Loving yourself abundantly: Relationship of the narcissistic personality to self- and other perceptions of workplace deviance, leadership, and task and contextual performance.

The authors report results from 2 studies assessing the extent to which narcissism is related to self- and other ratings of leadership, workplace deviance, and task and contextual performance. Study 1 results revealed that narcissism was related to enhanced self-ratings of leadership, even when controlling for the Big Five traits. Study 2 results also revealed that narcissism was related to enhanced leadership self-perceptions; indeed, whereas narcissism was significantly positively correlated with self-ratings of leadership, it was significantly negatively related to other ratings of leadership. Study 2 also revealed that narcissism was related to more favorable self-ratings of workplace deviance and contextual performance compared to other (supervisor) ratings. Finally, as hypothesized, narcissism was more strongly negatively related to contextual performance than to task performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Verbal abuse from outsiders versus insiders: Comparing frequency, impact on emotional exhaustion, and the role of emotional labor.

Research on aggression from organizational outsiders (customers, clients or patients) has ignored insider-instigated aggression, and has been limited to employees in emotional labor jobs (e.g., social work and customer services). The authors argue that customer-employee interactions have distinct characteristics from organizational insider interactions, and provide two studies to compare the frequency and strain of verbal abuse from customers, supervisors and coworkers. Furthermore, they assess whether customer verbal abuse is only a critical issue for employees in jobs requiring emotional labor, measured with both O*NET job codes and self-reported display rules. With a national random sample of U.S. employees (n = 2446) and a convenience sample of U.S. employees who have customer contact (n = 121), the authors find that verbal abuse from outsiders (1) occurs more frequently than insider verbal abuse, particularly for those with higher emotional labor requirements, and (2) predicts emotional exhaustion over and above insider verbal abuse, regardless of emotional labor requirements. The authors conclude that better integration of customer aggression and insider aggression research is needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于CBI理念的职场英语微课程建设与混合式教学模式研究

信息技术的发展,为英语教学改革提供了新的思路和方法。建设职场英语微课程并将其应用于高职英语教学中,以学生为中心,实行线上线下混合式教学,极大地提升了学习者学习的积极性。学习者通过课前、课中、课后各环节主动地建构知识,及时地获得反馈,进一步完善提升,从而提升英语综合应用能力。案例研究证明,将微课资源应用于英语混合式教学,达到了良好的教学效果。     

Triage Drift: A Workplace Study in a Pediatric Emergency Department

This paper presents a workplace study of triage work practices within an emergency department (ED). We examine the practices, procedures, and organization in which ED staff uses tools and technologies when coordinating the essential activity of assessing and sorting patients arriving at the ED. The paper provides in-depth empirical observations describing the situated work practices of triage work, and the complex collaborative nature of the triage process. We identify and conceptualize triage work practices as comprising patient trajectories, triage nurse activities, coordinative artefacts and exception handling; we also articulate how these four features of triage practices constitute and connect workflows, organize and re-organize time and space during the triage process. Finally we conceptualize these connections as an assessing and sorting mechanism in collaborative work. We argue that the complexities involved in this mechanism are a necessary asset of triage work, which calls for a reassessment of the concept of triage drift.     

SIMULTANEOUS GC/MS ANALYSIS OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS AND THEIR NITRATED DERIVATIVES IN ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE MATTER FROM WORKPLACES

Abstract

PAH are routinely analyzed using HPLC/FD. This technique is unsuitable for analyzing NPAH. This study aims at developing a reliable method, using GC/MS, and applying this technique to actual samples from small volumes of atmospheric particulate matter from workplaces. Mixtures of PAH and NPAH were separated by GC/MS and detected by electronic impact (EI) or negative ion chemical ionization (NICI). Analyses on twelve actual samples were thus carried out by sampling a small volume of atmosphere (≈0.5 m ³ ) from five different industrial workplaces. Samples displayed wide differences from one industrial workplace to another, and this can be explained by the specific methods applied. The PAH and NPAH concentrations also varied with time in the same industrial workplace. NPAH concentrations were not correlated with PAH concentrations, underscoring the complex chemical mechanisms involved in NPAH formation. PAH and NPAH formation appeared to be dependent on both industrial activities and uncontrolled physicochemical conditions.     

Review of New Space for Women.

Reviews the book, New Space for Women edited by Gerada R. Wekerle, Rebecca Peterson, and David Morley (1981). New Space for Women is the author's depiction of the need to formally establish a multidisciplinary field of women and the environment. The book is a collection of 17 original review articles selected from diverse areas, including urban design and planning, social services and academic research, organized under this common theme. The papers are grouped into four general themes: the domestic workplace, effects of urban design on women, women as environmental decision makers, and women as environmental activitist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Prevention groups: Today and tomorrow.

This closing article for the special issue lists some of the challenges facing group psychologists as they seek to expand prevention group theory. The role of reading failure in early elementary is highlighted, as are the Spartan Mentor Program with high school students and the group model to promote prevention of HIV/AIDS with adolescents. To aid in workplace prevention, this article also describes the Coping with Work and Family Stress Project. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)