The Effects of Work Ethics, Transformational and Transactional Leadership on Work Performance of Teachers

Teacher performance is an important factor to improve education performance. This study aimed to analyze the effect of the work ethics, transformational, and transactional leadership style on teacher performance. The experiment was conducted in public high school No. 112 Jakarta. A total of 50 teachers were included as samples, where they were given the questionnaires to be filled by self-rating. Data were analyzed with multiple linear regression model and processed with SPSS version 20. Results showed that transformational leadership, transactional leadership and work ethics have positive and significant impacts on teacher performance both simultaneously and individually.

Organizational Justice and Gender Equity:The Contingent Effect of Islamic Work Ethics

Organizations are facing challenges to cope with gender equity in the presence of a diverse workforce.The present study investigates the moderating impact of Islamic work ethics on the organizational justicegender equity relationship.Self-administered questionnaires were sent to employees working in a large private university in a State of Qatar.This study collected data from 250 employees with 66.12%response rate.The present study employed structural equation modelling to analyse data in SmartPLS 3.0 and SPSS version 24.Empirical findings revealed the significant relationship of distributive justice and interactional justice with gender equity.Procedural justice did not relate to gender equity.Furthermore,Islamic work ethics also moderated the relationship of interactional justice with gender equity.Limitations and implications have been added at the end of paper.This study is first in its nature revealing the conditional factor of Islamic work ethics on the organizational justicegender equity relationship.

Shanghai Institutes Work Out Ethical Code

As its contribution to a national crusade against scientific misconduct, the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) recently came up With a code of conduct for its staff designed to ensure good research practice.

A Clash of Work Ethic

As China-Africa cooperation grows, people from both sides have more opportunities to work together and get along with each other. Over time, China and Africa have built friendships, but they have also discovered cultural discrepancies. One is the notion that the Chinese value hard work and efficiency, and that Africans, as some Chinese complain, can be reluctant to work and do not value time. Three African and Chinese spectators share their opinions on the topic with ChinAfrica.

On the Human Rights Dilemma of “Surplus Population” in Contemporary Western Developed Countries

As capitalist society develops from a producer society to a consumer society, from the dominance of material production to the rise of non-material production, and from the dominance of labor-intensive industries to the rise of knowledge-intensive industries(accompanied by the shift of labor-intensive industries to the Third World countries), the generation and composition of the “Surplus Population” in Western developed countries have demonstrated new historical characteristics. The capitalists not only refuse to solve the problems they have created but even “besiege” these unfortunate victims by moral and legal means. They marginalize and stigmatize the “Surplus Population” with work ethics, to severely damage the moral foundation for them to enjoy human rights. They reach an agreement for the welfare system, criminal practice, and work ethic to reinforce social indifference and hostility towards the “Surplus Population”, pushing them into a more difficult human rights situation, even excluding them from the scope of legal recognition and protection of human rights. However, the “Surplus Population”, which is considered “useless, redundant and dangerous”, is included in the process of capitalist production in a way that is excluded by the above-mentioned morality and law, becoming the “utility of futility.” As a result, the subjectivity of the “Surplus Population” as human beings is deprived.

Solitary String and Elegant Melody: Master Taixu's Theory on Buddhism and Society

Master Taixu(太虚, 1890-1947) was an eminent monk of modern China, and is well-known for his passionate appeal for a fundamental reform of Chinese Buddhism and the establishment of “Humanistic Buddhism(renjian fojiao 人间佛教, meaning Buddhism in human life).” While being well versed in traditional Chinese culture and Buddhist thought, he also embraced the Western social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. Historical documents show that he was also familiar with the new currents of European sociology of the day and he had developed his own interpretation of these theories and methodologies. This study mainly focuses on the sociology within his voluminous works. By combing through Master Taixu’s ideas such as a call for the creation of a new system of work ethic based on Buddhist values and a new kind of Buddhist “Realism” with the goal of helping to reform society and modernize China, this paper attempts to explore the potential for further sociological study regarding the relationship between Buddhism and secular society based on his social theory, thus establishing that Master Taixu was an important pioneer of interpreting modern sociology from the perspective of Buddhism.