Politics in evaluation: Politically responsive evaluation in high stakes environments

The role of politics has often been discussed in evaluation theory and practice. The political influence of the situation can have major effects on the evaluation design, approach and methods. Politics also has the potential to influence the decisions made from the evaluation findings. The current study focuses on the influence of the political context on stakeholder decision making. Utilizing a simulation scenario, this study compares stakeholder decision making in high and low stakes evaluation contexts. Findings suggest that high stakes political environments are more likely than low stakes environments to lead to reduced reliance on technically appropriate measures and increased dependence on measures better reflect the broader political environment.     

“I feel and think,therefore I am”: An Affect-Cognitive Theory of management decisions

I propose an Affect-Cognitive Theory to comprehensively understand how decisions occur in organizations. To this aim, I first review the assumptions of sensemaking and decision-making streams of research, especially the influence of bounded rationality, affective states and their relationships with cognition; then, I integrate them on the common basis of socially situated cognition. This new theory emphasizes the role of affective states in determining/being determined by cognition and its errors, pointing out decision makers’ affect as the result of multi-level adaptations to the physical and social environment. Management decisions are path dependent but not immutable; they, indeed, bank on the predominant feeling resulting from the modifying interactions and regulations of decision makers with their physical and social environment. Here, decision makers are proposed as “emotional cognizers” overcoming the thinking-feeling dichotomy that has often featured in the study of management decisions. This theory is beneficial for behavioral strategy, offering the needed assumptions to intertwine human cognition, emotions, and social behavior.     

如何当好项目经理

项目经理是项目管理的核心 ,项目经理的素质、知识和管理水平 ,是工程建设项目的实施管理的关键 ,责权利的协调一致则是项目经理负责制的根本保证     

实施股票期权的障碍分析

目前 ,在我国实施股票期权存在着认识上的障碍、法规的冲突和缺失以及操作上的诸多困难。这些问题产生的根本原因在于转轨时期我国公司治理结构和治理机制本身的制度性缺陷 ,也同我国特定的社会经济条件和历史文化传统相关     

当代马克思主义研究的"后学困厄"及其实践超越

后现代主义与马克思主义的邂逅与牵手,究竟是为马克思主义开辟了诸多自我生成之域并赢得了全面性胜利,还是造成了它的意义放任、思想低迷并陷入合法化危机?面对后现代主义的质疑和拷问,当代马克思主义研究应执行一种退行性的收敛、紧缩策略抑或是一种积极的扩张、开放计划?时下,关于此类问题的论争,至少有两点已初见分晓:(1)后现代主义与马克思主义的暂时性合拍,其实对双方而言,都试图实现某种层次上的跃进.(2)"后现代马克思主义"是反马克思主义的同义语,马克思主义当代价值的自我彰显和自我生成,压根无须借助任何"后"学的添加和补充,而是在深入生活、参与实践变革中完成的.     

改进灰色预测在油田多目标规划决策中的应用

建立了S油田勘探、开发、炼化、机械、公用工程等多个部门和全局的非线性多级目标优化规划模型,应用关联分析、改进灰色预测、回归分析求取规划模型的约束方程并线性化;编制了相应的计算软件,使之快速预测和优化油田各部门“九五”各年的投资和产值;并将优化结果与油田过去或计划值加以对比,给油田规划决策带来一定的参考。     

全力支持河套大学人才培养水平评估 构建巴彦淖尔完善的国民教育体系

10月份,教育部将组织专家组对河套大学进行人才培养工作水平评估,对河套大学而言,这既是机遇也是挑战。经过21年的发展,河套大学取得了可喜的成绩。通过这次评估,河套大学要理清思路、深化改革,认真整改,迈向新高。教育行政部门大力支持对河套大学人才培养水平评估,支持河套大学的发展。     

Decision analysis for practical negotiation application

The family of decision analysis techniques can be applied effectively to support practical negotiators in international settings. These techniques are most appropriate in support of the prenegotiation phase, when parties are diagnosing the situation, assessing their own plans and strategies, and evaluating likely reactions and outcomes. The paper identifies how these approaches have and can be used to assist negotiation practitioners, offers a rationale for the application of decision analytic approaches in terms of the particular analytical requirements of the prenegotiation period, suggests how these process-oriented tools can be integrated with substantive tools, and discusses ways in which these tools can be presented and delivered to practitioners in a practical and confidence-building manner.     

The econometrics of female labor supply and children

This is a survey of applied econometric research on the effects of children on female labor supply. Reasons for interest in the topic, and a basic model and terminology, are reviewed. Concerns are raised about the possible endogeneity of child status variables, and about the instrumental variables approach for dealing with this problem. Alternative ways of conceptualizing and estimating child status effects are considered, together with selected empirical evidence. Relevant developments from the household demand literature are summarized. Basic issues of model choice are also discussed.     

职业教育的困境与出路

分析了面对职业教育发展的困境,从学校的角度提出要笑迎困难,振奋精神,积极开展创业培训,才会有更好的发展前景。