Rational Deployment Research Articles

5. Cadre Deployment, Appointment, and Removal

The problem of rational cadre deployment and utilization bears directly on whether or not we can bring into full play cadres' positive and backbone role; it bears directly on whether or not the line and general and specific policies of the party can be carried out and our different tasks effectively completed. To deploy and utilize cadres rationally, we must pay attention to the following problems when deploying them.

Problems in the Deployment of Productive Forces in the USSR

The economic effectiveness of social production is, in ever increasing measure, determined by the planned territorial organization of the economy. Comprehensive economic development of the union republics and economic regions directly entails rational deployment of productive forces throughout the Soviet Union. Lenin's statements on the comprehensive, allround approach to the economic development of every region, however small, are embodied in national economic practice.

Which Media do University Teachers Actually Use? A Survey of the Use of Audio‐Visual Media in Teaching at Two New Zealand Universities

SummaryThe rational deployment of audio‐visual resources for teaching within large institutions requires information on the use made of media by teaching staff. A questionnaire administered to 902 academics at two New Zealand universities provided data on the use of seven media—chalkboards, whiteboards, slides, overhead projectors, sound recordings, films and closed circuit television. The questionnaire revealed large differences in media use between teachers of different disciplines. These differences were generally consistent across both universities, albeit with some intriguing local variations. Relationships between staff status and media use are explored, and the usefulness of the survey as a whole is discussed.

Results and Prospects of the Reform of the School geography curriculum

In connection with the great and ever mounting involvement of natural resources in economic circulation and the development of new regions on land and sea, the events of recent years have made geography one of the fundamental earth sciences. Modern geography is the complex science of the natural environment and its resources, of optimal natural resource utilization and conservation, and of the rational deployment of productive forces. Modern geography is no longer a descriptive science. To an ever increasing degree, it is becoming an experimental and transformational science adopting the research methods of geophysics, geochemistry, and space exploration. One can say that, in our day, geography has entered the age of the quantitative revolution, which is manifested in the use of mathematical research methods, including the modeling of geographical processes and phenomena.

Application of Linear Programming to Financial Budgeting and the Costing of Funds

T HE purpose of this paper is to explore ways in which the theorems and computational apparatus of linear programming might be brought to bear on the allocation of funds within an enterprise. The rational deployment of a firm's resources requires (simultaneous) consideration of at least the following closely related questions. 1. Given the structure of the firm's assets, what operating program-in the sense of plans for production, purchases, and sales over the relevant planning interval-will the firm the greatest prospective net returns in the light of its profit and other objectives? That linear programming can contribute to a solution here has been amply demonstrated by its many successful applications to such planning problems (some quite large) in a variety of contexts.' For a number of reasons reported applications have so far been concentrated heavily in the production area; but, as we shall try to show, there is no reason why the same techniques cannot be used for financial planning or, more to the point, joint operating and financial planning. 2. What is the yield to the firm of each of the various possible changes in its asset structure, assuming that these assets are employed to maximum advantage? Here linear programming offers a way of bypassing some of the technical difficulties which have been encountered in connection with attempts to evaluate projects (as prosposed, e.g., in [16] or [21]) on the basis of their rates of return.2 In addition, with a programming formulation, some of the harder parts of the task of tracing through the interactions of proposed investments with each other and with existing facilities can be left to the mathematics. 3. What is, the opportunity cost of funds in the firm, in the sense of the prospective rate of on an increment of funds committed to the enterprise * This paper is a revised version of an ONR research report which was first presented at the Symposium on Operational Models, jointly sponsored by the Chemical Corps Engineering Command and New York University held at Army Chemical Center, Maryland, January 17, 1957. Part of the research underlying this paper was undertaken for the project Planning and Control of Industrial Operations at Carnegie Institute of Technology and part for the project Methodological Aspects of Management Research at Purdue University. Both projects are under contract with the United States Office of Naval Research. Reproduction of this paper in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the United States government, Contract Nonr-760-(01), Project NRO47-011, and Contract Nonr-1100-(05), Project NR047-016.

Public catering as a social, hygienic and cultural problem

The catering tasks are most clearly expressed in the article in Gas. Pravda dated March 16, 1930, which states that: the problem of rational organization and widespread deployment of public catering is an organic part of the struggle for the industrial financial plan, for increasing labor productivity, for raising real wages, for socialism. The correct organization of catering is one of the most important prerequisites for the successful implementation and overfulfillment of our production programs.