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Mobbing a new organizational virus (Mobbing un nuovo virus organizzativo)
No full textNon disponibileThe present thesis is entitled "Mobbing. A new organizational virus". Hence, it focuses on workplace bullying, which is a relatively new search topic within psychology. The first part of the thesis clarifies the construct of bullying.
Several subtypes of bullying and theoretical models that may constitute a useful categorization are suggested: examples of the former are predatory bullying and retaliation bullying, the latter Giorgi (2004) and Einarsen's (2003) models are presented.
Related concepts, such as workplace incivility, workplace deviance and workplace aggression are discussed with reference to bullying.
Possible antecedent and outcome factors of workplace bullying, as documented in the research literature, are listed with a particular focus on organizational antecedents. Examples of antecedents that can be examinated are an organizational clture with a "sense of permission to harass" or a deconstructive leadership style.
Three empirical papers are presented in the thesis in which a research model based on the Negative Acts Questionnaire Revised is applied.
In addition, the prevalence of bullying in Europe is reviewed and given a wider perspective with a study of this phenomenon in Japan: scarcely known to date in literature.
The prevalence of Italian bullying is also discussed and compared with other European contries. Finally, suggestions for future research are made
Occupational stigma perception and public employees' burnout: A moderated moderation model of work–family conflict and social comparison
No full textBackground: The prevalence of burnout symptoms has become very high among public employees, with occupational stigma perception as an important predictor of burnout. Combining personal and relational factors can effectively exacerbate burnout symptoms. The study explores how work–family conflict and social comparisons orientation (both upward and downward) influence the relationship between occupational stigma perceptions and burnout among Italian public employees, applying Conservation of Resources Theory. Methods: We measured burnout, occupational stigma perception, work–family conflict, and social comparison orientation using cross-sectional, anonymous, self-reported questionnaires filled out by 305 employees. Results: The correlation analysis revealed that burnout positively related to upward comparison, work–family conflict, and occupational stigma perception and negatively related to downward comparison. Linear regression analysis indicated that occupational stigma perception was significantly associated with increased burnout symptoms in public employees. The moderation analysis showed that work–family conflict positively moderated the positive relationship between occupational stigma perception and burnout (β = 0.061, p < .001). Moderated moderation analyses only support the role of upward social comparison as a moderator of the role of work–family conflict (β = 0.040, p < .01). Conclusion: The study theoretically enhances understanding of the links between occupational stigma, work–family conflict, social comparison orientation, and burnout, while highlighting the practically need for organizations to address psychosocial factors to reduce burnout. Organizations that recognize the influence of these factors on employee well-being can implement timely preventive and management strategies to address these challenges
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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