The servant leadership advantage: When perceiving low differentiation in leader-member relationship quality influences team cohesion,team task performance and service OCB

How does servant leaders' unique ability to place each follower's needs above their own influence relationships between followers and impact their collective performance? In a study that integrates principles of servant leadership with the social comparison theoretical framework, we tested a group-level model to examine how servant leadership induces low perceived differentiation in leader-member relationship quality (perceived LMX differentiation) within a group, which strengthens team cohesion and in turn positively influences team task performance and service-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (service OCB). Our sample comprised 229 employees nested in 67 work teams. Structural equation modeling results indicate that servant leadership significantly predicts low perceived LMX differentiation; perceived LMX differentiation is strongly related to team cohesion such that the lower the perceived differentiation, the stronger the team's cohesiveness. And, team cohesion is also strongly related to both the team's task performance and service OCB. Perceived LMX differentiation and team cohesion mediate the effect of servant leadership on both team task performance and service OCB.     

上网影响个人的社会融合吗?——以陕西和广西为例

上网对个人社会融合的影响是一个有争议的论题。文章使用2010年中国西部调查中陕西、广西两省(自治区)数据,从初级群体、次级群体两个维度考察上网时间与个人社会融合情况之间的关系。分析表明,上网时间的延长会增加个人的社会融合行为。同时,上网程度的加深会强化个人对初级群体的融合。这些结论初步揭示出上网对个人社会融合之间存在正相关关系。     

湖南省县域人口与经济差异测度研究

基于2007—2016年湖南省100个 县域人口与经济数据,采用人口-经济增长弹性、地理集中度、协调度指数、重心模型、ESDA等方法,系统分析了湖南省人口与经济的协调关系、空间集聚程度、重心偏移、空间自相关性等特征,探讨湖南省人口、经济变化及时空协调。结果表明,湖南省经济对人口存在事后调节作用,各分区间存在差异;人口、经济均呈现“东密西疏、核心-外围圈层、低等级城市连片”的分布特征;经济对人口流动存在虹吸效应,区位劣势、资源枯竭型县域人口外流较显著;研究时段内,核心城市聚集作用渐趋增强,人口流动具有经济导向性;人口与经济重心均向东北偏移,且经济重心移幅大于人口重心移幅。空间自相关分析显示,人口呈现高-高、低-低集聚态势,经济则呈现低-低集聚态势。     

农户分化、乡土依赖与集体收益分配权退出

基于3个农村改革试验区716个农户的微观数据,实证分析农户分化、乡土依赖对农户集体收益分配权退出意愿的影响。结果表明,农户的不断分化并未提高其集体收益分配权退出意愿,分化程度较高的农户更倾向于继续持有集体收益分配权,土地、宅基地的退出对集体收益分配权退出意愿未产生显著影响,但对所在村的心理依赖水平有着显著的反向影响,即在集体收益分配权的退出中,对其退出意愿产生影响的更多是农户对乡土的心理依赖,而非现实依赖。这要求在进一步探索中,既要有改革的紧迫感,完善退出机制,引导符合条件的农户理性退出集体收益分配权,也要有历史的耐心,充分尊重农户的乡土情结。     

政策边缘人：理解基层政策执行难的一个视角——以精准扶贫中的“争贫”为例

当公共政策只针对部分社会群体的时候，靠近政策分界线但又没有享受到政策利益的群体就会成为政策边缘人，政策边缘人属于利益外群体，但其结构性位置却又让其最接近分享政策利益，属于潜在受益者。在社会分化和竞争的背景下，政策边缘人与其他条件差不多的群体对比会产生相对剥夺感。政策边缘人会认为享有政策利益本应是他们的权利，于是他们基于维权的想法会通过各种方式谋取政策利益，在此过程中就会影响到基层公共政策的执行。因此，建议通过提高基层治理的法治化、科学化、精细化水平和组织化程度等方式减少政策边缘人对政策执行和基层治理带来的消极影响。     

Status inconsistency in groups: How discrepancies between instrumental and expressive status result in symptoms of stress

This study examines whether a mismatch between the positions that individuals hold in different status hierarchies results in symptoms of stress. Prior research has focused on inconsistencies between socioeconomic status dimensions (e.g., education and income) and did not find a significant relation between status inconsistency and stress. In this paper, we build on research on role differentiation and propose to study the effect of inconsistencies between instrumental status and expressive status in group contexts. We hypothesize that people with an inconsistency between these status dimensions experience feelings of uncertainty and frustration in their interactions with others and this manifests in stress-related symptoms. We test this hypothesis with data collected in a medium-sized Dutch childcare organization (N = 93). Polynomial regression analysis, visualized in response surface plots, suggests that status inconsistent employees report higher levels of stress.     

R package rjmcmc: reversible jump MCMC using post‐processing

The rjmcmc package for R implements the post‐processing reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm of Barker & Link. MCMC output from each of the models is used to estimate posterior model probabilities and Bayes factors. Automatic differentiation is used to simplify implementation. The package is demonstrated on two examples.     

Web analytics and the functional differentiation of journalism cultures: individual,organizational and platform-specific influences on newswork

A key development in journalism over the past decade has been the rise of web analytics for real-time measurement of how audiences respond to news content. While this has led to concerns that analytics may contribute to a dumbing down of news, our understanding of the impact analytics have on journalism culture is still limited. This study explores individual, organizational and platform-specific influences on ways in which journalists and newsrooms access, use, interpret and apply analytics in their daily work. It argues that, increasingly, analytics are beginning to shape and reshape journalistic roles, values, norms and practices across different types of newsrooms. These developments are contributing to processes of functional differentiation in the journalistic field, which is found particularly in emerging practices of day- and platform-parting. The study argues that this differentiation has important consequences for scholars wanting to study news production, distribution and content in the digital age.     

青春文学的崛起

＂青春文学＂的崛起是新世纪以来中国文坛最靓丽的景观之一。以＂80后＂为主体的青春文学作家,创作了一大批风靡国内的、以青少年为消费群体的文学作品,并在文学市场上取得令前辈作家侧目的成绩。从崛起到分化,再到逐渐成熟,青春文学走过了一段波澜壮阔的历程,成为和＂纯文学＂并峙的文学种类。尽管青春文学还显稚嫩,但随着青春文学作家的成长,我们有理由相信他们能写出无愧于时代的作品。     

差异化发展的新途径：创新银企合作模式——以江苏连云港东方农村合作银行为例

阐述了银企合作的意义,分析了银企合作现状,解析了现代新型银企关系,探讨了银企合作中存在的问题,从授信放贷式的传统银企合作、前展后延式服务型银企合作模式、“政银企”三方合作模式以及“银团融资”式银企合作模式这几个方面提出了创新银企合作模式的路径选择。