Finding common ground: how superdiversity is unsettling social work education

For social work education in the Netherlands, the rapid transition towards superdiversity means that its capacity to adapt to this new reality and to adjust to diverse students’ backgrounds is fiercely challenged. The key aim of this article is to discuss how social work educators are dealing with the unsettling challenges of increasing diversity, based on the research outcomes of an explorative study amongst Turkish–Dutch and Moroccan–Dutch female professionals. Two different groups of educators were asked to comment on the outcomes of this study. One of the dilemmas for educators is to determine what can be considered supportive and inclusive and as reducing inequality in education. The authors used two key theoretical concepts, ‘superdiversity’ and ‘the capability approach’. These theoretical perspectives were used to deconstruct the rather massive concepts of diversity and social justice, by emphasising contextual approaches. Both perspectives stress the urgent need to involve students as ‘active agents of change’, by building a social work community to stimulate and facilitate an on-going dialogue. To successfully fulfil a pivotal role in the upward mobility or emancipation of ethnic minority students, social work education needs to be adjusted to accommodate diverse student groups.     

中国海外项目经理职业化水平测评研究

“一带一路”宏伟蓝图下，我国承接沿线国家工程项目业务已成为常态。中国海外项目经理是建筑企业开拓国际工程承包市场的中坚力量，建筑企业要想在“一带一路”国际市场中搏击长空，加强海外项目经理职业化建设乃当务之急。项目依据海外项目经理的岗位职责，从德、能、勤三方面总结影响海外项目经理职业化水平的各个因素，并结合几何平均法和TOPSIS法进行中国海外项目经理职业化水平测评研究。     

传统工科专业人才培养改革的探索与实践——以重庆文理学院机械工程专业为例

新时代对我国高等工程教育提出了新的要求，工程教育应加强改革创新，着力解决工程技术人才供需结构失衡，专业建设及人才培养对接新经济、新产业不够，学生新知识、新技术、新素养不足等难题。为支撑和引领地方经济发展，重庆文理学院主动对接本区域智能制造相关新兴产业，积极探索传统工科专业转型发展的模式与路径，按照新工科的特征、内涵和要求转型发展机械工程专业，确立专业人才培养新理念，将行业和企业新知识、新技术、新标准等融入人才培养过程中，构建了学科交叉融合的工业机器人新工科工程技术人才培养新体系，重点培养能够适应当前及未来变化需要的工业机器人相关工程技术人才，取得了较好的实效。     

新时代全面从严治党思想的科学内涵和价值意蕴

进入新时代,以习近平为核心的党中央站在新的历史起点上,切实加强党的领导和党的自身建设,全面分析从严治党的新情况新问题,形成了科学系统、不断完善的新时代全面从严治党思想。新时代全面从严治党要向纵深推进,要求中国共产党在新时代中国特色社会主义建设的新实践中以更大的勇气和更坚定的决心全面加强从严治党,完整把握新时代全面从严治党思想的科学内涵和价值意蕴。     

Dynamic capabilities and high-tech entrepreneurial ventures’ performance in the aftermath of an environmental jolt

This paper contributes to studies on dynamic capabilities (DCs) by showing that a neglected environmental contingency – i.e. the occurrence of a jolt – shapes the DCs–performance relationship. We focus on high-tech entrepreneurial ventures because these are the firms that jolts affect most; in so doing, we also advance the understanding of DCs in the entrepreneurship field. We argue that, in the aftermath of an environmental jolt, the high-tech entrepreneurial ventures that use internationalization and new product development capabilities to modify their resource configuration and regain environmental fit enjoy better performance. Econometric estimates on a sample of 340 Italian high-tech entrepreneurial ventures confronting the consequences of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 confirm that separately using these two DCs has a positive performance effect. This effect is stronger for relatively smaller ventures. Interestingly, despite synergies should arise from the combined use of the two DCs, we do not detect any superadditive effects.     

Employee financial wellness programs: Opportunities to promote financial inclusion?

ABSTRACT

Employee financial wellness programs (EFWPs) are a new practice that may promote financial inclusion by making it easier for workers with low- and moderate-incomes (LMI) to access financial services. We examine the strengths and limitations of workplace financial counseling, credit-building services, and small-dollar loans, and describe community collaboration to promote employee financial wellness. Findings suggest that these services are reaching a population that experiences financial exclusion, though evidence is mixed concerning how these services help workers with LMI resolve key financial challenges. Community collaboration focused on employee financial wellness presents opportunities to advocate for higher wages and better benefits.     

Toward General Principles for Resilience Engineering

Maintaining the performance of infrastructure-dependent systems in the face of surprises and unknowable risks is a grand challenge. Addressing this issue requires a better understanding of enabling conditions or principles that promote system resilience in a universal way. In this study, a set of such principles is interpreted as a group of interrelated conditions or organizational qualities that, taken together, engender system resilience. The field of resilience engineering identifies basic system or organizational qualities (e.g., abilities for learning) that are associated with enhanced general resilience and has packaged them into a set of principles that should be fostered. However, supporting conditions that give rise to such first-order system qualities remain elusive in the field. An integrative understanding of how such conditions co-occur and fit together to bring about resilience, therefore, has been less clear. This article contributes to addressing this gap by identifying a potentially more comprehensive set of principles for building general resilience in infrastructure-dependent systems. In approaching this aim, we organize scattered notions from across the literature. To reflect the partly self-organizing nature of infrastructure-dependent systems, we compare and synthesize two lines of research on resilience: resilience engineering and social-ecological system resilience. Although some of the principles discussed within the two fields overlap, there are some nuanced differences. By comparing and synthesizing the knowledge developed in them, we recommend an updated set of resilience-enhancing principles for infrastructure-dependent systems. In addition to proposing an expanded list of principles, we illustrate how these principles can co-occur and their interdependencies.     

Learning in and from projects: the learning modes and a learning capability model

Abstract

The notion of ‘project delivery’ is well embedded in and across the management and organizational sciences literature – generating a narrative that reflects and recognizes the instrumental nature of projects and programmes in strategy execution. Project management, as a distinct and well-established body of research enquiry, has increasingly sought to focus our attention on the impacts of complexity, risk and uncertainty in projects; the corollary being a desideratum to strengthen our theoretical understanding of how insight and learning from projects may influence improvements to organizational efficiency. The wider literature suggests that organizational learning remains a challenging proposition, particularly in the context of organizations operating in environments of high complexity. In this paper, we enhance the conversation on organizational learning through a series of case studies, generating evidence of thirteen ‘learning modes’. The paper proposes that mature organizations tend to exhibit a greater number of learning modes and that there is a tendency to capture and socialize knowledge with a greater emphasis on the context of the learning situation rather than the learning artefact in isolation. The empirical evidence gathered in this paper forms the basis of a capability model, characterized by the thirteen modes of learning. The model intimates that learning occurs, and is more effective, when knowledge and information are enacted in practice through the learning modes which form a nucleus of the organizational learning capability. The research concludes with a 'call to action' that emphasizes the strategic importance of learning practices and routines in project oriented-organizations.     

基于模糊TOPSIS的企业知识转移能力评价

知识转移能力作为企业获取知识、吸收知识和应用知识能力的衡量标准,是企业从事创新活动的前提和基础。以知识转移主体和客体两个要素为依据,构建企业知识转移能力指标体系,运用模糊TOPSIS法对企业知识转移能力进行综合评价,并进行实证分析,为企业制定发展战略和提高自身竞争力提供借鉴。