A review of the Chinese cultural influences on Chinese enterprise management

In order to create and sustain competitive advantage, a company should not only develop technologies to create products and processes that meet customer needs, but also stimulate a corporate culture that commits to continuous performance improvement. Managing corporate culture is one of a number of important factors that make for organizational change and business success. This paper reviews the cultural roots and identifies the characteristics of Chinese cultural values and management. A comparative analysis of the differences between Anglo-American and Chinese cultures is made. The cultural influences on Chinese management systems are then elaborated with reference to enterprise management in Mainland China and Hong Kong. With unique cultural heritage, collective orientation has a pervasive influence on the mode of Chinese management and organization. The prevailing Chinese culture values stress largely the paternalistic approach to management, acceptance of hierarchy and the importance of relationships. Today's Chinese enterprises need to determine changes in practice or value or both aspects of corporate culture in order to facilitate organizational change and maintain a competitive edge over their rivals. The paper also discusses the links of cultural values to employee involvement (EI) and total quality management (TQM), and initiates a need to manage cultural influences on EI/TQM practices to improve organizational performance in Chinese enterprises.     

非机类工程制图与机械基础系列课程教学改革

为适应科技发展对人才培养的要求 ,以郑州轻工业学院为主的几所高校在“非机类专业工程制图与机械基础系列课程教学内容及课程体系”方面进行了一系列的改革 ,建立了新的课程体系。新体系打破了原有的学科界线 ,以设计为主线 ,吸收新的科技成果 ,将《画法与机械制图》、《机械设计基础》和《计算机绘图》等相关课程有机融合在一起。实践证明 ,这样做节省了学时 ,增加了课程信息量 ,避免了课程内容不必要的重复 ,有利于提高学生的综合素质 ,促进教学、科研、生产相结合。     

Not for Bread Alone—Motivation Among Hospital Employees in Singapore

Through a series of interviews and a literature review this paper uncovers the key sources of motivation among employees in hospitals in Singapore. The study examines the use of several non-monetary rewards Singaporean managers can rely on to motivate their employees in service industries. One vital finding of this study is that there should be value congruence and person/environment-fit.     

Population movement in the Asia Pacific region: Singapore perspective

"This article [is] structured to give some brief overview of the trends and characteristics of population movement in the Asia Pacific region. Wherever relevant, the implications of these regional and global trends for Singapore will be highlighted to offer a better appreciation of its case study. This will touch on Singapore's own experiences of outflow and inflow of people and its policies and philosophy on such movement. Noted are implications on labor policy arising from Singapore's strategy to become a capital exporter and anchor itself in economies like China."     

二叉树模型用于可转换公司债券定价

可转换公司债券兼具债券、股票和期权3个方面的部分特征,再加上可转债的赎回条款和回售条款,使其定价更为复杂.利用二叉树模型,给出了附有赎回条款和回售条款的可转债的定价方法,分析了赎回条款和回售条款对可转债的影响.     

加强学术团队建设促进学科持续发展

学科队伍建设是学科建引进学术带头人,鼓励和支持学术带头人组成学术团队,实施政策与利益导向,完善考核与激励机制,强化学术团队的形成和发展,创建和谐的团队氛围是促进学术团队建设的良好方法.     

Modeling road traffic crashes with zero-inflation and site-specific random effects

Zero-inflated count models are increasingly employed in many fields in case of “zero-inflation”. In modeling road traffic crashes, it has also shown to be useful in obtaining a better model-fitting when zero crash counts are over-presented. However, the general specification of zero-inflated model can not account for the multilevel data structure in crash data, which may be an important source of over-dispersion. This paper examines zero-inflated Poisson regression with site-specific random effects (REZIP) with comparison to random effect Poisson model and standard zero-inflated poison model. A practical and flexible procedure, using Bayesian inference with Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm and cross-validation predictive density techniques, is applied for model calibration and suitability assessment. Using crash data in Singapore (1998–2005), the illustrative results demonstrate that the REZIP model may significantly improve the model-fitting and predictive performance of crash prediction models. This improvement can contribute to traffic safety management and engineering practices such as countermeasure design and safety evaluation of traffic treatments.     

Estimation methods for time‐dependent AUC models with survival data

The performance of clinical tests for disease screening is often evaluated using the area under the receiver‐operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC). Recent developments have extended the traditional setting to the AUC with binary time‐varying failure status. Without considering covariates, our first theme is to propose a simple and easily computed nonparametric estimator for the time‐dependent AUC. Moreover, we use generalized linear models with time‐varying coefficients to characterize the time‐dependent AUC as a function of covariate values. The corresponding estimation procedures are proposed to estimate the parameter functions of interest. The derived limiting Gaussian processes and the estimated asymptotic variances enable us to construct the approximated confidence regions for the AUCs. The finite sample properties of our proposed estimators and inference procedures are examined through extensive simulations. An analysis of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) 175 data is further presented to show the applicability of the proposed methods. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 38:8–26; 2010 © 2009 Statistical Society of Canada     

Construction of the nearest neighbor embracing graph of a point set

This paper gives optimal algorithms for the construction of the Nearest Neighbor Embracing Graph (NNE-graph) of a given point set V of size n in the k-dimensional space (k-D) for k = 2,3. The NNE-graph provides another way of connecting points in a communication network, which has lower expected degree at each point and shorter total length of connections with respect to those using Delaunay triangulation. In fact, the NNE-graph can also be used as a tool to test whether a point set is randomly generated or has some particular properties. We show that in 2-D the NNE-graph can be constructed in optimal time in the worst case. We also present an time algorithm, where d is the -th largest degree in the utput NNE-graph. The algorithm is optimal when . The algorithm is also sensitive to the structure of the NNE-graph, for instance when , the number of edges in NNE-graph is bounded by for any value g with . We finally propose an time algorithm for the problem in 3-D, where d and are the -th largest vertex degree and the largest vertex degree in the NNE-graph, respectively. The algorithm is optimal when the largest vertex degree of the NNE-graph is .