“Work is my passion”: The different affective,behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work

This study applies the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) to the work setting and examines the relationships between harmonious passion (characterized by a strong but controllable desire to engage in an activity), obsessive passion (characterized by an internal pressure to carry out an activity), and optimal functioning outcomes at work. Harmonious passion associated positively with: mental health; three elements of flow (i.e., concentration, control, and autotelic experience); vitality, and affective commitment. These relationships were partly mediated by satisfaction of the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In contrast, obsessive passion directly and negatively predicted mental health and weakly but positively predicted autotelic experience. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed. Copyright ©2010 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

非正式群体对大学生道德社会化的影响

非正式群体具有规范约定俗成、稳定性不强和核心人物影响较大等特点,对大学生道德养成具有不可忽视的作用。高校要关心非正式群体成员的学习、生活和道德经验,注重正面引导核心人物,积极发挥非正式群体在大学生道德社会化中的正向作用。     

后金融危机时期中国扩大就业的财政政策选择

金融危机呼啸而来,无情地冲击着本就困难的就业市场,2010年就业状况更为严峻。通过考察发达国家在促进就业方面的成功经验,结合经济全球化背景下金融危机所致的日趋严峻的中国就业形势,后金融危机时代下我国运用积极财政政策来扩大就业应当出台更加有力的扩大国内需求措施,促进经济平稳较快增长和扩大就业;进一步优化财政投资结构,正确运用财政政策引导产业升级;应结合国情状况合理选择运用政府财政支出政策和减税政策。     

注重发挥标准在宏观调控中的积极作用

标准作为一项基础的技术制度，能够规范市场秩序，激励自主创新，推动产业升级，支持可持续发展，促进国际贸易，能够在宏观调控中发挥重要的积极作用。文章认为注重标准在宏观调控中的地位，充分发挥标准在宏观调控中的积极作用，对于做好宏观调控工作，建设资源节约型和环境友好型社会，实现“十一五”规划提出的战略目标，具有十分重要的现实意义。文章对宏观调控中标准的作用机制进行了分析，在此基础上提出了在宏观调控中发挥标准积极作用的路径和措施，为做好宏观调控工作提供了一种新的视角。     

Taking a positive approach to organizational downsizing

We drew from the literature on positive organizational behaviour (Luthans & Youssef, 2007) to test a process model relating generalized optimism (Carver & Scheier, 1999) to the cognitions, affect, and behaviour of 237 Canadian federal government managers during and following a major organizational downsizing. Our data supported a model in which generalized optimism measured 18 months prior to the downsizing (T1) associated positively with managers' cognitions, attitudes, job performance, and self‐reported coping effectiveness measured 12 months postdownsizing (T3). Analyses suggested that some of these associations were partially mediated by a positive thinking coping strategy and expectations for future career and job success reported during the downsizing (T2). We advocate for more research that draws from the positive organizational behaviour literature to study the effects of downsizing on survivors. Copyright © 2008 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

创导积极的节约——建设节约型社会的首要原则

本文在分析了当前几种对建设节约型社会的错误理解的基础上．探讨了节约型社会的根本内涵和意义，提出创导积极的节约是建设节约型社会的首要原则，讨论了该原则的基本内涵．指出努力贯彻积极的节约原则是政府的根本职责。     

财政赤字与积极财政政策

财政赤字是宏观调控的手段，对其评价，关键是看宏观经济状况和社会总需求小于总供给，财政赤字就是好的；社会总需求大于总供给，就不能搞财政赤字。因此，对于积极财政政策淡出的时机及其进度，需要认真选择。     

城市扶贫政策的消极性缺陷及其改进途径

认为"积极福利"的核心理念是无责任即无权利,其具体的实施维度可以丰富和重构为四个方面,即保障生活、提升资本、增加权利和增强动力,其中资本包括人力资本和社会资本.从"积极福利"的角度看,我国现行城市扶贫政策存在较为明显的消极性,即侧重于从外部对贫困者进行基本生活救助,而相对忽视了挖掘和激发贫困者自身的潜能,这不利于搞好城市扶贫工作和构建和谐社会,应营建更加积极的城市扶贫政策.     

一类泛函脉冲微分方程周期正解的存在性

利用Krasnoselskii不动点定理,讨论一类带参数的泛函脉冲微分方程多个周期正解存在的充分条件,在f(x)和I_k(x) 均为非超线性和非次线性的条件下,得到该类微分方程多个周期正解存在的一些新结果。     

Empirical Analysis of Indirect Network Effects in the Market for Personal Digital Assistants

We present a framework to measure empirically the size of indirect network effects in high-technology markets with competing incompatible technology standards. These indirect network effects arise due to inter-dependence in demand for hardware and compatible software. By modeling the joint determination of hardware sales and software availability in the market, we are able to describe the nature of demand inter-dependence and to measure the size of the indirect network effects. We apply the model to price and sales data from the industry for personal digital assistants (PDAs) along with the availability of software titles compatible with each PDA hardware standard. Our empirical results indicate significant indirect network effects. By July 2002, the network effect explains roughly 22% of the log-odds ratio of the sales of all Palm O/S compatible PDA-s to Microsoft O/S compatible PDA-s, where the remaining 78% reflects price and model features. We also use our model estimates to study the growth of the installed bases of Palm and Microsoft PDA hardware, with and without the availability of compatible third party software. We find that lack of third party software negatively impacts the evolution of the installed hardware bases of both formats. These results suggest PDA hardware firms would benefit from investing resources in increasing the provision of software for their products. We then compare the benefits of investments in software with investments in the quality of hardware technology. This exercise helps disentangle the potential for incremental hardware sales due to hardware quality improvement from that of positive feedback due to market software provision.