scholarly journals Developing Language Operative Capacity in a Subsidiary of a German MNC in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Ke Zhao ◽  
Xiaowen Ye ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Thomas Wienold
Keyword(s):  
Global Strategy ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Management ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Technological Capital ◽  
Corporate Language

One of the key challenges of language management in multinational companies is developing corporate language capacities to fulfil business goals. Yet the notion of corporate language capacity remains to be explored and developed in research. To address this gap, this study aims to conceptualise corporate language operative capacity and investigate how it is developed at a German multinational corporation that specialises in providing business software. Participants in this study were six staff members at different levels, namely two vice presidents and four senior managers from different departments. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and document analysis. Qualitative analyses indicated senior management’s conceptualisation of languages as a sophisticated, dynamic and multi-functioning system in support of the company’s global strategy. Developing corporate language operative capacity requires the acquisition, deployment and development of language resources derived from interactions among human capital, social-cultural capital and technological capital. Analyses of the data also identified middle-level management’s role in designing and implementing language-related activities to support the corporate goal of developing corporate language operative capacity

How management accountants exert influence on managers – a micro-level analysis of management accountants’ influence tactics in budgetary control meetings

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Mack ◽  
Lukas Goretzki
Keyword(s):  
Influence Tactics ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Management Accountants ◽  
Remote Management ◽  
Budgetary Control ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Level Analysis

Purpose This paper aims to examine how remote (i.e. global, regional or divisional) management accountants communicate in interpersonal contacts with operational managers when trying to exert influence on them. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic field study focusing on budgetary control meetings between regional management accountants and operational managers is used as the basis for a micro-level analysis of situated face-to-face interactions and communicative influence tactics. Findings Remote management accountants mainly use soft rather than hard influence tactics. They, furthermore, employ what is referred to as “panoramic knowledge” gained explicitly from their structurally as well as physically removed “meta-positioning” to suggest certain measures to operational managers that have proved successful in other units and – by doing so – try to exert influence on these managers. Moreover, they use information that they gain in their position in between senior and operational managers by acting as “double agents” – that is, informing operational managers about senior managers’ focus as well as making transparent to operational managers that they will inform senior management about specific operational matters. By doing so, they try to prompt operational managers to address these issues. Additionally, strengthening their verbally articulated suggestions, as “minute takers” they are able to document their suggestions by moving from spoken to a more binding written text. Through these purposeful and rather unobtrusive tactics, remote management accountants try to take influence on operational managers without generating their resistance. Originality/value The paper shows how remote management accountants (as staff members) can skillfully turn their apparently powerless position within the organization into a source of strength to exert influence on operational managers.

A Descriptive Study About Burnout Syndrome and Obesity in Senior and Middle Managers

2017 ◽  
pp. 219-249
Author(s):  
Aide Aracely Maldonado-Macías ◽  
María del Rocío Camacho-Alamilla ◽  
Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz ◽  
Juan Luis Hernández-Arellano
Keyword(s):  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
World Health ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Capital Development

Burnout syndrome (BS) and obesity have a high economic impact on different fields. This chapter presents a descriptive study of both conditions among middle and senior managers in the maquiladora industry of Ciudad Juarez. The Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey- was administered to six companies. A sample of 361 participants informed their weight and height. Five levels of Burnout were obtained. Obesity was studied according to the World Health Organization criteria. Results found that 29.8% is exempt from BS, 10.5% has low level, 12.9% has a middle level, 28.2% a fairly level and 18.5% an extreme level of BS. In addition, 34% of the sample suffers from some degree of obesity. Work psychosocial aspects and their effects on human capital development in the industrial sector are not sufficiently studied in developing countries so that to develop strategies for the prevention and effective handling of both BS and obesity.

scholarly journals Text Analytics in Bulgarian: An Overview and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Gloria Hristova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Research ◽  
Text Analytics ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Development Of Language

Abstract Text analytics is becoming an integral part of modern business and economic research and analysis. However, the extent to which its application is possible and accessible varies for different languages. The main goal of this paper is to outline fundamental research on text analytics applied on data in Bulgarian. A review of key research articles in two main directions is provided – development of language resources for Bulgarian and experimenting with Bulgarian text data in practical applications. By summarizing the results of a large literature review, we draw conclusions about the degree of development of the field, the availability of language resources for the Bulgarian language and the extent to which text analytics has been applied in practical problems. Future directions for research are outlined. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study providing a comprehensive overview of progress in the field of text analytics in Bulgarian.

scholarly journals LDC-IL: The Indian repository of resources for language technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayan Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis paper introduces the Government of India Initiative on linguistic data creation in Indian languages. The Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) is a fully funded Government of India scheme established in 2007 to cater to the needs of linguistic resources required for the development of language technology in Indian languages. LDC-IL worked silently for more than a decade with a team of around regular fifty people and involving thousands of resource persons, covering twenty major languages of India. Part of the output of LDC-IL was launched in April 2019 by the Hon’ble Vice President of India. This paper, the first introductory paper in an academic journal, aims to give a brief of the works done by LDC-IL and how these works are crucial in the development of language technology for Indian languages. Within a short span of eight months of its release, the language resources released by LDC-IL have been procured and utilized by scores of industry and academic bodies and individual researchers, including major industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Samsung etc.

scholarly journals Dnipropetrovs’k University under the Pressure of Stalinism of the 1930s

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
V. V. Ivanenko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
The University

The article uses Dnipropetrovs’k University to exemplify the nature, dynamics, scope and peculiarities of the Soviet penal policy and practice of the 1930s regarding the intellectuals as the most educated and active part of Ukrainian society. The emphasis is placed on the fact that millions of Soviet citizens, including hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, fell innocent victims to the state terrorism. Most of them, being labeled «nationalists», «saboteurs», «trotskists», «enemies of the people», have for numerous years been artificially erased from the historical memory of Ukrainians and subjected to oblivion, which significantly weakened the nation’s gene pool, the background and traditions of the national self-awareness and intellectual potential of Ukraine.Substantial evidence makes it possible to trace the lives of numerous university workers, mainly from the cohort of professors and senior managers. In total, we identified the names of 96 people who had been prosecuted or oppressed by the authorities in the mentioned period. Many of them were physically destroyed, that is, shot. The author argues that those were irretrievable losses among the most highly-qualified staff members of the university, those who, through their intelligence, talent and commitment, determined the main trends and content of the university development under deep social transformations of the 1930s. It obviously made a significant impact on the efficiency of both educational and academic activity of the university as one of the leading centers of classical higher education in Ukraine.In turn, the atmosphere of overall suspiciousness and fear caused, to high extent, by the repressions existingin the-then Soviet society despite the parade reports of the Communist Party leaders, and coupled with other negative factors in the system of government greatly affected the rate of economic growth, development of education, science and culture as well as the country’s defense capability in pre-war years.

A study of the balancing of lean thinking and stakeholder salience in decision-making

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-460
Author(s):  
Bruce H. Bader ◽  
M. Affan Badar ◽  
Suhansa Rodchua ◽  
Alister McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Stakeholder Salience ◽  
Organization Size ◽  
First Line ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Lean Thinking ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis research brings together two streams of thought applied to decision-making: lean thinking and stakeholder theory. Both have been identified as ways to improve organizational value. Previous studies disagree regarding whether they can work together. This study investigates if managers balance stakeholders and lean thinking in decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThis research investigates if both lean thinking and stakeholder salience share common literature by using data mining. It surveys organizations that perceive themselves as lean and have multiple diverse stakeholders to determine whether waste and salience are considered when making decisions. An ANOVA is done to see if organization type, management level, organization size, geographic location, or lean maturity has an effect on the priority of stakeholder salience or lean thinking's waste variants when making decisions.FindingsFindings of this research are: 1) stakeholders salience criteria are considered more often than lean thinking's waste variants in decision-making by managers as a whole and in particular by middle-level managers and senior managers. However, lean thinking's waste variants are considered as often as stakeholder salience criteria by first-line managers. 2) The ranking of stakeholder salience in making decisions is not affected by organization type, respondent position, organization size, perceived lean experience, or geographic location. The organization type, organization size, lean experience, and location do not affect the ranking of lean thinking variants either. But the ranking of lean thinking's waste variants is significantly different for first-line, middle-level, and senior managers. Middle-level managers rank lean thinking higher than that of either first-line or senior-level. Because of this, middle managers have a more balanced approach in using lean thinking and stakeholder salience than other managers. 3) Stakeholder salience criteria have a significantly higher ranking than lean thinking variants in making decisions for all organization types: manufacturing and nonmanufacturing.Originality/ValueThis research demonstrates a significant disconnect exists between lean thinking and demands of stakeholders that impacts the value of an organization, and only middle-level managers bring balance and awareness of both streams of thought. An empirical instrument has been developed to balance the stakeholder salience criteria with the lean thinking variants.

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