‘Breaking the ICE’: workplace democracy in a modernized social Europe

The EU seeks to improve its labour market performance through implementing the Lisbon and European Employment Strategies which encourage the modernization of work organization through the development of partnership with the assistance of an ‘appropriate’ regulatory framework. Key aspects of this latter framework concern workers' rights regarding information, consultation and participation in corporate governance. European labour laws, introduced in the 1970s, sought to strengthen employers' consultation with their workforce and, more recently, the changing economic, technological and organizational environment has returned issues related to workplace democracy to the top of the social policy agenda. Here we evaluate the significance of the new Directive on Information and Consultation with Employees (ICE) within the context of this planned modernization of European social policy. In doing so, we re-examine the historical development of workers' consultation laws in Europe and assess the economic rationale for regulating workplace social dialogue in an enlarged Social Europe.     

Learning from the alien: knowledge relationships with temporary workers in network contexts

This paper contributes to our understanding of the role of temporary workers in learning for innovation in network contexts. The strategy literature advocates that the knowledge and talent of workers is vital to competitive success yet at the same time temporary workers are becoming more prevalent, making relationships with workers more ephemeral. These shifting competitive and employment contexts make insights into learning from, and with, contractual nomads paramount. The setting is the UK television industry, where such workers are dominant. Internationally, creative industries are a prime site of networks where temporary workers are brought together for specific projects. In the television industry, a range of knowledge attachment employee relationships have been developed by firms to ‘contain’ and sustain worker contributions in terms of knowledge and talent. These relationships are identified as freelance, regular contract, golden handcuffs and invest in knowledge firm. This paper highlights the learning implications both positive and negative arising from these different ways of relating to temporary workers thereby extending our understanding of employee relationships built on mutuality.     

A relational framework for international transfer of diversity management practices

The aim of this paper is to propose that a relational framework, which is underpinned by a contextual and multilevel conceptualisation of diversity management, can help international transfer of diversity management policies and practices. We argue that the mainstream single-level conceptualisations of diversity management within the territory of legal or organisational policy fail to capture the relational interplay of structural- and agentic-level concerns of equality. Consequently, individual choices, organisational processes, and structural conditions – all of which collectively account for unrelenting power disparity and disadvantage within social and employment contexts – remain generally under explored. The paper proposes a relational framework that bridges the divide between macro-national, meso-organisational and micro-individual levels of analyses to arrive at a more comprehensive, realistic and context-specific framing of diversity management, which can overcome the difficulties of international transfer.     

高校专业技术岗位分级聘用工作若干问题探析

高校专业技术岗位分级聘用工作旨在加强专业技术人员分类分层次管理,完善人才遴选、聘用、评价、激励与保障机制,对专业技术职务评审工作起着良好的承接作用。文章就专业技术岗位分级聘用工作实施以来存在的问题提出了看法,并提出了完善方案。     

武汉光谷对管理类大学生就业吸引力研究

本文针对我国产业集群对管理类大学生就业吸引力不高的问题,选取武汉光谷就业吸引力为对象,对产业集群就业吸引力的22个影响因子进行因子分析,从而为提高武汉光谷就业吸引力,留住高层次管理人才提出指导意见,也为其他产业集群研究就业吸引力提供了实证依据。     

气象类高校毕业生就业工作状况跟踪调查——以南京信息工程大学2012届本科毕业生为例

本文以我校气象类2012届本科毕业生为例,通过设计毕业生、气象行业相关部门调查问卷,并采用电邮、邮寄、传真、网络、走访、座谈等形式,对我校气象类2012届本科毕业生进行跟踪调查,基于毕业生基本情况、工作情况、生活情况,对我校的意见和建议,通过文献分析、实践调查、交流研讨等,深入分析研究,旨在进一步分析目前气象类人才培养不足和探索新思维新理念而提供支持和服务。     

安全工程专业“就业+实习+设计”一体化模式的探索与实践

为提高安全工程专业学生实践能力、从业能力等综合能力,进一步提高人才培养质量,构建了"就业+实习+设计"一体化模式,在此基础上,以我院安全工程专业毕业生为对象,以签约单位珲春矿业(集团)公司为实践基地,进行一体化模式实践,实践证明该模式应用效果较好,实现了企业、学校、学生三者共赢,人才培养质量得到较大提高,该研究对工科专业实践教学具有重要的借鉴意义和推广价值。     

论“准就业”机制在当前经济形势下实行的可行性

准就业阶段是学生在学校待业与正式上岗就业之间的过渡阶段,是为解决高校毕业生就业问题而提出的,这种模式不仅是促进就业的一个重要途径,而且是解决高校毕业生就业与择业矛盾的良方,是在对原有教育体制中实习制度进行整合的基础上完善相关配套措施,在当前我国经济形势下实行这种模式具有重要的现实意义和可行性。     

Training and Performance of a Diverse Workforce

The moderating role of work contracts on the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and the self‐reported performance of 1,311 permanent and 924 temporary employees across three sectors was studied using a multilevel design in 103 organizations in three European countries. The HR practice examined was training and its allocation to the different workforce groups. The relationship between training for permanent employees and performance was moderated by work contract as well as country. In the Spanish sample, the performance of temporary employees was more negatively related to training for permanent employees as compared to the Dutch and the Swedish sample. Unexpectedly, in the Dutch sample, training provision was negatively related to the workforce group it was provided for. It is the temporary employees that seemed to be the cause of the interactions, underlining the call for special treatment of this workforce. Results indicate a considerable role of the interplay of job dependence and labor market conditions. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

大学生就业难的困境及对策探讨

大学生就业难是一个严峻的现实问题,文章在分析大学生就业难的原因基础上提出应从个人、企业、学校、地区、政府等各方面共同解决大学生的就业问题。