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Sistema di valutazione delle risorse umane nel settore sanitario: uno studio qualitativo in Italia
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Inquadramento concettuale, prospettive teoriche e tendenze evolutive negli studi sulla diversità nei gruppi di lavoro
Get PDFDiversity is a topical issue in organizational behavior literature since diversity in both surface (i.e. age, gender, and nationality) and deep-level (i.e. values, attitudes, goal orientation, mental models, personality) attributes has been found to be a significant antecedent of team processes and performance. This article illustrates a review of the main theoretical perspectives used by scholars to elucidate the effects of diversity on work groups and a research agenda for the future. Building on the most quoted taxonomy of diversity, this articles illustrates the theoretical perspectives by considering on separate lines the theories used to elucidate diversity effects on interpersonal processes (e.g. social categorization theory, social identity theory, similarity-attraction paradigm, etc.) and on decision-making processes (e.g. information/decision-making theory, social capital theory). Finally, a research agenda is presented with the description of three important directions for the future, such as the empirical validation of a conceptual model (i.e. Categorization-Elaboration Model) recently introduced in team work literature, the consideration of the faultline model, and the integration of contextual factors as possible moderators of the effects of diversity on team processes
Conclusions and Implications for the Italian Public Sector
No full textThis chapter summarizes the contents of the preceding chapters and provides a complete overview of the new training strategies implemented by national schools of Public Administrations. The role of public managers has changed considerably over the years—from a bureaucratic model to New Public Management (NPM) and beyond—and within this framework the competencies and managerial skills required for working in the Public Sector have also changed. In Italy, more than in other countries, the reform of Public Administration has been a distinctive and constant feature of every government since the country was first unified in 1861. Personnel management, evaluation, and HR development systems need to be redesigned in light of the characteristics of the Italian Public Sector and the constant changes which condition and affect it
Advancing Urban Regeneration Projects for Sustainable Development and Intellectual Capital
No full textThe study aims to investigate how urban regeneration projects contribute to achieving sustainable development through an intellectual capital (IC) perspective for driving growth within urban communities and improving quality of life. Literature has shown that urban regeneration projects help support urban change. The IC helps drive sustainable development and competitiveness of regions, cities and communities. Urban regeneration projects contribute to better quality of life and drive social and economic renewal of urban communities. This exploratory study proposes a research framework addressed to join urban regeneration projects with IC view on cities and urban communities. This paper can contribute to the extant literature focused on the relationship between urban regeneration processes and the role of intellectual capital as driver of sustainable development. This qualitative study, using a multiple case study methodology, provides a comparative analysis of two urban regeneration projects that help the re development of urban environments and support human and social capital within communities. The findings show that urban regeneration projects significantly contribute to revitalising urban spaces, supporting the components of IC that drive social and economic growth of communities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
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