Power and Pay: The Politics of CEO Compensation

This paper examines CEO compensation, with an emphasis on the power of CEOs to influence their own compensation by managing the compensation process. It analyzes the CEO's power over the board of directors and the political tactics used by the CEO to manage the board and its compensation decisions. An empirical examination of CEO compensation in 203 large American manufacturing firms in 1985 illustrates the effect of CEO power on compensation and the flexibility available to the CEO in establishing the legitimacy of compensation. The implications of this perspective for management control of corporations and for CEO compensation research are considered.     

Developing social work education in Lithuania

From 1991 through 1998, during the turmoil of independence and transition to a democracy and free-market economy, the authors established the first social work education programme in Lithuania and assisted Lithuanian professionals to assume responsibility for the programme. This article supplies an initial general and conceptual narrative and analyses some of the factors that influenced the development of the programme and a practice model to address conditions in Lithuania.     

走进麦德布利书店

麦德布利这个名字,在埃及知识界可谓无人不知、无人不晓.他所创建的麦德布利书店更是声名远播.但凡来到开罗的阿拉伯知识分子和对阿拉伯书籍感兴趣的外国人,绝少有不光顾这家书店的.而对于中国人来说,近几十年在埃及留学、深造的学生和学者,恐怕也不会对它感到陌生.前不久,我终于有了头一回去埃及的机会.行前北京外国语大学的国少华教授就在电话里一再叮嘱:"咱们怎么也得腾出一天工夫去书店啊."我说:"好,要去就去麦德布利."     

通识教育与大学生幸福人生的构建

当下,幸福作为一种教育文化被众多学者引入学校,通识教育成为培育大学生幸福人生的一个重要路径。通识教育的功能重在教化,即通过通识课程使学生树立正确的信仰、价值观、人生观、世界观等,使学生对人类文明的丰富性和多样性有深切的体验与感受,能够在与自然、与自己对话的过程中体验到幸福。让大学生过上一种幸福而完整的教育生活,关键是＂以人为本＂的办学理念在办学实践中的落实,当务之急是在大学通识教育中加强生命教育、人文教育和创新教育。     

设计视野下的陕西旅游工艺品的开发

陕西旅游工艺品市场的旅游工艺品多停留在朴素的设计层面上,有限的种类和老套的工艺已无法满足现代旅游消费者的需求,也影响了旅游产品的提高文章从设计学角度论述了陕西旅游工艺品市场存在的缺陷,提出了陕西旅游工艺品开发的类型和设计的要求。     

Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences

We design experiments to jointly elicit risk and time preferences for the adult Danish population. Since subjects are generally risk averse, we find that joint elicitation provides estimates of discount rates that are significantly lower than those found in previous studies and more in line with what would be considered as a priori reasonable rates. The statistical specification relies on a theoretical framework that involves a latent trade‐off between long‐run optimization and short‐run temptation. Estimation of this specification is undertaken using structural, maximum likelihood methods. Our main results based on exponential discounting are robust to alternative specifications such as hyperbolic discounting. These results have direct implications for attempts to elicit time preferences, as well as debates over the appropriate domain of the utility function when characterizing risk aversion and time consistency.     

Identifying Male College Students' Perceived Health Needs,Barriers to Seeking Help,and Recommendations to Help Men Adopt Healthier Lifestyles

Abstract

Seven focus groups at a university campus were formed to identify college men's health concerns, barriers to seeking help, and recommendations to help college men adopt healthier lifestyles. Content analysis was used to identify and organize primary patterns in the focus-group data. Results of the study revealed that the college men were aware that they had important health needs but took little action to address them. The participants identified both physical and emotional health concerns. Alcohol and substance abuse were rated as the most important issues for men. The greatest barrier to seeking services was the men's socialization to be independent and conceal vulnerability. The most frequently mentioned suggestions for helping men adopt healthier lifestyles were offering health classes, providing health information call-in service, and developing a men's center. Implications of the results are discussed.     

Museums as agencies of neocolonialism in a postmodern world

In this article I describe an attempt by a large state museum to engage a plurality of voices and to adopt a new posture of representation in its programmes and exhibitions. In the process however, encumbered with its very institutional nature, of which it made little acknowledgement, it continued to silence much of the plurality to which it hoped to give voice. In the end the museum's discourse of representation of the ‘other’ fundamentally altered very little from its historical posture. I have identified three themes of the colonial heritage of the museums that I suggest encapsulate essential, but not exclusive, dimensions of their hegemony. These are the themes of containment, objectification, and reduction.

As we produce the official explanations, we reproduce the official ideology . . . We are a part of the records that we keep (Spivak 1987: 108).     

A short‐form scale to measure sexual discord in dyadic relationships

This paper presents a new short‐form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree or magnitude of a problem in the sexual component of a dyadic relationship, as seen by the respondent. The scale was designed for use in repeated administrations at periodic intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate their clients' response to treatment. Internal consistency and test‐retest reliability were found to be in excess of .90, and the scale has a discriminant validity coefficient of .76.