The direction of work flow matters: influence mechanism of task interdependence on employee proactive work behavior

Given the increasing uncertainty in today’s environment, how enterprises implement changes to stimulate employee proactive work behavior has become an important practical topic in the human resources field. This study considers work flow direction and refers to the work characteristic and job demand–resource models to explore the influence of task interdependence (initiated and received) on employee proactive work behavior. We interviewed human resource staff and surveyed employees of an internet company headquartered in Jiangsu, China. The empirical results show that initiated task interdependence has a positive impact on employee proactive work behavior, and task significance plays a mediating role between them. Self-esteem does not affect the positive relationship between initiated task interdependence and task significance, nor does it influence the aforementioned mediating effect of task significance. Moreover, received task interdependence has no significant effect on proactive work behavior, and task significance has no significant mediating effect between them. Self-esteem moderates the relationship between received task interdependence and task significance. Specifically, when self-esteem is low, received task interdependence positively predicts task significance, and when self-esteem is high, the received task interdependence–task significance relationship is not significant. Furthermore, self-esteem moderates the mediating effect of task significance between received task interdependence and proactive work behavior. Specifically, when self-esteem is low, task significance plays a mediating role but not when self-esteem is high. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications are discussed

The influence of team motivational climate on employee creativity—mediating role of domain-relevant skills

Employee creativity drives enterprise development, and team motivational climate plays an important role in incubating employee creativity. Based on creativity component theory, this study explores the impact of team motivational climate (mastery climate and performance climate) on employee creativity and its mechanism. Through the paired data of supervisors and employees at three time points, the research shows that mastery climate positively affects employees’ domain-relevant skills and domain-relevant skills positively affect employee creativity. By controlling the mediating effect of intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy, domain-relevant skills mediate the impact of mastery climate on employee creativity; performance climate and mastery climate work together on domain-relevant skills. When both are high, domain-relevant skills are highest. Performance climate moderate the mediating effect of domain-relevant skills between mastery climate and employee creativity. When performance climate is high, the mediating effect of domain-relevant skills is stronger. Suggestions for practice and future research are provided

PO-062 Acute exercise intervention combined with metformin’s influences on glucose homeostasis in T2D mice

Objective Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a common chronic diseases prevailing in the world and the amount of diabetic and pre-diabetic patients is increasing gradually. Exercise combined with hypoglycemic drug is the first recommended therapy to treat type 2 diabetes. Metformin was found from galegine in 1957 and has been used now as the first cheap and effective hypoglycemic guanidines. Our study aims to explore the effects of different ways of acute exercise intervention combined with high dose of metformin on glucose homeostasis and its relative molecular mechanisms in type 2 diabetic mice. Methods Adopt 4-week high fat diet (HFD, 45% fat content) and one-time STZ (Streptozocin, 100mg/kg) intraperitoneal injection to build type 2 diabetic mice. There are 84 mice in total, 24 mice were divided into three groups: normal control (NC) group, normal acute resistance training (NCR) group and normal acute endurance training (NCE) group, N=8 each group, they were fed normal chow. The rest 60 mice were fed HFD as T2D modeling group. 48 mice were developing type 2 diabetes and they were divided into 6 groups: diabetic control (DC) group, diabetic acute resistance training (DCR) group, diabetic acute endurance training (DCE) group, high dose of metformin control (HMC) group, high dose of metformin combined with acute resistance training (HMR) group and high dose of metformin combined with acute endurance training (HME) group, N=8 each group. Acute resistance training is climbing 1 meter ladder from down to up, 5 times a group, 3 groups in total, monitoring the glucose change with extracting mouse tail vein blood during each group, using ACCU-CHEK monitor. Acute endurance training is running at the speed of 18 m/min on the platform for 50 minutes and blood glucose change was monitored every 10 minutes by extracting mouse tail vein blood. HMC, HMR and HME group mice were intraperitoneally injected high dose of metformin (200mg/kg) one hour before the acute exercise intervention. Comparatively, NC, NCR, NCE, DC, DCR, DCE group mice were intraperitoneally injected 0.9% saline one hour before the acute exercise intervention. ELISA, RT-PCR and Western Blot were used to evaluate relative serum indicators, mRNA and protein expression of regulating blood glucose homeostasis. Results 1) 4-week high fat diet and one time 100mg/kg Streptozocin intraperitoneal injection induces mice to develop type 2 diabetes. The fasting blood glucose, IPGTT, ITT, glucose AUC and insulin AUC of T2D group mice are significantly higher than NC group. 2) Compared with DCR group, the blood glucose value and fluctuation of HMR group mice are both significantly decreased, but the blood glucose value of DCR and HMR group mice are significantly higher than NCR group. In the same way, the blood glucose value and fluctuation of HME group mice is lower than DCE group and the whole blood glucose level of both group are higher than NCE group. Acute resistance training and acute endurance training combined with high dose of metformin have not affected the weight of type 2 diabetic mice. Hence compared with HMC group, the eWAT (epididymal white adipose tissue) of HMR and HME group mice is significantly declined. 3) Compared with NC group, the indicators of serum glucose, GSP (glycosylated serum protein), serum TG and serum T-CHO of DC group are notably increased, further reflect that the success model of type 2 diabetic mice. Compared with HMC group, the indicators of serum glucose, GSP, serum TG and serum T-CHO of HMR group mice are notably decreased, in the mean time, the indicators of serum glucose and serum TG of HME group mice are significantly declined. Interestingly, the serum insulin of HME group mice is notably lower than HMR group. 4) Compared with DC group, the indicators of mRNA expression about hepatic gluconeogenesis key rate-limiting enzymes PEPCK and G6pase of HMC group are significantly declined, but mRNA expression of regulating hepatic glucose homeostasis GLUT2 of HMC group is notably raised. Compared with HMC group, G6Pase mRNA expression of HMR and HME group is significantly escalated and Fbp mRNA expression of both groups are significantly declined. Compared with HMC, the indicators of mRNA expression about regulating hepatic glucose homeostasis GLUT2 and Gck of HMR and HME group mice show opposite trend, the former is down and the latter is up. Compared with HMC group, PEPCK mRNA expression of HMR group mice is notably escalated. Compared with HMR group, PEPCK and G6Pase mRNA expression of HME group mice are notably raised. 5) In the liver, there is a signaling pathway of AMPKα-PGC-1α-CREB to regulate glucose homeostasis and hepatic gluconeogenesis. Our study find that compared with HMC group, AMPKα2, PGC-1α and CREB mRNA expression of HMR and HME group mice are notably increased and only AMPKα1 mRNA expression of HMR group mice is significantly increased. Conclusions 1) Acute resistance training and acute endurance training combined with high dose of metformin can effectively reduce glucose fluctuation during exercise in type 2 diabetic mice, therefore these two way can both improve glucose homeostasis during acute exercise intervention in type 2 diabetic mice. 2) Acute resistance training and acute endurance training combined with high dose of metformin can improve serum glucose and lipid metabolism in type 2 diabetic mice, but acute resistance training combined with high dose of metformin are better to improve serum lipid metabolism. 3) Acute exercise intervention combined with high dose of metformin can comparatively increase hepatic gluconeogenesis key rate-limiting enzymes PEPCK and G6Pase and regulating hepatic glucose transport Gck mRNA expression. In the opposite, these two ways inhibit the other hepatic gluconeogenesis key rate-limiting enzyme Fbp and regulating hepatic glucose transport GLUT2 mRNA expression. 4) Compared with acute endurance training combined with high dose of metformin, acute resistance training combined with high dose of metformin can better improve glucose homeostasis and hepatic gluconeogenesis in type 2 diabetic mice via the signaling pathway of AMPKα-PGC-1α-CREB

A cognitive evaluation and equity-based perspective of pay for performance on job performance: A meta-analysis and path model

Pay for performance, as one of the most important means of motivating employees, has attracted the attention of many scholars and managers. However, controversy has continued regarding whether it promotes or undermines job performance. Drawing on a meta-analysis of 108 independent samples (N = 71,438) from 100 articles, we found that pay for performance was positively related to job performance. That pay for performance had a more substantial positive effect on task performance than contextual performance in workplace settings. From the cognitive evaluation perspective, we found that pay for performance enhanced employees' task performance and contextual performance by enhancing intrinsic motivation and weakened task performance and contextual performance by increasing employee pressure. From the equity perspective, our results indicated that the relationship between pay for performance and task performance was partially mediated by employee perceptions of distributive justice and procedural justice, with distributive justice having a more substantial mediating effect than procedural justice. However, the relationship between pay for performance and contextual performance was only partially mediated by procedural justice. Further tests of moderating effects indicated that the varying impacts of pay for performance are contingent on measures of pay for performance and national culture. The findings contributed to understanding the complex mechanisms and boundary conditions of pay-for-performance's effects on job performance, which provided insights for organizations to maximize its positive effects

A newcomer socialization perspective on the proliferation of unethical conduct in organizations : the influences of peer coaching practices and newcomers’ goal orientations

Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we contribute to the behavioral ethics literature by examining how and why organizational socialization processes can affect newcomers’ adoption of unethical behaviors. Specifically, we contend that quality peer coaching (i.e., providing newcomers with job-related guidance and social support) provides newcomers with enhanced self-resources that diminishes emotional exhaustion and thus indirectly reduces newcomer unethical conduct. Conversely, peer coach unethical conduct (i.e., violating ethical norms) increases newcomers’ emotional exhaustion, and thus indirectly increases newcomers’ own unethical acts. Our research also identifies newcomers’ goal orientations as important individual differences that moderate the proposed mediation effects. Newcomers with high mastery orientations respond to high emotional exhaustion by harnessing more resources and identifying new work strategies, thereby engaging in less unethical conduct. Conversely, newcomers with high performance orientations give into emotional exhaustion and engage in unethical conduct as a way of outperforming others while conserving resources. We tested our theoretical model using a sample of peer coaches and newcomers from the Real Estate industry, using objective reporting of peer coaches’ and newcomers’ unethical conduct over a nine-month period

Clay mineralogy indicates a mildly warm and humid living environment for the Miocene hominoid from the Zhaotong Basin, Yunnan, China

Global and regional environmental changes have influenced the evolutionary processes of hominoid primates, particularly during the Miocene. Recently, a new Lufengpithecus cf. lufengensis hominoid fossil with a late Miocene age of ~6.2 Ma was discovered in the Shuitangba (STB) section of the Zhaotong Basin in Yunnan on the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau. To understand the relationship between paleoclimate and hominoid evolution, we have studied sedimentary, clay mineralogy and geochemical proxies for the late Miocene STB section (~16 m thick; ca. 6.7–6.0 Ma). Our results show that Lufengpithecus cf. lufengensis lived in a mildly warm and humid climate in a lacustrine or swamp environment. Comparing mid to late Miocene records from hominoid sites in Yunnan, Siwalik in Pakistan, and tropical Africa we find that ecological shifts from forest to grassland in Siwalik are much later than in tropical Africa, consistent with the disappearance of hominoid fossils. However, no significant vegetation changes are found in Yunnan during the late Miocene, which we suggest is the result of uplift of the Tibetan plateau combined with the Asian monsoon geographically and climatically isolating these regions. The resultant warm and humid conditions in southeastern China offered an important refuge for Miocene hominoids

Large-area epitaxial growth of curvature-stabilized ABC trilayer graphene.

The properties of van der Waals (vdW) materials often vary dramatically with the atomic stacking order between layers, but this order can be difficult to control. Trilayer graphene (TLG) stacks in either a semimetallic ABA or a semiconducting ABC configuration with a gate-tunable band gap, but the latter has only been produced by exfoliation. Here we present a chemical vapor deposition approach to TLG growth that yields greatly enhanced fraction and size of ABC domains. The key insight is that substrate curvature can stabilize ABC domains. Controllable ABC yields ~59% were achieved by tailoring substrate curvature levels. ABC fractions remained high after transfer to device substrates, as confirmed by transport measurements revealing the expected tunable ABC band gap. Substrate topography engineering provides a path to large-scale synthesis of epitaxial ABC-TLG and other vdW materials

Regulating Top-Surface Multilayer/Single-Crystal Graphene Growth by “Gettering” Carbon Diffusion at Backside of the Copper Foil

A unique strategy is reported to constrain the nucleation centers for multilayer graphene (MLG) and, later, single-crystal graphene domains by gettering carbon source on backside of the flat Cu foil, during chemical vapor deposition. Hitherto, for a flat Cu foil, the top-surface-based growth mechanism is emphasized, while overlooking the graphene on the backside. However, the systematic experimental findings indicate a strong correlation between the backside graphene and the nucleation centers on the top-surface, governed by the carbon diffusion through the bulk Cu. This understanding steers to devise a strategy to mitigate the carbon diffusion to the top-surface by using a carbon “getter” substrate, such as nickel, on the backside of the Cu foil. Depth profiling of the nickel substrate, along with the density functional theory calculations, verifies the gettering role of the nickel support. The implementation of the backside carbon gettering approach on single-crystal graphene growth results in lowering the nucleation density by two orders of magnitude. This enables the single-crystal domains to grow by 6 mm laterally on the untreated Cu foil. Finally, the growth of large-area polycrystalline single layer graphene, free of unwanted MLG domains, with significantly improved field-effect mobility of ≈6800 cm^2 V^(−1) s^(−1) is demonstrated