Work-Family Conflict: A Virtue Ethics Analysis

Work-family conflict has been examined quite often in human resources management and industrial/organizational psychology literature. Numerous statistics show that the magnitude of this employment issue will continue to grow. As employees attempt to balance work demands and family responsibilities, organizations will have to decide to what extent they will go to minimize this conflict. Research has identified numerous negative consequences of work-family stressors for organizations, for employees and for employees' families. There are however many options to reduce this strain, each with advantages and disadvantages. An ethical analysis, from a virtue ethics perspective, is applied to this timely issue to present an alternative view in addressing this critical business decision. In addition, a strong connection between the virtue ethics analysis and a well-known management theory is given to provide a foundation for managerial implications for resolving work-family conflict.     

新形势下高校教师培训面临的问题及对策

随着我国社会经济、政治、文化的巨大发展和高等教育改革的不断深入,传统的高校教师培训模式面临着教育环境改变所产生的巨大挑战,其自身存在的观念落后、模式单一、内容陈旧等弊端也逐渐暴露出来。在此新形势下,我国高校教师培训应从建立培训导师队伍、完善教师继续教育体制、加强教师职业训练和实践活动、促进教师可持续发展等方面进行改革。同时,还应建立高校教师发展制度,以确保新的培训方式得以落实。     

基于平衡计分卡下高校教师绩效评估体系设计

平衡计分卡是一个战略管理工具,应用了平衡计分卡的思想并结合高校的战略目标,从岗位职责、客户、绩效支撑、学习与成长四个方面设计了高校教师的绩效评估体系,以期为推进平衡计分卡在我国高校绩效评价中的应用提供参考。     

Alasdair Macintyre’s Aristotelian Business Ethics: A Critique

This paper begins by summarizing and distilling MacIntyre’s sweeping critique of modern business. It identifies the crux of MacIntyre’s critique as centering on the fundamental Aristotelian concepts of internal goods and practices. MacIntyre essentially follows Aristotle in arguing that by privileging external goods over internal goods, business activity – and certainly modern capitalistic business activity – corrupts practices. Thus, from the perspective of virtue ethics, business is morally indefensible. The paper continues with an evaluation of MacIntyre’s arguments. The conclusion is drawn that MacIntyre’s critique, although partially valid, does not vitiate modern business as he claims. In short, modern business need not of necessity be antithetical to individuals’ pursuit of internal goods within practices.     

Pragmatism, Pedagogy and Philosophy A Model of Thought and Action in Action in Primary Technology and Science Teacher Education

This article reports on one outcome from a three-year study with pre-service primary teachers at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the influence of participants' prior educational experience and beliefs about the relationship between design & technology (D&T) and science on their lesson planning for these subjects during school placements. Data from the study support a three-domain model of pre-service teachers' thinking and action. When operating within the pragmatic domain, participants are primarily concerned with survival in the classroom, resulting in short-term planning which may contradict their epistemological and curricular beliefs. In the pedagogical domain, the focus shifts from the pre-service teacher themselves and their immediate survival to the learning potential of the activities they plan. There is evidence that some participants have progressed to operating within a philosophical domain, leading to clasroom practice which reflects and re-conceptualises pre-service teachers' core beliefs about the nature of, and relationship between, D&T and science. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

基于“四位一体”的职业教育双师型教师队伍建设

本文阐述了职业教育院校基于学校、政府、行业和企业四位一体的环境下,建设双师型教师队伍的目标、思路、措施和体制机制创新。     

The relationship between principals’ configuration of a bundle of HR practices for new teachers and teachers’ person–organisation fit

Abstract

Based on studies in the private sector showing the positive effects of strategic human resources management (SHRM) on performance, many stress the value of adopting SHRM in the public sector. However, until now, the argument for applying SHRM in the public sector remains largely theoretical. Especially in educational contexts, it is unclear through which mechanisms SHRM affects performance. Therefore, this paper zooms in on the relationship between the configuration of a bundle of human resources (HR) practices and person–organisation (P–O) fit. A mixed methods design was used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data from principals and teachers in 56 Flemish primary schools. The qualitative data, which provides insight into principals’ configuration of HR practices, were converted into numerical scores and analysed, together with the quantitative teacher data, using multilevel analysis. The results show that both principals’ strategic and HR orientation are associated with teachers’ P–O fit. This study contributes to the research field of SHRM in education by studying a bundle of HR practices and how this relates to the fit of teachers’ own values with the school culture. The practical implications for schools are discussed.     

民办本科院校计算机基础教学课程体系建设与改革模式探索

根据教育部教指委《关于加强计算机基础教育的"白皮书"精神》,结合目前民办本科院校在计算机基础课程教学中存在的普遍存在的学生实践能力培养问题和我校的计算机基础课程教学现状,提出计算机基础教学课程体系建设与改革模式。力争课程组织建设、实施方案、师资队伍改革上探索出新的切实可行的途径。     

基于教学过程 培养提高科研创新能力

阐述了高职教师和高职生科研创新能力的重要性。提出了在教学过程中培养提高高职教师和高职生科研创新能力的理念。围绕提出问题、获得文献资料、方案设计、实验设计与操作、总结报告撰写等科研创新能力的五个方面,介绍了采取"科研式"备课和"研究式"教学有效培养提高高职教师和高职生科研创新能力的实施方法。为提高高职院校人才培养质量提供借鉴和帮助。     

高职院校计算机教师职业倦怠的成因分析及对策研究

高职教师是我国教师队伍中的重要组成部分,也是职业倦怠的高发人群,特别是计算机教师,由于计算机专业的特殊性,高职院校的计算机教师承受的压力更大,从而更易产生职业倦怠。本文通过调研分析了高职计算机教师产生职业倦怠的原因,从社会、学校和教师个人三个层面上提出了教师职业倦怠的解决对策。