Internal labour markets in the Australian banking industry: their nature prior to the Second World War and their recent decline

This paper uses evidence from late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century personnel records of two Australian banks to examine the nature of internal labour markets prior to the Second World War. It is argued that the industry possessed all the classic features of internal labour markets: limited ports of entry, internal promotion, long careers, and assignment of wages by well-defined rules. The paper then examines the reasons why banks adopted internal labour markets. Finally, the paper examines the recent decline of internal labour markets and examines the role of technological and social changes in this decline.     

Employee involvement in American corporations

At the direction of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on Governmental Affairs, the general Accounting Office (GAO) conducted a survey of employee involvement practices within American companies. The population consisted of top management within Fortune's 500 largest manufacturing and 500 largest service companies. An analysis of the data examined three broad areas relating to employee involvement: (1) the existing organizational programs and processes such as personnel practices, information sharing, and training; (2) the degree of corporate participation in specific employee involvement programs including the reasons for undertaking employee involvement programs, and the perceived barriers to the implementation of employee involvement programs; and (3) the perceived effect of employee involvement on organizational operation as measured by changes in indicators of performance and activities within the internal business environment.     

论人力资本理念下的现代企业会计理论模块与观念构架

运用传统会计知识和经验、兼容演绎法和归纳法对人力资本理念下的现代企业会计进行创新思考,先演绎成包括会计假设、会计确认、会计计量、会计账户、会计记录、会计报告六个一体化的理论方面,后归纳为包涵传统会计、人力资源会计两个立体化的观念层次,形成了人力资本理念下的现代企业会计理论模块与观念构架。     

浅谈传统文化与艺术设计

平面设计是利用视觉图像、符号来传达意图的设计形式,由于表现方式限于于平面,只通过视觉认知传达,因此有一定的局限性,但并不是说平面设计所表达的内容会因此减少和单薄,相反,在有限的表达方式下却能传达出丰富多彩,变幻莫测的意义.如果完全背离传统艺术形式,一味模仿西方的现代艺术,惟西方现代艺术马首是瞻,简单地挪用西方现代艺术形式,将使我们的艺术丧失民族的个性.     

中国传统文化的艺术之光——剪纸艺术

剪纸是源于我国普通劳动人民闲暇创作的艺术文化。其紧扣日常生活,体现人民大众的追求向往,折射普通大众的精神需求。不以具象为限制,追求夸张的形似手法,彰显艺人内心所想,是中国传统文化瑰宝之一。     

Ethical dilemmas: Teaching futures in schools

Educational policy is implicitly futures oriented, yet in most instances fails to engage learners with explicit futures tools and concepts at a school level. Futures studies in education, or futures education has the potential to reposition learning as purposeful and mobilizes the lives of participants by connecting the curriculum of schools with the multifaceted futures of learners. This is a complex task within the tensions often existing between: the cultural role of a school, the expectations of a society, the expertise of teachers, and the increasingly diverse needs of learners (Bateman, 2012). It is between the tensions of these things that the ‘ethical’ issues of what is taught, or omitted as content in a classroom and the consequences of these choices are evident.This paper highlights ethical and moral dilemmas, as they were apparent in two futures education projects. In the first study, the teachers discuss the inherent limitations of offering a broader and more futures oriented curriculum. In the second study, teachers reflect upon their students’ anxiety with regards to futures images as they are interrogated within a curriculum study. Each of these studies highlights the ethical challenges that arise, when possible, preferable and probable futures are developed as part of learning in school settings, which are culturally and demographically diverse.Tirri and Husu (2002) highlight the ethical dilemmas, which emerge in classrooms around the world, based on conflicts in values and competing intentions between key stakeholders. In the studies which contribute to this discussion, there is evidence to suggest that futures thinking causes conflict within an individual's perception of how the world should be, or their worldview as a result of futures imagining which goes beyond what is taken for granted, or is an assumed future eventuality. In the same way, Carrington, Deppeler, and Moss (2010) argue that all curriculum choices about what is taught (or not taught) in a classroom reflect an ethical decision made by a teacher, with regards to what is foregrounded for learning and what is omitted.It is crucial to re-examine the role of a school in educating students for their futures, as opposed to educating students with an aim of furthering governmental agendas. More significantly, however, as this paper highlights, it is exploring the boundaries of what is acceptable or unacceptable, appropriate or inappropriate to teach in a classroom, given the changing diversities of schools and education systems throughout the world.     

智能化住宅是建筑行业可持续发展的方向

文章论述了在知识经济时代，集高新技术为一体的智能化住宅建筑将成为可持续发展的人居环境的主流和趋势。     

中国传统思想影响下的现代居住建筑探微——以万科·第五园为例

以万科第五园为例,从该项目的背景入手,其在建筑设计、园林景观、处理新旧建筑等方面如何演绎中国传统元素进行分析,从而为探索现代人居的中国传统思想模式,如何体现中国传统居住建筑的精髓和内涵提供借鉴和经验。     

以情感教育化解传统文化对学生英语自主学习的负面影响

在英语学习中,自主学习是提高学习效率的有力保证.但是由于传统文化的影响,学生英语自主学习状况并不是十分理想.本文分析了传统文化对学生英语自主学习带来的负面影响,提出以情感教育作为化解手段的可行性.     

都市历史街区真实性的游憩者感知研究——以南京夫子庙为例

真实性研究在国内旅游研究中受到越来越多的关注.真实性既包括旅游地的原真性,也包括游憩者对旅游地真实性的感知.文章以夫子庙这个城市RBD兼历史街区为例,从游憩者①的角度研究了这种定位于满足游憩者体验历史文化和商业消费综合性需求的景区的"真实性".通过对游憩者真实性感知的夫子庙核心景点事物进行因子分析,归纳出"仿古观光活动"和"购物体闲活动"这两个构建夫子庙真实性感知的因子,并分别比较了它们对于本地市民、暂住居民和外地游憩者以及文化体验型、娱乐休闲型和综合型动机游憩者感知夫子庙真实性的重要程度,结果存在明显差异.研究调查表明:夫子庙景区的游憩者主要动机包括文化体验和娱乐休闲,他们对于夫子庙的客观真实性整体把握较准确,但这些游憩者即使知道夫子庙没有真实保留多少古建筑,也仍然认为夫子庙是一个成功体现了明清风格的古建筑游览区.