Effects of recovery experiences on hotel employees’ subjective well-being

This study focuses on the occupational well-being process in the formation of hotel employees’ subjective well-being based on the recovery experience scale (RES). More specifically, the study (1) evaluates the construct validity of the RES in the hotel sector and (2) examines structural relationships between the RES, organization-based self-esteem (OBSE), job dedication (JOD), career satisfaction (CAS), and life satisfaction (LIS) in a heuristic model. To test the hypotheses, a total of 376 hotel employees were considered in an empirical analysis using a two-step SEM approach. The results verify sufficient validity for the four RES factors and reveal that all recovery experiences, namely psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control, predicted OBSE. In addition, OBSE had positive effects on JOD, CAS, and LIS, and JOD and CAS had significant positive effects on LIS. These results have important implications, and the study's limitations provide some interesting avenues for future research.     

贫困性农户金融供给：市场失灵与政府责任

通过对贫困性农户金融供给现状进行简要分析,揭示了在市场机制主导下,农村正规金融市场与非正规金融市场对于贫困性农户的资金支持都是不足的,也就是说,农村金融市场对于贫困性农户存在市场失灵现象。政府应对金融市场进行干预。     

信贷紧缩和流动性供给的悖论——全球金融危机之后中国银行业的考察(下)

我国在金融危机之后出现过信贷膨胀,经济过热之后又出现信贷紧缩。信贷紧缩会导致信贷增长下降,社会再生产的资金需求得不到满足。信贷紧缩有管理性成因,也有制度性成因。同时,为了确保经济增长的一定增速,我国的货币政策又要保持一定的流动性。这样,我国就出现了信贷紧缩和流动性供给之间的矛盾。本文讨论了全球金融危机之后,我国出现信贷紧缩的宏观经济运行背景,以及在此背景下货币政策失灵的内在逻辑。     

The Fall and Rise of Keynesian Fiscal Policy

This paper reviews the recent evolution of thinking and evidence regarding the effectiveness of activist fiscal policy, including how policy multipliers might vary with respect to economic conditions. Like many other countries that were hit by the “Great Recession,” the USA responded initially with active fiscal policy measures. But a more positive view of fiscal intervention appears to have developed earlier in the decade, and estimated decision rules confirm that there was an increase in policy activism. While this positive view has been tested by the unclear effects of fiscal policy during the Great Recession, recent evidence does suggest that fiscal policy may be especially effective in recession. Fiscal policy activism has also been tempered by recent concerns about growing government debt, a development which potentially might also undercut the effectiveness of expansionary fiscal policy.     

A discrete replacement model for a two-unit parallel system subject to failure rate interaction

In this paper, a repairable two-unit parallel system with failure rate interaction between units is studied. Failure rate interaction between units is described as follows. Unit-1 failure whenever occurs can increase the failure rate of unit-2 of some amount, while unit-2 failure can induce unit-1 into simultaneous failure. We consider a discrete replacement policy N based on the number of unit-1 failure. The system is replaced at the instant of the N-th failure of unit-1 or on simultaneous failure of the system. Our problem is to determine an optimal replacement policy N ^* such that the expected cost rate per unit time is minimized. The explicit expression of the expected cost rate per unit time is derived by introducing relative costs and the corresponding optimal number N* is also verified finite and unique under some specific conditions.     

浅谈烟草商业企业服务补救体系建设

服务补救(Service Recovery)是服务人员对服务过程中的缺陷及失误所做出的反应和行动。服务补救作为营销理论的一种新概念,已被越来越多的服务领域所重视。由于服务本身的一些不可控性,很难使得所有的零售客户都满意。本文试图通过回顾前人对服务补救的相关研究,为这一概念在烟草商业企业当前实践中的应用提供参考,全面展示服务补救因素及其与客户满意之间的关系。烟草商业企业如何进行有效的服务补救就成为研究的焦点。     

The failure of foresight in crisis management: A secondary analysis of the Mari disaster

Foresight the ability to plan and think systematically about future scenarios in order to inform decision-making in the present has been applied extensively by corporations and governments alike in crisis management. Foresight can be complicated because dispersed groups have diverse, non-overlapping pieces of information that affects an organization's ability to detect, mitigate, and recover from failures. This paper explores the failure of foresight in crisis management by drawing on data on events that preceded and followed the Mari disaster in a naval base in Cyprus in July 2011, where a large explosion killed 13 people and injured 62 others, while completely destroying the major power plant of the island. The paper examines how foresight into crisis management decisions was compromised because of a conscious effort by high ranking decision-makers to minimize emergent danger and avoid responsibility for the crisis, in joint with red tape, bureaucracy, and poor coordination and information flows. The paper explores the notion of operational and political responsibility of individual decision-makers and discusses an alternative approach to foresight in crisis management, one that is built on multiple layers of decision-making.     

不完全契约理论视角下的政府失灵分析

市场经济既存在市场失灵,也存在政府失灵。如何有效规避政府失灵是全世界所有国家都亟待解决的难题。政府失灵与不完全契约之间具有较强的相关性,因而不完全契约理论能够对政府失灵现象提供较强的解释能力。通过对政府与人民之间失灵、政府部门之间失灵和国家之间失灵等不完全契约性的理论解析,将会对正处于转型关键时期的中国现代化崛起,不仅能够提供富有价值的发展启示,而且也具有非常显著的政策借鉴意义。     

一种新的旧城住宅更新模式探索——以南京市门西地区谢公祠1号为例

本文针对旧城住宅更新规划中忽略社会公平、漠视公众参与的现状,试图探索一种新的旧城住宅更新的模式——SR(self-renewal)模式,即自我更新模式,实现旧城住宅自下而上的改造,即由居民自己来改造自己的房屋,真正满足居民需求,实现社会公平,使改造后的住宅既保持传统风貌,又使居民的生活质量得到提高,实现现代化城市传统居住空间的复兴。     

What happens to Japan if China catches a cold?: A causal analysis of Chinese growth and Japanese growth

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to investigate the directionality of the dependence between the Chinese economy and the Japanese economy. Taking a probabilistic causal approach, we infer the causal dependence among the Japanese economy and the Chinese economy based on observed data. We find evidence that the Chinese growth has both contemporaneous and temporal causal effects on Japanese growth, though the effect is very small. We did not find any evidence that the Japanese growth might have temporal or contemporaneous causal effect on Chinese growth.