高校本科生特别培养学院组织文化研究

本科生特别培养学院是中国高等教育大众化背景下,以培养拔尖创新的卓越人才为目标的荣誉学院,而优秀的组织文化是其顺利实施英才教育的基础.本文在对英才教育、大学组织文化和培育组织文化的意义进行理论思考的基础上,从特别培养学院是学习型、责任型、混合型和宽容型组织四个角度提炼并阐述了其组织文化的特质,并提出了特别培养学院的组织文化理念和实践载体.     

宁夏女性领导绩效影响因素与提升路径研究

习近平主席在全球妇女峰会上强调,中国将更加积极贯彻男女平等的基本国策,发挥妇女"半边天"作用,支持妇女建功立业、实现人生理想和梦想。通过接受高质量的培训发展项目,女性领导可以促进自身发展和有效提升领导绩效。特别是在优秀组织文化的影响和加持下,女性领导的领导绩效可以得到更为出色的发挥,从而助力女性领导和组织实现双赢,最终实现她们的人生理想。     

大学生专业承诺的实证研究

通过研究发现,大学生专业承诺的心理结构包含了4个基本维度,它们分别是感情承诺、经济承诺、规范承诺和机会承诺。依据大学生专业承诺的心理结构编制出的"大学生专业承诺问卷",通过施测结果表明问卷具有良好的信、效度,能够作为大学生专业承诺状况有效、合理的评价工具。同时,研究者还采用回归分析方法进一步考察了大学生专业承诺与专业满意感、学业成效以及转专业意向等变量之间的关系。研究结果表明,大学生对专业的感情承诺或经济承诺增强,那么他们对专业的满意感就会提高,他们也将更有可能获得较好的学习效果。进一步研究发现,大学生专业承诺与转专业意向存在着显著的负相关,而与大学生学业卷入度存在着显著的正相关,这样,大学生专业承诺水平可以作为大学生转专业意向和学业专业度的预测指标,为大学生专业承诺咨询和干预提供理论依据。     

中央企业基层团支部组织制度现状分析

组织制度建设是组织建设的一项重要内容。根据当前中央企业基层团支部工作与青年工作的主要特点,通过调研显示中央企业基层团支部的组织制度建设整体上看比较完善且发挥着重要的作用,但同时也存在着不足。在组织生活制度、推优评优制度、沟通交流制度等方面都存在着开展工作质量不高、频率不高的问题,需要在把握本单位的中心工作、青年的特点和需求的基础上进一步完善各项组织制度。     

Behavior Management of Client Contacts in a Real Estate Brokerage

A Project intended to increase client-contacting behavior on the part of 16 real-estate sales persons was described. Both contacts with prospective (initials) and with established clients (followups) were targeted for change. During a 20-week baseline, agent self-reports were used as a basis for posting weekly charts of contact behavior together with measured sales and listing performances. A conjunctive token-reinforcement procedure involving both contact behaviors was introduced during a 15 week intervention phase. For all agents as a group, a sustained increase in both behaviors was noted during this phase. Additional analyses revealed, however, that for low baseline performers, the intervention effect was only short-lived. During a subsequent three-week prewithdrawal stage, the increased behavion from the previous phase reverted nearly to baseline levels, despite the continued intervention, in response to instructions that program withdrawal was imminent. Contact behaviors further declined to below baseline levels during the following 4-week withdrawal stage when both posting and token procedures were actually discontinued. A tenninal 6 week reversal phase was marked by a nearly full recovery for all agents of asymptotic intervention levels of contact behavior under a reversed conjunctive token reinforcement schedule. Evidence indicating a correlation between changes in contact behaviors and changes in sales was presented. Also, other company benefits presumably derived from the program were described. Finally, the outcomes of this study were discussed in terms of several important validity concerns.     

Reproducing the nation: reproduction,citizenship and ethno-demographic survival in post-communist Romania

The steady decline of fertility rates in Europe raises a number of important questions about the demographic and cultural reproduction of national societies. Apart from being confronted with population shrinkage and ageing, most European societies are also becoming more diverse. Demographic changes tend to exacerbate nationalist anxieties about the physical and cultural survival of the nation. This article develops the concept of national reproduction regime in order to analyse strategies and interventions at the biological, formal, and ethno-cultural levels of reproduction through which states seek to ensure the physical and cultural reproduction of the nation. It outlines the national reproduction regime of post-communist Romania by way of mapping and discussing key policies on biological and formal reproduction, as well as public discourses that frame these policies.     

The influence of organizational identification on organizational knowledge management (KM)

Information technology (IT) outsourcing vendor organizations contain isolated business units whose creation and sustenance greatly facilitate business operations. But they also introduce important challenges for organizational knowledge management (KM). In this paper, based on 7 months of intensive field-work at India Inc., a leading Indian IT firm, we looked at how members’ identification with two organizations, their own and their client organization, influences their compliance with an organizational KM initiative. The findings show that members have difficulties in complying with the expectations of the organizational KM initiative owing to a stronger identification with their client organizations. At the same time, they comply readily with KM initiatives at the business unit level. The findings show that KM managers at India Inc. use the help of middle level managers in the business units in their efforts to improve members’ compliance with organizational KM. Theoretical and managerial implications of the study are discussed.     

Firm-level correlates of emergent green supply chain management practices in the Chinese context

Greening the supply chain is increasingly a concern for many business enterprises and a challenge for logistics management in the 21st century. Of particular concern is how to arouse organizational environmental awareness and put environmental activities into practice in the logistics activities of their supply chains. This paper investigates the correlation of two major factors, organizational learning and management support, with the extent of adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in Chinese manufacturing firms, where their inbound and outbound logistics activities are potential polluters to the environment. Organizational and operational learning was derived from the firm's experience with programs such as total quality management and environmental management systems. Management support included support for GSCM ideas and practices from top and middle-level management and cooperation across organizational functions. We find significant positive relationships between organizational learning mechanisms, organizational support and the adoption of GSCM practices, after controlling for a number of other influences including regulations, marketing, supplier, cost pressures, industry levels of the relevant practice and organizational size. Implications of our findings on logistics management are discussed.     

Offshoring and Cross‐Border Interorganizational Relationships: A Justice Model*

In this article, we develop an interorganizational justice model to explain cross‐border interorganizational relationships. The model contends that cultural distance (construed as the cultural differences between offshoring partners) would influence behavioral uncertainty and the boundary spanners' perceptions of justice. Specifically, the model predicts that high levels of behavioral uncertainty are likely to reduce relational commitment, whereas low levels of behavioral uncertainty are likely to enhance relational commitment. However, boundary spanners' perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice would mitigate the negative impact of behavioral uncertainty on relational commitment. The model also predicts that culturally similar boundary spanners would be more likely to share similar perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice than culturally dissimilar boundary spanners. This model has implications for further theoretical discussion and empirical research as well as management practice. Managers could use the interorganizational justice model to assess shared perceptions of justice among boundary spanners and develop transcultural justice competencies.     

Strategy as engagement: What organization strategy can learn from military strategy

Strategy process and practice research has illuminated the internal dynamics of strategy work – at the cost of backgrounding processes and practices that relate to engagement with external actors. In this conceptual paper, we argue for an extension of this body of work by shifting the focus of research from internal practices and processes towards externally oriented practices of engagement. We do so by critically building on the military strategy literature and develop the concept of strategy as engagement. This concept suggests understanding the role of strategy as bridge between policy and tactics; the importance of grand strategy as the making of policy; and the need to focus attention on tactics as distributed collective action. Thus, we contribute to strategy process and practice research through 1) extending its repertoire to practices of engagement and 2) broadening its epistemic foundation through a critical reading of military strategy.