The Mapping of Contingencies in Mental Models Found in Organizations

From a cognitive perspective, mental models held by individuals are thought to guide interactions with objects or systems, including interpersonal interactions. Frameworks that categorize types of interactions in organizations suggest that they are guided by cultures and mental models that range from the egoistic to the cosmos-centric. From a behavioral perspective, what the cognitive approach calls mental models are sets of verbal rules. Therefore, we suggest that behavior analysis could be used to reconceptualize the mental model literature, generating new research questions and more rigorous experimentation. Cognitive constructs such as more expansive mental models may simply be a function of an individual’s or group’s increased attention to interlocking contingencies. Applying behavioral interventions such as acceptance and commitment therapy could be a way to examine the utility of a behavior analytic approach.     

欧氏平面上的占线中位选址问题分析

虽然在线研讨平台已经广泛应用并受到学术界的大量关注,它的信息组织结构却还是停留在非常原始的阶段。关于哪一类信息组织结构更适合在线研讨的研究一直很少,仅有的一些研究也很零散,并且研究结果难以统一,因此就非常迫切需要可以系统化解释在线群体研讨中最优信息组织结构的理论。文章从任务—技术匹配的观点出发,从沟通、协调组织和信息处理3个维度阐述了任务和信息组织结构之间的匹配关系,并将其用于预测不同任务—技术匹配环境下的研讨绩效。设计了实验来验证这种匹配关系与研讨绩效之间的关系。实验结果表明,对主意产生型任务,采用线性结构的研讨平台比采用树状结构的研讨平台具有更高的研讨绩效;对于决策型任务,采用树状结构的研讨平台比采用线性结构的研讨平台具有更高的研讨绩效。所展示的匹配分析的理论和方法具有一定的扩展性,当有新类型任务到来或新技术被发明时,就可以用这种方法去分析新任务和新技术的匹配性,进而预测群体的绩效。     

复杂信息度量的安全系统结构复杂性评价

作为复杂性研究和安全研究理论与方法的进一步扩展,建立复杂格空间,搭建了复杂性参量的立体化刻画的框架,确定熵的信息度量为复杂格空间的大小(维度)的测度的尺度,构造出复杂性测度的全方位的测度体系;将此理论与方法应用与工程系统的复杂性研究中,以煤矿工程系统的安全系统复杂性研究为例,从矿井开拓巷道系统联结关系、节点、环节、矿井安全子系统复合性、矿井安全监测系统网络、安全设施设置、监测系统、井下人员定位系统测定点分布等结构复杂性要素,进行复杂性评价与实证研究.     

复杂决策问题求解的定性与定量综合集成方法

就复杂决策问题求解的定性与定量综合集成方法研究领域中如何实现复杂问题的表示、理解与求解等问题提出了看法 ,并针对复杂决策问题 ,建立了一个更加符合人类思维习惯的综合集成方法三层次理论框架 ,该框架由复杂问题定性简化处理层、复杂问题定量分析层及复杂问题定性定量综合集成求解层三个层次组成 ,同时研析了这三个组成层次的主要研究内容 .本文在运用综合集成方法解决问题过程 ,如何实现人机完美结合问题也作了有益的探索     

薄煤层煤矿生产车间特殊开采生产技术的复杂性评价

本文介绍了田陈煤矿创新的综采与普机采混合、工作面超长布置、对拉、旋转调采、矩形和梯形不规则形状的薄煤层开采技术;建立了矿井生产系统结构复杂性评价的新尺度;提出了评价方法和系统结构的简约化、复杂性减少原理;并应用此理论与方法对田陈煤矿生产系统结构复杂性评价进行了实证研究。     

转型经济背景下的组织复杂性动因研究:环境不确定性和战略导向的作用

基于468家中国企业的实证研究,考察了不同环境及战略导向对组织复杂性的驱动作用。在分析相关文献形成研究假设的基础上运用实证的方法进行检验。研究结论验证了当前转型经济背景下不确定环境特征和战略导向对企业组织复杂性的不同驱动作用,对企业根据所处环境及其战略导向认识并有的放矢的应对不同组织复杂性有重要意义。     

企业管理系统复杂性评价的三维尺度模型建模与实证研究

应用物理学、数学、力学、信息论、统计学和管理学等理论方法,提出了管理力、管理功和管理复杂度的基本概念、定义、基本原理和研究范围;并基于管理熵理论的基本原理,建立了企业管理系统复杂性评价的新尺度和评价方法;构造了尺度的矢量空间、数学模型及量化模型;以创造世界采矿奇迹的中国煤炭企业的旗帜一神府东胜煤炭责任有限公司为例,进行了企业组织管理系统复杂性实证研究与评价.     

Disentangling the Long-term Effects of Divorce Circumstances on Father–Child Closeness in Adulthood: A Mediation Analysis

Many studies have shown that the relationship between nonresidential fathers and their children in youth has a lasting influence on their relationship in adulthood. Comparatively less is known about the process through which divorce affects father–child relationships. We assess if and how the divorce circumstances of interparental conflict, the presence of new partners, and geographical distance between parents affect nonresidential father–child closeness in adulthood. Using a path model, we test whether father–adult child closeness is mediated by fathers’ involvement after divorce. The results of this study demonstrate that the level of interparental conflict and the presence of a fathers’ new partner after the divorce negatively affect the closeness between fathers and children in adulthood. Our mediation analysis demonstrates that both the effects of interparental conflict and new partnerships on closeness are partially mediated by father involvement and contact frequency during childhood. In other words, it is partly through the negative effect that interparental conflict and new partners have on fathers’ involvement that fathers and children become less close later in life. Our study highlights the importance of disentangling the effects of different factors associated with divorce when examining nonresidential father–child relationships.     

Consumer's Attitude and Retailers' Images in Creating Store Choice. A Study of Two Different Sides of the Same Story

The determinants of store choice on the part of the consumer are complex. Our study indicates that consumers find the issues relevant to store choice as lacking in quality and certainly not congruent nor tangential to the retail marketing concept. As our model shows, perceptions are developed through stimuli that are created by the retail environment both internal and external. If these were the only issues retailers had to deal with, their challenge in understanding consumer store choice behavior would be formidable. Add to those dimensions the perceptions that are formed through the consumer's own psychological, physiological and behavioral attributes and the complexities of the challenge can seem to be insurmountable. The complexity of the situation increases exponentially when, as our research seems to indicate, the psychological and behavioral components can be compounded by such little understood dimensions as ambivalence and vicarious sociality. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Retailers need to benefit themselves by reaching out the broad resources of research to effectively develop the resource information necessary to successfully position themselves relative to their consumers expectations. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.