Organizational tenure and mastery-avoidance goals: the moderating role of psychological empowerment

Mastery-avoidance (MAv) goals are recognized to be detrimental as they arouse counterproductive work-related behaviors. In the current literature, MAv goals are assumed to be more predominant among newcomers and longer-tenured employees. The alleged relationship provides important implications but yet has received scant empirical attention. In response, this study examines the proposed U-shaped curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and MAv goal orientation. In addition, the potential moderating role of psychological empowerment on this curvilinear relationship is investigated. Based on data from 655 certified accountants, the results support the existence of the hypothesized curvilinear relationship. Also, it revealed that for employees who experience higher levels of psychological empowerment, the U-shaped relationship between organizational tenure and MAv goal orientation becomes flattened. Implications and future research are discussed.     

Behavioral intention of visitors to an Oriental medicine festival: An extended model of goal directed behavior

Despite the importance of Oriental medicine festivals to Oriental medical tourism, little research has been conducted to understand the behavioral intention of visitors to these festivals. Therefore, this study examines the behavioral intention of visitors to a Korean Oriental medicine festival. This study employs the extended model of goal-directed behavior (EMGB) that incorporates two constructs related to Oriental medicine festivals: the Oriental medicine image of festival site (image) and the perception of Oriental medicine (perception). An on-site survey was conducted with 423 visitors attending the Sancheong Herbal Festival in South Korea. Results reveal that attitude, subjective norm, and positive anticipated emotion influenced visitors' desire to attend the festival, which, in turn, influenced their behavioral intentions. Two constructs of image and perception formed positive and significant relationships with attitude toward attending the festival. Practical implications of the study results are discussed.     

Hospitality employee knowledge-sharing behaviors in the relationship between goal orientations and service innovative behavior

Goals are central to understanding motivated behavior, with each discipline emphasizing its consequences, levels, and types of goals. Because knowledge sharing is not mandatory in all organizations, individual personal motivation is critical for voluntary and active engagement in knowledge sharing. This study investigates the structural relationships among two distinctive forms of goal orientations as personal intrinsic motivators (learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation), two distinctive types of knowledge-sharing behaviors (knowledge collecting and knowledge donating), and employee service innovative behavior. The data were derived from 418 respondents working in five-star hotels in Busan, Korea. The positive relationship between learning goal orientation and knowledge collecting was stronger than that of the relationship between learning goal orientation and knowledge donating. The negative relationship between performance goal orientation and knowledge donating was stronger than the relationship between performance goal orientation and knowledge collecting. In addition, the positive relationship between knowledge collecting and employee service innovative behavior was stronger than the positive relationship between knowledge donating and employee service innovative behavior. The study concludes with discussions of the empirical findings, managerial implications, and strengths and limitations. Future research avenues are also offered.     

浅谈我国保险监管

文章主要探讨加强保险业务部门监管原则、监管目标以及加强监管的重要性和必要性。     

现代大学人才培养目标的新思考

本文对新时期大学教育人才培养目标进行了深入的思考。从丰富的专业知识和技能;健全的人格;自主学习能力和创新思维的能力;准确的表达能力和良好的沟通能力等四个方面论述了现代大学培养具有创新性高素质人才的目标问题。     

Category Stretching: Reorienting Research on Categories in Strategy,Entrepreneurship, and Organization Theory

We advocate for more tolerance in the manner we collectively address categories and categorization in our research. Drawing on the prototype view, organizational scholars have provided a ‘disciplining’ framework to explain how category membership shapes, impacts, and limits organizational success. By stretching the existing straightjacket of scholarship on categories, we point to other useful conceptualizations of categories – i.e. the causal‐model and the goal‐based approaches of categorization – and propose that depending on situational circumstances, and beyond a disciplining exercise, categories involve a cognitive test of congruence and a goal satisfying calculus. Unsettling the current consensus about categorical imperatives and market discipline, we suggest also that audiences may tolerate more often than previously thought organizations that blend, span, and stretch categories. We derive implications for research about multi‐category membership and mediation in markets, and suggest ways in which work on the theme of categories in the strategy, entrepreneurship, and managerial cognition literatures can be enriched.     

Service load balancing,task scheduling and transportation optimisation in cloud manufacturing by applying queuing system

Recently, there is a great deal of attention in Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg) as a new service-oriented manufacturing paradigm. To integrate the activities and services through a CMfg, both Service Load balancing and Transportation Optimisation (SLTO) are two major issues to ease the success of CMfg. Based on this motivation, this study presents a new queuing network for parallel scheduling of multiple processes and orders from customers to be supplied. Another main contribution of this paper is a new heuristic algorithm based on the process time of the tasks of the orders (LBPT) to solve the proposed problem. To formulate it, a novel multi-objective mathematical model as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is developed. Accordingly, this study employs the multi-choice multi-objective goal programming with a utility function to model the introduced SLTO problem. To better solve the problem, a Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm is developed to tackle this optimisation problem. Finally, a comparative study with different analyses through four scenarios demonstrates that there are some improvements on the sum of process and transportation costs by 6.1%, the sum of process and transportation times by 10.6%, and the service load disparity by 48.6% relative to the benchmark scenario.     

浅谈学习型班组、QC小组活动与自主管理关系

自主管理是未来企业发展的方向,学习型班组的知识体系为自主管理提供了理论的支持,QC小组活动是建立学习型班组的实践工具,三者相辅相承,促进企业管理水平的提升。     

浅析如何解决“双语教学”师资短缺

本文对参加双语教学的60名学生进行调查将调查结果加以总结,就双语教学的目标、授课内容和教材的选用作了粗浅探讨。     

引领河南银行业转型发展目标路径探讨

从河南经济金融发展实际和存在的问题看,应重新调整短期增长与长期发展关系,把握稳增长、调结构、转方式这三个阶段性目标路径,夯实风险防范与改革创新这两个保障,推进河南银行业转型升级与稳健发展.