The Ideology of Communication

chinese and Western people do not communicate in the same way. Even if a foreigner is fluent in Chinese, or if a Chinese is fluent in English, miscommunication and misunder-standings     

Mummy Is the Word

China is always full of surprises.My foreign friends who come here discover things that shock and startle them,but they all agree that their wonder and respect for China never cease.The     

The Australian Government's Affirmative Action Legislation: Achieving Social Change Through Human Resource Management*

Data from the Affirmative Action Agency Public Reports and the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey were used to review progress in the implementation of the Australian Government's Affirmative Action legislation and to examine the relationship between following mandatory procedures and achieving outcomes that impact positively on women's workforce experiences. The data suggest that while a relationship exists at the bivariate level, it becomes considerably weaker when organizational and workforce characteristics are controlled. The variables that emerged from the analyses as strong predictors of both procedural compliance and the adoption of accommodating practices for women centered around human resource management. Where companies were committed to human resource management, both procedural compliance and accommodating practices tended to be high. These data demonstrate the importance of linking legislation for social change with workplace functions, particularly when resistance to the legislation is high and capacity to enforce is low.     

Cultural Challenges for Foreign Teachers

As an educator and linguist, I often feel that foreign teachers of English as a Second Language(ESL) misunderstand their Chinese students. Clearly, throughout history, around the globe, there has always existed the teacher-student relationship. It is an archetypal human     

Hot Stuff

<正>I’ve always enjoyed the vast diversity of Chinese cuisine.I travel frequently,and everywhere that I go,I find each region in China has its own specialties regarding food.As the famous French anthropologist     

Ways of Talking

<正>Chinese and Western people have different communication styles. Many Western friends label Chinese "inscrutable." My foreign friends say the way Chinese talk, how they formulate and deliver their thoughts, seems indirect and obscure.     

Does Institutional Structure Effect Public Health Expenditures?

This paper explores supply‐side costs and institutional structure in a shared authority state public health system. It is found that in a shared governance public health system, intermediary district structure influences the movement of limited resources to serve populations and persons most in need. This early empirical test suggests that policy making and public administration concerning public health expenditures in a shared governance system are in a practical sense local, but decisions made at the intermediary level by regional district administration are an important influence on local public health expenditures.