The impact of participative leadership on job performance and organizational citizenship behavior: distinguishing between the mediating effects of affective and cognitive trust

This study examines the mediating effects of cognitive trust and affective trust on the relationship between supervisors' participative leadership behavior and subordinate work outcomes, using data obtained from 247 dyads in a manufacturing organization located in mainland China. Structural equation modeling revealed that while affective trust fully mediated the relationships between participative leadership of supervisor and subordinate job performance and organizational citizenship behavior, cognitive trust had non-significant effects. These findings underscore the importance of interpersonal interactions between the supervisor and subordinate for engendering subordinate work outcomes. They also lend support to the exchange (relationship)-based explanation as to how trust enhances the response of subordinates to the participative leadership behavior of their immediate supervisor, given that affective trust involves a process of social exchange between both parties over an extended period of time.     

The effects of internal locus of control on entrepreneurship: the mediating mechanisms of social capital and human capital

This paper proposes the research framework that locus of control enhances entrepreneurship through the mediating mechanisms of increased social capital in interpersonal networks and improved human capital in personal development. We adopted structural equation modeling to examine the research hypothesis. The research participants comprised managers from 14 enterprises in China; a total of 1002 valid questionnaires were collected. The results revealed that social and human capital mediate the effect that internal locus of control exerts on entrepreneurship. This study provides the following research contributions: first, the findings address the gaps in previous studies regarding the effect that a single dimension (i.e. personality traits) produces on entrepreneurship. Second, by employing the social exchange and human capital theories, we integrated interpersonal and individual perspectives into the research framework to explore factors affecting entrepreneurship, identifying that social and human capital are key-mediating mechanisms through which locus of control influences entrepreneurship.     

A mediated model of the effects of human resource management policies and practices on the intention to promote women: An investigation of the theory of planned behaviour

This study investigates the role of supportive human resource management policies and practices in senior HR managers’ intention to promote women to senior management positions. Based on the theory of planned behaviour, we argue a model in which supportive HR policies and practices affect managers’ attitudes towards the promotion of women to senior positions and their perception of organisational norms and control over the decision. We employ partial least squares based structural equation modelling to investigate data from a sample of 183 firms in Bangladesh. Our results support the utility of the theory of planned behaviour in understanding the positive effects of HR practices on the intent of senior managers to promote women. Our findings suggest that the role of HR policies and practices is not only to eliminate opportunity for discrimination but also to encourage the development of deeper attitudinal and normative acceptance of women’s role in senior management.     

立足行业特色文化 服务水利基层培训——河海大学开展全国水文站站长培训工作的探索与实践

自2005年至今,河海大学依托学科优势和雄厚师资力量,联合举办了"全国水文站站长培训班",在人才培养、学习与教学模式、支持服务、技术路线、办学管理机制与资源建设等方面进行了卓有成效的探索与实践,取得了可喜成果和宝贵经验,同时针对培训工作中存在的局部问题,采取了一系列规范管理的有效措施,促进培训工作健康、有序的发展,对行业类培训具有一定的借鉴和参考意义。     

石油开采企业物流向社会物流转型的条件及过程分析

以石油开采企业为研究对象,通过对企业物流向社会物流转型的条件与约束进行分析,界定了转型过程中需要进行的工作,并结合企业核心能力分析模型来判断企业是否成功实现转型,从而为石油开采企业物流向社会物流转型提供了理论依据,以减少转型的盲目性,最后结合中国某石油开采企业实例,对资源型企业物流向社会物流转型过程进行了实证研究,验证了理论依据的可借鉴性。