Development of an Instrument for the Analysis of Problem Gambling Counselling Practice

This article provides an overview of the development and validation of a Counsellor Task Analysis (Problem Gambling) [CTA (PG)] instrument undertaken in order to document the activities of counsellors in problem gambling services. The CTA (PG) aims to provide a broad overview of the complexity of the counsellor's role; specify the range of tasks they perform; and document the relationship between the frequency of task performance and the counsellor's beliefs about the importance of the tasks performed. The CTA (PG) instrument addresses nine dimensions of practice activity through nine subscales, all of which demonstrate internal consistency. It appears to be a strong instrument in terms of its measurement error characteristics for recommending its use with counsellors engaged in the field of gambling. The CTA (PG) gives counsellors the opportunity to document their practice and theories in use when dealing with a problem gambler, a member of the problem gambler's family and the community at large. The psychometric findings reported in this article should be viewed as the preliminary results of an ongoing research effort and further psychometric testing is anticipated.     

Effective Leadership in Superior-Subordinate Dyads

Abstract

This paper describes and experimentally demonstrates the main tenets of an operant theory of leadership. Leadership is characterized in the current paper as involving problem solving operant behavior (Cerutti, 1989; Skinner, 1969) in a social context (Skinner, 1953). The theory was assessed under two experimental analogs modeled from generic formal organizational bureaucratic leader-follower role relations. Under a minimal leadership contingency (MLC) leaders and followers in N = 4 dyads interacted via button pressing and trigger pulling responses, respectively, and they received feedback on counters located on response panels in their separate rooms. Under the MLC every leader button press added a point worth money to one of the follower's counters but the leader received no points worth money based on follower responses. A leadership contingency (LC) was identical to the MLC except that for every 19th follower trigger pull the leader received a point worth money. As anticipated, high rates of leader-follower interaction evolved in all dyads under the LC and appreciably lower rates occurred under the MLC as leader button pressing extinguished under the MLC with repeated exposures to the two contingencies presented in ABABAB fashion. Results were discussed in terms of the theory and data as they may be related to assessment and maintenance of leader-follower interactions and performance in OBM lab and field experiments.     

Passing the Baton: Principles and Implications for Transferring the Leadership of a Group

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Poor practice in the transferring of groups abounds. This paper examines the process of transferring a group from one worker to another. Five concepts are discussed: giving early notice of the transfer; having one-on-one discussions between the arriving and departing workers; effecting the actual transfer; evaluating the group and establishing a new purpose and goals; and working through members' feelings and reactions to the transfer.     

中国文化背景下企业交易型领导的结构研究

本文根据巴斯对交易型领导的定义,结合中国文化的特征,对交易型领导结构维度进行了梳理,编制了交易型领导结构的预试问卷,通过问卷调查获取数据,采用SPSS12.0对数据进行探索性因素分析、信度分析和项目分析,得到我国企业交易型领导的7大类行为特征:权变奖励,积极的例外管理,消极的例外管理,关系支持,典型示范,中庸之道和无为而治。     

黑龙江省高技能人才培养探析

曾以技术人才聚集而闻名全国的黑龙江省，受诸多因素的影响，技能人才特别是高技能人才短缺的现象日益突显，尤其受振兴老工业基地战略影响。因此，探析黑龙江省高技能人才所面临的现状及问题，寻找解决这些问题的对策迫在眉睫。     

提高英语专业学生专业技能的途径－－谈微格教学模式

微格教学,对提高英语专业学生的专业整体素质方面是传统方法不能与之相比的.它将专业的综合技能分解开来,逐一在现代教学媒体的配合下和教师的指导下进行专项培训,逐项达标,最终使受训者的综合技能得到全面提高.     

农村思想政治工作中提升执政能力的思考

极探索农村思想政治工作的新方法、新途径,必须采取有效措施切实解决工作中出现的新闻题。以增强思想政治工作的凝聚力、说服力、穿透力为目标,进一步活化载体,创新形式,增强农村思想政治工作的凝聚力、渗透力、创造力。     

Transformative Community Practice

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The authors examine how well models and concepts of community practice fit their practice in an extremely low income urban African-American community. They describe the evolution of their agency's response to community disinvestment over the past 30 years. That response has been to create indigenous African-centered organizations that can transform how people see themselves, the community, and their futures. Early childhood education, social services, economic development, and leadership training and organizing are core programs. The authors urge model builders and educators to include the concept of transformation as a community change goal, and to strengthen attention to institution building skills, “cultural work,” and capital formation.     

Encountering Simone de Beauvoir

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Transformational leadership and job satisfaction of police officers (carabineros) in Chile: the mediating effects of group identification and work engagement / Liderazgo transformacional y satisfacción laboral en carabineros de Chile: los efectos mediadores de la identificación con el grupo y el work engagement

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and work satisfaction, as well as to analyse the mediating role of group identification and work engagement in a police training process at a Chilean professional military institution. The sample was made up of 985 candidates representing all the candidates that joined the units of the country in the different locations. Officers and non-commissioned officers acting as instructors were considered ‘leaders’, while their ‘followers’ were the young candidates in the training period. It was found that all the relevant variables were positively and significantly interrelated, and a model of structural equations revealed that both work engagement and group identification played a mediating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and work satisfaction.