸技能初探

本文以高职教改课程系统为研究对象,深入剖析教学内容系统和专业技能系统优化,提出优化课程系统,已经成为高职院校实施内涵式发展、提高专业核心竞争力的根本,认为加强延伸技能优化有利于进一步提升专业服务水平。     

关于职业类院校提高教学质量的思考

本文针对目前职业教育中存在的问题从转变观念、提高学生综合素质、提高学生的课堂参与度、改革考试方法、提高学生专业技能等五个方面提出了自己几点粗略的看法。     

施工企业在工程投标中的报价技巧

施工企业在工程投标中应采用相应的报价技巧,以达到既能中标,又能获得良好经济效益的目的。施工企业投标时可根据不同工程的具体情况,确定不同的报价技巧。     

驰骋古今,贯通中西——《中国古典诗歌英译理论研究》评价

该书选取中国古典诗歌翻译理论作为研究角度,将众多中西方译者的汉诗翻译作品作为研究对象,力图从哲学高度,从中国传统翻译思想宝库汲取养料,突现汉语,尤其是古诗语言的独特性,并从理论的深度提出自己的见解。该书见解新颖独到,有理有据,是一本在中国古典诗歌英译研究方面具有一定学术价值的专著。