How does growth need strength influence employee outcomes? The roles of hope,leadership, and cultural value

Abstract

Strong growth need is essential if an employee is to be motivated to complete complex and challenging jobs. It is important for organizations to attract employees with high growth need strength and help them achieve positive outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted to examine the mechanism underlying growth need strength’s positive effect on employee outcomes. Based on hope theory, we hypothesized that hope mediates the effect of growth need strength on job performance and affective commitment by transforming employees’ general desire for personal growth into goal-related cognitive thinking, comprising both ‘will’ and ‘ways’. We further hypothesized the moderating effect of transformational leadership, and the joint moderating effect of transformational leadership and individual power distance on the relationship between growth need strength and hope. We tested our hypotheses with data from a sample of 265 subordinate–supervisor dyads from China. Data analysis results supported the mediating role of hope. We found that growth need strength has a stronger effect on hope when transformational leadership is higher, and this effect is the strongest when both transformational leadership and individual power distance are simultaneously higher. The implications of these findings for human resource management research and practice are discussed.     

Relationship between positive psychological capital and creative performance

Despite considerable attention to the creative process and its relationship with personal characteristics, there is no published study focused directly on the relationship between the recently recognized core construct of psychological capital (PsyCap) and creative performance. Drawing from a large (N = 899) and heterogeneous sample of working adults, this study investigates PsyCap and its components (i.e., efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience) as predictors of creative performance. Overall PsyCap predicted creative performance over and above each of the four PsyCap components. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are considered. Copyright © 2010 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

试论如何用社会主义核心价值体系占领大学生的信仰高地

青年是祖国发展的希望,大学生是国家建设的栋梁。青年时期是世界观形成的关键时期,国际国内的反华势力、反对社会主义势力都把灭亡中国的希望寄托在中国的当代青年身上,我们振兴中华的希望也在当代青年身上。对中国青年的争夺,就是对中国前途命运的争夺。调查结果显示:半数以上的学生没有信仰或者没有明确而坚定的信仰,这就给我们的信仰教育留下了希望的空间。只有用社会主义核心价值体系占领大学生的信仰高地,才能使当代大学生成为社会主义的忠实信仰者、建设者、守护者。我们在大学生信仰形成的实践上进行了一些探索和尝试,取得了比较好的效果。我们坚信:社会主义核心价值体系的教育一定能使高尚的追求成为青年群体的高尚,成为社会进步的巨大推动力量。     

“希望中的绝望”和“绝望中的希望”——《等待戈多》与《过客》中的两种生命哲学

贝克特荒诞派戏剧《等待戈多》中的流浪汉和鲁迅戏剧化散文《过客》中的过客在生存背景、生存状态等诸多方面有着惊人的相似之处,而折射出的对人生意义的思考却又大相径庭。《等待戈多》荒诞的背后,深刻表现了现代文明中的人生处境,表现了人在荒诞世界里束手无策的悲哀和绝望。从某种程度上看,《过客》更多的是鲁迅自我处境的形象写照,甚至可以说是自画像,过客是鲁迅反抗绝望的生命哲学的形象写照。     

员工主动性人格对其心理资本的影响

心理资本是组织行为学与管理学领域中的一个新兴的研究热点,它对许多组织后果变量都有积极影响,但目前关于心理资本的前因变量研究较为缺乏。文章从员工主动性人格这一视角切入,探讨了员工主动性人格对心理资本水平的影响。通过问卷调查,利用相关统计方法对数据进行分析,结果发现:员工的主动性人格能显著地正向预测其整体心理资本及其乐观、希望、韧性、自我效能等四个维度。理论上丰富了主动性人格与心理资本的研究领域,实践上为企业员工的人才选拔与素质培训提供了参考。     

论当前理想与理想教育的转型

对青少年进行理想教育十分重要。理想教育应立足于构建一种希望着的生活方式，把个体从过高理想教育目标的压抑状态中解放出来，使个体在面对现实世界的同时，能打开心灵的希望之窗。     

The Unexplored Potential of Hope to Level the Playing Field: A Multilevel Perspective

A multilevel view of social change is presented in which socially responsible organizations, society, and high-hope individuals interact in support of hopefulness – thereby leveling the playing field. Suggestions are made about future research and the roles of organizations and society in eliciting hope in organizational and societal cultures.     

Hope across the seas: the role of emotions and risk propensity in medical tourism advertising

Rising US medical costs as well as more competition in the health care industry have led many Americans to pursue health care in foreign destinations. As a result, leading countries in medical tourism have begun launching international advertising campaigns. A growing trend in much of this advertising is the use of emotional appeals. The purpose of this research is to examine whether the use of emotional appeals by non-domestic health care providers contributes to more favourable evaluations of the target health care provider than rational appeals. Specifically, two experimental studies investigate the efficacy of advertisements that induce the emotion of hope to determine whether these advertisements increase trust perceptions and reduce perceived risk, given an individual's level of risk propensity. Implications for public policy makers and marketing managers who work in health care are discussed.     

Consumer creativity influenced by hope,integral emotions and socio‐economic status

Low socio economic stratum (SES) consumers face constrains that engender creativity as they try to solve consumption problems using the scant products and services available by repurposing such products. This research investigates mechanisms by which hope and integral emotions interact with SES to influence consumer creativity. Experiments with low and high SES participants in an emerging economy show that when hope is enhanced, positive integral emotions are directed to creativity by all consumers, but when hope is diminished, positive integral emotions are not consistently directed to creativity. SES exerts a moderating role when hope is diminished, and only high SES participants are able to cope with the absence of hope by redirecting dominance feelings to creativity. Results suggest that increasing hope among low SES consumers can enhance their creativity, and that hope can be enhanced through actions undertaken by companies and public organizations.     

Utopian community football? Sport,hope and belongingness in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers

Refugees and asylum seekers have become increasingly demonised as part of anti-migrant sentiment leading to social exclusion. Sport has been utilised as a tool for social cohesion though evidence as to its efficacy in such a task is limited. Based on a three-year research programme exploring the role of football in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in the U.K., this paper examines the concept of belonging, provides evidence for the role of community-based sport in social development and concludes with a call for practitioners to maximise their belief in concrete utopian ideals without losing the inherent critical approach needed to positively develop the industry in which they work.