基于标杆的组织信息化评价-激励模型

组织信息化是一项系统工程,组织信息化评价是这个过程中不可缺少的重要环节。在分析现有组织信息化评价研究的基础上,结合激励理论,探索基于标杆的信息化评价-激励模型。该模型同时将组织信息化评价(反馈)和信息化促进(激励)融为一体,提供可以持续改进的促进组织信息化的机制。     

基于DEA的农业上市公司效率分析

运用数据包络分析法的C2R模型对2002、2003年农业上市公司的综合效率进行分析。研究发现我国农业上市公司平均效率较低,且公司间效率值差距显著;不同年份之间,部分公司效率值波动较大;效率值与各子行业经营方向有关,林业和农产品加工业效率值上升,畜产品加工业和渔业效率值明显下降;资产结构并不是影响公司效率状况的主要因素。     

中国汽车零部件企业生产管理绩效“标高”研究

本文比较中国汽车零部件企业与国际同类企业的生产管理绩效,所用指标主要是劳动生产率、产品质量和在制品库存水平。在此基础上对影响生产管理绩效的内外部因素进行了分析讨论,并对如何改善生产管理绩效提出了一些建议。     

A Comparison of Foster Care Outcomes Across Four Child Welfare Agencies

ABSTRACT

A post-discharge outcomes interview for alumni of foster care was designed by four peer foster care agencies. Across all four agencies, 222 alumni were interviewed six months after being discharged from foster care services. Outcome domains, based on common measurement practices in child welfare and on social validation studies, include type of living environment (e.g., restrictiveness), placement stability, homelessness, school performance, employment, self-sufficiency, aggression, criminal behavior, substance use, relationships, community involvement, protection from harm, satisfaction, and impact of services. Results of the outcomes were compared to nationally sampled studies of children not in care. Generally, alumni reported positive outcomes across the various domains. The type of foster care, length of care, and age of alumni influenced the results. Implications for expanding this study to establish national benchmarks for outcomes, service use, and cost in foster care conclude the article.     

Subgroup identification by recursive segmentation

A new modeling approach called ‘recursive segmentation’ is proposed to support the supervised exploration and identification of subgroups or clusters. It is based on the frameworks of recursive partitioning and the Patient Rule Induction Method (PRIM). Through combining these methods, recursive segmentation aims to exploit their respective strengths while reducing their weaknesses. Consequently, recursive segmentation can be applied in a very general way, that is in any (multivariate) regression, classification or survival (time-to-event) problem, using conditional inference, evolutionary learning or the CART algorithm, with predictor variables of any scale and with missing values. Furthermore, results of a synthetic example and a benchmark application study that comprises 26 data sets suggest that recursive segmentation achieves a competitive prediction accuracy and provides more accurate definitions of subgroups by models of less complexity as compared to recursive partitioning and PRIM. An application to the German Breast Cancer Study Group data demonstrates the improved interpretability and reliability of results produced by the new approach. The method is made publicly available through the R-package rseg (http://rseg.r-forge.r-project.org/).     

Validating a new total quality management‐benchmarking measurement model in an international humanitarian setting

The research aims to empirically validate a multidimensional measure of total quality management (TQM) benchmarking within a humanitarian setting. This study is the first to investigate the dimensionality of the TQM benchmarks as used by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). The proposed four‐dimensional construct for measuring quality lends itself to lean and practical TQM framework for INGOs, allowing them a greater awareness and an appetite for aligning their operations with TQM principles. Utilizing survey data collected from participants working for United Nations agencies in the Middle East, the methodology consisted of a set of literature‐backed quantitative procedures to test the validity of the previously suggested theoretical TQM‐measurement model. An alternate model emerged and revealed that the TQM‐benchmarking measurement model is a four‐factor variate. The implications of the proposed model for implementing lean management practices by INGOs are discussed.     

制造商对供方缺陷改善投资的双源采购决策研究

研究在供需均随机的情况下,面对供应原料存在质量差异的两个供应商,制造商考虑对供方进行缺陷改善投资的双源采购决策问题． 构建了制造商将高质量( 缺陷率低) 供应商作为缺陷改善低质量( 缺陷率高) 供应商的标杆,以求两供应商质量一致的双源采购决策模型． 获得了制造商在先改善投资后订货与同时改善投资和订货两种策略下最优订货量,供应商最优生产量与他们的最优利润． 分析了改善投资成功率对制造商订货量与利润的影响． 研究发现:当改善投资成功率小于1 时,先改善投资再订货时制造商利润比同时改善投资和订货时高; 而改善投资成功率为1 时,两种订货策略没有差异．     

Making Usage Data Meaningful

This article reports the findings of a study of licensed database usage among libraries in the NC LIVE consortium. Researchers developed North Carolina-based library peer groups in order to build context for libraries’ usage data reports and to identify benchmarks and trends across those libraries that are top performers within each group. Additionally, researchers examined the use of selected databases across multiple library types to determine whether certain library characteristics or activities are related to database use. Researchers found that a number of library characteristics and activities predict database use, but the results vary depending upon the type of library and the database studied.     

季度值与年度值衔接与外推问题研究——基于Denton比例法

运用2003--2010年上海市季度生产总值和年度生产总值数据,在BI比率讨论框架下,用Denton比例法解决了季度值与年度值的衔接问题。研究证明：Denton比例法不但使衔接数据满足了年度总值的约束,也最大限度地保留了原始季度值序列的环比变动特征,消除了一般比例分摊法带来的台阶问题。此外,利用Denton比例法外推预测年度值的误差也小于一般比例分摊法,显示了Denton比例法在解决衔接问题时的良好效果。     

高校图书馆实施标杆管理的问题与对策

标杆管理作为在企业管理中运用较好的管理方式也逐渐被广大的图书馆工作者所认同并在实际的管理工作中加以运用,一种合理有效的、可操作性强的标杆管理实施方式可以加快高校图书馆转变管理观念提高服务质量。