Religion,truth, national identity and social meaning: The example of Northern Ireland

This article argues that national identity is closely bound up with religion, which in turn is closely bound up with ideas of truth. Different religions will form and transmit different ideas of truth, both moral and cognitive, and transmit them and socialise their members in to holding them. From this a socially exclusive group is formed, which becomes one basis for a nation. This nation becomes morally and cognitively exclusive of non-religious members since they will hold different truths and so cannot be trusted, they cannot be ‘loyal and true’. Ireland and Northern Ireland provide a classic example of this, where Catholic and Protestant were the mediums for transmitting Romantic or Enlightenment versions of the truth and so provided a basis for opposed ideas of nation.     

Integrating Behavioral Science with Human Factors to Address Process Safety

ABSTRACT

Applying the science of human factors to eliminate error across all aspects of process design, management, operation, and maintenance has been a focus in the process safety area for many years. Human error has been attributed as a major cause of many high profile catastrophic accidents around the world. These accidents have resulted in national and international attention, which has led to a focus on improving organizational capabilities, systems, and in many cases, governmental regulations around human factors. This article provides a review of the field of human factors highlighting various topics in the literature, and introduces governmental regulatory bodies currently engaging organizations in a scientific approach to human factors. Finally, the need for integrating behavioral science methodologies with human factors is addressed. This is done with specific focus on how Organizational Behavior Management methodologies can work in concert with human factors to optimize process safety.     

A bibliometric analysis of operations research and management science

Bibliometric analysis is the quantitative study of bibliographic material. It provides a general picture of a research field that can be classified by papers, authors and journals. This paper presents a bibliometric overview of research published in operations research and management science in recent decades. The main objective of this study is to identify some of the most relevant research in this field and some of the newest trends according to the information found in the Web of Science database. Several classifications are made, including an analysis of the most influential journals, the two hundred most cited papers of all time and the most productive and influential authors. The results obtained are in accordance with the common wisdom, although some variations are found.     

基于熵权法的科学技术评价模型及其实证研究

以“坚持以人为本,全面、协调、可持续”的科学发展观内涵为指导思想,通过科技指标的海选、筛选和理性分析构建了科技综合评价指标体系。用熵权法客观地对评价指标进行赋权,建立了基于熵权法的中国“十五”期间的科学技术发展状况评价模型,并给出了“十一五”期间科技发展政策建议。研究特色有五：①根据国际关注、又好又快、可持续发展和以人为本的原则建立指标体系,使科学技术的评价反映科学发展观的要求;②通过熵权法客观地确定指标权重,避免了人为主观确定权重的随意性;③利用熵权法确定的熵值,确保了仅用24个指标反映了95．5％以上的原始信息;④通过对影响科学技术整体效果的准则层进行评价,有助于找出科技发展各环节存在的问题;⑤通过对中国“十五”期间科技发展中的主要问题的分析,给出了“十一五”期间中国科技发展的政策建议。     

我国科技合作项目管理机制的缺陷分析与改进对策

为解决我国科技管理部门对科技合作项目管理流于形式的问题,结合科技计划项目的发展趋势,阐述了完善科技合作项目管理机制的必要性,并通过分析指出现行管理机制中存在法律法规不健全和监控、评估机制不完善的缺陷。最后,从项目管理全过程视角提出了对科技合作项目实施科学管理及提高管理效率的对策。     

管理学基础研究的理性信息人假设与势科学理论

基于中国文化的管理学情景依赖表现在2个方面:其一,人性假设的多维性、立体性和对称性,即信息人假设:信息人生存于货币、权力、知识、情感、艺术、虚拟抽象6维信息势(场)空间,信息势的持续增长达到了非线性作用的临界值,所以,信息人社会既是创新社会又是风险社会。其二,管理过程的整体抽象性,最具代表性的是老子的势成之理论:宇宙演化与社会发展是由不同层次上的势推动的,真空势推动了宇宙暴涨,量子势是量子化的唯一缘由,化学势、生物势是化学反应和生物成长的根本动力,信息势则是人才成长和组织发展的动力之源。管理学实现创新应对风险的根本战略就是生产更多的信息量、营造更大的信息势。     

基于特化系数的我国区域科技投入结构演变分析

在从跟随模仿向自主创新战略转变的背景下,政府科技投入已经成为战略性公共资源。本文运用特化系数测算了1999年至2006年我国八大经济区科技投入来源结构与执行结构的演变。研究结果表明:1999年至2006年,我国科技投入来源结构呈现出从政府主体向企业主体转变的趋势,南部沿海和东部沿海企业来源资金实现了从非特化向特化的转变;科技投入执行结构呈现出从大中型企业和科研机构双主体向企业单主体转变的趋势,南部沿海企业执行资金实现了从非特化向特化的转变。     

自然科学知识的积累对电子元器件产业发展的影响

假设研究活动存在与产品生命周期中的市场扩大现象相似的活跃化现象,按照时间序列对电子元器件领域的评审论文篇数和注册专利件数的增减情况进行了分析。由分析结果可知:在市场真正产生前,评审论文篇数和注册专利件数剧增;同时,在这些剧增的论文和专利中,有很多研究给商品化和商业化带来了巨大影响。这些与商品化和商业化有关的信息,不仅包括对产品制造业有用的信息,而且还包括对支撑产品制造业的设备产业同样有用的信息。因此,将本分析法作为考量新事业进入机会的客观方法推荐给大家。     

“管理学”断想

什么是管理学?具体到中国的环境下,"管理"是不是"学"?此问题同科学、知识、学科这3个词汇紧密相关。严格意义上的学科之"学"后缀为-o logy,此意义的管理学,不论中外并未形成,且很可能无法形成;科学意义上的管理学,已经形成或正在形成,在成熟程度上学界判断有差别;知识意义上的管理学,古代就有丰富积淀,学界公认现在已经形成。管理学界的讨论,需要对这种区别进行辨析,才能进一步讨论管理区域性和管理哲学等问题。