When the main job tasks are perceived to be ‘irrelevant’ in the workplace: the internal uselessness of corporate social responsibility work in Japan

ABSTRACT

Despite a symbolic shift toward ‘emotional taint’ in dirty work literature, the role of the workplace has not been studied in relation to socially admired professions, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) work. This article carries out an in-depth, critical examination of CSR as an emotionally tainted occupation in Japan. Its findings, substantiated by an analysis of 34 CSR workers’ rhetoric, help conceptualise ‘internal uselessness’. This emerges when workers feel their organisations publicly foster an image of their work that is decoupled from its internal reality, assigning them chief tasks they consider irrelevant. This leads to negative consequences that damage their workplace social relationships, professional aspirations and emotional well-being. The findings ultimately show that these CSR workers in Japan attempt to counterbalance internal uselessness through a social quest with peers outside their workplace, but also manage their emotions by rationalising their job status as inescapable, influenced by situated commitment norms.     

澜湄水资源公平合理利用路径探析

当前，澜湄水资源合作正处于确立合作项目与建立合作机制的关键时期。机遇与挑战并存。如何将区域争议点转化为区域合作亮点，最大限度地协调沿岸国水利益，统筹各方水需求，形成符合澜湄流域实际的合作机制，促成“水命运共同体”建设，确保流域的可持续发展，是开展水资源合作必须思考的问题。文章回顾了我国推动澜湄水资源合作的发展历程。针对问题提出了以公平合理利用原则为切入点，深化澜湄水资源合作的建议。     

Measures of emergency preparedness contributing to nursing home resilience

ABSTRACT

Resilience approaches have been successfully applied in crisis management, disaster response, and high reliability organizations and have the potential to enhance existing systems of nursing home disaster preparedness. This study’s purpose was to determine how the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “Emergency Preparedness Checklist Recommended Tool for Effective Health Care Facility Planning” contributes to organizational resilience by identifying the benchmark resilience items addressed by the CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist and items not addressed by the CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist, and to recommend tools and processes to improve resilience for nursing homes. The CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist items were compared to the Resilience Benchmark Tool items; similar items were considered matches. Resilience Benchmark Tool items with no CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist item matches were considered breaches in nursing home resilience. The findings suggest that the CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist can be used to measure some aspects of resilience, however, there were many resilience factors not addressed. For nursing homes to prepare and respond to crisis situations, organizations need to embrace a culture that promotes individual resilience-related competencies that when aggregated enable the organization to improve its resiliency. Social workers have the skills and experience to facilitate this change.     

Complementary health approaches for postpartum depression: A systematic review

Postpartum Depression (PPD) affects approximately 9 - 20% of women. Many women with PPD go undiagnosed and/ or do not follow through on referrals for treatment. Although the most routinely prescribed treatments for PPD are antidepressant medication and psychotherapy, a significant number of women desire non-traditional options. This article provides a systematic review of ten recently published, randomized clinical trials in the examination of the effectiveness of complementary health approaches—the use of non-mainstream products and interventions—on PPD. A search of nine databases of the English language literature from the years 2006 to 2018 was performed. Review criteria included published work, utilization of randomized-controlled trials, and the use of a reliable and valid measurement tool to identify cases of PPD and monitor changes in symptom severity. The studies reviewed focused on the following interventions: aromatherapy, bright light therapy, electroacupuncture, infant massage, iron supplementation, mindfulness training, omega-3 fatty acids, saffron, and yoga. Outcomes demonstrate the feasibility and safety of these approaches, as well as varying degrees of effectiveness. While many were pilot studies using small sample sizes, the results are encouraging and substantiate the need for additional trials. Studies are summarized and limitations and implications for social work and future research are described.     

教研同一 道术归一 知行合一——张柏然教授翻译人才培养观研究

张柏然教授关注翻译教学并从事翻译实践、翻译研究与翻译人才培养长达半个世纪，为祖国培养了60名高层次译学研究人才。张柏然教授研究型翻译人才和致用型翻译人才培养的理念可以用“创新引领、中西融通”“国学陶养、通才模式”和“能力导向、质量为本”24字概括，这些思想服务于他的翻译教学与人才培养，遵循从应然经使然再到实然的逻辑演绎路径，实现了翻译人才培养的教研同一、道术归一与知行合一，在“对外讲好中国故事、传播好中国声音”的大背景下，具有重大的实践价值。     

论乡村振兴背景下西部农村良性文化的生存现状及培育路径

党的十九大提出了乡村振兴战略。乡村振兴不仅囊括着产业兴旺、生态宜居、生活富裕等指标,也意指乡风文明、文化繁荣等方面得到实质性提升。在乡村振兴过程中必须高度重视农村文化建设,只有良性文化“留乡”“在乡”,乡风才可能文明,乡村振兴的目标才能实现。当前西部农村文化总体上呈现出良莠共生的状况,良性文化渐呈衰微之势,而非良性文化则日渐抬头。重塑西部农村文化需要坚持良性文化的主导原则,在此基础上,政府需要加强公共文化基础设施建设、加大良性文化的弘扬力度、提升农民对文化客体的辨别和选择能力。     

通用工程师专业学位研究生培养模式的研究

基于通用工程师应具备的知识、能力和素质,结合中国专业学位硕士研究生的定位和培养目标,以及法国工程师职衔委员会关于颁发工程师文凭的具体要求,对建立通用工程师专业学位研究生培养模式的关键因素进行了较为深入的分析与研究;围绕培养目标、培养过程、课程设置和质量保障等四个方面,对北航中法工程师学院通用工程师专业的培养模式进行了系统、全面的分析和解读,探索出的培养理念、培养思路和实施办法,可为中国专业学位硕士研究生培养模式的改革与发展提供参考和借鉴.     

Indigenous Psychology: Grounding Science in Culture,Why and How?

My agenda is to ground psychological science in culture by using complex rather than overly simple models of culture and using indigenous categories as criteria of a translation test to determine the adequacy of scientific models of culture. I first explore the compatibility between Chinese indigenous categories and complex models of culture, by casting in the theoretical framework of symmetry and symmetry breaking (Bolender, 2010) a series of translations performed on Fiske's (1991) relational models theory. Next, I show how the dimensional approach to culture, prevalent in mainstream psychology, fails the translation test. Ethical implications of this analysis for cross cultural psychology are discussed.     

论“立言”

两千多年前的春秋时代,中国知识分子就非常重视"立言",把它视作传名、追求不朽甚至永恒的重要手段。在建设文化强国的今天,继承"立言"的传统,把有价值的见解或史料、经验、发现等通过著书立说的方式贡献出来,是很有必要的。如何"立言",如何使自己所立之言得到社会的认可,并有较长的生命力,是目前知识界面临的难题。"立言"之人要有追求真理的精神、实事求是的态度;"立言"者须有创新意识,努力使自己的著作具有独创性;"立言"者还必须有精品意识,对自己的著作不断修改、加工,使之趋于完美;"立言"者须先修身,提高自身精神境界,更好地了解社会的需要和自己的责任。如此,方能"立言"成功。     

新建本科院校提升治理能力的路径

从“管理”走向“治理”，新建本科院校存在一些困难，主要表现为：管理体制重心居上，教学质量难以保障；行政 化倾向严重，学术自由难以实现；办学自主权缺失，办学特色难以形成；教师成长与发展机制不畅，大学精神难以彰显。在治理 理念下，新建本科院校应通过以下路径提高治理能力：以权力下放为重点，提升教学治理能力；以去行政化为导向，提高学术治 理能力；落实办学自主权，提高特色治理能力；凸显教师主体地位，提高文化治理能力。