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Assessing and training leaders' emotional intelligence, and its influence on their employees.
No full textZammuner, V., Favaro, T., Gonella, F., & Prandi, K. (2016). Assessing and training leaders' emotional intelligence, and its influence on their employees. ICERI2016 Proceedings,.pp 5153-5162 (9th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Siviglia (E), 14-16 November, 2016). The importance and role of emotions in the work setting have received in recent years an increasing attention, as regards emotions experienced both by individuals, such as employees at the various organizational levels, and as a function of job or role characteristics, and emotions that are related to work-setting structural and dynamic issues, such as those that employees feel towards their leaders, and vice versa, according to leaders' emotional capabilities, and to leadership style. The study tested whether Self-reported leaders' emotional intelligence (EI) capabilities (LEI), are congruent with Other-reported LEI, and whether a brief self-administered online training program (Tremints) affects Self- and Other-reported LEI assessments at post-training, as well as leaders' and employees' emotion-related aspects of work- and general-well being (e.g., Job involvement, Life satisfaction, Health level, and Positive and Negative felt affect), as well leaders' self-perception of their own emotional abilities, including preferred strategies of emotion regulation, level of adhesion to display rules of emotion, and own job-related and general well being (e.g., Job involvement and satisfaction, Health, Affect).
Study design. The study employed an experimental pre-post design, with Time (T1 pre-test, and T2 post-test) as the within-subject factor, and Condition (Experimental vs. Control) as the between-subject factor; 25 leaders and their 77 employees formed the experimental group, 4 leaders and 12 employees formed the control group. Most participants were hospital employees working in various sanitary units. At T1, leaders self-rated various EI measures (e.g., ECI scales of EI), whereas employees rated their leader. Employees and leaders also self-rated aspects of their work-related and general wellbeing. At T2, i.e., after Experimental leaders underwent an EI training, leaders and employees again rated LEI, and evaluated their own well-being. Data were analyzed in terms of response frequencies, mean ratings, t-tests, and by means of correlational and MANOVA analyses comparing Experimental and Control leaders and employees at T1 and T2. The results overall showed that at T1 leaders of both groups overall judged themselves as more emotionally competent than their employees did, and enjoyed somewhat greater work-related well being than employees; leaders' EI self-ratings in either group were unrelated to their employees' well being. At T2, Control leaders self-rated their EI as being higher that an T1, contrary to their employees who rated them less positively than at T1. Experimental employees rated instead their leaders similarly to how they had rated them at T1, but their evalutations of their leaders were at T2 reflected in employees' well being; experimental leaders' EI self-ratings did not generally increase from T1 to T2. In sum, the results showed that most Time 2 measures differed significantly from Time 1 measures, but effects were markedly differed in the experimental and the control group and not easy to interpret. The results led to the hypothesis, to be further tested in future studies, that employees' initial assessment of their leaders' EI skills increases their awareness of LEI, so that their T2 ratings of their leaders are based on a greater attention paid to their leaders' EI and are more accurate
Patterns of Emotional functioning and Well being in Health care workers
No full text:Health care workers (HCW) represent a specially-at-risk population as regards their psychological well-being given theirtypical job characteristics -that include several and frequent stressors, and a constant contact with illness. The present study -partially founded by CARIPARO - address issues of psychophysical well-being (WB) in relation to various self-evaluated aspects -during several brief online measurement sessions- of emotion-related functioning (ERF) and work features. Participants were 240young and older HCW (men 20%). The sample's scores were later compared to a larger sample (LS) of about 2000 people working invarious other sectors (e.g., scientific and technical professios, commerce). The results obtained from the analysis of participants'answers to several self-report scales showed that HCW generally displayed a positive pattern of features and did not differ from LS asregards most ERF aspects (e.g., felt affect, emotion awareness, regulation, coping), except for their lower scores on TAS-externaloriented thought. HCW showed also greater job satisfaction than LS. Both age and gender differences were observed within HCW.Men reported more negative affect, emotional labor, use of emotion-expression suppression, and alexithimia than women, whereaswomen used cognitive reappraisal, coped by seeking social support, and expressed their emotions more than men did. Overall theyounger age group (25 yrs or less) showed a more-at-risk profile than the older one - e.g., lesser emotion awareness and coping bysocial support, greater coping by avoidance and suppression, greater alexithimia, as well as lesser job involvement and lower health.Altogether the study shows that several aspects of emotion-related functioning and of the psychological orientation to work-aspectscontribute to define HCW psychophysical well-being, and, as a consequence, their functioning within the organizatio
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
I Giardini napoleonici di Castello a Venezia : evoluzione storica e indirizzi
No full textIl volume descrive le vicende relative alla formazione e alle principali trasformazioni storiche dell’area dei giardini pubblici di
Castello a Venezia – la più importante ed estesa area verde della città – a partire dall’analisi di una serie di documenti e disegni
d’archivio anche inediti.
Lo studio, condotto presso gli uffici della Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici e paesaggistici di Venezia, coinvolgendo anche
alcuni studenti delle università Ca’ Foscari e IUAV di Venezia, consente la messa a fuoco delle attuali caratteristiche dell’area,
annualmente sede delle Esposizioni Internazionali della Biennale e recentemente valorizzata anche dal recupero degli spazi della
Serra sul viale Garibaldi, e di indirizzare più consapevolmente sia la serie di interventi di conservazione e manutenzione generali
e puntuali che quelli di riqualificazione, sintetizzando le convergenze tra le aspettative di tutela degli enti preposti e quelle di gestione da parte dell’Amministrazione Comunale emerse negli ultimi anni
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
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