Nurse safety: How is safety climate related to affect and attitude?

Occupational accidents and injuries continue to be a critical concern for nurses, given the hazardous healthcare environment. This study advances the research on workplace safety by studying the process variables (i.e. job-related negative affect (JRNA) and job satisfaction) in explaining the relationship between safety climate and various safety criteria in nurses. Based on survey data from 326 nurses, our findings suggest that psychological safety climate is negatively related to JRNA, turnover intentions, safety workarounds, and workplace hazards. In addition, structural equation modelling indicated general support for a model in which psychological safety climate influences employee strain through job attitudes, including JRNA and job satisfaction. More specifically, job attitudes were found to mediate the relationship between psychological safety climate and turnover intentions, experience of hazards, and injuries. Safety workarounds did not significantly relate to injuries. The present study contributes to the ongoing improvement of interventions aimed at mitigating nurses’ injuries by integrating job attitudes into the safety climate–safety outcome framework.     

学习江总书记"七一"重要讲话创造性地做好新时期宣传思想工作

江泽民同志在庆祝中国共产党成立80周年大会上的讲话,内涵丰富,博大精深."三个代表"重要思想,进一步丰富了新时期宣传思想工作的内容,为创造性地做好新时期宣传思想工作提出了新的更高的要求.     

社会工作介入退役军人安置工作的思考

将社会工作的理念、方法、技巧介入到军人退役安置工作,有助于促进安置问题的解决。     

The effects of under‐skilling on need for recovery,losing employment and retirement intentions among older office workers: A prospective cohort study

Based on a sample of older workers from the Maastricht Cohort Study, the authors investigate the prevalence and dynamics of self‐reported under‐skilling and its effects on workers' need for recovery, their risk of losing employment and their retirement intentions over a two‐year period. They find that being under‐skilled is associated both with higher levels of need for recovery over time and with the risk of losing employment, but not with early retirement intentions. To achieve sustainable employment, they argue, the course of under‐skilling should be monitored throughout workers' careers, enabling timely interventions to avoid its negative consequences.     

Bored employees misbehaving: The relationship between boredom and counterproductive work behaviour

In this study, the relationships among boredom proneness, job boredom, and counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) were examined. Boredom proneness consists of several factors, which include external stimulation and internal stimulation. Given the strong relationships between both the external stimulation factor of boredom proneness (BP-ext) and anger as well as the strong relationship between trait anger and CWB, we hypothesized that examining BP-ext would help us to better understand why employees commit CWB. Five types of CWB have previously been described: abuse against others, production deviance, sabotage, withdrawal and theft. To those we added a sixth, horseplay. Using responses received from 211 participants who were recruited by email from throughout North America (112 of them matched with co-workers), we found support for our central premise. Indeed, both BP-ext and job boredom showed significant relationships with various types of CWB. The boredom proneness factor also moderated the relationship between job boredom and some types of CWB, suggesting that a better understanding of boredom is imperative for designing interventions to prevent CWB.     

高校辅导员工作导入学校社会工作理念初探

随着招生规模迅速膨胀,学生生活社区化、成长环境社会化以及弹性学制等情况的出现,高校辅导员工作面临着新的挑战,在其中导入学校社会工作理念和方法,使二者在价值观、工作原理和工作方法等方面互补,除了能够帮助学生获得正确的价值观、知识和能力外,还可以有效整合各方面的资源,发挥大学生主体作用,取长补短,构建更有效的育人平台,探索出新时期高校学生工作的新路径。     

中学教师职业倦怠的状况分析

教师心理健康问题得到广泛关注,而职业倦怠是近年来关注的热点。对170名中学教师进行职业倦怠情况调查的结果表明,中学教师的职业倦怠程度并不严重,但仍有一定比率的教师经历严重的倦怠。调查结果还发现,女性教师、重点学校的教师、工作2至3年和工作11至20年两个教龄段的教师更多地经历情绪衰竭;未婚教师在去个性化维度上得分更高。未来研究需要探讨预防和缓解教师发生职业倦怠的干预措施。     

Associations among altruism, burnout dimensions, and organizational citizenship behaviour

Most studies of burnout have focused on lack of resources, prevalence of burnout, and negative outcomes. In contrast, this study examined the relationships among altruism, burnout and a positive outcome, namely, the engagement in organizational citizenship behaviour. Web questionnaires were distributed to employees in three professional organizations. The results from the 178 respondents indicated that altruism is related to organizational citizenship behaviour. Of the three dimensions of burnout, only reduced personal accomplishment was (negatively) associated with engagement in organizational citizenship behaviours. Implications of the results are discussed and directions for future research are offered.     

对大学毕业生就业失信行为的审视

失信在当今社会、经济生活中已成为较为突出的矛盾和问题 ,就连大学毕业生在求职过程中也表现出失信行为。如“注水简历”、“伪造证书”、“随意违约”等 ,过早地闪现了诚信危机的寒光 ,现状堪忧 ,这不能不引起全社会的关注。其原因主要有就业形势严峻 ;社会失信行为的负面影响 ;社会、学校、家庭诚信教育体系的缺失等。大学毕业生在求职过程中惟有自身进行反省 ;学校建立起良好的诚信育人环境 ;主管部门加快健全信用机制 ;用人单位调整好选才标准 ;媒体舆论等社会力量共同营造诚信的良好氛围 ,才能实现诚信就业。     

中国加入WTO与高校毕业生就业改革

中国加入WTO,促进了经济的发展,加剧了人才的竞争。这一方面给高校毕业生的就业提供了新的机遇,同时也带来了严峻的挑战。面对新的形势,我们应当努力进行高校毕业生工作的改革,增强毕业生在人才市场中的竞争能力。