This study examines the key human resources factors that affect volunteers＇ service performance from the perspectives of volunteers and managers in the Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008. Survey data were collected...This study examines the key human resources factors that affect volunteers＇ service performance from the perspectives of volunteers and managers in the Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008. Survey data were collected from 1,727 volunteers and 243 managers at the Beijing Olympics test events held at 10 venues between November 2007 and April 2008. Regression analyses and a moderation test were combined to test the hypotheses. A set of high performance work systems （HPWS） for volunteers in the Beijing Summer Olympic Games were developed which include performance management, training, recognition, teamwork and volunteer participation. Volunteer HPWS were positively related to psychological empowerment, which was in turn positively related to service recovery performance. Moreover, transformational leadership moderates the relationship between volunteer HPWS and psychological empowerment in such a way that the relationship is stronger when transformational leadership is at a higher level than when it is at a lower level.Implications and limitations were also discussed.展开更多
This study utilized a longitudinal design to examine the relationships between the specific components of executive function(EF)and the internalizing and externalizing behavior across different genders and contexts in...This study utilized a longitudinal design to examine the relationships between the specific components of executive function(EF)and the internalizing and externalizing behavior across different genders and contexts in Chinese cultural background.Inhibition,cognitive flexibility,and working memory of EF based on 101 preschool children’s(48 boys and 53 girls)(M_(T1)=4.25,SD=0.76)performances were measured when completing tasks in NIH Toolbox.Twelve months later,boys’and girls’internalizing and externalizing behavior in home-and school-settings was assessed through mother’s feedback on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and teachers’reports of the Child Behavior Rating Scale.The results show that boys’inhibition,cognitive flexibility,and working memory negatively predict their externalizing behavior in the home context,while their cognitive flexibility negatively predicts externalizing behavior in the school context.Additionally,boys’inhibition positively predicts their internalizing behavior only in the school context.For girls,their cognitive flexibility positively predicts externalizing behavior only in the school context.No significant relationship is found among the girls between EF and problem behavior in the home context.These findings suggest that gender differences and a shift in contexts could alternate the relationship between EF and children’s problem behavior.This study sheds light on targeted preventions and interventions based on contexts and gender.展开更多
Semiotics has shed much light on both communication studies and cultural studies,and thus informed the investigations into intercultural communication,an area increasingly concerned in academic research.This paper inc...Semiotics has shed much light on both communication studies and cultural studies,and thus informed the investigations into intercultural communication,an area increasingly concerned in academic research.This paper incorporates our previous semiotic probes into intercultural communication,especially the semiotic model of the intercultural communication process,with the insights that have been recently highlighted in studies of edusemiotics and biosemiotics to further explore the detailed sign-relations embodied in intercultural communication contexts.Based on the conceptualizations of umwelt and semiosis and their interrelation which constitutes an umwelt-semiosis framework,we explore in depth the dynamic process of intercultural communication.Through an analytic of the mutual affection between the communicator’s umwelt as the functional cultural background of the communicators and semiosis as the act of communication,we explain in detail the dynamicity by which communicators’culturally embedded manners of thinking and behaving cannot only affect,but also be affected by the process of intercultural communication.Finally,we indicate that such dynamicity can be consciously manipulated by communicators should we reconceptualize communication following a triadic viewpoint instead of the dualistic one that has dominated sociological studies.展开更多
文摘This study examines the key human resources factors that affect volunteers＇ service performance from the perspectives of volunteers and managers in the Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008. Survey data were collected from 1,727 volunteers and 243 managers at the Beijing Olympics test events held at 10 venues between November 2007 and April 2008. Regression analyses and a moderation test were combined to test the hypotheses. A set of high performance work systems （HPWS） for volunteers in the Beijing Summer Olympic Games were developed which include performance management, training, recognition, teamwork and volunteer participation. Volunteer HPWS were positively related to psychological empowerment, which was in turn positively related to service recovery performance. Moreover, transformational leadership moderates the relationship between volunteer HPWS and psychological empowerment in such a way that the relationship is stronger when transformational leadership is at a higher level than when it is at a lower level.Implications and limitations were also discussed.
基金funded by the general program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China“Cumulative Risks and Internalizing Behavior of School-Age Children:A Systematic Perspective Based on Gene,Environment,Brain,and Cognition”(No.32171069).
文摘This study utilized a longitudinal design to examine the relationships between the specific components of executive function(EF)and the internalizing and externalizing behavior across different genders and contexts in Chinese cultural background.Inhibition,cognitive flexibility,and working memory of EF based on 101 preschool children’s(48 boys and 53 girls)(M_(T1)=4.25,SD=0.76)performances were measured when completing tasks in NIH Toolbox.Twelve months later,boys’and girls’internalizing and externalizing behavior in home-and school-settings was assessed through mother’s feedback on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and teachers’reports of the Child Behavior Rating Scale.The results show that boys’inhibition,cognitive flexibility,and working memory negatively predict their externalizing behavior in the home context,while their cognitive flexibility negatively predicts externalizing behavior in the school context.Additionally,boys’inhibition positively predicts their internalizing behavior only in the school context.For girls,their cognitive flexibility positively predicts externalizing behavior only in the school context.No significant relationship is found among the girls between EF and problem behavior in the home context.These findings suggest that gender differences and a shift in contexts could alternate the relationship between EF and children’s problem behavior.This study sheds light on targeted preventions and interventions based on contexts and gender.
文摘Semiotics has shed much light on both communication studies and cultural studies,and thus informed the investigations into intercultural communication,an area increasingly concerned in academic research.This paper incorporates our previous semiotic probes into intercultural communication,especially the semiotic model of the intercultural communication process,with the insights that have been recently highlighted in studies of edusemiotics and biosemiotics to further explore the detailed sign-relations embodied in intercultural communication contexts.Based on the conceptualizations of umwelt and semiosis and their interrelation which constitutes an umwelt-semiosis framework,we explore in depth the dynamic process of intercultural communication.Through an analytic of the mutual affection between the communicator’s umwelt as the functional cultural background of the communicators and semiosis as the act of communication,we explain in detail the dynamicity by which communicators’culturally embedded manners of thinking and behaving cannot only affect,but also be affected by the process of intercultural communication.Finally,we indicate that such dynamicity can be consciously manipulated by communicators should we reconceptualize communication following a triadic viewpoint instead of the dualistic one that has dominated sociological studies.
