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Il mobbing in Trentino: stato attuale.
No full textBortoli F., Sartori R., Il mobbing in Trentino: stato attuale, 171-18
Action Research in a Medium-Sized Company: Organizational Climate Assessment as a Premise of Organizational Development
No full textThe aim of this study is to check whether an analysis of organizational climate can indicate causes of dissatisfaction and difficulty in carrying out one’s job, as this can be a reliable source of information for Company Management that aims to carry out improving intervention in order to resolve working problems and to re-establish a good climate.
A medium sized Company in the North–East of Italy which was experiencing some problems was the target of the research.
To satisfy the study’s objective, it was decided to work with variables that express realistic areas of improvement and that can be important in a definition of the formation of organizational climate.
To define the variables, the literature was consulted and, along with the use of those, identified in the Mayer D’Amato Organizational Questionnaire 10 (M_DOQ10).
The following variables have been chosen:
1. Communication
2. Decision-Making Autonomy
3. Team Work
4. Coherence and Transparency of Company Strategy
5. Interest in One’s Job
6. Staff Development and Management
7. Leadership
8. Open-Mindedness and Ability to Adapt to New Situations
9. Awareness of Company Image
The company population was composed of 64 people: 5 managers, 26 white-collar workers (subdivided into the following areas: commercial, administrative, technical, organization and communication) and 33 blue-collar workers.
Accordingly, a complex operation was carried out using different working instruments:
• M_DOQ10 Mayer_D’Amato Organizational Questionnaire (2004) given to the company population;
• Focus group;
• Individual interviews with opinion leaders.
Gathering and analysis of data conform to privacy regulations in force.
Results obtained were shared with Company Management and staff.
For each variable, critical areas and strengths have emerged which made it possible to identify organizational factors which were the cause of difficulty in carrying out one’ job and the cause of dissatisfaction.
A further result was the involvement and the motivation of the whole staff in actively taking part in Company improvement.
These data have identified realistic and aims-driven strategies for improving implementation actions for organizational development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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