Similarities and differences in employee motivation viewed by Korean and Japanese executives: empirical study on employee motivation management of Japanese-affiliated companies in Korea

This study examines similarities and differences in employee motivation management between Korean and Japanese executives of Japanese-affiliated companies in Korea, based on questionnaire surveys. The respondents' views of employee motivation factors were analysed, by contrast with motivational factors and hygiene factors (maintenance factors) developed by Herzberg. The survey results reveal that both Korean and Japanese executives realize the importance of employee motivation management, and that Japanese executives have a stronger awareness of it than Korean executives. Both recognize it for the sake of high corporate performance, employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Seeing motivation factors: the majority of Korean and Japanese executives regard ‘wage and bonus increases’ as a strong motivational factor; ‘employment stability’ is recognized as a motivational factor by Korean executives; and ‘clarifying company policy and job objectives’ is the most important motivational factor to Japanese executives. Their views of these three factors are not consistent with Herzberg's theory. We also found a recognition gap between Korean and Japanese executives: ‘esteem and praise for job performance’ is a hygiene factor to Korean executives but a motivational factor to Japanese executives.     

Uneven landscapes and city size distributions

This paper proposes a new model generating city size distributions that asymptotically follow the log-normal distribution. The log-normal distribution is consistent with Zipf’s law in the top tail, which is known to hold for many countries in different periods. The key feature of our model is that it can express city size as a product of multiple random factors (e.g., climate, geographic features, and industry composition). Each factor alone need not generate Zipf’s law. Our model provides a justification for classical urban economics models that have been criticized for not delivering Zipf’s law, since a single model typically represents only one factor among many present in reality.     

买卖的法律结构探讨

采用历史与比较方法分析买卖所涉及的两个问题。其一,买卖契约仅产生债的效力,抑或还直接产生物权效力;其二,物权变动是“要因”还是“无因”。罗马法及中世纪上,就合意性的买卖契约而言,它仅产生债的效力,所有权的移转须以交付为要件,这·点被以后的大多数国家所承继。而在同一时期,由于观念交付的出现,以及人文主义法学派的影响,买卖契约的物权性品格也有所体现。物权变动“要因主义”与“无因主义”在罗马文献上都得到印证。     

重复中实现高职物流教学革新

文中首先针对教师劳动的重复性含义进行了深刻辨析,之后对教师劳动从重复到创新的转化进行了解剖,最后从日常的教学实践出发列举了常用的教师劳动创新策略,具有较强的现实指导意义。     

Afriat’s Theorem and Samuelson’s ‘Eternal Darkness’

Suppose that we have access to a finite set of expenditure data drawn from an individual consumer, i.e., how much of each good has been purchased and at what prices. Afriat (1967) was the first to establish necessary and sufficient conditions on such a data set for rationalizability by utility maximization. In this note, we provide a new and simple proof of Afriat’s Theorem, the explicit steps of which help to more deeply understand the driving force behind one of the more curious features of the result itself, namely that a concave rationalization is without loss of generality in a classical finite data setting. Our proof stresses the importance of the non-uniqueness of a utility representation along with the finiteness of the data set in ensuring the existence of a concave utility function that rationalizes the data.     

Unanimity,anonymity, and infinite population

This paper is concerned with the implications of unanimity and anonymity for the Arrovian social choice theory when population is infinite. Contrary to the finite population case, various unanimity and anonymity axioms can be formulated. We show a tension between unanimity and anonymity by providing possibility and impossibility results. We also examine the case in which social preferences are allowed to be quasi-transitive.     

基于Krashen监察模式的公安英语口语教学改革研究

为积极响应教育部加强大学英语教学改革的号召,进一步加快公安院校行业英语口语教学的改革步伐以提升公安院校学生听说能力,以Krashen监察模式理论为研究视角深入剖析公安英语教学的现状,从教改目标、思路及实施方法三方面论述了进行公安英语口语教学改革的可行性和实效性。