Use of Redundant Industrial Buildings as Injections into the Cultural Sector in Norway

Prime aim is to examine the way the culture sector reuses industrial buildings to instigate cultural activities in the municipalities. The discussion of various actors’ motivation for engagement is based on results from a case study, supplemented with findings from a coarse-meshed telephone survey. At national level overarching political guidelines can be traced back to white papers concerning cultural policy, urban transformation and cultural heritage, and the municipalities’ cultural policies mirror these guidelines. What tends to decide if such initiatives are considered successful are local abilities to cross sectorial divisions and instigate cooperation between municipal planners, private entrepreneurs and NGOs.     

Global product development projects: measuring performance and monitoring the risks

Abstract

This article investigates the development and application of key performance indicators for global product development. Two in-depth, longitudinal case studies with multinational Danish manufacturing companies were conducted, and highlight how key performance indicators, typically used for collocated, cross-functional product development, do not provide the predictive insight required to avoid the additional risks encountered in the global product development environment. Grounded in the case study results and building on established methodologies in performance measurement literature, a framework was developed and validated in two additional Danish companies to support project managers to develop: preventive indicators, which support the avoidance of identified risks, and outcome indicators, which support the measurement towards the attainment of project objectives. The study is unique as it is one of the very few longitudinal studies of engineering design activities in a global context, providing the in-depth contextual understanding towards key risks and their influence on performance; an important step to support researchers and practitioners with the development of preventive measures.     

No Room for Respectability: Boundary Work in Interaction at a Shanghai Rental

This article examines the dramaturgical challenges of doing boundary work for a group of college women living with non‐college women at an overcrowded rental. To regulate tenant conduct and maintain their sense of self‐worth, the college women engaged in defensive othering and constructed their identity as “high‐quality” people on the basis of their characterization of their less‐educated roommates as “low‐quality” people. Their strategy of gaining self‐worth at their roommates' expense violated basic rules of social interaction that require participants to give face to gain face. This study shows that, in addition to weakening group solidarity and reproducing social inequalities, defensive othering also undermines subordinates' effort to gain self‐worth in the co‐presence of other subordinates. A video abstract is available at http://tinyurl.com/yath4o65     

Piloting different approaches to personalised offender management in the English criminal justice system

Various approaches to personalisation are well-established in the UK social care sector and are now starting to ‘travel’ to other sectors. In this paper we report findings from an evaluation of a pilot to test elements of personalisation in the management of offenders in probation services within the English criminal justice system. Following a review of evidence from social care, three different approaches to personalised-practice were developed and tested on a small-scale in three separate sites. The evaluation finds that all three approaches were implemented reasonably successfully, but challenges were identified including that personalised approaches are more time-consuming, that staff need support to exercise professional discretion and that balancing greater choice with managing criminogenic risk requires new ways of conceptualising the relationship between case manager and service user. Overall, ‘deeper’ approaches to personalisation, such as co-production, will take time to emerge. This paper makes two important contributions to the debate on personalisation in public services. First, it addresses the question of how transferable the concept of personalisation is from the social care sector to other sectors in the UK, in this case the criminal justice system. Secondly, it outlines a methodology for developing and evaluating personalisation pilots, prior to a wider roll-out.     

我国新型农民合作社的形态、功能及其发展

按照性质不同,我国的农民合作社可划分为新型农民合作社和传统农民合作社两大类型.新型农民合作社的基本功能是农户间的团结协作和互利互惠,它有利于促进农业产业化经营;抵御农业经营风险;实现农民共同富裕;推进农村民主政治建设.从我国的情况看,在发达国家农业产业化经营的三种模式--综合型模式、合同型模式和合作社型模式中,合作社型模式更适合我国的农业产业化经营.由于当前在发展新型农民合作社中存在的,诸如合作的认识不够明确、合作的环境不够优良、合作的机制不够完善的问题,这需要通过教育普及国际公认的合作经济理论和实务知识;尽快出台<农村资金合作社法>,明确各类农民合作社的主管部门;建立、健全合作社"三会"制度及议事规则.     

试论高校教师管理激励机制的健全与完善

激励是高校教师管理工作的核心。在高校管理中通过采取一系列有效措施,建立健全科学的教师管理激励机制,对于高校的发展具有至关重要的作用。目前我国的一些高校管理部门在对教师的激励手段、方式和措施等方面还存在一些问题和不足,激励机制有待于进一步完善。因此,必须针对存在的问题,采取科学的、切实可行的对策和措施,进一步健全和完善高校教师管理中的激励机制,使其更好地发挥自身的作用。     

企业人本管理理念在高校教师管理中的应用

企业人本管理理念已成为世界高等教育管理改革的潮流,人本管理有五个层次,即情感管理、民主管理、自主管理、人才管理、文化管理,这五个层次的人本管理同样也适用于高校教师管理。从这五个层次出发如何实施高校教师的人本管理,进而充分调动教师的积极性、主动性和创造性,对现代化高校的建设和发展具有重要的意义。     

食品科学与工程专业创新型科研团队的建设与管理

食品科学与工程专业创新型科研团队是我国食品工业科技创新的主力军,科研团队的建设是非常重要的环节。通过分析食品科学与工程专业创新型科研团队建设的现状及组建中存在的问题,提出了相应的建设与管理对策。     

锦州市区民营口腔医疗机构调查

目的：了解新医改背景下锦州市民营口腔医疗机构的资源状况。方法：通过调查问卷、现场采访等方式,以民营口腔医疗机构的负责人和口腔医生为调查对象,对锦州市区民营口腔医疗机构进行走访。结果：锦州市没有民营口腔医院,84个民营诊所拥有213台椅位,从业口腔专科医生186人。结论：个体诊所分布广泛,口腔业务量较大,占有一定市场份额;口腔诊所规模较小,医生素质偏低,专业化程度不高;民营口腔市场潜力较大,民营口腔机构也将成为口腔专业毕业生的一个重要就业渠道。