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.     

Land markets and migration trends in Tanzania: A qualitative‐quantitative analysis

While migration has been found to enhance welfare across a range of settings, most of the literature focuses on rural‐to‐urban migrant flows. Using a unique dataset from north‐western Tanzania, this article probes an important, yet overlooked, link between land markets and rural‐to‐rural migration. A mixed‐methods approach is used to discern how these two forces are intertwined in village life. Results indicate that household decisions to migrate are particularly influenced by the ease of market‐based land access in their new communities. This suggests that labour mobility may be facilitated through the development of a well‐functioning land market.     

Sample size re‐estimation incorporating prior information on a nuisance parameter

Prior information is often incorporated informally when planning a clinical trial. Here, we present an approach on how to incorporate prior information, such as data from historical clinical trials, into the nuisance parameter–based sample size re‐estimation in a design with an internal pilot study. We focus on trials with continuous endpoints in which the outcome variance is the nuisance parameter. For planning and analyzing the trial, frequentist methods are considered. Moreover, the external information on the variance is summarized by the Bayesian meta‐analytic‐predictive approach. To incorporate external information into the sample size re‐estimation, we propose to update the meta‐analytic‐predictive prior based on the results of the internal pilot study and to re‐estimate the sample size using an estimator from the posterior. By means of a simulation study, we compare the operating characteristics such as power and sample size distribution of the proposed procedure with the traditional sample size re‐estimation approach that uses the pooled variance estimator. The simulation study shows that, if no prior‐data conflict is present, incorporating external information into the sample size re‐estimation improves the operating characteristics compared to the traditional approach. In the case of a prior‐data conflict, that is, when the variance of the ongoing clinical trial is unequal to the prior location, the performance of the traditional sample size re‐estimation procedure is in general superior, even when the prior information is robustified. When considering to include prior information in sample size re‐estimation, the potential gains should be balanced against the risks.     

论准备海外上市公司的内部控制建设

本文主要探讨准备在海外上市的中国企业要加入到国际市场的竞争中,应该如何按照国际上通行的内部控制标准来建立内部控制体系。以COSO报告作为内控标准来分析我国现阶段企业内控管理的基本状况,并进一步就国内企业应如何按照国际上通行的内部控制标准来建立完善而有效的内部控制体系提出了一些应对措施和建议。     

农民合作社信用合作满意度实证研究——基于内部社会资本分析视角

基于对3个省的3个县市区253家合作社的调查数据,运用因子分析法和二元Logistic分析法实证研究合作社社员满意度的影响因素。因子分析结果表明:内部社会资本由内部信任、内部规范和社会网络等3个因子构成。Logistic回归分析结果显示:内部信任、内部规范这两个测量变量与社员满意度存在显著的正相关性,而社会规范与社员满意度之间呈显著的负向相关关系。组织认同能够提高社员对合作社的满意度,且加入合作社时间越短的社员对合作社的满意度越高。此外,还通过剔除不显著变量和增加变量的方法对社员满意度进行回归分析,结果证明研究结论具有高度的稳健性。据此提出建立健全信用合作管理制度、加强合作社的社会整合功能、发挥合作社示范作用的政策建议。     

“内”“外”表达:桂林龙脊梯田景区乡愁意识的建构与重塑

桂林龙脊梯田的农耕文明和乡土文化是自然景观与乡愁旅游资源的综合体,承载着景区的历史记忆,是延续和传承龙脊梯田景区乡愁文化的重要表征。留住乡愁文化对于传承当地的历史文化、重塑乡愁记忆和树立乡土文化自信具有重要作用。村民作为龙脊梯田景区乡愁旅游感知的内部视野,与作为外部视角的政府、游客和媒体有着不一样的建构策略,在深描各行动者如何"留住"与"重塑"乡愁的基础上,提出活化社会记忆、激发集体记忆、凝聚情感记忆和赋能媒介记忆的乡愁旅游发展路径,旨在强化乡愁旅游主体地位、增强乡愁文化认同、搭建乡愁情感纽带和创新乡愁文化感知。     

高校内部治理组织的民主化建设

随着我国高等教育体制改革的不断深入,高校内部治理组织的民主化建设逐渐成为高等教育改革的重点之一,而这也是建设中国特色现代大学的必然要求。针对我国高校内部治理组织广泛存在着政治权力与行政权力冲突、行政权力与学术权力失衡、缺乏强有力的监督与约束组织机制等问题,提出要进一步完善高校内部治理组织的民主化建设相关法律法规;切实改革高校内部治理组织的民主监督机制;理顺学术权力与行政权力关系,规范权力运行,从而加速推动高校内部治理组织民主化建设目标的最终实现。     

现金流不确定状态下财务指标IRR的应用探析

内含报酬率是目前评价项目可行性的主要指标之一,在应用时都是建立在对现金净流量值给出确切估计的基础上,但在实际经营活动中现金净流量存在着很多不确定性,往往是不能确切地估计出来。在此基础上考虑了各期现金流是概率排序型、各期现金净流量值是一个区间数以及各期现金净流量满足特定的概率分布这三种不确定状态下的IRR应用情形,使其能够更加贴近现实,提高项目评估的准确性。     

让农村籍员工自愿留在企业中:内部营销作用于留任意愿的机理研究

通过理清内部营销作用于留任意愿的机理, 找出让农村籍员工自愿留在企业中的途径。收集701份针对农村籍员工的有效问卷调查数据, 采用SPSS 21与LISREL 8.70进行统计分析。研究结果表明:内部营销对留任意愿有显著的正向影响, 组织认同在其中起到部分中介的作用。个体-组织匹配程度的不同还会严重影响到内部营销对留任意愿作用的强度以及员工“是走是留”。