Identifying “best” applicants in recruiting using data envelopment analysis

Selecting the most promising candidates to fill an open position can be a difficult task when there are many applicants. Each applicant achieves certain performance levels in various categories and the resulting information can be overwhelming. We demonstrate how data envelopment analysis (DEA) can be used as a fair screening and sorting tool to support the candidate selection and decision-making process. Each applicant is viewed as an entity with multiple achievements. Without any a priori preference or information on the multiple achievements, DEA identifies the non-dominated solutions, which, in our case, represent the “best” candidates. A DEA-aided recruiting process was developed that (1) determines the performance levels of the “best” candidates relative to other applicants; (2) evaluates the degree of excellence of “best” candidates’ performance; (3) forms consistent tradeoff information on multiple recruiting criteria among search committee members, and, then, (4) clusters the applicants.     

中国的金融市场开发与借款证券化

在当今社会，市场对金融运行的压力越来越大，传统的融资方式已难以满足投资者的需要。一种新的金融形式——贷款证券化，使资金拥有者可以通过这一渠道将资金转移到贷款者手中。通过这种形式，可以很好地解决当今社会许多融资难的问题。目前，这种融资形式正在引起我国许多业界人士的注意，这种形式如果能够在我国的金融体系中得到完善，将会极大地促进我国的经济建设，也能很好地解决我国投融资体系中存在的诸多现实问题。     

创建和谐园区推动发展再上新水平

党的十六大以来,以胡锦涛同志为总书记的党中央提出构建社会主义和谐社会的重大战略思想和战略任务,明确了构建社会主义和谐社会在中国特色社会主义事业总体布局中的地位.天津市委市政府对构建社会主义和谐社会也作出了一系列决策部署.天津新技术产业园区作为天津发展高新技术产业的基地和滨海新区的领航区,更应该在构建和谐社会、创建和谐园区上下功夫、见成效,为创建和谐天津作出应有的贡献.     

完善行业协会迎接WTO的挑战

中国加入WTO后，政府经济管理职能应加快转变，行业管理职能应逐步移交行业协会。石油、石化行业应尽快在企业自愿的基础上完善行业协会，使其在国家政策法规的框架下，对全行业油气资源、市场准入、价格调控、服务标准、信息交流、安全、质量、环保等进行统一协调和服务，逐步培育和规范国内石油、石化市场。行业协会通过与国外同行业民间组织建立联系，了解国外同行业的技术经济动态，为企业提高竞争力服务，同时也为国家宏观调控提供决策依据。行业协会要协调好同业竞争与合作的关系，尽快建立和完善畅通的行业信息网络；随着外部环境的日益宽松，企业更应继续强化管理、搞好经营，主动学习和利用世贸组织游戏规则，提升自身实力。石油、石化行业协会的完善离不开国家政策的支持和比较规范的市场环境。     

发挥现有优势,推进厦门"以港兴市"战略的深入实施

一、港口是促进厦门经济发展的重要推动力量 (一)厦门市的发展历史印证了城市发展对港口的依赖 从历史上看,厦门是先有港、后有城、才有市的.城市的经济地位与港口作用的发挥紧密相连.港口使厦门在历史上很早就成为"远近贸易之都会"和海上丝绸之路的重要口岸,逐步发展成为闽南的经济中心.辟为五口通商口岸之后,厦门港的海上运输迅速扩大,成为中国的主要商埠之一.民国时期,受两次世界大战特别是日本侵略的影响,运输量大起大落,城市发展大受影响;建国后长期的军事对峙,对外航运受阻,港口设施陈旧落后,城市经济的发展极为缓慢.     

试论我国出口市场多元化战略实施

出口市场多元化应包括四个方面的内涵:首先,市场多元化是指区域多元化,即出口市场应全方位、多角度分布于世界各地,而不仅仅聚集于少数市场;其次是指商品多元化,因为商品是市场的核心内容,一国对外贸易,不单单是点多、面广,而且商品品种、规格、档次等都要多样化,才能符合不同消费层次的需求;第三,出口市场多元化应包括经营手段的多样化,即开拓海外市场要采取灵活多变的方式、方法。     

The Effects of Participation and Job-Relevant Information on the Relationship Between Evaluative Style and Job Satisfaction

This study investigates the intervening effects of budgetary participation and job-relevant information on the relationship between budget emphasis and job satisfaction. It proposes that budgetary participation and job-relevant information are endogenous to budget emphasis. Using the path analytical technique and based on a sample of 152 senior managers, the study found that budget emphasis has an insignificant direct effect on job satisfaction, but a strong indirect effect through job-relevant information and budgetary participation. The results also indicate that job-relevant information has an intervening effect on the relationship between participation and job satisfaction.     

Heterogeneous ability,career choice and firm size

Entrepreneurial ability is the ability to innovate new products. Managerial ability is the ability to maintain the profitability of current operations. By assuming heterogeneous abilities of acquiring and maintaining an endogenous number of production processes, the model of this paper predicts a distribution of firm sizes, a diversity in the composition of R&D and chosen career. Firms conduct product improvement if and only if managerial ability is high relative to entrepreneurial ability. Individuals choose careers as either innovative entrepreneurs, managerial entrepreneurs or salaried employees depending on their abilities. An individual's entrepreneurial ability may not be high enough to choose a career as an innovative entrepreneur, but if managerial ability is sufficiently high, then a career as a managerial entrepreneur is optimal. Managerial ability has an effect on expected firm size if and only if the individual is a managerial entrepreneur.This material is based upon work supported by the Research Committee of the Rutgers Graduate School of Management. I wish to thank two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions.     

支付体系与货币和货币政策基本关系研究

中央银行承担着货币政策和向社会提供结算便利等金融服务的职责.近几年现代化支付体系的建设使用对货币问题产生了一定的影响,支付体系与货币和货币政策的关系引起了普遍的关注.本文在辨析既有讨论的基础上,从基本的概念出发,为研究支付体系与货币和货币政策的关系搭建了一个基本框架.本文认为,支付体系对货币的影响是实质的,对货币政策的影响却是外在的,但这种外在影响是重要的,需要中央银行在调整货币供给模型时加以慎重考虑.     

加拿大商业银行风险管理的实践与借鉴

加拿大银行业具有健全的风险管理体系与机制、制度与流程、计量工具与技术以及不良资产处置方式。在开放经济条件下，借鉴加拿大银行业成熟的风险管理经验，对加快我国商业银行风险管理体系建设，推行全面风险管理有着重要的理论和现实意义。