AN EXAMINATION OF VOLUNTEER MOTIVATION IN CREDIT UNIONS: INFORMING VOLUNTEER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ABSTRACT: Volunteer recruitment and retention is a problem that most credit unions experience. Research suggests that knowledge of volunteer motivation can inform volunteer management strategies. This paper uses a survey approach to determine whether current volunteers in credit unions in Northern Ireland are more motivated by the actual act of volunteering, by the output from the volunteering activity (including altruism) or because the volunteering activity increases their human capital value. Altruistic reasons are found to be the most influential, with the act of volunteering also scoring highly. This knowledge should inform volunteer recruitment programmes and internal appraisal processes as management can reinforce messages that provide positive feedback to volunteers on the social benefits being achieved by the credit union. This will further motivate current volunteers, ensuring retention. When motivation was analyzed by volunteer characteristics we found that older volunteers, retired volunteers and volunteers who are less educated are more motivated in their role. There was little evidence that individuals volunteer to improve their human capital worth.     

基于价值工程的高校师资管理分析

通过分析目前我国高校师资管理的现状,发现师资管理存在的问题,并利用价值工程解决其中的问题,提出了价值工程应用的思路及步骤,提出了改进高校师资管理的方法,以提高高校师资管理的价值。     

WEB ADOPTION BY IRISH CREDIT UNIONS: PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

The purpose of this paper is to examine website adoption and its resultant effects on credit union performance in Ireland over the period 2002 to 2010. While there has been a steady increase in web adoption over the period a sizeable proportion (53%) of credit unions did not have a web‐based facility in 2010. To gauge web functionality the researchers accessed all websites in 2010/2011 and it transpired that most sites were classified as informational with limited transactional options. Panel data techniques are then used to capture the dynamic nature of website diffusion and to investigate the effect of website adoption on cost and performance. The empirical analysis reveals that credit unions that have web‐based functionality have a reduced spread between the loan and pay‐out rate with this primarily caused by reduced loan rates. This reduced spread, although small, is found to both persist and increase over time.     

物流管理本科专业教学改革方案

本文提出了物流管理本科专业教学改革的总体方案,分别从培养目标、课程体系建设、实践性教学建设、教学方法和考核方法的改革及专业教师的培养等五个方面提出了物流管理本科专业的改革构想,并针对物流管理人才应具备的基本技能,提出师资、教材、实训三要素的重要性。     

中国旅游教育发展现状与对策研究

通过对全国范围内200家旅游院校的调查,本文旨在指出中国旅游教育的特点和存在的问题,问卷显示,由于中国旅游业的不断发展,中国旅游教育院校的数量在10年中有了长足的发展。但是,在师资力量,学生实践经验以及国际化程度方面有待于进一步的提高。调查结果也显示了影响学生进入或留在旅游行业的因素中,薪酬是最重要的一个因素。     

Free trade networks

The paper examines the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a network formation game. We consider an n-country model in which (possibly asymmetric) countries trade differentiated industrial commodities. We show that if all countries are symmetric, the complete FTA network is pairwise stable and it is the unique stable network if industrial commodities are not highly substitutable. We also compare FTAs and customs unions (CUs) as to which of these two regimes facilitates global trade liberalization, noticing that unlike CUs, each signatory of an FTA can have another FTA without consent of other member countries.     

高职特色专业建设的探索与实践

内涵建设已成为当今高职教育发展的主流,在内涵建设过程中,特色专业建设是重要的组成部分。西安铁路职业技术学院专业特色鲜明,特色专业建设成绩突出,得到了行业及社会认可。分析了该院特色专业建设的基本做法,对"铁道机车车辆"专业进行了特色剖析,并根据学院特色专业建设的成效,提出了高职院校特色专业建设的建议。     

浅论高校学生会建设

本文结合高校学生会实际情况,从加强高校学生会机构建设、完善高校学生会管理制度、构建高校学生会组织文化三个方面对如何加强高校学生会建设展开论述。     

Is low unionisation in the British hospitality industry due to industry characteristics?

Low recognition and concomitant characteristics of a union presence are key factors associated with very low union membership in the British hospitality industry (HI) but there may be exceptional factors in the HI that render it more amenable to union membership after standard explanations are accounted for. Although the lessons for unions are to seek greater employer legitimacy at the same time as securing membership, recognition rates would have to increase by six times to double the rate of union density in the HI and satisfy ‘frustrated’ demand for unionisation. Questions are also raised about the utility of the statutory recognition procedures and current union organising and retention strategies.     

Rent-sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data

Using a linked employer–employee dataset, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we distinguish sector- and firm-specific wage agreements and wage determination without any bargaining coverage. Our findings indicate that individual wages are positively related to firm-specific quasi-rents in the non-union sector and under firm-specific contracts. Industry-wide wage contracts, however, are associated with a significantly lower responsiveness of wages to firm-level profitability.