Flexible work arrangements in Greece: a study of employee perceptions

The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to explore factors that affect employees' perceptions towards flexible work options; second, to examine whether the perceived benefits and barriers associated with work flexibility predict one's decision to participate in flexible work arrangements or not. A total of 362 Greek employees participated in the study to determine their attitudes towards flexible work practices. Univariate analyses of variance and logistic regression analysis were conducted with the aim of exploring the research hypotheses. It is found that attitudes towards flexible work options are dependent on gender, sector of employment and prior participation in a flexible work scheme. In general, women, public sector employees and employees who have participated in flexible work arrangements are more likely to perceive more benefits and fewer costs with regard to the use of work flexibility. Further analysis provided evidence that work–life balance benefits are stronger predictors of participation in flexible work practices. These findings suggest that employee-centred organisations that view flexibility as a valuable management tool, should deal with specific barriers that discourage people from taking up flexible work arrangements. Given the dearth of empirical research on work flexibility in Greece, the findings of this study provide the wider academic community with new insights on employees' perceptions of flexible work options.     

The influence of strategic HRM and sector on perceived performance in health services organizations

In this study, we examine a variety of management characteristics of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the health services (HS) industry. Data collected from Australian senior executives are used to test the relationships between managerial constructs such as employee commitment, customer demandingness, strategic HRM orientation and the adoption of human capital-enhancing human resource (HR) practices and perceived overall performance. Data analysis conducted using the Partial Least Square Modeling show a statistically significant path from commitment to employees, customer demandingness and strategic HRM orientation to the adoption of human capital-enhancing HR practices (such as selective staffing, comprehensive training, and performance appraisal) to perceived organizational performance. The results also show that private sector health service organizations have a higher level of perceived performance.     

民办高校体育课教学伤害事故的法律责任问题研究

近年来在体育课教学中大学生伤害事故时有发生。研究对民办高校体育课事故相适用的法律范畴、法律责任和免责条件进行了分析,笔者认为目前我国民办高校体育课伤害事故的赔偿问题还存在一些缺陷。     

浅议提升高校科技创新能力的必要性

在二十一世纪,能够决定一个国家综合竞争力的因素种类繁多,其中科技创新能力作为最主要的因素之一已经得到了广泛的承认。高校作为国家智力资源的集中地,发展其科技创新能力不仅能够提升高校自身的科技创新水平,也是提升整个国家综合竞争力的重要途径和手段。     

Private or public school advantage? Evidence from 40 countries using PISA 2012-Mathematics

It is known that in most countries, private school students outperform students in public schools in international assessments. However, the empirical literature recognizes that assessing the true effect of private school attendance requires addressing selection and sorting issues on both observabland unobservables. The existing empirical evidence on the private school effect mostly covers OECD and Latin American countries, with little evidence on other parts of the world. There is recent emerging country-specific evidence doubting the existence of a private school advantage. I use PISA 2012 data for Mathematics and two different methodologies to derive baseline and bias-corrected estimates of the private-dependent and independent school effect for 40 countries. A robust private school advantage is found only in a handful of countries. Public schools generally perform as well as private subsidized schools and outperform independent schools. Accounting for both peer effects and selection is necessary when evaluating school effectiveness, especially in the case of independent schools.     

民营企业的政治关联及其经济效应分析

本文分析了中国转轨过程中民营企业政治关联的表现形式及其对关联企业发展的影响。本文认为,政治关联有助于民营企业建立与政府的良好关系,并通过以下机制促进民营企业的发展:第一,作为法律替代机制保护民营企业的产权;第二,缓解民营企业因所有制歧视造成的融资难问题;第三,有助于民营企业克服行业准入的管制性壁垒。     

高校思想政治理论课教学状况调查

通过对云南大学400名在校大一、大二学生的抽样问卷调查,从大学生学习思想政治理论课的动机和态度、参与课堂教学实践的情况、对教学内容等方面的评价和对教师的评价四个方面了解高校思想政治理论课教学现状。     

控制权、控制权与现金流权偏离度对并购的影响——来自中国民营上市公司的经验证据

文章基于中国证券市场2004年和2005年的并购事件,实证检验中国民营上市公司终极控制人的控制权、控制权与现金流权偏离度对并购的影响。研究发现,在中国民营上市公司中,控制权以及控制权与现金流权的偏离度和并购绩效之间均呈现非线性关系。研究结论表明,无论控制权还是控制权与现金流权的偏离度对中国民营上市公司的并购绩效均具有两面性特征。中国民营股东在安排所有权结构的过程中,既要保证控股股东充分的控制权,又必须避免控制权与现金流权过分偏离,以防止公司价值落入非线性曲线的底部。     

EDGAR on the internet: The welfare effects of wider information distribution in an experimental market for risky assets

Policies such as the SEC’s Fair Disclosure Rule, and technologies such as SEC EDGAR, aim to disseminate corporate disclosures to a wider audience of investors in risky assets. In this study, we adopt an experimental approach to measure whether this wider disclosure is beneficial to these investors. Price-clearing equilibrium models based on utility maximization and non-revealing and fully-revealing prices predict that in a pure exchange economy, an arbitrary trader would prefer that no investors are informed rather than all are informed; non-revealing theory further predicts that an arbitrary trader would prefer a situation in which all traders are informed rather than half the traders are informed. These predictions can be summarized as “None > All > Half”. A laboratory study was conducted to test these predictions. Where previous studies have largely focused on information dissemination and its effects on equilibrium price and insider profits, we focus instead on traders’ expected utility, as measured by their preferences for markets in which none, half, or all traders are informed. Our experimental result contradicts the prediction and indicates “Half > None > All”, i.e. subjects favor a situation where a random half is informed. The implication is that in addition to testing predictions of price equilibrium, experiments should also be used to verify analytical welfare predictions of expected utility under different policy choices. JEL Classification D82, D53, G14, L86 This work was largely completed while this author was at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.     

和谐社会下高校特殊群体学生教育管理研究

随着和谐社会构建的深入和高等教育由精英教育向大众教育的转变,加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作尤其是高校特殊群体学生的教育管理工作,是摆在高校学生教育管理者面前维持学校团结稳定重大课题。高校特殊群体大学生教育管理过程中凸显的亟需面对和解决的各类问题,更需要高校的思想政治教育工作者在新形势下对其教育管理方式方法作出新的尝试研究。