Applied Measurement or Political Economy of Uneven Development

Applied Measurement: Industrial Psychology in Human Resources Management

Author: Deborah L Whetzel

An updated version of Deborah Whetzel and George Wheaton's earlier volume, this text is a well-organized sourcebook for fundamental practices in industrial psychology and human resources management. Applied Measurement describes the process of job analysis and test development with practical examples and discusses various methods for measuring job performance. Its primary purpose is to provide practical, systematic guidance on how to develop the various kinds of measurement instruments frequently used in the fields of industrial psychology and human resources management to assess personnel.

With easy to follow guidance written in straightforward language, Applied Measurement contains three new chapters focusing on training and experience measures, assessment centers, and methods for defending the content validity of tests; includes contributions from many prominent researchers in the field, all of whom have had a great deal of applied experience; begins each chapter with an overview describing the job analysis or measurement method; and uses one job, that of an electrician, as an example throughout the book so that readers can easily understand how to apply job analysis data for the purposes of test development and job performance measurement.

This practical, concise book is recommended for students and entry-level practitioners in the fields of industrial psychology and human resources.

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Political Economy of Uneven Development: The Case of China

Author: Shaoguang Wang

All parts of China have experienced rapid economic growth over the last eighteen years, but some areas have developed far more rapidly than others. For example, coastal China in general, and southeastern China in particular, have raced ahead in comparison with the other regions of the country. While it is hardly unusual for an enormous country like China to experience variations in economic well-being across the land, regional disparities could seriously threaten political stability and national unity if income gaps become excessive.

This book addresses the questions being vigorously debated inside and outside China by scholars and policy makers:
-- What is the best way to measure regional gaps?
-- Have regional gaps widened or narrowed since China introduced its market-oriented reforms?
-- What is their effect on economic growth and social polarization?
-- Are regional gaps in today's China tolerable or excessive?
-- What are the main causes for the changes in regional gaps?
-- Is now the right time to address these issues?
-- What, if anything, should the Chinese government do to narrow regional disparities?

The conclusion of this important study is that despite two decades of rapid economic growth, the declining extractive capacity of China's central government has become a major contributor to widening regional disparities and thus constitutes a significant threat to future national development.

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Acknowledging that any country the size of China is likely to experience regional variations in economic well-being, Wang (political science, Yale U.) and Angang (economics, Chinese Academy of Science) warn that continued inequality of incomes there could seriously threaten political stability and national union. Their treatment is heavily revised from (Liaoning People's Press, 1995), which they co-wrote with Xiaoguang Kang. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Figures and Tables
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Theoretical Framework	21
Ch. 3	Changes in Regional Disparity Since 1978	41
Ch. 4	Multidimensional Facets of Regional Disparity	78
Ch. 5	The Economic Causes of Uneven Regional Development	143
Ch. 6	The Political Causes of Uneven Regional Development	169
Ch. 7	Confronting Inequality in China	199
	Appendices	221
	Bibliography	239
	Index	255