31097 research outputs found
Sort by
Understanding recruiters’ acceptance of artificial intelligence: Insights from the Technology Acceptance Model
Get PDFThe integration of new technologies in professional contexts has emerged as a critical determinant of organizational efficiency and competitiveness. In this regard, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment processes facilitates faster and more accurate decision-making by processing large volumes of data, minimizing human bias, and offering personalized recommendations to enhance talent development and candidate selection. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) provides a valuable framework for understanding recruiters’ perceptions of innovative technologies, such as AI tools and GenAI. Drawing on the TAM, a model was developed to explain the intention to use AI tools, proposing that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness influence attitudes toward AI, which subsequently affect the intention to use AI tools in recruitment and selection processes. Two studies were conducted in Portugal to address this research objective. The first was a qualitative exploratory study involving 100 interviews with recruiters who regularly utilize AI tools in their professional activities. The second study employed a quantitative confirmatory approach, utilizing an online questionnaire completed by 355 recruiters. The qualitative findings underscored the transformative role of AI in recruitment, emphasizing its potential to enhance efficiency and optimize resource management. However, recruiters also highlighted concerns regarding the potential loss of personal interaction and the need to adapt roles within this domain. The results also supported the indirect effect of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on the use of AI tools in recruitment and selection processes via positive attitudes toward the use of these tools. This suggests that AI is best positioned as a complementary tool rather than a replacement for human decision-making. The insights gathered from recruiters’ perspectives provide actionable recommendations for organizations seeking to leverage AI in recruitment processes. Specifically, the findings show the importance of ethical considerations and maintaining human involvement to ensure a balanced and effective integration of AI tools.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Faire la différence: Répondre aux attentes envers la migration quand on revient à Cuba
No full textThe article focuses on the predicaments faced by return migrants to Cuba and how they respond to societal pressures to make a valuable difference ‘back home’, opening analytical avenues at the juncture of the anthropology of ethics and morality and migration. It does so by uncovering five distinct but complementary ways in which returnees respond to migration-related demands. Conceptualized as efforts to ‘make a difference’, it first considers the importance for returnees to exemplify and share the economic gains that are widely expected from a successful migration, before addressing alternative attempts to carve out other sources of prized difference from experiences abroad. To deflect the pressure that weighs on them as (ex)migrants and generates feelings of exhaustion and estrangement, returnees also endeavour to ‘unmake’ migration-related differences. They do so by deconstructing migration promises, reframing notions and forms of belonging, and downplaying the possibilities afforded by life in Cuba. While the combination of different anthropological approaches to ethics and morality befits the analysis, the returnees’ resistance to scrutiny of their moral lives questions the limitless reach and suitability of such interpretative lenses. Ultimately, this helps assess their relevance and pitfalls in research on migration and beyond.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Conformed to gender conformity? Gender nonconformity stigma is buffered by personal contact
Get PDFResearch has shown that individuals from sexual and gender minorities are more likely to be stigmatized. Taking the perceiver’s perspective, we conducted two experimental studies to examine gender nonconformity stigma and the conditions under which such stigma is more (or less) likely to emerge. In both studies, participants were asked to read descriptions of targets varying in gender (non)conformity and assigned sex (Study 1; N = 337) or sexual identity (Study 2; N = 406). Results from both studies showed that participants preferred more social distance from gender nonconforming (vs. conforming) targets, tended to dehumanize them (i.e., attributed them more primary and less secondary emotions), and reported less anti-violence behavioral intentions and justifications. In both studies, results further showed that having more frequent and positive personal contact with gender nonconforming individuals helps buffer against gender nonconformity bias. Unexpectedly, results from Study 2 showed that humanizing gender nonconforming targets (rather than dehumanizing them) was associated with more violence predispositions for participants who reported having more negative personal contact with gender nonconforming individuals. No differences were found according to the targets’ assigned sex or sexual identity. Taken together, our findings highlight the need to understand the causes and boundaries of gender nonconformity bias.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
DevSecOps practices and tools
Get PDFNowadays, software development happens at a fast pace. At the same time, Information Technology organizations face higher demands and competition while struggling with external threats such as cyberattacks. Therefore, many organizations adopt DevOps as a working culture to improve their Software Development Lifecycle (SDL). However, the success of DevOps adoption remains inconsistent, and recently, IEEE introduced a DevOps standard that might help improve DevOps adoption. The standard mentions DevSecOps as the security aspect of DevOps, adding security practices to the SDL from inception, but what are these practices or capabilities? Which tools can be used to implement these practices? Therefore, a Multivocal Literature Review was performed to identify DevSecOps practices and their definitions, and which tools can be used to implement them.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Intersectionality in youth climate activism as educational practice: Political, pragmatic, and pedagogical dimensions
Get PDFYouth climate movements have increasingly adopted an intersectional approach to activism, highlighting how diverse social categories (inter alia, race, gender, social class, sexuality) intersect with power structures and systems of oppression. This article explores the educational value of practices of intersectionality as they unfold in activists’ everyday lives, both within the climate movement and in its relationship with other movements. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data from young climate activists belonging to the School Strike for Climate chapters in Portugal’s two largest cities (Porto and Lisbon), we account for both private and public activist events—such as activists’ meetings, school occupations, and protest actions—and the connections with other activist causes, including feminist, anti-fascist, pro-housing, and LGBTQI+ rights. We show that intersectionality in youth collective action translates into: (i) a political commitment to anchor the climate struggle in systemic injustices that affect minoritized groups and non-normative identities, and (ii) a pragmatic strategy to uphold the public relevance and reach of youth climate mobilization. Simultaneously, our data reveal how the intersectional framework in climate activism translates into informal educational experiences that are significant for political socialization and collective learning, challenging conventional pedagogical processes and hegemonic education systems. This article contributes to expanding traditional notions of education, emphasizing the importance of climate activism as localized political spheres that promote opportunities for participatory learning, aimed at co-constructing just, democratic, and inclusive futures.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Measuring commitment in paws: Adaptation of the Investment Model Scale to the context of companion animals with a Portuguese sample
Get PDFCommitment has a crucial role in predicting intentions and behaviors toward relationship maintenance. The Investment Model Scale (IMS; Rusbult et al., 1998) offers an empirically supported framework to describe and quantify commitment in various contexts, particularly romantic relationships. Only a few studies have attempted to extend this theoretical framework to examine human and companion animals (H-CA) relationships and measurement instruments lack psychometric evidence. We adapted the IMS to H-CA relationships based on previous studies and discussions with various experts (Study 1a), to help us clarify some items and develop new ones. We then performed Exploratory (Study 1b, N = 248) and Confirmatory Factor Analyses (Study 2, N = 236), to assess the scale’s psychometric capabilities in this new context. During study 2, we also investigated scale sensitivity and criterion-based validity. Exploratory factor analyses showed that variables assessed by the IMS are transferable to the H-CA context. The same structure was found in the Confirmatory Factor Analyses. Results showed this new version of the IMS is psychometrically sound to be used by researchers and professionals, with the added precaution that the “Quality of Alternatives” dimension does not translate completely to this new H-CA environment and warrants further study.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Green innovations in third-party logistics: Managerial reasons, external stakeholder influences and contingencies in the natural-business environment
Get PDFIncreasing ecological consciousness makes adopting green innovations a strategic concern for third-party logistics providers (3PLs). This article addresses gaps in understanding how 3PLs can strategically leverage green innovations and the business environment characteristics influencing their adoption through a multiple-case study of six environmentally proactive German 3PLs using semi-structured interviews and triangulated with secondary data. Results show varied adoption levels with process innovations linked to cost savings, enhanced reputation and long-term energy independence. Large 3PLs differentiate through green services in eco-aware segments. Moreover, findings highlight the importance of managing external stakeholder relationships and reveal market-related contingencies that create uncertainty and complexity for 3PLs, such as unpredictable technological developments or shifting governmental regulations. Market munificence plays a crucial role in enabling green innovation adoption, with small-/mid-sized 3PLs facing challenges in accessing external green knowledge and personnel. This study is informed by the Natural Resource-based View (NRBV), Stakeholder Theory (ST) and Contingency Theory (CT) perspectives, developing a comprehensive framework that coherently structures the problem-situation and derives propositions for subsequent explanatory investigations. It recommends a step-by-step approach to green innovations, forming diverse partnerships and maintaining communication with shippers to overcome perceived market-related contingencies. Small-/mid-sized 3PLs should consider horizontal cooperation for unified advocacy and shared best practices.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Using survey data to estimate intergenerational mobility in income and education in Portugal
Get PDFPrevious studies about intergenerational mobility for the Portuguese economy find that education and income persistence is very high in comparison with other developed economies. We construct relative, absolute, global and local measures of mobility for Portugal, comparing them with existing evidence for this and other countries. These are the intergenerational income elasticity (computed using the two-sample two-stage least squares method), income correlation, rank-rank slope, bottom to top income level probability, the share of individuals earning more than their fathers and also the intergenerational education correlation, the low to high education level probability, and the share of individuals with a higher education level than their fathers. We consider the 1968-1988 cohorts and the 1995 and 2019 waves of the European Community Household Panel and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, respectively. Overall, based on the point estimates, women seem to present more mobility in income. Upward income mobility is verified at the bottom while persistence exists at the top. Women present a greater absolute educational mobility. More than 80% of individuals have a higher education than their fathers and full upward education mobility exists for children of low-educated fathers. Mobility in education is higher for the offspring of medium-high-income fathers. Individuals with a high education level, in the medium-high income level or with occupations requiring a higher education level show higher mobility.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Can migration be a fundamental right?
Get PDFO presente artigo pretende realizar uma reflexão sobre o direito de livre circulação de pessoas e as suas implicações no quadro de fluxos migratórios, à luz de textos normativos internacionais. Pretende-se enquadrar a questão no cenário de polarização política, examinando a tensão entre uma democracia maioritarista, expressa na ascensão da direita radical nativista, e uma democracia minoritarista, manifesta na cidadania global promovida pela esquerda progressista.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Conforming to career compromise: How a personal orientation can mitigate damages to organizational citizenship behavior
Get PDFPurpose: This investigation aims to unpack the negative connection between employees’ experience of resource-draining career compromise and their organizational citizenship behavior, by theorizing a mediating role of their depersonalization of organizational leaders and a moderating role of their conformity orientation in this connection.
Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses were tested with survey data collected among employees who operate in the construction retail industry in Portugal.
Findings: A critical reason that frustrations about unwanted career adjustments translate into a reluctance to undertake work efforts that exceed formal job descriptions is that employees develop dehumanized perceptions of the people in charge of the company. This explanatory mechanism is less prominent, however, to the extent that employees’ personal orientation favors rule adherence.
Practical implications: For HR managers, this research identifies a key channel, indifference to organizational leaders, through which disappointments about compromised career developments escalate into rejection of voluntary work activities, which otherwise might leave a positive impression on leaders and enhance employees’ careers. It also reveals that organizations can subdue this detrimental process by leveraging a sense of conformity among their workers.
Originality/value: This study adds to HR management research by showing how a mismatch between employees’ current career situation and their own meaningful career goals paradoxically might direct them away from extra-role work behavior that otherwise could provide meaningfulness. This harmful dynamic, which can be explained by their propensity to treat organizational leaders as impersonal objects, can be avoided to the extent that employees draw from their conformity orientation.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio