Chapter 4: Research on the Integration of Employee Assistance,Work-Life and Wellness Services

SUMMARY

This article will focus on the research exploring the degree to which organizational integration of Employee Assistance, Work/Family and Wellness Programs has evolved since the early 1990s. The first study reviewed is the National Study of EAP and Work/Family Programs conducted in 1994 by Boston University's Center on Work and Family in which 100 of the top family friendly companies were inter viewed. Two major studies conducted under the guidance of the Employee Assistance Professional Association (EAPA) are then reviewed. The Phase I research conducted in 2001 was a large-scale survey of the professionals in fields of EAP and Work-life (N = 950). The Phase II research conducted in 2002 was comprised of two stages: A pilot study surveying vendors in the EAP and Work-life fields (N = 213) and a qualitative study consisting of in-depth interviews with vendors from all three professions (N = 79). The overall theme from this body of research is one of dramatically increasing movement and market demand for some form of collaboration/integration of service delivery. Finally, the chapter offers recommendations for further research regarding integration of services as well as implications for the professional fields.     

Site-Writing: She is Walking about in a Town Which She does not Know

ABSTRACT

Recently my writing has explored the position of the author, not only in relation to theoretical ideas, art objects, and architectural spaces but also to the site of writing itself. This interest has evolved into a project of “site-writing” that aims to spatialize criticism. “Site-writing” occurs when discussions concerning site specificity extend to involve art criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing and reading become as important in conveying meaning as the content of the criticism. This article suggests that this kind of criticism or critical spatial writing, in operating as mode of a practice in its own right, questions the terms of reference that relate the critic to the work positioned “under” critique. This is an active writing that constructs as well as traces the sites of relation between critic and work. Outlining the conceptual concerns that frame my project of “site-writing” with particular reference to current debates in art criticism, this article then draws on psychoanalytic theory to think through relationships between the spatial politics of internal psychical figures and external cultural geographies, drawing in particular on the work of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists Jessica Benjamin and Jean Laplanche. Then, in “She is Walking about in a Town Which She Does Not Know,” this article demonstrates the practice of “site-writing” through an essay located on threshold spaces both real and fictional, exterior and interior which link and separate the critic from the work of the eight women artists included in Elles sont passées par ici, Loguivy de la Mer, Brittany, France, 2005.     

Stories of Work and Home in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

ABSTRACT

It is widely accepted that nineteenth-century ideals of middle-class domesticity involved the valorization of a family-centered home life and its conceptual and physical separation from the economically productive work that supported it. Whether this was the case in working-class ideas is less certain. However, discussion continues about how widely such a separation was adopted and about its inherent contradictions. Using an interpretive approach to household inventories, this article adds to that discussion through a close examination of the household arrangements of three unexceptional mid-century individuals, each of whom worked from their residence. Taking into account the individuals' personal circumstances and the requirements of their particular work as well as circulating normative ideas, the article investigates what sort of distinctions, if any, these people made between home and work and how they put them into practice.     

HEAVY-TAILED-DISTRIBUTED THRESHOLD STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELS IN FINANCIAL TIME SERIES

To capture mean and variance asymmetries and time‐varying volatility in financial time series, we generalize the threshold stochastic volatility (THSV) model and incorporate a heavy‐tailed error distribution. Unlike existing stochastic volatility models, this model simultaneously accounts for uncertainty in the unobserved threshold value and in the time‐delay parameter. Self‐exciting and exogenous threshold variables are considered to investigate the impact of a number of market news variables on volatility changes. Adopting a Bayesian approach, we use Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to estimate all unknown parameters and latent variables. A simulation experiment demonstrates good estimation performance for reasonable sample sizes. In a study of two international financial market indices, we consider two variants of the generalized THSV model, with US market news as the threshold variable. Finally, we compare models using Bayesian forecasting in a value‐at‐risk (VaR) study. The results show that our proposed model can generate more accurate VaR forecasts than can standard models.     

从空间构造论三岛由纪夫《潮骚》的主题建构

《潮骚》是三岛由纪夫描写唯美爱情故事的代表作。通过从叙事学角度对作品空间构造的分析可以看到,神社、灯塔分别以新治和初江为表象,具有对内与外的象征意义,同时体现出歌岛这个封闭空间的相对性。立体空间结构及若干对立关系的塑造和叙事视角的多角度转换使故事情节生动充实,既体现了作者对甜蜜爱情的赞美,也展示了故事深层所蕴含的主人公自我意识的觉醒,表现了三岛对理想之乡的向往和对现实的无奈。     

社会流动与分化视阈下的共同体构建与社区整合研究

社区的发展与管理必须从宏观的经济社会背景着眼,从社会流动与分化的趋势着眼。社会流动与分化的加速,促进了社区的全面转型,催化了社会群体重组,产生了社区居民群体内部的冷漠、离散甚至矛盾分裂的状态,为基层社会管理带来不和谐、不稳定因素。社区的整合是社会整合的缩影,也是社会整合的基石。本文以台湾地区长荣社区为例,分别从社区整合的三种类型--社会整合、系统整合与文化整合来探讨社区整合的不同途径,探索社区如何从地理的初级整合逐步上升为依靠共同利益、共同情感、共同意识的高层次整合。     

我国中小金融机构的生存与发展空间

我国中小金融机构虽然目前面临着种种困难与挑战,但仍然有着广阔的发展空间与机遇.面对广大中小企业及农民巨大而迫切的资金需求,国有银行等大银行因信息不对称、交易成本过高及所有制障碍而无法给予满足.而中小金融机构因具有与中小企业所有制上的一致性、地域上的一体性及自身产权的明晰性等特点,使其在对中小企业的信贷服务中具有信息优势、成本优势及管理优势,加上政府及有关方面的政策扶持,就使它们有能力去实际占领这一空间.     

奥尔里奇空间L_φ(μ,X)内的最佳逼近问题

设X是一实巴拿赫空间，（Ω，μ）是[O，1]上的勒贝格测度空间，φ是定义在[0，+∞）上具φ（O）＝0的严格增加的连续凸函数。L_φ（μ，X）={可测函数f:Ω→X；存在c＞0使得∫f（t）||)dμ（t）＜+∞｝。本文的主要结果之一为：若Y是X的闭子空间，则L_φ（μ，Y）是L_φ（μ，X）的存在性集充要条件为L'（μ,Y）是L'(μ，X)的存在性集；同时也给出了有关L_φ(μ，X）子空间存在性集的其他结果。     

基于辅助粒子滤波的DSGE模型识别方法及应用

动态随机一般均衡模型中涵盖无法直接观测的变量,同时跨方程约束涉及复杂的非线性关系使方程的解析估计难以实现。在贝叶斯框架下识别动态随机一般均衡模型,基于状态空间方法建立度量方程和状态转移方程,采用辅助粒子滤波预测条件后验分布,建立贝叶斯误差带描述宏观经济变量脉冲响应函数的动态特征。实际数据分析验证了贝叶斯识别方法的有效性。     

Modernity: a non-European conceptualization

In the light of insights drawn from historical sociology and Parsons' theory of differentiation/modernization, an attempt is made to conceptualize modernity in such a way as to avoid both eurocentrism and the total rejection of the concept by those who view it as an ideological means for the further advancement of western cultural imperialism.