Association between Mental Health Literacy and Workplace Well-Being of Chinese Grassroots Civil Servants:The Chain Mediating Effects of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Resilience

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health literacy(MHL)and workplace well-being(WWB)of Chinese grassroots civil servants,with regulatory emotional self-efficacy(RESE)and resilience as mediating variables.A questionnaire survey was conducted among Chinese grassroots civil servants,with a valid sample size of 2673 after excluding missing values and conducting relevant data processing.The PROCESS was used to examine the relationship between MHL,RESE,resilience,and WWB.The study found that MHL among grassroots civil servants was positively and significantly correlated with WWB(r=0.73,p<0.01).RESE partially mediated the relationship between MHL and WWB(β=0.25,95%CI[0.22,0.28]).Resilience partially mediated the relationship between MHL and WWB(β=0.22,95%CI[0.19,0.26]).MHL had a positive effect on WWB through the chain mediating effect of RESE and resilience(β=0.05,95%CI[0.03,0.07]).There is a close relationship between MHL and WWB,where Chinese grassroots civil servants with higher levels of MHL can develop stronger RESE and resilience,leading to higher WWB.The results of this study remind organizational institutions of Chinese grassroots civil servants that enhancing MHL,RESE,and resilience is an important pathway to promoting their WWB.

Physical Activity Stares of Civil Servants and Their Health- Related Research

Since the 1980s, people＇ s material and spiritual life are constantly enriched and improved. People＇ s values are constantly changing, more and more people realize that participate in physical exercise for their own importance in sports. The status of people＇ s lives has been greatly improved, for most residents; they participate in physical activity and have gradually become a richer cultural life, and they enhance the basic needs of physical, mental lifelong sports have gradually deep heart. While people continue to enhance the sports consciousness exercise, we also see some potential problems, such as the rapid development of science and technology is to bring more and more problems to people. As people, enjoy the level of automation in the material aspects of life. They gradually have cars, telephones, washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, rice cookers. And the household products go into our lives, we enjoy the material on those by making more and more people gradually reduce the daily activities. And the most prominent is the elevators and cars, reducing active time and the amount of activity, a lot of heat stored in the human body is causing various diseases, from the results of medical research over the past decade. Various diseases associated with obesity have been become the most important factor in human deaths worldwide, the rapid emergence of this disease and the rapid development of social science and technology form a clear lack of coordination, for which many experts at home and abroad for such issues of deep study and research.

Are Job-Hopping Civil Servants Breaking the Faith?

China＇s civil service, dubbed the ＂iron rice bowl,＂ is no longer viewed as a dream job by job hunters. During this year＇s recruitment season from February to mid-March, more than 10,000 civil servants switched to the private sector, a 34-percent increase over last year, according to a report on the flow of professionals between different sectors. The report by Zhaopin.com, a major employment website in China, says following the Spring Festival in February,

Struggling:Living Conditions of Ordinary Civil Servants of Tianjin Special Municipality during the Period of the Japanese Occupation

During the period of the Japanese occupation,ordinary civil servants were the main force keeping the puppet municipal government of Tianjin functioning.In the first years of the occupation,the puppet municipal government mainly hired former civil servants who had served under the Nanjing National Government.After the situation was stable,the puppet municipal government also recruited civil servants by civil service examinations.The ranks of civil servants and the rules and regulations they observed were basically the same as those of the former National Government.Most ordinary civil servants came from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,and were relatively young and well educated.They mainly relied on their salaries for their livelihood.For the first three years of the Japanese occupation they lived comfortably,because of their relatively high and stable incomes and the slow rate of inflation.After that,inflation soared,but their salaries did not increase correspondingly,therefore the living conditions of civil servants declined constantly.The Japanese puppet government exercised strict control over civil servants,physically and psychologically,and forced them to receive enslaving education.In short,they were in a distorted and struggling state both in their material life and their spiritual world.

Should Civil Servants Be Excluded From Public Hearings?

In order to prevent public hearings from becoming a farce,the city of Guangzhou,capital of south China’s Guangdong Province,enacted trial regulations to ensure more fairness and justice at public hearings,which are organized when local residents have major disagreements on important city issues.

Should Bad Civil Servants Be Chosen by Voting?

In order to promote good service from civil servants, Anqiu City in Shandong Province recently issued the Appraisal Methods for Best-and Worst-Performing Civil Servants. Based on the regulation, the city

Shoud Virtue Be a Standard for Recruiting Civil Servants?

The 2012 Nationwide Civil Servants’ Recruitment Exam will put more emphasis on evaluating the virtue of the examtakers, says the State Administration of Civil Service. For future

Is It Necessary for Civil Servants to Wear Uniforms During Office Hours?

It wasn’t too long ago that the vast majority of Chinese wore nondescript Mao-style coats and caps in muted grays and blues-bringing uniformity to a population where individual dress styles were frowned upon. Times and tastes have changed. Today

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Civil Service of Oyo State, South-Western Nigeria: An Epidemic with an Unmatched Response

Background: Worldwide, the burden of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors is rising with devastating impacts on the productive workforce. In developing nations, it has further led to an unstable population pyramid as a result of premature deaths of her workforce leading to the continued tapering of the pyramidal apex. Inspite of this, many studies were conducted among the general population neglecting the local government civil servants who are seen as policy implementers. Therefore, the study assessed the pattern of CV risk factors in South-western Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 260 local government workers selected by multistage sampling technique from July to September 2017. A pretested, interviewer-administered questionnaire was administered to obtain socio-demographic and behavioural information. Lipid analysis, anthropometric, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose measurements were done according to protocols. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 25;bivariate analysis was done using Chi-square. Level of significance was at 5%. Results: The mean age of respondents was 46.0 ± 6.7 years. The proportion of participants with good knowledge of risk factors was 57.7%. The proportion of respondent with hypertension, visceral obesity, general obesity, diabetes, smoking and physical inactivity was 40.4%, 35.0%, 52.2%, 38.2%, 5.8% and 75.8% respectively. The prevalence of elevated total cholesterol (↑TC), raised low-density lipoprotein (↑LDLc), low high-density lipoprotein (↓HDLc) and elevated triglycerides (↑TGs) was 55.4%, 85.0%, 70.4% and 3.1% respectively. There was a higher proportion of elevated total cholesterol (TC) and LDLc among female respondents (p = 0.002;p = 0.009). Senior cadre staff had a higher proportion of respondents with raised ↓HDLc and ↑TGs (p = 0.031;p = 0.036). Age was associated with hypertension and was highest among respondents in 45 - 54 years age category (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The prevalence of CV risk factors was higher compared with other studies in Nigeria and Africa. The findings illuminated a poor response to the rising burden of CV risk factors despite interventions put in place. This underscores the need for holistic preventive and control strategies with a view to reducing the incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Nigeria.

The Public Service as an Actor of Political Network

This research analyzes the role of public service in the political networks. The status of civil servants in these networks is not obvious. On the one hand, the officials are surrounded by strict framework of regulations and law. They are not independent subjects of political decisions, but at the same time, they are the main sources of information needed for making political decisions. On the other hand, they actively interact with other actors of the political networks, including under informal conditions. In addition, high professional requirements for officials lead to the need of recruiting them into the elitist environment. Therefore, there often arises a conflict of interest due to their personal connections. Activating these links, officials are building patron-client relations, behaving as patrons for those who need to receive confidential information and as clients for the higher heads. Thus, civil servants use personal networks for carrying out their functions, and simultaneously use available official information for private gain.

Ethical Standards for Employers in the Local Administration Units： Republic of Macedonia

The extensive research on public ethics in the local administration is more than necessary. This paper identifies the basic values of and the challenges to Macedonian Legal System in this area, and explains the key ethical aspects, which should be implemented in practice by civil servants, who increasingly have to learn how to perform in accordance with ethical values. In this paper I will analyze the ethical values of civil servants laid down by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development （OECD） and the Civil Servants Agency in Macedonia, upon which the ethical principles for civil servants in the local administration units are intended to be set. This paper deals with the ethics of civil servants, assessment of best practices, and evaluation of positive and negative indicators. The paper concludes with a few recommendations for the next steps in this process; and some criteria for the consideration of future developments are suggested.