Abused Women in Taiwan Who Seek Religious Support

ABSTRACT

This research explores the types of religious healing that abused women use and surveys their experiences with these practices in Taiwan. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of abused women, who had been recruited from 12 agencies. The findings show that participants sought religious healing for a variety of reasons, and that they had both positive experiences (e.g., useful religious support) and negative experiences (e.g., encountering deceptive jitongs and spending a large amount of money on services) regardingr the support provided by different religions. This study also found that women who believed in traditional Eastern religions had more negative experiences than women who believed in Western religions.     

集体行动视角下的制度逻辑演化机制研究

通过对我国专车服务市场制度变革过程的纵向案例研究,探讨了组织场域中的集体行动如何推动制度逻辑演化的内在机制问题。研究发现：制度逻辑的演化过程主要经历了分离、冲突和共存三种状态,不同的制度逻辑的演化是由行动主体能动性策略和资源利用所构建的集体行动模式差异性驱动的。制度变革机会的涌现促使场域中的行动主体采用协调性的集体行动模式,促成了新制度逻辑的生成,并导致了新、旧两种制度逻辑的分离;在制度变革机会变得模糊的场域中,行动主体非协调的集体行动促使新、旧两种制度逻辑之间的激烈冲突;而在制度变革机会沉没的情境下,行动主体再协调性的集体行动最终促成了新、旧两种制度逻辑的共存。研究结论对我国当前复杂制度环境下新兴业态的发展以及传统业态的协同治理提供了重要的借鉴和启示。     

大连软件服务外包产业发展的现状、优势与建议

针对大连逐渐成为承接国际服务外包产业转移的重要基地的现状,指出大连具有发展软件外包的区位优势、人才优势、产业优势及政策优势,探讨大连目前发展软件外包产业存在的问题,提出提高大连本土企业竞争力、加强人才培养、改善投资软环境和提供政策支持等进一步发展大连软件外包的建议.     

农户资源禀赋与农业产出关系研究——基于信贷配给数据的分组讨论

本文首先把信贷配给分成数量配给、交易成本配给和风险配给三类,然后利用转换回归模型实证研究了信贷配给下农户资源禀赋与农业产出的关系。研究发现,在受到信贷约束的农户中,除了受到数量配给外,还有近四分之一的农户受到交易成本配给或风险配给。受到信贷约束农户的农业产出更加依赖于农户的资源禀赋。本文建议应根据农户不同信贷配给类型采取相应政策,以解决农户所受的信贷配给约束。     

Transitional Youth Services: Practice Implications from a Systematic Review

Independent living programs have emerged as the primary intervention to address the needs of foster youth transitioning out of care. Prior reviews of independent living programs have focused on implications for research and policy, but not on direct practice. In order to create effective independent living programs, direct service workers must be provided with concrete practice guidelines for providing effective independent living services. This article summarizes 19 studies on independent living and provides evidence-based implications for each in an effort to begin to fill the gap between research, policy and practice.     

Employee attitudes to work-based counselling services

Work-based counselling services have increasingly been introduced in organizational settings in the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, a study is reported of the attitudes of 213 employees of a UK Health Authority towards an existing counselling service. Questionnaires sought information about attitudes to counselling, confidentiality, attitudes to those seeking counselling and general health. The results suggested that attitudes to work-based counselling services are predicted by employees' perceptions of those seeking counselling as trustworthy and their beliefs about the confidentiality of the service. The practical implications of these results are examined.     

Social workers, parents and stigma

This paper draws on an empirical study of stigma and child welfare services in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain. It focuses exclusively on the findings relating to the United Kingdom and shows how stigma continues to be a part of the experience of using and delivering child welfare services, despite the positive determination of policies that this should not be so. More optimistically, however, it is also evident that the experience of stigma and exclusion can be reduced, and the paper concludes by outlining the implications for policy and practice together with those factors which would appear to be most significant in combating stigma.     

‘Belonging’ and ‘Otherness’: Sex Equality in Banking in Turkey and Britain

The struggle for sex equality at work has largely been achieved in the developed world, it is claimed. The number of well‐qualified young women entering white‐collar employment and achieving promotion to first‐line and middle management positions now matches or exceeds their male peers. Many young women have high career aspirations and argue that sex discrimination no longer exists. However, this perception is over‐optimistic. Major sex inequalities persist at senior management level in the salaries and benefits offered to female and male staff and in access to certain favoured occupations and sectors of employment. Questionnaires, interviews and documentary evidence from three Turkish and six British banks and high street financial organizations showed that their claimed commitment to equal opportunities by sex was not matched by their practices. Members of managerial elites (who were almost exclusively male) held firm views about the characteristics of ‘the ideal worker’, which informed organizational ideologies, including human resource policies and practices concerning recruitment and promotion. They also permeated organizational cultures, which affected employees’ working practices and experiences. The outcome of these internal negotiation processes was to differentiate between a favoured group of staff seen as fully committed to the companies’ values, who were promoted and rewarded, and an ‘out’ group, whose members were denied these privileges. This distinction between ‘belonging’ and ‘otherness’ is gendered not only along the traditional lines of class, age, sexual orientation, religion and physical ability, but also along the new dimensions of marriage, networking, safety, mobility and space. Despite local and cross‐cultural differences in the significance of these factors, the cumulative disadvantage suffered by women staff seeking career development in the industry was remarkably similar.     

提高中国城市社区养老服务水平研究

随着我国老龄人口比例逐年增加,养老问题日益严峻。社区养老吸收了家庭养老和社会养老方式的优点和可操作性,可以作为我国大中城市养老的重要模式。当前,我国社区养老还存在社区养老工作专职人员不足、社会组织作用发挥不够、社区养老服务与需求不相适应等问题,需要加强政府的主导作用以促进社区养老服务体系进一步完善,加强各类社会组织的培育以提高社区养老服务的质量,加强对区域特色的发掘以充分利用社区养老服务资源,加强\     

北京市政府购买社会组织服务的组团模式解读

政府购买社会组织服务是一项系统工程,既需要严密的程序管理,也需要精细的组织管理。北京市政府采用组团模式购买社会组织服务,即以政府购买项目领域为核心,整合社会组织资源,形成服务合力,共同承接政府购买项目。组团模式体现了北京市政府购买社会组织服务的组织管理创新,是一种社会网络形式。组团是购买服务的组织管理载体,在这个已经实体化的网络平台中,政府、社会组织包括支持性社会组织,以及企业、公民都有各自的角色安排。组团模式使购买服务的组织管理精细化,是北京市政府培育和支持社会组织的有效手段,提高了社会组织的自治能力,具有巨大的社会价值,从中可以探寻到社会治理多元主体结构的建构机制。