Mobile Applications: Situating Leadership Education

Florida State University has recently introduced the LEAD (Lead, Engage, Apply, Develop) Mobile Application for undergraduate students. The innovative platform has situated potential building of leadership capacity directly into the hands of students. Individual modules are available in the mobile application and designed to introduce leadership concepts, activities for users to practice applying these theories to their own reality, and reflection for students to make meaning from the theories learned and their application. The current article explores the application's innovative features, lessons learned from the development, and implications for leadership educators and learners.     

Social Media Screening and Procedural Justice: Towards Fairer Use of Social Media in Selection

Companies have started using social media for screening applicants in the selection process. Thereby, they enter a low-cost source of information on applicants, which potentially allows them to hire the right person on the job and avoid irresponsible employee behaviour and negligent hiring lawsuits. However, a number of ethical issues are associated with this practice, which give rise to the question of the fairness of social media screening. This article aims to provide an assessment of the procedural justice of social media screening and to articulate recommendations for a fairer use of social media in the selection process. To achieve this, a systematic literature review of research articles pertaining to social media screening has been conducted. Thereby, the benefits and ethical issues relating to social media screening, as well as recommendations for its use have been extracted and discussed against Leventhal’s (1980) rules of procedural justice. It turns out that without clear guidelines for recruiters, social media screening cannot be considered procedurally fair, as it opens up way too many opportunities for infringements on privacy, unfair discrimination, and adverse selection based on inaccurate information. However, it is possible to enhance the fairness of this practice by establishing clear policies and procedures to standardize the process.

     

Media Monitors：把消息变成“情报”

在信息化社会,筛选信息是使信息产生真正价值的必经之路。而把有信息需求的客体变为客户,向他们提供信息筛选和信息分析的服务,就成为一种商机。     

Climate Change Leadership as Sustainability Leadership: From the C‐Suite to the Conference of the Parties

Corporate leaders are increasingly called to enact roles as climate change leaders because of escalating risks to production and operations from man‐made climate change. An examination of corporate leaders’ roles within a United Nations Global Compact initiative, Carbon Pricing Champions, shows that three core practices were critical in advancing climate change leadership efforts: securing and maintaining top leader support, embedding the work within the organizational culture, and collaborating with like‐minded companies.     

Social Change: Measurement and Theory*

Societal change, which takes a variety of directions and forms and in no way can be assimilated or reduced to a single dimension, is often accompanied by a perception of insufficient understanding and lack of control. There is a frustrated need for mastering complexity and instability, separating the voluntary from the involuntary, the intended from the unintended, opportunities from risks, getting to the real causes and dominating the uncertain implications of social change. Social change catches us unprepared and confused. In this context statistics are generally considered a fundamental instrument of knowledge, but also part of the problem! In the public debate and in the specialized literature, the ability to measure social phenomena through current statistics and indicators is increasingly questioned. Data-it is claimed-are lacking, particularly longitudinal data; their quality (accuracy, relevance, timeliness, comparability, etc.) should be improved; indicators do not provide early warning signals, policy performance evaluation, and a precise indication of outcomes. Statistics cannot be used as a reliable and timely basis for decision making by individuals, organizations, governments, and for understanding these decisions. In some cases, statistics have been accused of giving a misleading and false picture of reality: do we measure the real extent of social exclusion and unemployment? Do we fully capture the quality of life and the degradation of the environment? Mismeasurement has been deemed by some commentators as being responsible for the wrong focus in inflation and stabilization policies, science and technology, unemployment and poverty. The productivity paradox, the informal economy, failure to measure welfare and the quality of urban life are instances where statistics do not seem to provide complete and satisfactory answers to the demand for information and knowledge. Our paper illustrates how, quite independently of measurement techniques and data production processes, the inadequacy of the conceptual framework may explain mismeasurement in relation to complex (multidimensional) and dynamic social phenomena. It is then to social theories, explanations and interpretations that statisticians need to turn, in order to come to grips with the new challenges in social measurement. We will develop this thesis looking at a few cases where measurement issues can be connected to both theoretical and empirical difficulties. The statistical gap which reveals itself in the mismeasurement or difficult measurement of social phenomena is closely interconnected with the social science gap. Only close collaboration between statisticians and social scientists can bring about continuous advancement in social science and quality improvement in social statistics.     

以社会需求为导向的艺术设计教育新模式探索

随着经济的发展、科学技术的不断更新,艺术设计人才越来越受到社会的重视,艺术设计教育与社会需求之间的关系日趋重要。从某种意义上讲,能否适应社会需求已经成为检验艺术设计教育成功与否的尺度。艺术设计教育必须从经济、技术、信息等各种社会需求关系中认真思考,明确教学重点与自身位置,推进艺术设计教育教学改革,以培养出适应社会需求与经济发展的有用之才。     

Social Media managerial implications for budget accommodation venues: use of Social Media platforms more effectively and efficiently

Quality & Quantity - Social Media has transformed people’s lives and behaviour. Over the past decade it has also transformed the Tourism Industry. Despite this triumph, insufficient...     

Mind the Gaps: What Limits the Impact of Leadership Education

Although leadership education holds great promise for enhancing the effectiveness of individuals in their work lives, it is limited by certain critical shortcomings. Unless these are successfully addressed, the classroom experiences we create will not facilitate the transfer of useful learning and its application to the day‐to‐day challenges that leaders face. In this article, the author addresses three important gaps in our approaches: the reality gap, the skill intensive gap, and the application gap. The author illustrates how and why each gap creates barriers to the transfer of learning to individuals and to their work‐lives.     

Mindful Leadership and Navigating the Seas of Change in the Information Age

Owing to innovations in information production and dissemination, the current rate of information creation is exploding exponentially, vaulting humanity into the Information Age. History has shown that revolutions in communication produce social upheaval, a phenomenon currently being experienced, particularly within the realm of leadership. Information overload is causing hyperstress, new forms of anxiety, and both personal and organizational issues relating to task focus and completion. The current article provides the context surrounding the issue of information overload, as well as suggestions for leaders to address the side effects created by a deluge of information.     

价值服务型领导:互联网时代领导模式的新探索

互联网时代,组织越来越呈现出动态网状自组织结构特征,面对以客户价值创造为企业出发点和归宿点的企业生存价值取向,领导必须改变以往上对下的领导模式,代之以价值服务型领导模式,服务于价值创造的整个过程.通过对价值服务型领导内涵的分析以及与其他相关领导理论的对比,初步提出了价值服务型领导的理论构想,探索了新时代下领导模式的可能发展趋势.     

谦逊领导与员工建言:一个中介-调节模型

采用问卷调查方式收集了295名企业员工样本,基于社会信息加工理论,探讨了谦逊领导对员工建言的影响及其作用机制.结果表明,谦逊领导和领导言行一致都对员工建言存在显著的正向预测效应.另外,领导言行一致还会调节谦逊领导对员工建言的效应,当领导言行一致较高时,谦逊领导与员工建言间的关系较强.最后,员工心理安全感部分中介谦逊领导对员工建言的影响,完全中介谦逊领导和领导言行一致的交互项对员工建言的影响.这些研究结果拓展了我们对谦逊领导与员工建言间关系的认识,具有重要的理论意义和实践意义.     

Project Leadership Influences Resistance to Change: The Case of the Canadian Public Service

This article analyzes how leadership affects resistance to change in projects. Using Dulewicz and Higgs' (2005) leadership framework in the context of the Canadian Public Service, types of resistance and factors influencing them were listed, leading to the identification of competence areas for the project manager. It was found that an engaging leadership style, developed through proper training, effectively reduced resistance to change. Other factors, such as the inclusion of affected people in the decisions, as well as a formal project management methodology, were instrumental in reducing resistance. Finally, upper management support was identified to be a mandatory success factor.     

Environmental Change, Leadership Succession and Incrementalism in Local Government

A theoretical model of strategic budgetary choices in local government is developed and tested. The model assumes that expenditure decisions are a function of changes in environmental circumstances and the characteristics of local leaders. Environmental change is operationalized through measures of workload, munificence and regulatory controls. Leadership succession is defined as the turnover in managerial and political élites. These environmental and leadership variables are included in a multivariate statistical model of budgetary incrementalism. The model is tested on the spending decisions of 402 English local authorities from 1981 to 1996. The empirical results suggest that the extent of budgetary change is influenced strongly by environmental change but weakly by leadership succession. Furthermore, environmental constraints became tighter during the study period. The characteristics of public sector organizations that impose limits on the strategic choices of new leaders are identified.     

媒体的社会责任研究——以虚假广告为例

近年来,虚假广告严重侵害消费者利益的案件层出不穷。当人们纷纷把矛头指向代言人、广告商等主体时,却忽略了虚假广告的发布者——媒体的责任。文章介绍了虚假广告的界定、特征以及危害,对媒体的角色扮演和原因进行分析,并从归责原则和构成要件两个方面阐述了媒体责任的认定,最后,为虚假广告的防范提出了若干建议。     

新媒体环境下大学生价值观教育初探——以网络媒介和移动通讯媒介为例

在新媒体蓬勃发展的背景下,本文在分析新媒体用户使用行为基础上,阐释了新媒体作为德育的一个重要载体,对大学生价值观的影响,并重点探索了在新媒体环境下大学生价值观教育的策略。