“四位一体”:地方政府绩效管理体系的案例研究

在进行绩效管理工作试点的背景下,呈现了某市地方政府绩效管理体系的创新案例。该市建立了融目标、业绩、过错和样本点"四位一体"的政府绩效管理体系,从多角度全面、系统地对政府绩效进行分类、分级、量化的考核。分析表明,"四位一体"的地方政府绩效管理体系形成了良好的激励结构,提升了政府绩效测量的准确性,为谋事干事的人预留了充足、适宜的创新空间,在实践中取得了良好效果。     

壁间奇葩——论宋代题壁词的艺术特征

宋代题壁词因其载体的独特性使其不趋步旧径,呈现出自己的艺术特色,文章主要从题序、意象、表现手法、语言特色等几个方面,结合具体作品加以论析,力求展现宋代题壁词的艺术魅力。     

The Effects of Engaging in Rapport-Building Behaviors on Productivity and Discretionary Effort

ABSTRACT

A commonly held belief among business professionals is that rapport-building activities in the workplace can enhance organizational outcomes and employee satisfaction. However, limited research has evaluated the effects of rapport-building behaviors on productivity and discretionary effort. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of engaging in rapport-building behaviors on productivity and discretionary effort in comparison to a control group in an analogue setting. Participants in the present study consisted of 48 undergraduate students who were assigned to either the rapport-building behaviors group or the control group. Participants completed a check-processing task to evaluate productivity and were asked to complete an optional survey to evaluate discretionary effort. The results indicated that rapport-building behaviors group had higher levels of productivity and engaged in more discretionary effort than the control group.     

How to compare interpretatively different models for the conditional variance function

This study considers regression-type models with heteroscedastic Gaussian errors. The conditional variance is assumed to depend on the explanatory variables via a parametric or non-parametric variance function. The variance function has usually been selected on the basis of the log-likelihoods of fitted models. However, log-likelihood is a difficult quantity to interpret – the practical importance of differences in log-likelihoods has been difficult to assess. This study overcomes these difficulties by transforming the difference in log-likelihood to easily interpretative difference in the error of predicted deviation. In addition, methods for testing the statistical significance of the observed difference in test data log-likelihood are proposed.     

Expectations of Career Counseling and Their Effect on Client Satisfaction

Although there has been growing attention to clients' expectations of career counseling, more research is necessary to clarify the role of these expectations in shaping client satisfaction at the end of the intervention. On the basis of expectation confirmation theory, this study examined the indirect effect of clients' initial expectations on overall satisfaction through the perceived performance and final confirmation of expectations. We also explored whether this indirect effect is dependent on counselors' initial expectations. Longitudinal data were collected on 83 counselor-client dyads involved in a career counseling intervention in northeast Italy. Results confirmed that clients' initial expectations predicted overall satisfaction with the intervention through the subsequent mediation of perceived performance and confirmation of clients' expectations. The moderating role of the counselors' initial expectations was not confirmed. These findings imply that career counselors should invest their efforts in managing clients' expectations.     

Evaluation of Occupational Health Promotion Programs

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of Corporate Health Promotion Program proliferation and to propose a methodology to determine the effectiveness of these programs from a benefit to cost perspective. A national survey of firms sponsoring health promotion activities was conducted to ascertain a variety of information. The specific goal of this study was to determine the extent to which firms were actually conducting financial analyses in order to ascertain whether their health promotion programs were generating benefits that justified continued program funding. The results of the study showed that although the concept of Corporate Health Promotion Programs is rather popular, there is very little concern on the part of the sponsoring firms for measuring the effectiveness of their programs, particularly from a financial perspective. This suggests a vulnerability insofar as those programs are concerned. If such program costs cannot be justified on some quantifiable basis, the possibility of their cancellation seems rather likely if it becomes necessary to reduce expenditures.     

The Federal GPRA Evaluation Mandate

Abstract

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) mandates inclusion of evaluation in federal agency strategic plans, impacting human service programs receiving federal support. Recommended evaluation methods include flexible ongoing and participatory approaches. Yet social work may not be prepared to appropriately respond to the government's demands for accountability. This paper reviews GPRA and its implications for social work practice, evaluation, and research, offering response strategies. The paper suggests that the creation of a National Center for Social Work Research (S. 70/H.R. 663) could help bridge evaluation gaps, offering a centralized mechanism for monitoring evaluation activities and maximizing federal research resources.     

The role of QMS in the relationship between innovation climate and performance

The emergence of new global competitors, the convergence of high-technology industries and the increasing speed and cost of technological development promises an increasingly uncertain environment for organisations, making adaptation to changes in the environment a central theme in the study of the organisation for both organisation theory and strategic management. This study thus seeks principally to verify that, while innovation and quality management (QM) alone do not possess the qualities required to provide organisations with sustainable competitive advantages, the bundle of innovation and QM together with other resources and competencies will allow organisations to obtain a competitive advantage and adapt to their environment. The results show that the factors determining innovation – such as resistance to change, cohesion and workload pressures – have repercussions for the firms’ capacity to adapt to their environmentand that a QM context facilitates this adaptation. Finally, we can conclude that a climate of support for innovation is positively related to the organisation’s performance.     

课堂教学与学生的角色探微

本文从课堂教学角度出发阐述了学生课堂角色的重要意义,教师的课堂角色对学生运用语言的影响;并以建构主义的理论为依据分析了学生在课堂中的角色与他们运用英语能力的关系,以期寻找提高学生英语运用能力的最佳途径。     

金刚石与锯片使用性能之间的关系

根据试验研究结果和生产实践经验,把石材加工用金刚石圆锯片的性能及使用效果的诸多影响因素视为系统工程问题,分别从原材料、制造工艺与装备、锯片的合理选择和正确使用等各个方面进行了系统分析,着重分析了金刚石和金属结合剂对锯片使用性能的影响规律,指出了存在的问题和改进的途径.