Can a leader be seen as too ethical? The curvilinear effects of ethical leadership

Ethical leadership predicts important organizational outcomes such as decreased deviant and increased organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We argued that due to the distinct nature of these two types of employee behaviors, ethical leadership decreases deviance in a linear manner (i.e., more ethical leadership leading to less deviance), but we expected ethical leadership to reveal a curvilinear relationship with respect to OCB. Specifically, we expected that, at lower levels, ethical leadership promotes OCB. However, at high levels, ethical leadership should lead to a decrease in these behaviors. We also examined a mechanism that explains this curvilinear pattern, that is, followers' perceptions of moral reproach. Our predictions were supported in three organizational field studies and an experiment. These findings offer a better understanding of the processes that underlie the workings of ethical leadership. They also imply a dilemma for organizations in which they face the choice between limiting deviant employee behavior and promoting OCB.     

Edge-colouring of joins of regular graphs II

We prove that the edges of every even graph G=G ₁+G ₂ that is the join of two regular graphs G ₁ and G ₂ can be coloured with Δ(G) colours, whenever Δ(G)=Δ(G ₁)+|V ₂|. The proof of this result together with the results in De Simone and Galluccio (J. Comb. Optim. 18:417–428, 2009) states that every even graph G that is the join of two regular graphs is Class 1. The proof yields an efficient combinatorial algorithm to find a Δ(G)-edge-colouring of this type of graphs.     

Measuring Subjective Issues of Well-Being and Quality of Life in the European Statistical System

Over the last decades, the European Statistical System has developed many European statistics and indicators to measure social progress and sustainable development. Initially only in a few cases the measuring instruments contained questions on subjective issues. With the adoption of its Communication on “gross domestic product and beyond” the Commission has given an impetus to the development of subjective social indicators. This has led to the establishment of a first set of indicators on quality of life and well-being and to a new instrument (the 2013 EU-SILC ad-hoc module for measuring subjective well-being). This new step in European statistics creates an important potential for researchers to engage in in-depth analysis and for national and European Union policy makers to use the resulting indicators—and in casu subjective well-being indicators—for developing and monitoring policy strategies and programmes.     

Egyptian Workers and “Their” Intellectuals: The Dialectical Pedagogy of the Mahalla Strike Movement

This article analyzes the development of the Egyptian workers' movement in the face of the 25 January Revolution through the notion of dialectical pedagogy. This Gramscian concept is extended by a Vygotskyan analysis of the reciprocal learning processes, which stimulate a proletarian activity system to overcome its economic-corporate predicament. The concrete case study of the Mahalla strike movement (2006–2008) elucidates the transformative-instructive dynamics of autoprolepsis and heterolepsis and the importance of solidarity in developing the worker Subject. The 25 January Revolution expanded the proletarian Zone of Proximal Development and created new possibilities and constraints for the development of the workers' movement.     

长城的团结:草原社会与农业社会的历史法理——拉铁摩尔中国边疆理论评述

拉铁摩尔以长城为标志,对中国历史边疆(满洲、蒙古、新疆、西藏)展开历史地理比较研究.以草原、绿洲、农业等人文地理概念为范畴,对中国北方边疆区域地理生产方式、经济政治交往的相互性因素进行宏观考察.提出中国历史是草原社会与农业社会的两种秩序相互循环的历史理论.拉铁摩尔的研究恰好反映出,中国作为统一的多民族国家在历史发展中形成你中有我,我中有你,各民族相互离不开的历史关系.这是中国多民族国家的历史法理.20世纪中叶起,中国进入东部(海洋)与西部(陆地)区域间的新地理循环,以构建中国的工业化.     

论庄子《逍遥游》的境界与达成

庄子《逍遥游》中的“游”对天地万物而言,既是一种存在的状态,又是一种运动的方式,而“逍遥”则是“游”的一种极致境界。这种境界的达成以归“一”为标志,“一”就是道家哲学中自然而然的本质存在—“道”。对物而言,“游”的本身就是“逍遥”或无所谓“逍遥”;对人而言,必须凭借一定的条件和修养工夫才能达此境界。这个凭借的条件就是“知”,这个修养工夫就是“觉”。借“知”以进“觉”的过程并非有意为之,而是通过自然无为的“化”。这样,一个世俗中的常人就可以通过大其心、觉其知、无为自化的方式,沿着“逝—远—反”的途径去接近“道”体,最后达到“一”的境界,实现真正伟大的精神自由。     

Single mothers or women in single parenthood (WISP)? A report and reflection on the development of a brief marital metaphor questionnaire (MMQ-10)

Metaphor is embedded with representations of both experience and longing and can go far beyond problem representations in exploring marital experience. This paper reports the development of a marital metaphor questionnaire and its use with 123 Chinese single mothers. Lower marital satisfaction does correlate with their ratings of marital experience, but not with their general attitude toward marriage. The implications are discussed as to how marital metaphors could be used as an effective tool to engage clients on sensitive topics, reveal hopes and strengths, and how empirical studies can be conducted in a stigma-free and strength-based orientation.     

以"三个代表"思想指导高校学风建设

江泽民同志的"三个代表"重要思想和关于教育创新的要求,为我们探索和搞好学风建设提供了思考的路径:更新办学观念是学风建设的先导;加强道德建设是学风建设的基础;深化教学改革是学风建设的动力;提高学习素质是学风建设的核心;端正考风是学风建设的重点;班风建设是学风建设的载体.     

西南地区历史教育的现状与对策研究

通过对西南地区不同层面的中学历史教师的基本结构、学科观念、职业兴趣、课堂教学、教育科研及学校的教学设备等方面的抽样分析 ,充分说明 :加强中学历史教育必须从更新教育观念、落实历史学科在素质教育中的重要地位入手 ,同时还要积极推进历史课程结构改革 ,全面优化历史教学 ,努力提高中学历史教师的群体素质