Generation Xers’ performance and development in midlife transition

Midlife transition is an inevitable process that every adult faces during his or her life. As Generation Xers move into middle age, the field of human resource development (HRD) should keep pace with the impact of this midlife transition on this cohort’s psychological and physical welfare and continuous development. An effective way to cope with midlife transition is to face it as an opportunity for change and self-actualization. Gender as well as physical and psychological changes are important factors in midlife transition. Organizations should understand the challenges of midlife transition and create a supportive environment for Generation Xers to cope with the changes. Specific suggestions for middle-aged Generation Xers and HRD professionals are provided in this article, as well as implications and recommendations.     

An exercise in futurity: servitude as pathway to young Filipino men’s education- to-work transition

This article examines how young Filipino men looking to work in international seafaring deploy servitude as a means of attaining education-to-work transition. It focuses on those applying to work for free as ‘utility men’ (gofer or flunkey) in Manila’s manning and crewing agencies that supply seafarers to ship operators around the world in exchange for the promise of boarding a ship. Based on participant observation and life history interviews, the article accounts for how they transform their servitude into diskarte – strategy by which they navigate the limited employment opportunities in the Philippines – by constructing their ‘utility manning’ as an informal and negotiated pathway to employment. The young Filipino men’s seeking and enduring servitude, geared towards gleaning better social possibilities, becomes a profoundly rational act of investing in and securing their future.     

城市化与中国社会转型

2011年底，广州市第十次党代会提出走有广州特色的新型城市化发展道路的战略，相信这一战略会在今后相当长一段时间成为广州市各项事业的总指引、总目标。事实上，城市化是一个内涵非常丰富的概念，而城市化的历史也与人类的文明历史相伴，在某种意义上可以说人类的文明历史就是城市化的历史。如果说中国自古是一个农业国家，那么城市化也可看做是中国社会转型的具体体现。只有将城市化置于中国社会转型的视角下观察，才可以对中国的城市化运动有准确的把握。     

Dashed Hopes,Dashed Selves? A Sociometer Perspective on Self‐esteem Change Across the Transition to Secondary School

The transition from primary to secondary school challenges children's psychological well‐being. A cross‐transitional longitudinal study (N = 306; mean age = 12.2 years) examined why some children's self‐esteem decreases across the transition whereas other children's self‐esteem does not. Children's expected social acceptance in secondary school was measured before the transition; their actually perceived social acceptance was measured after the transition. Self‐esteem and Big Five personality traits were measured both pre‐ and posttransition. Self‐esteem changed as a function of the discrepancy between children's expected and actually perceived social acceptance. Furthermore, neuroticism magnified self‐esteem decreases when children's ‘hopes were dashed'—when they experienced disappointing levels of social acceptance. These findings provide longitudinal support for sociometer theory across the critical transition to secondary school.     

社会变迁过程中政府能力的政策学解读--基于系统论观点

中国正处于巨大的社会变迁之中，复杂性与不确定性的环境特征对政府能力提出了更高要求。从系统论的视角看，政府能力体现在政府对变迁中社会环境的反应、适应与变革能力。基于系统论的政策学解读，政府能力最终可以归为“制定”和“执行”公共政策的能力。从环境与组织管理的关系出发，围绕公共政策的生命过程，可以分别考察政府在输入、转化、输出三个环节中政策制定和政策执行的情况，进而探讨政府能力提升的路径。     

Public housing into private assets: Wealth creation in urban China

State socialist economies provided public housing to urban citizens at nominal cost, while allocating larger and better quality apartments to individuals in elite occupations. In transitions to a market economy, ownership is typically transferred to existing occupants at deeply discounted prices, making home equity the largest component of household wealth. Housing privatization is therefore a potentially important avenue for the conversion of bureaucratic privilege into private wealth. We estimate the resulting inequalities with data from successive waves of a Chinese national income survey that details household assets and participation in housing programs. Access to privatization programs was relatively equal across urban residents in state sector occupations. Elite occupations had substantially greater wealth in the form of home equity shortly after privatization, due primarily to their prior allocations of newer and higher quality apartments. The resulting gaps in private wealth were nonetheless small by the standards of established market economies, and despite the inherent biases in the process, housing privatization distributed home equity widely across those who were resident in public housing immediately prior to privatization.     

发达国家运动员职业转型的保障政策研究

运动员保障政策不仅关系到运动员竞技成绩的提高和职业生涯的规划,还关系到竞技体育事业的可持续发展。通过对发达国家多个案例的分析论证,发现发达国家运动员保障政策对促进运动员职业转型有完备的法律体系、健全的保险种类、典型的计划和项目、系统的文化教育和职业培训体系以及广泛的社会参与5个影响要素。运动员保障政策越是满足以上5个要素,越能促进运动员职业转型成功。     

诗歌押韵与起承转合

起承转合,关于诗文的意蕴结构或曰章法的这一术语,也可以用来概括诗歌的押韵规律.在诗歌的各种韵式中,起承转合这一韵式有着独特的优势,至今葆有顽强的生命力.     

外商直接投资在中国经营方式变迁的新制度经济学分析

通过回顾外商直接投资在中国经营方式的变迁,认为经营方式的独资化趋势是一种自上而下以渐进式发生的强制性制度变迁,是在中国政府政策引导下的有微观主体自愿参与的制度变迁。运用新制度经济学的研究方法,通过对谈判结构和交易成本的分析,揭示了这一变迁的原因在于：合营企业和合作企业与外资企业在设立与运营过程中由于谈判结构的不同,而使后者在产权保护以及协议执行的成本更低,从而导致了外商直接投资在中国的独资化趋势。认为中国政府应出台政策提高利用外资的质量和水平,以降低＂独资化＂带来的负面影响。     

转型中国的政法救济机制

新中国形成了政法治理的传统。在社会转型时期,政法模式下的救济机制发挥着重要的作用。在理想化的权利救济机制尚不健全之时,政法救济机制有效弥补了权利救济的漏洞,并且是一个可供依赖的过渡路径。政法救济机制的功能主要体现在以下方面:政治权威为公力救济提供权力支撑、政法治理矫正程序主义的救济弊端、政法综治优化救济机制结构。随着我国法治建设的推进,对它的改造和完善是一项必不可少的任务。应当提高信访、泛行政调解、首长公开电话等一些行之有效的救济方式的制度化水平;同时从转变执法方式和坚守程序正义底线两个方面强化政法治理的权利伦理品位。