Making Practice Learning Part of Our Core Business: A Case Study of Organisational Change

Implementing the new degree in social work in Britain will require practice agencies to deliver an increased number of practice learning opportunities to students undertaking social work training. Indeed the Practice Learning Taskforce (2004 Practice Learning Taskforce. ‘Making change work for us’. London [Google Scholar]) estimates that, in London, a 70% increase from 2002/3 to 2006/7 will be needed. In order to achieve this practice agencies are being urged to transform themselves into learning organisations. Given that social work programmes in many areas are already struggling to find sufficient placements for their students this is likely to be hugely challenging. Research carried out by Lindsay &; Tompsett suggests that, in order to achieve this, social work agencies need to bring planning for practice learning more centrally into the organisation's strategic planning. This paper presents a case study of the author's experience in an English social services department that attempted this. It concludes that practice agencies, in moving towards becoming learning organisations, need to pay attention both to the structural arrangements they develop and the organisational processes involved.     

社会支持的动态变化：关于香港新移民妇女的研究

本研究旨在采用纵贯质性研究探索新移民妇女移居香港后第一年的社会支持的变动状况,15个香港新移民妇女参与了这项研究.研究发现,社会支持的类型和来源是因时而变的,重要的决定因素是香港特定的社会文化背景和移民在不同时期的特殊需要.     

组织文化演变驱动力的实证研究

组织文化是组织战略性竞争优势的重要组成部分。在前人研究的基础上,本文首先区分了组织文化变革两种类型——改革与演变,并以组织文化演变为研究对象,进一步提出驱动组织文化演变的三种驱动力——组织任务环境变化、组织内部环境变化和组织成员参与程度,通过结构方程模型就三种驱动力对组织文化演变的作用及三种驱动力之间的关系进行实证研究。研究结论表明,组织内部环境变化对组织文化演变起正向作用,组织任务环境变化对组织文化演变起负向作用,组织员工参与程度通过组织内部环境变化这一中介变量,对组织文化演变起正向作用。     

An appraisal of key factors in the implementation of occupational stress interventions

Empirical research on stress intervention in organizations, and experience from organizational change programmes in general, indicates that obtaining intended change is often more difficult than it had been conceived to be at the outset. In order to facilitate the accomplishment of stress prevention and effective organizational change, this paper examines the importance of the social and cognitive processes influencing the implementation of any intervention. It states that if change is to be managed skilfully, it is important (1) to create a social climate of learning from failure, (2) to provide opportunities for multi-level participation and negotiation in the design of interventions, (3) to be aware of tacit behaviours that possibly undermine the objectives of interventions, and (4) to define roles and responsibilities before and during the intervention period.     

The impact of emotion on organizational learning

This paper addresses an aspect of organizational learning that has not been extensively developed - the impact of emotion on organizational learning. The study of emotion in organizations is seen as an important part of the development of organizational learning. The paper argues that attention to the emotional dynamics of organizing, and to the links between emotion and organizational politics, will increase the possibilities for understanding organizational learning. Awareness of the impact of emotion on organizational learning can be developed through an investigation of two areas. First, organizational learning is more than a product of organizational responses to individual learning. Emotion contributes to a broader understanding of systemic learning. Second, emotion is important to strategic aspects of organizational learning. There is a link between the emotional and the political within organizations. The paper contains a discussion of these themes using brief case examples to illustrate and develop the issues.     

Writing from practice

This study investigates the effects of integration change on the integration success of German acquisitions in Poland. It is argued that the degree of integration change has a positive impact on two success measures, namely, economic growth and efficient co-operation, in the acquisition target. It is further argued that process transparency, participation and positive reinforcement are moderators in this relationship between degree of integration change and integration success. Hypotheses are tested on 521 Polish employees from twenty-nine German acquisitions made in Poland between 1991 and 1999. The results show that there was a positive relationship between degree of integration change and integration success as expected and that only process transparency emerged as a significant moderator of this relationship. Consequences for post-acquisition management after German acquisitions in Poland and limitations of the study are discussed.     

A BAYESIAN INTERPRETATION OF MULTIPLE POINT ESTIMATES

Consider a large number of econometric investigations using different estimation techniques and/or different subsets of all available data to estimate a fixed set of parameters. The resulting empirical distribution of point estimates can be shown - under suitable conditions - to coincide with a Bayesian posterior measure on the parameter space induced by a minimum information procedure. This Bayesian interpretation makes it easier to combine the results of various empirical exercises for statistical decision making. The collection of estimators may be generated by one investigator to ensure the satisfaction of our conditions, or they may be collected from published works, where behavioral assumptions need to be made regarding the dependence structure of econometric studies.     

大学：绵亘于变革与稳定之间—略论H·珀金的大学形态史观

高等教育研究不能忘记历史,更无法回避历史.西方学者对大学历史的研究已取得了大量成果,但这些研究大都局限于实证式的或编年史式的范畴,珀金则另辟蹊径,开创了大学形态史的研究,为高等教育的历史研究提供了一个全新的理论框架.     

浅谈孙思邈的养生学说

孙思邈的养生学说是儒、道、医相结合的产物 ,它由养性说、劳形说和食宜说三个基本方面构成一个完整的体系。     

内生性人口负增长经济影响的国际比较北大核心CSSCI

由长期低生育率和老龄化导致的内生性人口负增长是未来人口发展的新趋势。这种崭新的人口现象改变了人口研究的宏观环境,也引发了人们对未来经济能否实现持续发展的普遍担忧。本文使用联合国2019年世界人口展望数据和世界银行数据,筛选出德国、俄罗斯、匈牙利、波黑、立陶宛、日本作为典型的人口负增长国家,以人口缩减比例作为人口负增长风险的度量指标,以各国持续时间最久的一次负增长时域作为考察范围,从国别队列视角和生命周期思想出发,利用同原点比较模型系统考察典型国家在人口负增长之后的经济增长、劳动参与率变化、固定资产变化和技术进步情况,探索人口负增长风险积累程度对社会经济的影响。结果发现:各典型国家的人口负增长无论持续时间长短、速度快慢,其经济在最长负增长时域内均尚未出现明显的衰退;人口负增长对劳动参与率的影响并不明显,各国劳动参与率整体上在稳定范围内波动;人口负增长对固定资本形成占GDP比重和技术进步的影响方向各异,尚未显示出统一规律。人口负增长对宏观经济指标的影响是多种效应的合力,不是单向度的,充满了不确定性和异质性。尽管国际经验如此,未来中国将在“未富先负”的背景下迎来“快负快老”,仍需要未雨绸缪,谨慎应对。