Career Difficulties That Chinese Academic Journal Editors Face and Their Causes

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Zhiwu Xu ◽  
Dandan Yang ◽  
Bing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Academic Evaluation ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Job Title ◽  
Marginal Status ◽  
Continued Learning

The purpose of this article is twofold: 1) to analyse common career difficulties experienced by academic journal editors in China and explain their causes; and 2) to identify how stakeholders in Chinese scholarly publishing can support editors. Thirty-two academic journal editors were surveyed, and fourteen of those were subsequently interviewed. We found that a deficit of high-quality manuscripts, a large number of laborious tasks at work, limited opportunities for professional advancement, and low job satisfaction were the main career difficulties, of which the two most common were a deficit of high-quality manuscripts and low job satisfaction. The key causes of these difficulties were an unbalanced academic evaluation system that rewarded indexed over non-indexed journals and the marginal status of journal offices at their affiliated institutions. The forms of support most desired by respondents were recognition for their work, salary increases, greater opportunities for continued learning, easier job title promotion, and more scholarly communication with their peers.

Is Professional Commitment The Reason For Turnover Intentions of IT Professionals?

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Mohamed Buhari Mufitha ◽  
Su Teng Lee ◽  
Chen Chen Yong
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Job Satisfactions

Compared to others, professionals share distinguish workplace characteristics: one such is the high commitment to the professions over to working organizations. Information Technology (IT) professionals demonstrate higher turnover rates compared to others: their commitments to the profession has been suspected as a source of turnover. Considering their job satisfactions the present study aimed to investigate the influence of professional commitment on IT professionals’ turnover intentions. Data were collected from a sample of software engineers from Sri Lank using a survey questionnaire. The results of the structural equation model analysis concluded that professional commitment weakens IT professionals’ turnover intentions, which is partially mediated by job satisfaction. Professional commitment stimulates IT professionals’ job satisfaction. The findings challenge the presumption that IT professionals leave their organizations due to high commitments to the profession. Few factors were identified as significant in their job satisfactions: supervision, co-workers and work design. Pay and promotions were the least influencing job satisfaction factors. Managers may employ few strategies in their retention strategies: facilitate professional advancement needs within organizations, closely monitor supervision activities occurs and provide challenging and meaningful jobs. The study contributes to the turnover literature through empirical evidence on the influence of professional commitment on knowledge workers’ turnover intentions.

High-quality work, job satisfaction, and occupational injuries.

2003 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Barling ◽  
E. Kevin Kelloway ◽  
Roderick D. Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
High Quality Work

scholarly journals A Review of Methods for Processing Unstructured Data in the Assessment of Mining Personnel

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 04040
Author(s):  
Anna Barbara ◽  
Alexander Pimonov ◽  
Lyubov Sluder
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Management System ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Expert Performance ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Hr Management

Skilled staff, as well as conditions for their development and motivation, are key conditions for the successful operation of the company. Creation of a high-quality Human Resources (HR) personnel management system would allow to solve this problem. For the achievement of the ultimate goal - the most effective formation and development of the personnel potential of the enterprise requires the creation of conditions for all employees allowing the maximum use and increase of labour potential, as well use of creative abilities and creative thinking. Labour competences and competence evaluation represent real challenges for companies. When modelling a high-quality HR management system, it is important to take into account features such as presence of uncertainty and a large number of unstructured data. When evaluating personnel, the cognitive abilities of the decision-maker are involved and the use of fuzzy cognitive modeling (FCM) seems to be the most promising. In addition, cognitive models allow us to present complex relationships between investigated parameters revealing influence on each other. This paper considers an expert performance evaluation system based on competency model and a fuzzy logic model. The FCM based management personnel system’s is proposed. There are many performance evaluation methods; however, none is universal and common to all companies. This work brings contributions to HR management solutions, finding new ways to apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to processes that typically were performed by humans.

scholarly journals Academic Discourse on the Dualism between Regional Geography and Systematic Geography

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Kanhaiya Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Regional Geography ◽  
New Era ◽  
Academic Evaluation ◽  
Academic Orientation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Debate

This review based article entails that in the history of geography, one of the most exciting philosophical and methodological debates is the dualism between regional and systematic geography. This problem of “universality” and “exceptionality” has caused the biggest methodological debate in the history of geography. It reflects in the dualism of systematic geography and regional geography. Systematic geographers emphasize the pursuit of general principles in geography, while regional schools argue that areas of unique research are at the heart of geography. An analysis of the historical roots and evolution of the controversy shows that although the representatives of the two schools, Hartshorne and Schaefer, at least formally oppose the emphasis on only one of the systems and regions and neglect the other. Their differences in interest, values-induced preferences, and geography of history make them be ultimately different in their regional geography and systematic geography. The “Schaefer-Hartshorne Debate” in the 1980s was the only aftermath of this dualism. Since then, the rise of the pluralism methodology has made this dualism debate gradually fade out of people’s horizons, but postmodern geography focuses on “critical regional research”, which is still essentially a variant of this debate in the new era. The lack of such controversy in our geography community may be due to the academic orientation of “pragmatism”. The academic environment, the academic evaluation system, and the theoretical construction of compromise. This is not conducive to Nepal's geography. It is independent of the world of science.

Academic Evaluation and Grading: An Analysis and Some Proposals

1976 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Huntley
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Grade Inflation ◽  
Grading System ◽  
Grading Practices ◽  
Abc Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Academic Evaluation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Valid Information

The problem of "grade inflation," soaring since the 1960s, has prompted condemnation of current grading practices and calls for reform of the system of academic evaluation. Reformers decry the predominant ABC model of grading, and its offspring the GPA, as failing to convey much valid information about actual student mastery of learning, relative either to peers' achievements or to objective criteria. In this article, John F. Huntley describes the inadequacies of the present grading system and offers a new model, based upon intrinsic rather than extrinsic evaluation. He attempts to root his intrinsic evaluation system in a standard which is more clearcut than the letter-grade model and therefore less subject to grade inflation. After relating how intrinsic evaluation fared in his own classroom practice,he suggests ways in which his approach might be used more widely.

A Fuzzy Set AHP-Based Design for Manufacture Method

2012 ◽  
Vol 548 ◽  
pp. 461-464
Author(s):  
Hong Jun Liu ◽  
Xiao Yan Tong ◽  
Sheng Li Lv
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Design For Manufacturability ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design For Manufacture ◽  
Feedback Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Engineering Effort ◽  
Survival And Growth

In the light of growing global competition, organizations around the world today are constantly under pressure to produce high-quality products at an economical price. The integration of design and manufacturing activities into one common engineering effort has been recognized as a key strategy for survival and growth. Design for manufacturability (DFM) requires product designers to simultaneously consider the manufacturing issues of a product along with the geometrical and design aspects. In this paper, part manufacturability was analyzed in detail. An evaluation system of DFM was proposed. Product design can be guided according to feedback information by evaluating the part manufacturability.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction Among Public and Private Sector College / University Teachers in Lahore

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-118
Author(s):  
Aamir Ali Chughtai
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Quality Teachers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Background & Objectives A high quality teaching staff is the cornerstone of a successful education system. Daily interaction between teachers and students is at the center of the educational process. Attracting and retaining high quality teachers is thus a primary necessity for a strong education system. One step in developing a high quality faculty is to understand the factors associated with teaching quality and retention. One of these factors is job satisfaction. Very often, it is not merely satisfaction with the job, but with the career in general, that is important. With teachers, satisfaction with their careers may have strong implications for student learning. Specifically, a teacher’s satisfaction with his or her career may influence the quality and stability of instruction given to the students. Some researchers argue that teachers who do not feel supported in their work may be less motivated to do their best work in the class- room (Ostroff, 1992; & Ashton & Web, 1986).

scholarly journals A Literature Review of High Quality Development in Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingle Teng
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
China’S Economy

China's economy has entered a new stage of development. High-quality manufacturing development is an important part of the high-quality development of the Chinese economy, and promoting high-quality manufacturing development is a strategic requirement in response to changes in the internal and external situation. This paper reviews and summarizes the important achievements of the research on the high quality development of manufacturing industry in recent years from four perspectives: connotation, path, evaluation system and evaluation of the high quality development of regional manufacturing industry, and points out the shortcomings of the current research.

scholarly journals Lean Path for High-Quality Development of Chinese Logistics Enterprises Based on Entropy and Gray Models

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Huang ◽  
Li ◽  
Wang ◽  
Wang
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Logistics Enterprises ◽  
Order Preference ◽  
Development Evaluation

According to literature review and the data of China’s logistics listed companies, this paper firstly designs the high-quality development evaluation system of logistics enterprises and establishes the panel data model group. Secondly, the method of entropy weight-Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution（TOPSIS method）is used to synthesize and regress the indexes, and obtains that the fitting degree of the model is low, which is caused by the lack of data of some indicators in the logistics enterprises. Due to the gray nature of data information, the improved gray relational model and the three-dimensional gray relational model are constructed to study, in-depth, the strategic focus and breakthrough of high-quality development of Chinese logistics enterprises. The research finds that the innovation and the operation ability of Chinese logistics enterprises are weak, which shows specifically in the following aspects: (1) The irrational structure of the employees, the proportion of employees with a bachelor degree or above is small, and the high-education personnel fail to significantly promote the corporate performance; (2) R&D expenditure has little effect on the high-quality development of enterprises. The proportion of R&D expenses is small and cannot be translated into actual benefits, and the ability of enterprise management innovation is insufficient. According to these findings, this paper gives three lean paths for the high-quality development of China’s logistics enterprises.

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