Online,on call: the spread of digitally organised just‐in‐time working and its implications for standard employment models

This article questions whether the dominant policy discourse, in which a normative model of standard employment is counterposed to ‘non‐standard’ or ‘atypical’ employment, enables us to capture the diversity of fluid labour markets in which work is dynamically reshaped in an interaction between different kinds of employment status and work organisation. Drawing on surveys in the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands that investigate work managed via online platforms (‘crowdwork’) and associated practices, it demonstrates that crowdwork represents part of a continuum. Not only do most crowd workers combine work for online platforms with other forms of work or income generation, but also many of the ICT‐related practices associated with crowdwork are widespread across the rest of the labour market where a growing number of workers are ‘logged’. Future research should not just focus on crowdworkers as a special case but on new patterns of work organisation in the regular workforce.     

Neo‐bureaucratic organisational forms,technology, control and contingent work: the case of UK TV

A feature in contemporary labour markets has been the growth of non‐standard work. This has to be set within a context of evolving new organisational forms and the ways that large organisations control these forms. Based on a qualitative study of freelance work in television, we have witnessed considerable vertical‐disintegration of the industry and a substantial growth of freelance working. Control over the network is maintained by employing former large broadcaster staff, and in turn their own preferred freelancers. This has significant implications for the nature of freelance work. While work is characterised as more insecure, generally the degree varies. This is based, in part, on occupation but also on access to social capital. Freelancers also reported a positive attitude to work, but more negative findings on working hours, work intensification and on related benefits.     

中韩自由贸易区建立对两国贸易影响的实证分析

文章以局部均衡为基础,建立校准模型,从产业层面测算了中韩自由贸易区的建立对两国贸易流量的影响。模拟的结果表明:如果中韩不建立自由贸易区,那么中韩贸易将会较大程度的受到韩美自由贸易区贸易转移带来的影响;如果中韩建立自由贸易区则更有利于两国比较优势的发挥。     

绿色管理与"大地质"工作

文章简述了绿色管理产生的背景、含义和内容 ,以及与大地质工作的紧密联系 ,认为地质工作作为可持续发展的基础性工作 ,实施绿色管理更是适应新形势的理性选择。提出要将绿色管理与大地质工作结合起来 ,在合理开发利用矿产资源、加强地质灾害的防治、引进环保型技术施工装备、开展无公害农业、治理环境污染、解决水资源短缺等领域发挥作用 ,为推动湖北经济的发展、全面建设小康社会作出新的贡献。     

影响重庆市弱势群体再就业的内在因素分析

重庆市弱势群体观念上普遍存在依赖思想、追求稳定性工作、安于现状，心理上有消极心理和不公平心理，个性上与人接触困难，技术水平低且不打算学技术。并且，这些影响其再就业和收入增长的内在因素在不同的弱势群体中有不同的表现。因此，政府有必要免费为其进行有针对性的分类心理培训和职业培训。     

关于提高审计工作质量的思考

目前,在各级审计部门中尚存在对审计风险认识不够、审计方案制订流于形式、处理处罚越位、审计报告不准确等问题。应在审计观念、审计组织方式、审计制度上进行创新,切实加强审计队伍建设,做到提高审计工作质量与加强审计规范化建设相结合,真正把审计意见、决定落到实处。     

Optimal investment and risk control for an insurer with partial information in an anticipating environment

Abstract

This paper considers an optimal investment and risk control problem under the criterion of logarithm utility maximization. The risky asset process and the insurance risk process are described by stochastic differential equations with jumps and anticipating coefficients. The insurer invests in the financial assets and controls the number of policies based on some partial information about the financial market and the insurance claims. The forward integral and Malliavin calculus for Lévy processes are used to obtain a characterization of the optimal strategy. Some special cases are discussed and the closed-form expressions for the optimal strategies are derived.     

Expert labour as a differentiated category: power,knowledge and organisation

The idea of ‘expert labour’ as a category uniting many kinds of knowledge‐based work has long been of interest. At the same time, existing models often do not differentiate between the many forms of ‘new’ expertise in the main business and technological groups. These tend to be consolidated in single categories of ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘organisational’ or ‘commercial’ professions. This paper built on Reed's seminal account of the expert division of labour. It used his analytic dimensions of power, knowledge and organisation to develop a new framework comparing clusters of expert labour in professional services, business services and knowledge work. It offered a more detailed classification and a comparative view that throws fresh light on key debates around new professionalism and emergent technologically defined occupations.     

Information technology change,work complexity and service jobs: a contingent perspective

We examine the contingent impact of implementing an enterprise‐wide information technology system (Enterprise Resource Planning) on perceptions of work complexity in clerical, technical and managerial service sector jobs. Using matched and control samples of employee survey data, we compare pre‐ and post‐intervention perceptions of work complexity and importance of analytical skills across three hierarchical job levels: clerical, technical and managerial. We find that employees in clerical jobs, at the lowest level in the hierarchy, experience a significant increase in work complexity and need for analytical skills, whereas those in technical and managerial service jobs do not. Implications for theory, management of technology and employment policy are discussed.     

电网项目前期工作外部环境分析和应对措施的探讨

电网发展受到很多外部环境的制约与影响、针对电网项目前期工作中的重点与难点,结合当前电网项目前期工作面临的外部环境,为电网企业做好电网项目前期工作,探讨了应对的措施,对促进电网项目前期工作的顺利进行具有一定的意义。