安利到底还能走多远?

长久以来,安利一直是直销的一个"符号".但现在,人们更多是把安利视为一种"现象",而这种现象,正是中国直销市场开放前夜浮躁和喧嚣的一个缩影.     

安利到底还能走多远?

长久以来,安利一直是直销的一个"符号"。但现在,人们更多是把安利视为一种"现象",而这种现象,正是中国直销市场开放前夜浮躁和喧嚣的一个缩影。2004年之于安利,可谓有点流年不利,安利的是是非非.也不断成为业内关注的热点。作为一家规模最大的,也是最悠久的直销企业,我们无法苛求它的尽善尽美。安利之所以被关注,除了它自身的因素外,更有它的外部因素。中国直销传播网对安利进行了理性分析,本刊特转载此文。审视安利,也便是审视整个直销业。我们希望中国直销业越走越好,也祝愿安利一路走好!     

安利中国内忧外困

4月8日,雅芳公司宣布成为中国首张获得直销牌照的试点企业,这对一直寄望获得首牌的安利来说无疑是一个巨大的压力,而此间由雅芳试点引出的单多层次直销模式之争更将安利公司推入了一个尴尬的境地。或许,在之前预感到中国政府会先进行单层次直销试点,于是,安利总裁德·狄维士在3月来到中国访问参加安利中国公司10周年庆典时,也向对外宣称:“安利公司将向单层次直销模式靠拢”。或许,德·狄维士的表态对安利公司来说是一次不得已而     

选定目标,寻找适合自己的工作

2001年6月,经人推荐,我去听了一堂课,内容是“安利直销产品及制度”。这堂课激起了我的兴趣,也了解一些直销的情况,对直销理念也是有所领悟的。当然,安利产品还是实实在在的,但让自己至少要掏几万元钱才能做,这对我来说还应付不起。一晃就是好几年,做安利的人仍然紧追着我,要我跟他们去做安利,但我觉得不能去。     

安利：中国员工可能大逃亡

每日经济新闻报道:在直销企业的"春天"即将到来之时,安利的天空上却飘起了片片雪花。安利大中华区对外事务首席代表兼总监何凯立的离职,让安利内部人员对公司的不满露出"冰山一角"。"何离开的原因很简单,就是对安利对自己的评价颇有微辞。"而业内熟悉何凯立的人士透露,安利对何凯立的业绩非常不满意。"中国直销立法以来,号称"和中国政府关系极佳"的安利却成为每次都是最后一个知道立法政策变动的     

直销、传销怎么区分？

主持人:上期节目我们说到,“直销”实际上属于无店铺销售形式中的一种,它的特点是需要有销售人员参与,分单层次直销和多层次直销。而最让人迷惑的也正是这个多层次直销,因为它需要发展下线。而“发展下线”这个词,一听就让人紧张,很容易就联想到骗人钱财的“传销”和“老鼠会”。那么,同样是发展下线,多层次直销究竟和传销区别在哪儿?很多观众给我们发短信都问到了同样的问题,今天我们不妨就来选取一个目前在我国规模最大,也最有名的多层次直销品牌——安利,来做个调查,试着解开这个问号。     

选定目标,寻找适合自己的工作

2001年6月,经人推荐,我去听了一堂课,内容是"安利直销产品及制度".这堂课激起了我的兴趣,也了解一些直销的情况,对直销理念也是有所领悟的.当然,安利产品还是实实在在的,但让自己至少要掏几万元钱才能做,这对我来说还应付不起.一晃就是好几年,做安利的人仍然紧追着我,要我跟他们去做安利,但我觉得不能去.     

安利仍对中国市场充满信心

在雅芳全球总裁宣布雅芳在中国直销市场开放前获批成为第一家进行直销试点的公司后,网易商业报道第一时间采访了另一家直销业巨头安利公司人士。对于国家商务部和工商总局批准雅芳进行直销试点的这一举动,安利媒介事务经理姜京源闭口不谈对安利带来的影响,只是表示,现在应该关注的不是试点对安利能产生什么影响,而是对整个行业、对国家开放整个市场有什么影响。在直销法出台前,进行试点是有必要的,是获得一些经验,对解决立法后实际操作中出现的问题有一些感性认识。     

安利中国内忧外困

4月8日,雅芳公司宣布成为中国首张获得直销牌照的试点企业,这对一直寄望获得首牌的安利来说无疑是一个巨大的压力,而此间由雅芳试点引出的单多层次直销模式之争更将安利公司推入了一个尴尬的境地.     

安利仍对中国市场充满信心

在雅芳全球总裁宣布雅芳在中国直销市场开放前获批成为第一家进行直销试点的公司后,网易商业报道第一时间采访了另一家直销业巨头安利公司人士.对于国家商务部和工商总局批准雅芳进行直销试点的这一举动,安利媒介事务经理姜京源闭口不谈对安利带来的影响,只是表示,现在应该关注的不是试点对安利能产生什么影响,而是对整个行业、对国家开放整个市场有什么影响.在直销法出台前,进行试点是有必要的,是获得一些经验、对解决立法后实际操作中出现的问题有一些感性认识.     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.