Helicopter parents hovering in the workplace: What should HR managers do?

Applying life course theory, this article provides an overview of what is known about helicopter parenting behavior in the workplace and why it exists. Herein, we discuss the pervasiveness of this issue and present a typology of the different levels of intensity or obtrusiveness of parental involvement (‘reconnaissance,’ ‘low altitude,’ and ‘guerilla warfare’) in the workplace, as well as ways in which the adult child may respond to such behaviors. We conclude with a discussion of how employers are responding to this issue with proposed strategies for how to best manage such situations.     

转型时期我国寿险业增长方式浅析

全球金融危机以来，我国寿险业的内外部发展环境发生了急剧变化，原有的粗放式发展模式已不适应新形势下国民经济对寿险业的要求，通过积极参与政策性业务、加快结构调整、突出主业经营、优化资源配置、大力推进技术创新等方式，可实现我国寿险业转型时期的持续增长，提升产业竞争能力。     

模因的动态生命周期

为了探讨模因的生命周期及其动态发展趋势,笔者采用归纳总结的方法,研究了影响模因生命周期其发展状态的重要因素。研究发现在传输阶段模因的复制忠实性、选择的媒介物会影响传输。在解码阶段潜在寄主的理解和兴趣、外界中的同化和异化模因、潜在寄主的解码能力会对解码产生影响。在感染阶段模因必须具备适合潜在寄主认知结构的能力,也涉及到威胁和诱饵,存储时间和模因的生存能力。生存能力包括外部异化模因、免疫力、普遍性等。在编码和传播阶段模因必须要有触发和动机和适当的反馈。最后从模因的四个阶段中总结出,模因的生命周期并不是简单重复,而是是螺旋上升,动态发展的。     

浅析生命周期理论在林木资产价值评估中的应用

一直以来，生物资产的会计核算都是会计学上的难点。新会计准则规定生物资产的核算要以历史成本法为依据，但在生物资产的成本构成还有很多值得探讨而未解决的问题。在这种背景下，通过以林木资产为例来讨论在历史成本法下所遇见的问题，并借用生命周期理论来打开一条林木资产价值核算过程中所出现问题的解决思路。     

Contributions Feminist Economics Can Make to the Quality of Life Movement

This article articulates how and why feminist economists can move the quality of life literature forward and help it become a solid part of the social sciences rather than a subject whose perceived value fluctuates with political winds. Readers are challenged to consider and critique a proposed set of expectations to clearly define the field and set standards of excellence. Examples of this approach are provided from the experiences of an economic research firm striving to build on these guidelines in its work with nonprofit and for-profit organizations that design, fund, evaluate, and/or deliver programs that impact quality of life.     

Analyzing supply chain robustness for OEMs from a life cycle perspective using life cycle simulation

Long-term relationships between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and stakeholders in their supply chain and end-of-life process can be designed, while considering uncertainty in future environmental legislation changes. This study proposes a method to analyze the capability of OEMs to reconfigure their supply chain and end-of-life operations to achieve performance targets, which are defined in terms of environmental impacts and life cycle costs. Using life cycle simulation (LCS), the physical deterioration and the functional obsolescence of individual products are considered as stochastic elements in the analysis. The analyzed reconfiguration capability provides the OEM with robustness against uncertainty from a life cycle perspective.     

“I even met happy gypsies”

Economic studies of the Roma population, which is the largest and the poorest ethnic minority in Europe, remain sparse due to the limited availability of appropriate micro level data. This paper provides a comparative analysis of life satisfaction between Roma and non‐Roma young adults aged between 15 and 24 years using survey data collected from Serbia in 2010 and from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2011. Results from raw answers show that the young Roma population living in settlements is less satisfied with life than non‐Roma. However, we find instead that the former group is more satisfied once we account for the fact that Roma have more disadvantaged characteristics on average. Also, Roma young adults expect a better life within one year compared to the non‐Roma in Serbia while there is no difference in Bosnia and Herzegovina.     

Diverging trends in health care use between 2010 and 2016: Evidence from three groups of transition countries

This paper investigates changes in health care use in 28 transition countries using data on more than 60,000 households from the “Life in Transition” surveys II and III conducted in 2010 and 2016. Following the literature, the transition countries are divided into three groups – Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and the non-Baltic states of the former Soviet Union with Mongolia – based on the speed of their transformation. Regressions based on Andersen’s conceptual framework show no difference in public health care use between the three groups in 2010. By 2016, however, the share of households using the public health care system dropped by remarkable 17.1–22.2% points in Southern Europe and 13.5–27.1% points in the former Soviet Union with Mongolia compared to Eastern Europe. Moreover, by 2016, the probability of a household using the private health care system (with no use of public health care) in Southern Europe and the former Soviet Union was 7.5–18.7% points higher than in Eastern Europe, whereas it was 2.9–6.8% points lower than in Eastern Europe back in 2010. The analyses indicate that differences in household characteristics, as well as perceived corruption and quality of public health care, help to understand these diverging trends in health care use in the three groups of transition countries between 2010 and 2016.     

技术标准化与知识管理关系研究：生命周期视角

结合技术标准化的动态生命周期过程，发挥技术标准化与知识管理的协同互动作用，对于提升企业技术标准化能力和增强企业核心竞争优势具有重要意义。提出知识管理金三角模式，从知识创新、知识竞争和知识扩散3个层面，揭示技术标准化与知识管理的协同关系作用机理，构建技术标准化与知识管理的关系模型，并以华为公司生命周期各阶段的演化进程为样本进行案例分析，检验理论推导。结果表明，技术标准化与知识管理相互依存、相互促进。以此为基础，建立技术标准化与知识管理保障机制，为企业参与市场竞争提出策略性建议。