Demonised,impoverished and now forced into isolation: the fate of disabled people under austerity

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced in the United Kingdom explicitly to help offset the extra costs of disability. The scrapping of DLA and its replacement with the so-called Personal Independence Payment is causing massive concern across the United Kingdom, not least because it comes in the wake of a large number of other cuts, all of which impact disproportionately on disabled people. These changes reflect the retraction of ‘welfare’ across many European countries. As the government has refused to perform a cumulative impact assessment to date, it has been left to grassroots organisations such as DPAC to assess the damage and put the bigger picture together. An article in the New Statesman reports research showing that by 2018 disabled people are set to lose an astonishing £28.3 billion worth of financial support. These changes are going to affect up to 3.7 million disabled people in total.     

What is Mentoring?

What is mentoring? Is it just a buzz word or is this really valuable? How can mentoring help one to grow and advance personally and professionally? How and where does one even begin? Many of us have these questions. In this article, I will share my perspective and provide some reflections on these questions based on my own personal and professional journey.     

企业文化内部传播渠道个人感知量表的建构

通过对企业文化内部传播渠道的文献调研和企业访谈获得了量表的初始条目,在预测试和正式测试两个阶段,采用探索性因子分析、相关分析等技术对量表进行了检验和修改,得出了沟通、CEO榜样作用、直接上级榜样作用、同事榜样作用、英雄人物与故事、奖惩、活动七个因子,数据分析结果表明,量表具有良好的同质信度、折半信度、结构效度和预测效度.     

影响农民工社会养老保险制度建立与 实施的主要因素及对策分析

农民工的养老保险问题逐渐受到政府和社会各界的关注.一些地区根据本地经济发展实际,以地方性立法的形式相继建立起本地区的农民工养老保险体系;但农民工社会养老保险制度建设尚处探索阶段,现行的保险办法未免存在一定的缺陷和不足.文章通过对现行农民工养老保险的办法加以分析.试图从不同层面揭示影响农民工参加社会养老保险的主要因素,并提出相应对策以期为农民工统一养老保险办法的制定和出台提供有益之参考.     

Employee stress litigation: The UK experience

This paper considers the extent to which stress-induced illness can be regarded as a personal injury that could give rise to civil action for damages against employers in the UK. It outlines the results of a brief survey of personal injury solicitors, which indicates that claims are already being initiated by employees who allege they have suffered a stress-induced illness. The potential for claims within industrial tribunal cases that have already been decided is also examined. Consideration is given to the hurdles that litigants will have to surmount, such as proving that their condition was in fact caused by some feature of their working conditions, showing that it was foreseeable that they would suffer a stress-based injury, and demonstrating that their employer was in some way at fault. This leads to a questioning of what employers can do to protect themselves from such claims, or at least defend them successfully. The paper points out that success is likely to depend heavily upon the quality of expert medical opinion, and also upon policy conditions that may influence those adjudicating on such cases. It is concluded that the cost of losing claims may be significant, and that employees who ignore the warning signs do so at their peril.     

隐私影响评估(PIA)的发展及ISO/IEC 29134: 2017实施探讨

\t\t\t\t\t目的/意义\t\t\t\t\t欧盟《通用数据保护条例》（GDPR) 创设的数据保护影响评估( DPIA) 制度对数据风险防控具有重要意义。借鉴欧盟DPIA制度可以助益于我国企业数据合规、重要数据的保护、数据安全风险评估标准的构建。\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t设计/方法\t\t\t\t\t首先,通过梳理DPIA制度的演化背景、理论基础,全面剖析欧盟DPIA制度的应用场景、评估流程、保护模式及惩罚机制。其次,通过梳理相关案例,对事实层面和规范层面我国建立数据影响评估制度的必要性进行分析。再次,对比我国个人信息安全影响评估（PISIA）制度与欧盟DPIA制度在适用阶段、评估目标、评估产物等相关规定的异同,可知前者侧重于对个人信息数据泄露后会对数据主体的影响维度进行分析,后者侧重于对数据主体权益保障维度的分析。最后,以问题为导向,对我国数据保护影响评估制度的建立提出相关建议。\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t结论/发现\t\t\t\t\t完善数据安全风险评估标准的研制、提升数据安全风险评估质效、构建全方位的数据监管体系,不仅是构建法治化的数据安全风险评估制度的需要,更是我国经济实现数字化转型、构建数据安全保障治理体系的迫切需求。\t\t\t\t     

政治文明逐步实现的历程:新中国法治的成长

法治与政治文明相共生,法治是政治文明的外在标志,是衡量政治文明程度的尺度,是政治文明得以实现的基本形式。中国共产党取得新民民主主义革命胜利后,在实现中华民族的伟大复兴过程中,其治国方略、执政方式逐步从人治走向法治。成长着的中国法治标识着中国政治文明的历程:人治主政,蔑视法治,政治文明之路山重水复;健全法制,厉行法治,政治文明之路柳暗花明;法律至上,民主彰显,政治文明之路漫漫而修远。     

Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults

Increasing research highlights heterogeneity in patterns of social network change, with growing evidence that these patterns are shaped in part by social structure. The role of social and structural neighborhood conditions in the addition and loss of kin and non-kin network members, however, has not been fully considered. In this paper, we argue that the residential neighborhood context can either facilitate or prevent the turnover of core network relationships in later life – a period of the life course characterized by heightened reliance on network ties and vulnerability to neighborhood conditions. Using longitudinal data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project linked with data from the American Community Survey, we find that higher levels of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage are associated with the loss of older adults’ kin and non-kin network members over time. Higher levels of perceived neighborhood social interaction, however, are associated with higher rates of adding non-kin network members and lower rates of adding kin network members over time. We suggest that neighborhood conditions, including older adults’ perceptions of neighborhood social life, represent an underexplored influence on kin and non-kin social network dynamics, which could have implications for access to social resources later in the life course.     

刑法典第89条第2款“又犯罪”之检讨与修改

我国刑法典第89条第2款将追诉时效中断的事由规定为“又犯罪”,对于此项立法模式,理论界有不同的认识但关注较少,虽提出了不同的建议,但并未触及问题的根本。通过“又犯罪”这一时效中断事由的剖析和检讨发现,“又犯罪”作为追诉时效中断事由,折射出理论上的误区和立法中的悖论,不可避免地遭遇实践困窘。将“又犯罪”修改为“又犯同种罪”,方为解决问题的根本出路所在。     

个人网上银行客户体验基本构成要素间作用关系实证研究

客户体验与客户体验管理能够解决个人网上银行的同质化问题。本文旨在探讨个人网上银行客户体验基本构成要素间的作用关系。通过对2000多位客户的问卷调查,本文采用结构方程模型,对体验感知、体验期望和感知价值等个人网上银行客户体验基本构成要素之间的作用关系以及安全、使用成本等因素对体验感知的作用关系进行实证研究,发现体验感知对感知价值、体验期望对体验感知有正向的影响;体验期望对感知价值有负向影响;安全、使用成本、易用、速度与稳定、品牌信任、功能满足、客户服务和便利等对体验感知有正向影响;而营销活动对体验感知没有显著影响。