Organisational Factors,Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave Among Newly Qualified Social Workers in England

Satisfaction with different organisational elements and aspects of work contributes markedly to overall levels of job satisfaction and intention to leave. For newly qualified social workers (NQSWs), especially immediately after graduation, self-perceived competence and their confidence in their educational preparation are also important. This article reports on a longitudinal study following 280 social work students into social work employment in England using data collected as students and six months after graduation. We focus on their experiences as NQSWs, thus only including those working in social work jobs, reporting the relative importance of their satisfaction with different work elements, such as supervision and job engagement. These are used to construct a model of NQSWs' overall satisfaction and intentions of leaving their social work jobs. The model incorporates NQSWs' perceptions of how well their degree courses prepared them for their current social work jobs in addition to personal, organisational and specific role characteristics. Using statistical techniques of factor analysis and regression modelling we highlight the complexities of how job satisfaction is constructed and we argue that the data reveal the importance of team support and self-efficacy in relation to whether social workers are thinking about leaving their current social work jobs.     

Approximate tests for the equality of two cumulative incidence functions of a competing risk

In the context of a competing risks set-up, we discuss different inference procedures for testing equality of two cumulative incidence functions, where the data may be subject to independent right-censoring or left-truncation. To this end, we compare two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov- and Cramér–von Mises-type test statistics. Since, in general, their corresponding asymptotic limit distributions depend on unknown quantities, we utilize wild bootstrap resampling as well as approximation techniques to construct adequate test decisions. Here, the latter procedures are motivated from tests for heteroscedastic factorial designs but have not yet been proposed in the survival context. A simulation study shows the performance of all considered tests under various settings and finally a real data example about bloodstream infection during neutropenia is used to illustrate their application.     

陕西省小城镇规模布局与经济发展要素关系的数量分析

文章应用双对数虚拟变量模型,研究了陕西省小城镇的发展规模、地域差异与经济要素之间的数量关系,分析了陕西省小城镇发展过程中存在的问题,并为陕西省政府制定小城镇规模布局的发展战略和政策提供了相关依据。     

技术的价值实存与人的功利使用

论述了技术作为人们满足自身生存和发展需要的一种方法和手段,具有天然的实存性、显露的过程性、发现的偶然性、深层的内隐性、获取的价值性等特点.技术的使用给社会带来的后果是多样的,或是积极的"生产力"的作用、或是消极的"勾勒姆"(Golem)的作用、或具有推进、反推进的"控制器"作用.必须准确地把握技术的本质和特点,有效地利用和控制技术的功能,趋利避害,更多地为人类社会造福.     

外语教学法的最新发展

该文从三个角度讨论了外语教学法的最新发展 ,即教学方法从单一教学模式向综合式、折中式教学转变 ;从以教师为主体的教学向以学生为主体、注重学习过程的教学转变 ;从传统式电化教学向多媒体教学转变。最后该文就我国外语教学实践中存在的问题进行了讨论并提出改进意见     

深化小说文本的审美内涵——兼论小说的叙述策略

小说文本深刻的内涵主要来自于作者对生活的深入发掘 ,精选品位高、审美信息量大的题材及对题材进行匠心的艺术处理。小说 ,从本质上说 ,是一种叙事艺术 ,叙述是小说存在的前提 ,是决定小说审美价值的必然因素。串连叙述与并联叙述、省略叙述与双层叙述、延宕叙述与双面叙述等是强化小说意蕴、深化小说文本审美内涵的理想的叙述策略     

Techniques of neutralising wildlife crime in rural England and Wales

Within rural studies there have been few attempts to critically analyse crimes against nature. This paper addresses this gap by providing an analysis of farmers’ reasons for illegally culling badgers in the United Kingdom. Drawing on Sykes and Matza’s (1957) concepts of neutralisation and drift, the paper shows how farmers rationalise this activity. Using in-depth interviews with 61 farmers in the England and Wales, the paper shows how they justify badger culling through discursive strategies that claim the activity is necessary, deny the necessity of the law, condemning the condemners, and appealing to community loyalties The paper also shows that neutralisation helps identify contextual factors that allow farmers to drift ambiguously between deviant values and social norms. In the case of badger culling, drift is attributable to an attack on a particular rural identity and way of living that has left farmers perceiving their selves as an effect. As much as they are attempts to rationalise criminal behaviour, neutralisation techniques can also be seen as spatial discourses demarcating the boundaries of cultural and spatial identities. In conclusion, the paper discusses the implications for resolving the problems of wildlife crime.     

Achieving English Spoken Fluency

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论《青春之歌》的成长叙事策略与红色青春想像

《青春之歌》是一部典型的青春成长小说,主人公林道静的成长历程是通过一系列的叙事策略实现的:成长者的“接受”仪式和“洗礼”典礼展现了具有宗教修辞色彩的成长的“催生”策略;革命理想配置爱情选择是成长叙事中革命理想占领私人空间的“合一”机制;两次修改版本和规范文本是成长范式的“回补”手段。这种成长叙事是民族国家“合法性”的想像与喻证。     

大学生就业中求职技巧分析与指导

对大学毕业生在求职中遇到的问题进行详细统计与分析,着重综述了求职技巧、制作求职材料的意义和作用,及面试注意的问题,提出了求职技巧系统的训练方法及相关的工作经验。