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Aurio J. Pierro Oral History Interview
No full textAurio J. Pierro was a tank commander in the 3rd Armored Division, which liberated Dora-Mittelbau on April 11, 1945. His platoon found a fence with a gate and a barracks on the other side of the fence, which turned out to be the concentration camp. They went through the gate and the prisoners came out; when they realized that the soldiers were Americans, they started jumping for joy. Some of Pierro\u27s men wandered around on foot and directed him to look in a particular building, which contained several dead prisoners. The next day, they left the camp to continue on their mission; that was the only camp they saw. In this interview, Pierro also recounts some other stories from his arrival at Normandy two weeks after D-Day and from the Battle of the Bulge
La leadership nella prospettiva della teoria dell‟identità sociale: un contributo empirico
No full textThe relationship between need for closure and compliance to harsh power tactics in high demanding jobs: A study conducted among firefighters and social workers
No full textThe present research aimed at expanding Pierro, Kruglanski, and Raven’s work examining the interweaving between the need for closure (NFC; the desire to form quick and unambiguous knowledge) and the Interpersonal Power Interaction model. In particular, this study explored the idea that the greater compliance to harsh power tactics of subordinates’ employees, that are high on NFC, can increase when their desire to achieve cognitive closure is made more salient by a high (compared to low) level of perceived job demands. A sample of 280 subordinates employees belonging to two different organizational contexts filled in a self-report questionnaire. Through a moderation and simple slope analyses, we tested and confirmed our hypothesis. When job demands were high, it potentially impaired the subordinates’ chance to form a quick knowledge. As a result, high NFC subordinates showed a higher compliance with harsh power tactics. Such tactics, limiting the subordinates’ freedom of choice, can be conceived as a means to gain quick knowledge when the organizational context is perceived as particularly demanding. As far as practical implications, these results suggest that for high NFC subordinates the use of more directive and unambiguous guidelines (e.g., harsh power tactics) could minimize the scarcely tolerated cognitive cost associated with high job demands
L’ontologia politica di Claude Lefort : dalla fenomenologia all’interpretazione del sociale
No full textTra antropologia e letteratura: la poesia del ricordo di Albino Pierro
No full textNel saggio si discute sulle relazioni di convergenza tra poesia e ricerca etnografica con riferimento alla produzione di Albino Pierro, uno dei maggiori poeti dialettali del Novecento, a partire da quanto scriveva Ernesto de Martino nella Premessa alla raccolta Appuntamento, che raccoglieva poesie in lingua composte dal poeta tursitano tra il 1946 e il 1967. Le liriche di Pierro esercitavano sull’etnologo napoletano uno speciale “potere di risonanza” e sembravano descrivere esperienze simili a quelle di natura etnografica svincolandole dalla memoria come sistema ordinato di rappresentazione del passato e inserendole invece in frammenti episodici, che pur però rivelano una loro particolare unitarietà e che spesso trasfigurano la realtà in un mondo mitico in cui i paesaggi, le cose e le persone assumono significati di tipo simbolico. L’autore si sofferma poi sulla poesia di Pierro come poesia del ricordo, in quanto il suo «baricentro ideale» era, come sostenuto da Emerico Giachery, ’A terra d’u ricorde, cioè la Basilicata, che costituiva per il poeta un «ricordo mitico e remoto» insieme e «il luogo immobile dell’infanzia» e per la cui rappresentazione, secondo la lettura datane anche da Giovanni Battista Bronzini, era particolarmente consono l’uso del dialetto
Social power tactics and subordinates' compliance at work. The role of need for cognitive closure
No full textIntroduction The present research highlights the importance of subordinates' motivation for compliance-related phenomena. Objectives The aim of this research was to examine subordinates' willingness to comply with their supervisors' harsh and soft power tactics as a function of subordinates' need for cognitive closure. Method Two cross-sectional studies were conducted in five different Italian organizations, namely, a bank, a federation of small businesses, a security company, an oil company, and a hospital. Results It was found that subordinates high (vs. low) on need for closure reported greater willingness to comply with harsh social power tactics, but lower willingness to comply with soft power tactics. Conclusion Our findings nuance prior research by showing that soft (vs. harsh) power tactics are not always the most effective power tactics in organizational setting (e.g., Pierro et al., 2004; Raven et al., 1998
Giambattista Vico e i suoi critici cattolici : con osservazioni comparative su gli studi religiosi dei secoli 18. e 19. : ricerca storica
No full textGiambattista Vico e i suoi critici cattolici : con osservazioni comparative su gli studi religiosi dei secoli 18. e 19. : ricerca storica / di Baldassare Labanca - Napoli : Luigi Pierro, 1898. - VII, 453 p. ; 19 cm
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