Forget about ‘the ideal worker’: A theoretical contribution to the debate on flexible workplace designs,work/life conflict,and opportunities for gender equality

This study integrates insights from Self-Determination Theory and Boundary Theory to present scenarios on how flexible workplace designs can trigger multiple motivational processes underlying gendered work/nonwork integration behaviors, and how these affect work/life conflict. We disentangle processes underlying work engagement and work/life conflict, explaining the paradoxical outcomes found with regard to gender inequality in terms of work/life performance, satisfaction, and health. Policy makers and organizations need an increased understanding and a reconceptualization of these issues, realizing that the ideal worker does not exist. Instead, a long-term perspective is needed in order to truly realize the potential benefits of flexible workplace designs for all stakeholders. Organizations need to take responsibility for preventing individual workers’ depletion and stimulating the regeneration of workers’ resources.     

导游词创作中应遵循的四项基本原则

随着导游“资格证书”及“等级证书”制度的实施,广大导游员只有认真钻研业务知识才能满足旅游大众对导游讲解水平日益提高的要求。因而导游词的创作正逐渐受到旅行社及广大导游员的重视。一篇正确、清晰、生动、通俗的导游词,经过导游员的传播,可以使游客感到旅游生活妙趣横生,对旅游目的地留下经久难忘的印象。     

Legalization of drugs: Effects on the workplace

In the last few years bipartisan support for legalizing drugs has grown to a surprising level. Because of the lack of involvement of the business community in this debate, we surveyed the human resource managers of 127 firms about their perceptions of the effects of legalization. Their responses were uniformly negative, with expectations that drug use, absenteeism, worksite crime, and liability costs would increase, while the quality and quantity of work would decline. They also forecast increases in drug testing, performance monitoring, and education and rehabilitation programs as a result.     

中美邀请言语行为对比研究

邀请言语行为是语言中不可缺少的部分,对于日常交际有着一定的影响;邀请言语行为与民族文化有着密切的联系,体现出不同民族的文化特色,遵循着不同的民族礼貌规范;不了解邀请言语行为的规范及其背后的民族文化,就会导致跨文化交际失误;外语教学中培养学生得体的邀请言语行为能力,可以帮助他们减少语用失误。     

Psychological safety climate and workplace bullying in Vietnam’s public sector

The bureaucratic and impersonal nature of public management can fertilize workplace bullying and risks for psychological health and safety. Psychological safety climate (PSC) is an important indicator to reduce psychological hazards. Yet, there have been few studies conducted to examine the existence of PSC in the public sector in non-Western economies. This study examined the implementation of PSC and its effects on 274 employees from six branches of a Vietnamese public sector organization. The results suggest that senior management in organizations should consider positive work conditions and an effective system of policies, procedures, and practices for the prevention of psychosocial hazards.     

Examining the relationship between academic performance and workplace position: does the glass ceiling exist among graduates from the same university?

This study examines the relationship between academic performance and workplace position. Academic performance is measured by undergraduate grade point average (GPA). A series of ordered probit regression models are estimated to isolate the impact of undergraduate GPA on the probability that female and male graduates from the same university hold middle or upper management jobs within their companies. After all potential heterogeneity and explanatory variables are controlled for, results of the pooled regression models suggest that women are less likely to hold both middle and upper management positions. Further analysis also suggests that lower GPA significantly decreases the probability that women hold these positions, while GPA seems to have no significant impact on workplace position for men. Moreover, most factors which positively impact the probability that women attain these positions also benefit men more at the highest level.     

Gender, emotion and power in work relationships

We offer a theoretical account of how gender and emotion combine to influence the development of power in work relationships. We document the profound impact gender has on the display, perception and evaluation of emotion in the workplace. We illustrate the reciprocal relationship between emotion and power, and identify cycles of powerlessness that prevent women from developing and leveraging power in their work relationships. By exploring the nexus of gender, emotion and power in work relationships, we offer new insights into how the gendering of emotion creates and perpetuates gender differences in power in organizations. Implications for research and practice are offered.     

从批评性话语分析角度解读政治演讲

批评性话语分析的主要目的是揭示语言使用、意识形态和权势之间的关系。文章介绍了批评性话语分析理论,运用批评性话语分析方法,从人称代词、情态和语篇三个方面研究分析了奥巴马总统访华期间在上海科技馆做的演讲。研究结果显示:奥巴马的演讲既没有降低美利坚合众国的威望,更没有轻慢中国人的历史和文化,而是在结合中国人的处事风格和思维方式的基础上,把自己的政治和文化、经济观做了相对客观的阐释。     

工作场所无礼行为、工作满意度及离职意图关系的实证研究

本文运用问卷调查法收集数据,运用相关分析探讨工作场所无礼行为、工作满意度以及员工离职意图三者之间的关系。结果表明：工作场所无礼行为与工作满意度呈负相关关系,工作场所无礼行为与离职意图呈正相关关系,工作满意度与离职意图呈负相关关系。基于研究结果,本文为人力资源管理实践提出了几点建议。     

语音识别技术在军用话务台中的应用模拟系统研究

介绍了在军用人工话务台系统中实现语音电话簿的基本框架结构,并详细描述了采用微软语音识别技术实现军用电话号码语音识别的详细流程,最后从识别率方面对该识别系统进行测试和分析,实验表明,该语音电话簿系统是稳定和实用的,在一定程度上减轻了话务员的训练和工作强度。