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We investigated an antecedent and consequences of network centrality in a virtual brand community from the perspective of the motivation of social enhancement. The research model was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling. The results showed that the motivation of social
enhancement can promote both degree and betweenness centrality. As the members' degree and betweenness centrality increase, the psychological ownership they feel toward the community becomes stronger, thereby increasing the likelihood that the members will engage in virtual brand community
citizenship behavior. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

Using children's literature to teach English has been promoted by researchers and educators because of its positive effects on learners – motivation, language learning, and personal growth. It is inline with the Hong Kong SAR government's view on using literature and language arts in classrooms to motivate and teach reading and learning. However, using literature to teach is quite rarely seen in local schools. This dissertation study aims to research the effectiveness of an innovative reading programme—Novel Study—on motivating young learners to read in a local primary school. An action research was conducted in an grade 5 English class and the data was collected through thirty-six semi-structured interviews, observations from ten video-recorded lessons, students' reading journals and the teacher-researcher's teaching journals. This study finds that Novel Study had positive impacts on motivating children to read. One significant finding was that the reading programme brought enjoyment in reading and in working on different tasks in class. The study also shows encouraging effects in giving the teacher the opportunities to implement effective teaching strategies and meaningful tasks. ; published_or_final_version ; Education ; Master ; Master of Education

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to reveal the mechanism of peer abusive supervision on bystander behavior based on the perspective of bystander from two different paths of bystander empathy and bystander hostility toward supervisor. At the same time, it discusses the moderation effect of bystander traditionality on the two paths.


Design/methodology/approach
This study conducted a three-wave longitudinal survey. The data were collected from 454 employees and their coworkers in several Chinese enterprises. The authors used Mplus 7.4 and adopted a bootstrapping technique in the data analysis.


Findings
Peer abusive supervision leads bystanders to empathize with the abused colleague and thus exhibit more organizational citizenship behaviors, and peer abusive supervision also induces bystanders to develop hostility toward the abusive supervisor and thus produce more workplace negative gossip behaviors. In addition, it is found that bystander traditionality has a moderation effect in the process by which peer perceptions of abusive supervision influence bystander empathy and bystander hostility.


Originality/value
Based on Affective Events Theory, this study explores the mechanism of colleague perception of abusive supervision on bystander behavior from a bystander perspective. The results of this study not only provide a more comprehensive expansion of the weighting factors in the influence mechanism of abusive supervision but also provide new ideas for organizations to reduce the negative effects of workplace abusive behaviors.

Introduction -- Network awareness and emergency command fundamentals -- Multiple information collection technology of power network disaster loss -- Grid disaster information fusion and integrated prediction technology -- Real-time interaction technologies for grid emergency information -- Grid emergency decision technology -- Intelligent sensing and emergency command system for power grid disaster .

Previous research has tended to focus on general best practices for onboarding organizational newcomers. In this study, we shift the conversation to instead address the question: for whom are certain socialization tactics more or less beneficial? Whereas institutionalized socialization tactics provide considerable structure intended to reduce uncertainty and help newcomers adjust, less is known about whether and how individual psychological differences cause some newcomers to react differently to the same socialization tactics. To examine the interplay between organizational socialization efforts and newcomer individual differences, we hypothesize that newcomers' work locus of control moderates the relationship between socialization tactics and voluntary turnover. We also examine the indirect role of newcomer work adjustment—role clarity, work mastery, social integration—and job embeddedness in transmitting the interaction between socialization tactics and work locus of control to turnover. Data collected from 676 newcomers at four time points over 12 months in various organizations provided general support for our hypotheses: newcomers with an external work locus of control showed higher social integration and embeddedness and lower turnover under institutionalized socialization tactics, but lower social integration and embeddedness and higher turnover under individualized tactics. Their turnover was also reduced (about nine times) from individualized to institutionalized tactics. In contrast, newcomers with an internal work locus of control were less influenced by either socialization tactic approach in terms of their social integration, embeddedness, or turnover.

OBJECTIVES: Reconstructing the primary healthcare system is the focus of the new round of Chinese health reform. Nevertheless, there have been few studies focusing on the strengthening of primary healthcare in Chinese health system. DESIGN: This study was a longitudinal observational study. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The data of this study came from China Health Statistical Yearbook (2009–2018). We evaluated the development of primary healthcare based on the absolute values of health resources allocation and health service provision and evaluated the status of primary healthcare throughout the health system based on the composition ratios of the indicators across the health system. The Cochran-Armitage trend test and linear trend test were used to identify the indicators' trends over time. RESULTS: From 2009 to 2018, the amounts of health resources allocation and health service provision of Chinese primary healthcare institutions showed a significant upward trend (p<0.001). However, compared with the indicators in 2009, excepting that the proportion of grants from the government in the whole health system has an upward trend, the proportions of other indicators had an escalating trend in 2018 by 3.66% for practicing (assistant) physicians, by 2.69% for nurses, by 3.99% for total revenues, by 5.87% for beds, by 8.39% for outpatient visits. CONCLUSION: The primary healthcare system has developed rapidly, but its development speed lagged behind the entire health system, resulting in the weakening of its actual functions, which is not in line with the goal of health reform. The government should be more aware of the importance of primary healthcare at all levels of local governments and ensure adequate financial input.