Does Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) Really Make a Difference in Collective Bargaining Outcomes?

This study seeks to identify what specific kinds of compromises result from IBB, or interest-based bargaining, and what differentiates agreements that are reached using this method from the ones that are negotiated through more traditional forms of collective bargaining. The authors compare the changes to collective agreements in 19 cases that used interest-based bargaining and the changes to agreements in 19 cases that used more traditional forms of negotiation. Their analysis reveals that clauses dealing with joint governance and organizational innovation underwent more changes when the parties adopted the IBB approach. In addition, IBB has given rise to more union concessions.     

论系统论阈下的和谐社会蕴涵

建设和谐社会是中国共产党在新世纪加强党的执政能力建设的重大战略目标,对“和谐社会”这一概念内涵的深层次的探究具有重大的现实意义。我国要建设的社会主义和谐社会,从社会系统论的角度来看,其深层次的本质特征应是:多样性的和谐,静态的平衡与系统动态的协调优化,开放性的自组织系统。     

La gestion ministérielle et les organismes centraux†

Sommaire. Les relations que doivent établir les gestionnaires des ministères avec les organismes centraux constituent une des composantes importantes de l'administration quotidienne dans le secteur public. Il est certain que ces relations exercent une influence significative sur l'efficacité de la gestion ministérielle. Le ministère des Affaires sociales a étéà l'origine, au cours des dernières années, de plusieurs changements profonds dans certains secteurs de la politique sociale. Il a étéà même de constater è quel point ces relations peuvent conditionner l'efficacité des ministères. L'objet du présent article est précisément de dégager un certain nombre de considérations sur les relations qui s'établissent entre, d'une part, les ministères à vocation de services et les organismes centraux tels la Commission de la fonction publique et le Conseil du trésor, et d'autre part, entre ces mêmes ministères et des ministères qui exercent un rôle de soutien tels les ministères des Trauvaux publics et de l'Approvisionnement, de la Fonction publique, des Communications, et de la Justice. Abstract. The relations that administrators of government departments are required to establish with the central government agencies constitute an important component of day-to-day administrative activities in the public sector. These relations are bound to have an effect on the efficiency of government administration. In recent years the Social Affairs Department has been instrumental in bringing about some far-reaching changes in certain areas of social policy. It has had occasion to determine to what extent these relations affect the efficiency of government departments. The following article offers a number of observations on the relations, on the one hand, between government departments providing direct services to the public and central government agencies, such as the Civil Service Commission and the Treasury Board, and, on the other, between those departments and government departments of a supportive nature, i.e. the Public Works and Supplies Department, the Civil Service Department, the Communications Department and the Justice Department.     

科学发展观的实践意蕴及其实践要求

科学发展观作为一种认识论、辩证法和逻辑体系内在地统一于实践,马克思主义中国化的发展和科学发展观的内涵与基本要求决定科学发展观的本质特征在于实践性.推动科学发展观从理论到实践的转化需要发挥实践理性的媒介作用:解放思想,形成科学发展的思想前提;发挥实践理性的筹划作用,推动科学发展的有序进行;激发出实践主体的创造活力,增强科学发展的强大动力;树立以人为本的"善"的实践价值理念,维护科学发展的正确价值方向.