Engaging leader – Engaged employees? A cross-lagged study on employee engagement

The goal of this study is to provide a cross-lagged examination of the relationships between engaging leadership, job resources and employee work engagement. We propose a mediation model and we postulate that engaging leadership can increase perceptions of three specific job resources (i.e. autonomy, support from colleagues and opportunities for learning and development) which theoretically correspond to the three facets of engaging leadership (i.e., inspiring, connecting and strengthening, respectively). Subsequently, in keeping with the extant body of Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) research, we link job resources to employee work engagement. Our hypotheses were tested on data collected at two time-points – T1 (N = 759) and T2 (N = 273) –from employees working for a hotel chain in the Netherlands. In line with our expectations, engaging leadership showed a significant cross-lagged relationship with autonomy and support from colleagues, but did not predict learning opportunities and work engagement across time. While we formulated specific hypotheses, we also tested reversed causation relationships. We found no direct effect from engaging leadership on employee work engagement, however, the reversed effect was significant; employee perceptions of engaging leadership were shaped by their own engagement experiences. Importantly, engaged employees at T1 reported more job resources at T2. By providing a cross-lagged examination of our model, we showed that engaging leaders as well as employees’ positive affective state of being engaged, are essential to shaping a resourceful work context. A comprehensive view on the triggers and outcomes of work engagement and engaging leadership is needed, as the traditional unidirectional cause-effect rationale fails to explain how these concepts relate to one another and to employee experiences of job resources.     

南宋理学家对王安石新学的批判

南宋理学家对 王安石新学的批判，主要表现在二方面：一是斥新学为异端邪说，藉以标榜理学为继孔孟绝 学的正统，二是把新学作为变乱祖宗法度而致北宋亡国的理论根源，予以无情打击。陆九渊 对王安石个人的政治操守和治国理想给以赞誉，但对王安石新学亦持批评态度。理学家批 判新学对南宋社会发展造成了不良影响，这就是在“法祖”的旗帜下，使南宋社会上上下下 因循守旧、政治上保守主义日益弥漫，并且直接影响了元明清对王安石新学及新法的评价。     

土家族的机智人物故事

机智人物故事是民间故事中的特殊类型,是以一个机智人物为中心所形成的系列故事,有着不同于一般生活故事和民间笑话的审美特征。土家族机智人物故事有着流传空间相对稳定,主人公因地而异的特点,体现着平衡心理的重要社会功能。     

彭家煌与"契诃夫风致"

彭家煌的小说创作深受契诃夫影响.从客观叙事原则、挖掘人物灵魂的叙事深度、生活印象的叙事方式、悲喜交融的叙事风格等方面加以比较分析,既可重现彭家煌独特的艺术个性,又可把握住契诃夫在现实批判性、艺术形式、真实性等层面对中国现代短篇小说叙事模式的影响.契诃夫既为中国现代小说提供了易于操作的范式,而中国作家又在某种程度上简化了契诃夫的小说智慧.     

走向西方的日本近代文学的起点——进化论与坪内逍遥的小说改良

由于明治以来的日本文化始终处于东西方文化交融的前哨 ,研究日本近代文学也必须从东西文化交融这一点切入。明治文学的起点是坪内逍遥的小说改良 ,其小说改良的理论基础是进化论。但对于进化论如何影响日本近代文学的确立这一问题若明若暗 ,如今 ,在日本文学界成为反思的一个焦点 ;同样 ,对这一问题的探讨也有助于对我国现当代文学的理论研究     

小说化:民族志书写的一种可能性

传统民族志的文化书写在小说与民族志之间人为划定了严格的界限,它重视概括性事实而回避故事讲述和故事中的单个人物,更谈不上中心人物的深度塑造。实验民族志这种书写范式的出现为借用小说叙事和人物塑造来集中地、戏剧性地展示对象的人文事实、心理事实及其内在意义提供了可能性。     

本雅明:经验与故事

在本雅明的经验理论中,他曾经提出一个核心概念:"具体的经验总体。"他认为,这个"经验总体"应该包括较少受到启蒙之光照射的文学艺术领域。在本雅明关于"经验"与故事关系论述中,他指出:讲故事艺术是经验交流的最有效形式;经验在故事中的呈现仰仗"转述、浸润与复述"三种手段;随着手工劳动的衰退,中产阶级的兴起以及战争、技术等社会生活的变化,"经验贬值了","讲故事艺术衰落了",艺术、"韵味(aura)"、传统衰落了,取而代之的是小说与新闻报道。但是,他仍希望通过对"故事"的解析寻找对传统的衰落的补偿。     

Male Adolescents: Sexual Victimization and Subsequent Sexual Abuse

Veneziano, Veneziano and LeGrand (2000) found support for the victim to victimizer hypothesis of sexual aggression with 74 sexually abusive youth. This project, a further step in examining this theory (Burton, 2000, Burton, Miller, & Shill, 2002) builds on their ideas with data from 179 adolescent sexual abusers, and supports their findings. In an examination of relationships, gender, modus operandi, and acts, the sexually abused youth were likely to repeat what was done to them. This project also offers a further analysis of how victimization accounts for a significant portion of the variance in perpetration by these youth. Implications for research and practice are offered.     

The Effects of Spousal Health on the Decision to Smoke: Evidence on Consumption Externalities, Altruism and Learning Within the Household

Married individuals are healthier than single individuals though the reasons are not well understood. Individuals with spouses/or partners are less likely to smoke. We explore the relationship between health and marital status by analyzing three potential channels through which marriage affects smoking, i.e., consumption externalities (one spouse's smoking affects the other spouse's welfare), altruism (one spouse reduces smoking in response to the other spouse's bad health), and learning about risks of smoking from the health experience of one's spouse. We find spousal health does not affect smoking due to altruism or learning within the household but do find evidence for consumption externalities.