Determining Work Culture Scores for Fourteen Developed Nations

Abstract

As business relationships become increasingly global in nature, a new methodology for understanding the approach to work in various nations is needed. When involved in business dealings with international partners, it is crucial that the modern businessperson understand and empathize with the culture of the company with which he or she is working. The author demonstrates a new methodology which allows comparison and categorization of nations by calculating a new metric called the Work Culture Score for each nation. This metric allows mathematical comparison between business attitudes in various cultures. It incorporates the average annual hours, percentage of overtime, worker productivity, and attitudes toward work and leisure of a culture into a single, meaningful value. This study applies the newly developed metric to fourteen developed nations.     

Reassessing the Structure of Enduring Leisure Involvement

The study compared the importance of spending time in interacting with nature to other leisure activities regarding recovery from work demands. In addition, a multiple mediation model between time spent in interacting with nature and need for recovery through four mediators was tested. Employees of five organizations answered a questionnaire (N = 527). Exercise and being outdoors during free-time was evaluated as the most effective activity for recovery from work stress, and the time spent in interacting with nature was mentioned as second in importance. Time spent in exercise and being outdoors, life satisfaction, and relaxation mediated significantly the relationship between time spent in interacting with nature and need for recovery from work.     

基于工作过程导向的酒店管理专业课程体系开发研究

工作过程导向的课程开发是以企业真实的工作过程为基础,以完成实际工作任务为核心,以学生职业素质养成和综合职业能力提高为宗旨,在专门构建的教学情境中进行职业知识、技能传授的课程理论和方法。从酒店业的实际出发,提出了基于工作过程导向的酒店管理专业课程体系开发的思路、步骤和方法。     

Happy together,or not? Balanced perceived investment in standard and nonstandard employees

This study investigated whether the relationship between temporary employees' perceived investment in employee development and work outcomes was moderated by temporary employees' perceived investment in standard employee development (PISED). A study among 2022 Norwegian temporary employees showed that the relationship between perceived investment in temporary employee development and in-role and contextual performance was moderated by the temporary employees' PISED. These results suggest that client organizations that invest more in standard employee development will get the most of their investments in temporary employee development. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.     

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.     

浅谈改制企业党建和思想政治工作的加强与创新

为保证改制后的企业健康持续的发展,不断做大作强企业,需要强有力的政治思想工作来支撑;做好改制企业思想政治工作的关键就要不断创新改制企业党建和思想政治工作;切实加强对改制企业党建和思想政治工作的领导,解决改制企业政治思想工作面临的新情况、新问题、新矛盾。坚持以人为本,全心全意依靠员工办好企业,满足员工的需求,使党建和思想工作围绕中心凝心聚力。     

思想政治工作的针对性、艺术性和实效性

面对新的历史条件、新的思想状况 ,思想政治工作者要从实际出发 ,突出针对性、加强艺术性、注重实效性 ,不断地研究和探讨思想政治工作的新途径、新方式和新方法。     

Macroprudential Stress-Testing Practices of Central Banks in Central and Southeastern Europe: Comparison and Challenges Ahead

This paper reviews and compares stress-testing practices of central banks in Central and Southeastern Europe (CSEECBs) and outlines challenges in the area of stress testing going forward. The authors, focusing their comparison on CSEECBs, construct the baseline and stress scenarios, map macroeconomic scenarios and microeconomic factors to risk factors, calculate risk exposures to different risk indicators, and estimate outcome indicators to inform macroprudential policy. The main challenges going forward concern data reliability, consideration of quantitative microprudential indicators, incorporation of feedback effects in stress tests, institutionalization of macroprudential policy responses to alarming stress-test results, and information exchange for better cross-border supervision.     

新时期加强和改进高校思想政治工作的探讨

高度重视思想政治工作,历来是我们党和国家的优良传统和政治优势。高校作为先进思想和文化的发源地,肩负着培养社会主义建设者和接班人的历史使命,要努力形成在党委领导下,各级党组织、职能部门、工会等齐抓共管、各负其责的思想政治工作体制,发挥教师在学生思想政治工作中的作用,不断加强和改进高校思想政治工作。     

新形势下高校共青团工作导入项目管理模式探析

随着社会经济的发展变化,高校的内外部环境已发生了很大变化,学生管理面临着新的挑战和机遇,传统的共青团工作模式已不能适应新形势的需要。文章运用项目管理理论,结合新形势下高校共青团工作的实际,探索新形势下高校共青团工作的崭新模式,分析了在项目实施过程中的配套工作,对开创新形势下高校共青团工作具有积极的指导意义。