企业工会干部需要掌握的经营管理知识

为了实施民主管理、构建和发展和谐劳动关系，企业工会干部需要掌握企业经营管理方面的知识。企业生产经营活动的主线是：生产出市场所需要的商品并把商品卖给市场。与之相应，企业存在两个核心经营管理领域：企业投资方向，解决“企业干什么”的问题；企业经营计划，解决“企业如何干”的问题。这两方面是工会干部最需要掌握的经营知识。职代会代表、职工董事、职工监事为了履行职权，也需要掌握这两方面的经营知识。     

浅谈工会干部的作风

工会干部应当具有什么样的工作作风呢?我以为工会干部应具有吸引职工、感化职工、带动职工、影响职工、维护职工利益的能力和作风。一、用广博的知识吸引职工,谁具有渊博的知识,谁就对周围的人具有吸引力。这是因为,一方面现在的职工文化素质普遍提高,对工会干部的政治和业务素质要求也越来越高,一个基层工会干部如果知识贫乏,业务上是外行,技术上是无知,就不可能产生吸引力,另一方面,现在职工队伍中青年职工占有越来越大的比重,他们怀有强烈的求知欲望,在学习书本知识和生产、工作实践知识的同时,希望能从职工之家——工会那里吸取更多的营养,在生产以致日常生活、文化娱乐等方面不断丰富自己的知识宝库,我们每一个基层工会干部都应该十分注重知识的积累,扩大自己的     

创建学习型工会组织提高工会干部素质

知识经济越来越多地渗透到企业的生产、经营和管理中,工会组织在新形势下参与企业决策,维护职工的合法权益,其工作中知识含量的要求越来越高,工会必须高度重视,切实抓紧创建学习型工会组织,提高工会干部素质.     

论增强工会活力的内在因素与外部条件

基层工会活力具体表现在两个方面:其一,具有动员和组织职工发挥企业改革和生产经营中的积极性、创造性,以及适应、参与和推动企业改革的能力;其二,具有掌握工会工作主动权,独立自主地开展工会工作的能力。长期以来,基层工会缺乏活力的原因主要的还是工会内部机关化、行政化倾向的影响,以及不能理顺党政各方面的关系,压抑了基层工会的积极性和创造性的发挥。因此,要增强基层工会的活力,就要有一个良好的内在因素和必要的外部条件。作为工会组织要增强活力必须解决好自身的问题,努力下功夫抓好以下几个环节: 1.努力提高工会干部的素质。要做好工会工作,必须有一支不辞辛苦,努力工作,能力强、素质高的干部队伍,而要建立这样一支干部队伍,就要加强对工会干部的教育,并把重点放在岗位培训上,不断提高业务能力和工作能力,提高工会干部的思想政策水平,不断用马克思主义的立场观点方法分析解决工会工作出现的新问题,认识掌握工会工作规律,     

关于维护企业工会干部合法权益的思考

最近,广东龙达集团公司原工会副主席杨观趣因对关系职工利益的问题提出不同意见而遭除名。广州市花都区朗盛水产养殖场工会主席陈传力因维护职工权益惹怒老板,被“安排”下岗。广东这两起工会主席因维权而被砸“饭碗”的侵权事件带给人们一个沉重的话题,那就是企业职工群众的合法权益由工会来维护,而企业工会干部的合法权益由谁来维护呢?企业工会干部应同样得到维权企业工会干部是职工群众利益的代言人和维护者,但工会干部人事组织关系和工资福利都在企业,有的还要与老板签订劳动合同,其命运很大程度上掌握在老板手中,在工会干部与企业老板…     

推动厂务公开向生产经营管理领域延伸和发展

厂务公开在发动职工参与企业民主决策、民主管理、民主监督，依靠职工办好企业中，取得了明显成效。现在问题的关键不仅是要提高厂务公开的覆盖率，更重要的是要在巩固、深化、求实效上下功夫。实践证明，厂务公开要想取得实效并深入持久地坚持下去，必须紧紧围绕企业的中心工作，使其成为促进企业改革和发展的内在要求，努力向生产经营管理领域延伸和发展。 　　一、推动厂务公开向生产经营管理领域延伸和发展，是企业全体职工的共同需要。 　　紧紧围绕企业改革发展稳定的大局，推动厂务公开向生产经营管理领域延伸和发展，既是企业经营…     

把全心全意依靠工人阶级思想落到实处

全心全意依靠工人阶级,不仅需要提高思想认识,而且应该根据当前情况,切实解决存在的问题,以便在政治上、组织上和制度上得到体现,并落实到具体政策和实际工作中去。当前,应注意解决几个问题: 1.要全面贯彻《企业法》,正确处理好厂长(经理)的中心地位与职工的主人翁地位的关系。《企业法》规定在企业中实行厂长负责制,厂长处于中心地位,并依法对企业的生产经营管理负有全面责任。明确厂长的权利和义务,完善企业管理机制,是为了建立起一个统一的、高效率的管理体制,但《企业法》在规定厂长的中心地位的同时,也明确规定“国家保障职工的主人翁地位”,这是由我们国家的性质和工人阶级的地位决定的。但是,有的厂长错误地认为     

浅论基层工会工作重点

基层工会干部面临工作多、兼职多与人手少的矛盾,只有抓住重点才能赢得工作主动权。工会工作的重点有二:维护职工合法权益;团结带领职工积极投身于全面小康社会建设。维护职工合法权益要解决职工最关心、最直接、最现实的利益问题。调动职工积极性,工会要为职工竭诚服务,工会干部应当成为立足岗位建功立业的带头人。     

工会干部“五忌”

一忌“窄”。知识单一,信息闭塞,思路狭窄,只懂业务知识,对其他知识知之甚少。身为工会干部既要精通业务知识,还要关心涉猎汲取其他方面的知识,懂经营,善管理,晓法律,会公关,不断拓宽自己的知识面,一专多能,避免说外行话,当“门外汉”,以“识”树威,以“为”立位,提高参政议政质量。二忌“虚”。作风不实,走马观花,喜欢形式主义,作表面文章,对基层的情况一知半解心中无数。工会干部作为职工的代言人,要心系职工,扎根基层,善于倾听职工的呼声,掌握第一手资料,真心实意为职工解决问题。三忌“软”。瞻前顾后,畏首畏尾,怕丢位子,怕穿“小鞋”,…     

来稿摘登

对职工代表大会基本职权如何定位的思考四川省锦阳市总工会陈祖勇撰文,对当前民主管理立法的有关问题提出看法。文中指出,对职工代表大会基本职权的设置具体可以从以下几个方面来认识。一是知情参与权。职工代表大会对年度生产经营和工作计划、企业重大问题、经营管理方向、生产技术革新等重要决策和涉及职工根本利益的问题享有知情参与权。二是审议通     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.     

Women,Science and Culture: Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical

The Victorian periodical press offers unique insights into many diverse areas of nineteenth-century experience, and the complex relations between gender, science and culture in particular, yet it has been consistently marginalized as a primary resource in academic study. The Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical (SciPer) project at the universities of Sheffield and Leeds is creating a new point of access to a wide range of non-specialist periodicals across the century by means of a fully searchable electronic index. By detailing the entire contents of each journal, and not just those articles that have a clear scientific relevance, it becomes clear that science formed a fundamental and integral part of nineteenth-century culture. The electronic index, moreover, will include hypertext cross-reference links that will allow the user to identify a dialogic pattern of encounters between ostensibly diverse articles, rather than only to browse in a simple chronological mode. By adopting this innovative approach, the SciPer database will reveal the manifold intertextual relations between the fictional works of women writers like Elizabeth Gaskell and the scientific articles that often appeared in the pages of the same magazines, and will show that writers of both sexes and across several different genres actively engaged in vibrant interdisciplinary debates concerning scientific issues in a forum provided by the periodical. Although the SciPer database itself is not specifically focused on issues of gender, the index will include several periodicals aimed explicitly at a female readership and, by providing access to titles still rarely utilized in modern scholarship, it will offer further insights into the important contemporary debates about women and science, as well as the more subtle ways, in which gendered imagery was employed within scientific discourse. This article details some critical findings from Punch , The English Womans Domestic Magazine , Cornhill Magazine and the Review of Reviews .     

Carnal teachings: raunch aesthetics as queer feminist pedagogies in Yo! Majesty's hip hop practice

This essay puts forward a notion of “raunch aesthetics,” theorizing raunch as an aesthetic, performative, and vernacular practice: an explicit mode of sexual expression that transgresses norms of privacy and respectability. Raunch aesthetics describe creative practices that often blend humor and sexual explicitness to launch cultural critiques, generate pleasure for minority audiences, and affirm queer lives. The author activates her formulation of raunch in analyzing Yo! Majesty, a hip hop group comprised of black female emcees who openly describe their sexual desire for women, and explores how the queer youth of color she works with have responded to their music. Working beyond the unexamined moralisms that give critiques of raunch culture their legitimacy, the author argues that Yo! Majesty's raunch aesthetics transmit queer and feminist teachings. While celebrating carnal pleasures, these artists critique heterosexism, subvert narratives about the incompatibility of belief in Christ and queer sexualities, and trouble notions concerning the emancipation of coming out of the closet and declaring a stable homosexual identity. In demonstrating how raunch aesthetics generate consciousness raising, the author discusses how her youth participants critically read and consume hip hop while negotiating unwieldy meanings of sexuality and gender presentation.     

Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law

This article seeks to identify and address the normative void that resides at the heart of postmodernist-feminist theory, and to propose a philosophical framework – beyond postmodernism, but incorporating its central insights – for thinking through the normative questions with which feminists are inevitably confronted in their engagements with positive law. Two varieties of postmodernist-feminism are identified and critically analysed: the ‘corporeal feminism’ of Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, which seeks to ground feminist critical practice in the irruptive capacities of the material body considered as an arte fact of social construction; and the deconstructionist feminism of Drucilla Cornell, for whom ‘the feminine’ is an indeterminate but disruptive force beyond its construction in law and in other social sites. The first component of the argument elaborated here is that each of these approaches ultimately reduces to a form of aestheticism which is incapable of generating a worthwhile and workable feminist approach to the restructuring of politics and law. The second component of the argument involves a return to aesthetics, in particular to the philosophical aesthetics of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Kant’s aesthetic philosophy, it will be suggested, yields a framework of concepts which, duly re-manipulated, could speak to the very concerns that have inspired postmodernist-feminism: how to attend to (bodily) particularity while avoiding the dangers associated with ‘essentialism’; and how to theorise the propensity of the unrepresentable power of the feminine to exceed both embodied human capacities and the confining rein of socially privileged rationalities. Crucially, however it also responds to a set of preoccupations – those of the feminist lawyer – that cannot be accommodated by postmodernism: how to translate embodied experience into (legal) norms; generalise from the particular; seek consensus; and codify an endless potentiality in the form of law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Unexpected: Bionic Woman at the Millennium

Wilfred Bion's A Memoir of the Future provides a point of departure for feminist thinking about the millennium. Bion problematizes hopes for the future and associates thought with catastrophic change. Women play an unexpected role in Bion's experimental autobiography, posing provocative questions and unsettling the status quo . Since Bion has little to say about women in his clinical writings, A Memoir sheds light on his thinking and on the post-Kleinian culture of the 1970s. Book I of A Memoir depicts a class- and sex-nightmare played out between men and women, and women and women, in an age of anxiety whose setting appears to be the fascist 'pacification' of Middle England during an unspecified period. In this hallucinatory drama, all encounters are reduced to a brutal fiction of dominance and submission. The violence of the action suggests the primitive mental world of psychosis. Book II of A Memoir satirizes 'the brilliance of masculine thought' through the voices and criticisms of women. But this is the purgatorial movement of Bion's autobiography, inhabited by 'idées mères' (untransformed beta-elements) and haunted by the ghosts of Bion's traumatic war-time experience. A monstrous plot is hatched to kill primitive, fascistic Man, who retaliates and takes the female spoils. Is this the prelude to catastrophic change? Book III stages a country-house debate between different characters who represent aspects of Bion's personality, recapitulating the concerns of his later writing. The debate includes a meditation on childbirth as compared to war trauma, but Bion takes his distance from feminine intuition or common sense. Women fight on both sides of the barriers in the Bionic revolution - becoming, however, figures for the 'unexpected' and precursors of emotional upheaval. The gendering of millennial thought in Bion's Memoir provides an opportunity to scrutinize our own unthought fantasies of change.     

The Liquefaction of Desire: Music,Water and Femininity in Victorian Aestheticism

This article reconsiders Victorian images of mermaids and sirens through a detailed examination of two images: Frederic Leighton's Lieder ohne Worte (1861, oil on canvas, Tate Britain) and Edward Burne-Jones's The Depths of the Sea (1886, oil on canvas, private collection). It demonstrates that the themes of water, music and femininity were entwined in the Victorian imagination, by setting these two paintings within the context of Victorian artistic, literary and cultural production. It shows that musical images were prevalent in the emerging Aesthetic movement. Musical subjects freed artists and audiences from the conventions of narrative interpretation, and allowed them instead to concentrate on exploring mood and colour.

Pictures of mermaids add a further twist to the Aesthetic preoccupation with music. This article reveals that mermaids made explicit the underlying connection between musical performance and sensuality. It also suggests that the idiosyncratic depiction of the mermaid by Burne-Jones and the ambiguous sexuality of Leighton's figures could be read as symptomatic of changing conceptions of desire. It argues that these images embodied the shift from ardour to libido. In other words, love was no longer described as burning and fixed, but as fluid and shifting. This transformation in the way desire was theorised was most urgently presented in Freud's Three Essays on Sexuality (1905). However, this article suggests that the same ideas were being made visible in Aesthetic art and writing from the mid-nineteenth century.     

Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind

Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame – a set of assumptions – that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greater voice in food production and fairer access to the food produced.     

Here be monsters: a choreomaniac's companion to the danse macabre

Consider this a vade mecum: an invitation to “walk with me” through more or less uncanny terrains of worlds in the making in search, of(f) course, of monsters. The search will be delving into the areas of “creepypasta:” pieces of cursed prose and pictures that circulate online, waiting to contaminate and possess the next reader. Using a theoretical framework of posthuman and feminist theory, not least the work done by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway, this vade mecum asks what it might mean to engage ethically with that which is not supposed to exist, but which haunts us nonetheless. In other words: what does it mean to move, live and engage with spectres in digital times?     

Guessing in the Gaps

The genesis of this conversation was the forthcoming new Penguin edition - under the general editorship of Adam Phillips - of the works of Freud. Mark and Phillips consider the concept of a 'literary' Freud alongside the 'scientific'or 'clinical' Freud, and discuss the related issues of translation, representation and interpretation, particularly as they bear on psychoanalytic writing. Adam Phillips's relationship to the institutions of psychoanalysis is considered, and the perpetuation of these institutions through the training of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Also discussed is the project of psychoanalysis: the nature of psychoanalysis as a therapy as well as a body of ideas. Mark and Phillips make reference to the work of Freud, Lacan, Klein, Winnicott and Laplanche, and to concepts such as the 'enigmatic signifier' and 'transgenerational haunting'.