The Experience of Gender Change in Public Sector Organizations

The state has a twofold relationship to gender change in society, through its overall steering capacity and through the gendered character of its constituent agencies. It is therefore important to understand the experience of gender change in state organizations. The findings from a study of gender relations in ten public‐sector worksites in New South Wales, Australia are presented. There is a widespread consciousness of gender change linked with new labour processes, restructuring and new patterns of management. These changes are uneven and limits to change are visible. Gender is recognized as an organizational problem in specific circumstances, most visibly where men’s resistance to change appears. A number of mechanisms limit the consciousness of gender as a problem. Several trends, including the current strength of neo‐liberalism, converge to make the gender‐neutral workplace the principal goal of gender reform in the public‐sector workplace. This, however, limits the state’s steering capacity in regard to societal gender relations.     

在世俗欲念中走向精神迷失——论世纪末当代文学中的“欲望自焚者”形象

世纪末当代文学中的"欲望自焚者"形象是深陷于欲望的泥潭无法自拔的一类人。本文将从物欲、色欲、权欲的三个角度透视这类人物形象的本质特征,从社会经济、文化和人性等方面分析这类人物形象产生的原因,并揭示出作家们塑造这类人物形象的内在差异。     

Collapsing the Boundaries? Fatherhood,Organization and Home‐Working

In the modern western world, the discursive construction of fatherhood and everyday fathering practices has been underpinned by the spatial separation of work from home, of public from private. However, increasing numbers of employees are now working from home and a disproportionate number of these are men with young children. This article draws on new empirical research to examine the implications for fathers and for organizations as home‐working disrupts earlier spatial configurations of fatherhood and fathering practices. The article concludes that as the spatial boundaries between home and work collapse, new accommodations between fatherhood/fathering and organization are emerging. However, these are underpinned by a traditional gender division of labour in the household. More broadly, these findings confirm the inadequacy of static distinctions between public and private, showing that while such distinctions are still used to mark space and time, this is relational, contingent and unstable.     

Threshold decisions: how social workers prioritize referrals of child concern

This paper examines local authority social workers' decision‐making when considering referrals of children, where the concerns are on the margin of child protection procedures. In doing so, it describes the findings of a qualitative research study undertaken in the policy context of attempts to ‘refocus’ social work practice in the late 1990s and early twenty‐first century. Data collection involved interviews with social workers and parents in 23 cases. Conclusions are that referrals were evaluated on the basis of five key factors, specificity, severity, risk, parental accountability and corroboration, the use of which determined whether an initial assessment or an investigation of alleged abuse took place. The analysis builds on previous work in the child protection field, but demonstrates how the application of these factors differs between cases of child concern and cases of child protection. Policy implications concern the complexity of decision‐making in the uncertain context of limited referral information and it is proposed that the simplistic notion of a continuum of abuse is now outdated. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

理性思考公权力与私权利的关系

人类社会的历史就是公权力与私权利资源在不同阶层按不同方位排列组合的历史,与此同时,不同时期的思想家基于自己的立场对公权力与私权利的关系进行了有益的理论探索。目前我国的权利(力)状况是公权力强、私权利弱,公权力经常侵犯私权利,因此我国应当明确划分公权力与私权利的界限,确立私权优位主义的指导思想,运用法律手段协调公权力与私权利的关系,并发挥社会组织在公权力与私权利冲突中的润滑剂作用,从而适应市场经济的发展和构建和谐社会的要求。     

转型期民间投资及其法律规制的制度逻辑--一个关于中国经济法现实运作基础的经验考察

本文立足于已持续二十多年的中国市场化取向的渐进改革,借助发生在甘肃省古浪县时间跨度超过15年的农村"机井"投资纠纷司法个案,对其中牵涉到的农业生产基本设施(机井),及其所引发的公有产权(特别是集体产权)与私人产权之间因"产权交易"而展开的"博弈"的具体分析,揭示了中国社会经济转型期民间投资的真实和普遍语境--即始终存在于同公有产权和国家权力相互碰撞和纠缠的夹缝中.在此基础上,通过反思现有法学研究及司法审判在方法和思路方面的缺憾,对转型期民间投资法律规制的制度逻辑进行了探讨,并结合其他领域的民闻投资实践,对转型期中国经济法存在和发挥作用的现实基础进行了思考.     

Child‐Care Usage and Mother‐Infant “Quality Time”

Mothers' time‐use patterns were compared in families in which infants spent more than 30 hours per week in child care (In‐Care group; n= 143) versus 0 hours per week (At‐Home group; n= 183) from birth to 6 months of age. In‐Care group mothers spent about 12 fewer hours per week interacting with their infants, for about 32% less time; fathers of these infants were more involved in caregiving. The groups did not differ in the quality of mother‐infant interaction. In the In‐Care group, quantity of interaction was related to greater separation anxiety and concerns about effects of maternal employment. Time‐use data were not related to child outcomes at 15 months of age. Results suggest that the effect of extensive time spent apart on the quantity and quality of mother‐infant interaction may be smaller than anticipated.     

Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross‐National Perspective

The authors examine the effect of premarital cohabitation on the division of household labor in 22 countries. First, women do more routine housework than men in all countries. Second, married couples that cohabited before marriage have a more equal division of housework. Third, national cohabitation rates have equalizing effects on couples regardless of their own cohabitation experience. However, the influence of cohabitation rates is only observed in countries with higher levels of overall gender equality. The authors conclude that the trend toward increasing cohabitation may be part of a broader social trend toward a more egalitarian division of housework.     

论现代企业品牌管理

美国经济的衰退和全球高新技术市场的增长滞缓 ,给寻求跨地域发展的企业投下了重重的阴影 ,以往成功的经验已不足以借鉴。中国企业目前所具有的竞争力只能保持 3- 5年的时间。加入WTO后 ,中国企业品牌的寿命周期将会大大缩短。面对国际、国内环境的巨大变化 ,企业品牌的核心竞争力必须进行重新评价和创意。     

西方国家高校组织的自主权及其启示

西方国家高校组织的自主权是通过大学内部立法、决策领导、组织协调、咨询等办学活动来实现的。大学自治组织系统主要由董事会 (校务会 )、校长、评议会等组成。校长由董事会 (校务会 )选举或产生 ,代表其行使学校决策及日常事务管理。大学自治组织一般拥有组织教学、筹集经费、开展学术研究、人事使用等权力 ,而这些权力的行使一方面要受到大学内部各种权力系统、管理层以及利益集团的制约 ,同时还要受到来自大学外部的各种专门组织和社会团体的监督