Perceived work conditions and self-directed learning in the process of work

Self-directed learning at work is becoming a megatrend in training and organisational development. However, there is a wide range of meanings subsumed under this concept. Referring to theoretical considerations in the domains of motivation, interest, strategies of learning and control, a conceptual model of self-directed learning, called the Two-Shell Model of Motivated Self-Directed Learning was developed and validated. The impact of selected perceived work conditions (experienced autonomy, competence and social integration) on this type of learning was structurally modelled with a sample of 67 employees in the fish processing industry. On the basis of these theoretical considerations and results the instrument ‘project group’ is analysed and recommended to support motivated self-directed learning.     

How work design characteristics affect service employees’ work–family conflicts

Despite scholars acknowledging that the five core job characteristics (i.e. skill variety, task significance, task identity, autonomy, and feedback) significantly positively influence employees’ psychological states (i.e. job meaningfulness, job responsibility, and results knowledge), few researchers have empirically studied how these job characteristics and psychological states are related to job involvement and work–family conflict (WFC). Research data were collected by conducting a survey of service employees through a market survey website. A total of 714 valid questionnaires were eventually collected, and structural equation modeling analysis was applied to the data. The results confirmed that skill variety and job involvement have a positive direct influence on WFC, whereas task feedback significantly decreases WFC. Additional analysis suggested that the five core job characteristics indirectly influence WFC through perceived job meaningfulness, responsibility, knowledge of results, and job involvement. The managerial implications for service managers developing employee work design strategies are provided.     

The catholic work ethic

In a recent Commentary in The International Executive (1992), Rüdiger Pieper complained that some, if not many of the (American) teachers in the new European business training institutes and schools knew relatively little about the cultures for which they were making management proposals. Further, the proposals themselves, based as they often were on American research, could not, he rightly felt, be directly applied to a business problem regardless of context. One could extend that observation to other business activities, including attitudes toward work. In particular, it would be useful to consider the “work ethic,” as it applies to Americans working abroad, and inquire about how it might affect international executives when they come to America.     

Ethics and service work

Service work is now a very wide ranging sector, where some forms of service work have different connotations to others, but some forms are still tainted with the degradations of domestic service. Much of the difference revolves around the personal nature of the service and the expectations of customers towards the service worker. Hence the importance of thinking about the ethics of the service relationship in a modern economy, and the need to put this on the right footing in terms of respect and dignity. The ethics of service work are explored in this article. Prior to this however, the nature of service work and the degree of degradation that can be experienced by those who do this kind of work are identified. It will be argued that service work ought to be morally evaluated according to the degree to which it helps to form and maintain the virtues of employees or whether it leads to the erosion of virtue and the active development of vices.     

关于高速公路女职工工作的探析

女职工是企业中不可缺少的力量和群体,尤其是在高速公路运营管理中,站点多、路线长、外场工作、女职工多的突出特点,使她们成为企业中很有影响的生力军.在发展的新时期,女职工工作是高速公路工作的重要组成部分,做好新时期女职工工作是改革、稳定和发展的需要.     

关于规范统计基础工作的思考

统计基层基础工作是做好统计工作的前提条件,对提高统计数据质量,提高统计为决策服务的水平都起着至关重要的作用.加强统计基层基础工作,以"统计机构网络化,报表台帐标准化,统计管理法制化,统计信息自动化,统计资料档案化"为目标,开展统计基础规范化工作,狠抓统计机构和统计队伍建设,健全统计调查网络,加强统计执法检查,推进统计信息化建设,使统计基层基础工作走向规范化、正规化的轨道.     

Appraisal of women's work

Women's work in the developing country of India contributes to sectoral production in the national economy and household production in the family economy. A conceptual framework based on systems exchange assumption classifies women's work as formal sector, informal sector, household production and home production activities. Various economic evaluation methods related to unpaid household work can be applied to appraise the value of women's work. Farm women of Haryana have a 13-hour workday in farm, dairy and home sectors. The estimated monetary value of the 13-hour workday is Rs. 15–55.     

Ideas that work!——阿迪达斯“运动国度”创意点评

创意,本来就不是孤家寡人,实则是与策略一脉相承的孪生兄弟。也因此每次欣赏一则创意,我便会追本溯源,去探究创意背后的策略。策略的精准,决定创意的精妙;策略的深度,决定创意的高度。这也是本人参与本次艾菲奖点平的原则所在：追本溯源,深挖策略,深评创意。     

Expo interns start work

The first batch of 104 interns began working at the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination on September 1. They were recruited from about 7,700 applicants and had received a three-week training program from the Expo organizer involving Expo general knowledge, Chinese and English writing, etiquette, group working, fire fighting and emergency aid.     

会计的具体核算工作分析

在任何行业里,基础工作都是关键,会计核算更是如此.为了做到连续、全面、系统的反映企业、单位中的经济活动,为经济管理提供系统的财会信息,以及合理、科学地组织会计核算工作,需要会计能及时正确的填制会计凭证、登记账簿和编制会计报表以实现会计循环.     

浅析医院内部控制工作

在市场经济不断发展的环境下,医院一方面面临激烈的市场竞争,一方面又面临着政府的医疗改革的逐步推行和财政补助拨款持续下降的困难,医院只有建立健全内部控制制度才能在众多的挑战中处于不败之地.本文通过对内部控制的相关涵义的认识,分析了目前医院内部控制中存在的问题,并针对问题提出了相应的建议措施.     

Intrinsic religiosity and counterproductive work behavior: The mediating role of Islamic work ethic

This research aims to examine the impact of intrinsic religiosity on counterproductive work behavior directed toward the organization (CWB-O) and the mediating role of Islamic work ethic in this impact. The data were collected from employees working in the hotel and restaurant industry (n = 684). The findings revealed that intrinsic religiosity had a positive and significant effect on Islamic work ethic. It was found that Islamic work ethic also had a negative and significant effect on CWB-O. Similarly, intrinsic religiosity had a negative and significant effect on CWB-O. In addition, it was identified that the Islamic work ethic had a mediating role in the impact of intrinsic religiosity on CWB-O. Taking into consideration that the relationship between intrinsic religiosity and CWB-O and the role of Islamic work ethic in this relationship has not yet been examined in literature, the theoretical contribution of the current research can be better understood. From the perspective of practical contribution, this research may help and guide managers to understand how intrinsic religiosity affects CWB-O.     

浅谈基层机关经贸工作中思想政治工作的重要性

思想政治工作在改革、发展和稳定的全局中所具有的重要地位和作用,坚持两手抓,两手都要硬,切实加强和改进思想政治工作,是摆在全党面前的一项重大而紧迫的任务.     

加强会计基础工作的探讨

随着改革开放的深入和社会主义市场经济的发展,对会计基础工作也提出了许多新的要求.许多单位认识到会计基础工作的重要性,把会计基础工作与改善经营管理、建立现代企业制度等结合起来,使会计工作在单位经营管理中发挥越来越大的作用.但是,会计基础工作中也存在一些薄弱环节,这些薄弱环节不仅削弱了会计基础工作,影响了会计工作秩序的正常运行和会计职能作用的有效发挥,也在一定程度上干扰了社会经济秩序,所以我们必须针对会计基础工作中存在的问题,加强会计基础工作.本文论述了会计基础工作的范围、会计基础工作的现状、原因及措施.