Work Values and Preferences for Employee Involvement in the Management of Organizations

This study has 3 objectives: to develop a scale to measure preferences for involvement in management (PIM), to examine if PIM are related to work values (altruism, pride in craftsmanship, collectivism, and individualism), and to examine if PIM are affected by a bundle of work values. Data are taken from 749 participants to develop a psychometrically appealing scale for measuring PIM. Using the universalistic perspective, we predict a positive relationship between PIM and altruism, pride in craftsmanship, and collectivism, and a negative relationship between PIM and individualism. Using the synergistic perspective, we hypothesized that PIM are likely to be positively affected by a bundle of work values. Our results support the universalistic perspective because PIM are positively related to altruism, pride in craftsmanship, and collectivism, and negatively related to individualism. Our results did not support the synergistic perspective. In the final section of the paper, we outlined the implications of our results for organizational practice and public policy.     

中外大学生英语硕士论文中四词词块的比较研究

本研究以中国学生和英语母语学生应用语言学硕士学位论文中的四词词块为调查对象,从结构和功能角度对比分析了中外大学生在英语学术写作中的词块使用情况。研究发现,与英语母语学生相比,中国学生使用了更多数量和更多种类的四词词块,更偏爱使用被动结构的词块,较少使用介词短语词块,但对"参与者主导的词块"的使用明显不足。     

Personality traits,basic individual values and GMO risk perception of twitter users

Abstract

The present study investigates how the most foundational factors to individual differences – personality traits and personal values – affect the perceived safety of genetic modification and their relative importance. Publicly available communication data from 522 Twitter accounts discussing genetically modified foods and their safety was processed in two steps. First, accounts were categorized by the researchers as viewing GM foods as either safe or not safe. Second, using the IBM Watson platform, the Twitter communication data were subjected to lexical analysis to assign scores according to the Five Factor Model for personality traits and Schwartz’s basic individual values to the individual accounts. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine how perceived GM food safety is linked to personality traits and individual values. Although both traits and values significantly contribute to explaining GM attitudes, personality traits strongly moderate the effect of individual values on risk perception.     

词块对英语听力理解的影响

词块这一语言现象出现频率高,具有整体性、固定性、可预测性等特点。增强词块意识,把词块作为记忆的基本单位,可扩大短时记忆的信息加工量,有效地提高英语学习者的听力理解水平。     

英汉词汇衔接对比与翻译

词汇衔接是实现语篇连贯的重要手段。词汇衔接有重述和搭配两种主要方式。好的衔接词汇的翻译不但可以实现译文语篇的连贯,而且还可再现原作的文体风格。     

Prudent expectations equilibrium in economies with uncertain delivery

In an economy with private information, we introduce the notion of objects of choice as lists of bundles out of which the market selects one for delivery. This leads to an extension of the model of Arrow–Debreu that is used to study trade ex ante with private state verification. Under the assumption that agents are prudent, equilibrium is characterized by the fact that agents consume bundles with the same utility in states that they do not distinguish. This is a weaker condition than the restriction of equal consumption imposed by Radner (Econometrica 36(1), 31–58, 1968), therefore, some no trade situations are avoided and the efficiency of trade increases.     

Does Bancassurance Reduce the Price of Financial Service Products?

I assess the impact of bancassurance on the price of retail financial services. I find that service fees in a product bundle increase less than proportionally to the number of services; that an increase in the number of clients in each product bundle market reduces fees by 1.5%; that the degree of competition in the markets of each bundle also reduces fees; that premium products have higher average costs; and finally, that cross-holdings reduce prices by about 5% and bancassurance reduces prices by just over 6%. The price reduction declines if both strategies are combined.

Interrelationships among lean bundles and their effects on operational performance

The aim of our research is to disentangle the complex relations among lean bundles and operational performance. In particular, we focus on the direct and mediating effects on operational performance of three of the main lean manufacturing bundles, namely Just in Time (JIT), Total Quality Management (TQM) and Human Resource Management (HRM). We run statistical analysis on the High Performance Manufacturing round III database, a survey involving 266 plants in nine countries across three different industries. Our results show that JIT and TQM have a direct and positive effect on operational performance while HRM has a mediated effect on it. Theoretical and managerial implications of our findings are then drawn and discussed.     

英语广告语的语言特征（英文）

在世界经济全球化的环境下,广告正以其独特的魅力影响着社会生活的方方面面。近年来,人们纷纷尝试从不同角度探索广告英语,并取得了一定的成果,对广告英语的语言的也有了进一步的认识。在这一领域中,对广告英语的特点的研究与分析尤为出众。广告英语作为一种应用语言,因其所具有的特殊效用,已逐渐从普遍英语中独立出来而发展成非规模话的专用语言。本文基于对部分广告英语实例的研究,从词汇,句法和修辞等方面对广告英语语言的特点做出了细致而详实的阐述。