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Il coworking tra generatività e contraddizione
No full textIl coworking è un modo di organizzare il lavoro che genera un nuovo modo di concepire la professionalità? Non si può dare una risposta univoca a questa domanda, giacché il fenomeno è multiforme. A partire dalle tensioni evolutive che caratterizzano le diverse concezioni di coworking se ne possono identificare quattro tipologie. All’interno di questo spettro il coworking appare, ad un estremo, come una concreta opportunità per sviluppare una nuova professionalità, all’altro, come una forma di lavoro imposta ai lavoratori dalle esigenze produttive
La valutazione e l'apprendimento nell'ambito della psicologia del lavoro
No full textLa valutazione è elemento fondamentale, imprescindibile e costitutivo della vita organizzativa. Il presente contributo propone una lettura della valutazione come processo in grado di promuovere riflessione critica, nonché leva di apprendimento e cambiamento a livello individuale e organizzativo. Vengono presentati sia i presupposti teorici alla base di tale concezione sia le implicazioni metodologiche e operative che possono concretamente sostenere l’attivazione di percorsi di valutazione in tale direzione.Evaluation is a fundamental, unavoidable and constitutive element of organizational life. This paper proposes an interpretation of evaluation as a process able to promote critical reflection, as well as a learning and development at both individual and organizational levels. Both the theoretical assumptions, underlying this conception of evaluation, and the methodological and operational implications that can concretely support the activation of evaluation process, are presented
Embedded ethics and reflexivity: narrating a charter of ethical experience
No full textWe address the call to situate organizational codes of ethics in practice and local values rather than authoritarian forms of control. Our contribution lies in: (1) drawing on Ricoeur’s work on the capable human being to develop the idea of embedded ethics, which we argue is a form of lived ethics situated in how people understand and enact ethical values in specific contexts; and (2) illustrating, through an action research project carried out in a large Italian non-profit organization, how a hermeneutic-inspired narrative methodology can be used to develop an ethics charter situated in lived values. A hermeneutic approach to research recognizes that each research encounter is unique and co-created, therefore participant interpretations are important. The originality of our work centers around the novel narrative form and approach to developing an ethical charter based on embedded ethics. We conclude by suggesting that this approach to developing an ethical charter encompasses a form of orientational learning in which people come to understand a sense or feel for issues in their reflexive dialogue around narratives that surface and explore ethical tensions
The formation of Germ Cell for organizational learning
No full textThis paper engages with the challenges related to reconfigurations of workplaces and organizational
contexts (Engeström, 2004), thus dealing with increasingly complex and unpredictable
environments. In this organizational landscape, people have to cope with the constant process of
transformation in order to solve unedited and uncertain problems. The new scenario refers to a
recurrent and increasingly widespread condition, connected to meaningless situations, with huge
uncertainty, insecurity, lack of information, and rapidly changing and turbulent backgrounds
Manager on the ground. A practice based approach for developing management education: Lessons from complex and innovative organizations
No full textIl paper presenta un caso di studio situato delle competenze manageriali innovative. L’enfasi è posta sulla rilevanza delle conoscenze situate nella prospettiva di realizzare approcci di ricerca adeguati allo studio di peculiari oggetti di indagine. Il contesto analizzato (un consorzio di imprese sociali in situazione di forte trasformazione evolutiva) si presta a evidenziare le caratteristiche emergenti degli attuali scenari organizzativi, e le conseguenti sfide che le figure in posizione manageriale sono chiamate ad assumere. Il contributo evidenzia sia la metodologica adottata per la ricognizione dei profili di competenza, sia i dispositivi utilizzati per consentire processi di circolazione dei saperi e di apprendimento organizzativo.The paper describes a case study that presents a situated approach for detecting, analysing, and developing managerial competence inside innovative and uncertain organizational contexts. To this aim, the paper seeks to underline the importance of local knowledge production and sharing (related to professional practices and organizational culture) for competency recognition and assessment. The research question addresses the need for
a context dependent driven research in order to detect and enhance real innovate and situated competences. The
paper initially describes the new and innovative organizational scenario characterized by uncertainty, precariousness,
rapid evolution, and progressive pressure required of organizational subjects in terms of adaptability, performativity,
and orientation toward results. The second part of the paper presents the research method adopted for the inquiry
and analysis of managerial situated competence to promote organizational learning and development. The third part
focuses on the situated paths used to transfer and share the produced knowledge. The paper discusses the main results, describes the prospects for using the acquired knowledge within the considered experience, and highlighting the strengths and limitations of the considered approach. The discussion focuses on the epistemological, methodological, and process implications related to the type of research adopted
Manager on the ground. A practice based approach for developing management education: Lessons from complex and innovative organizations
No full textThe paper describes a case study that presents a situated approach for detecting, analysing, and
developing managerial competence inside innovative and uncertain organizational contexts. To this aim, the paper
seeks to underline the importance of local knowledge production and sharing (related to professional practices and
organizational culture) for competency recognition and assessment. The research question addresses the need for
a context dependent driven research in order to detect and enhance real innovate and situated competences. The
paper initially describes the new and innovative organizational scenario characterized by uncertainty, precariousness,
rapid evolution, and progressive pressure required of organizational subjects in terms of adaptability, performativity,
and orientation toward results. The second part of the paper presents the research method adopted for the inquiry
and analysis of managerial situated competence to promote organizational learning and development. The third part
focuses on the situated paths used to transfer and share the produced knowledge. The paper discusses the main results,
describes the prospects for using the acquired knowledge within the considered experience, and highlighting the
strengths and limitations of the considered approach. The discussion focuses on the epistemological, methodological,
and process implications related to the type of research adopted
Uniqueness and Generalization in Organizational Psychology: Research as a Relational Practice
Get PDFThe paper addresses the epistemological and theoretical assumptions that underpin the
concept of Work and Organizational Psychology as idiographic, situated, and transformative
social science. Positioning the connection between uniqueness and generalization inside
the debate around organization studies as applied approaches, the contribution highlights
the ontological, gnoseological, and methodological implications at stake. The use of
practical instead of scientific rationality is explored, through the perspective of a hermeneutic
lens, underlining the main features connected to the adoption of an epistemology of
practice. Specifically, the contribution depicts the configuration of the applied research
as a relational practice, embedded in the unfolding process of generating knowledge
dealing with concrete social contexts and particular social objects. The discussion of a
case study regarding a field research project allows one to point out challenges and
constraints connected to the enactment of the research process as a social accomplishment
Competenze manageriali e costruzione sociale di conoscenza. Una ricerca sul campo
No full textIl paper presenta un caso di ricerca relativo alla ricognizione e individuazione
delle competenze riferite a dirigenti di un consorzio di imprese sociali. Le competenze
sono qui concepite e descritte come strutturalmente connesse a esperienze e
declinazioni locali, anziché sulla base di riferimenti universalistici che tendono a
rappresentare modelli ideali (best performer). Il paper propone quindi un approccio
contestuale con l’intento di mostrare come l’individuazione di competenze riconosciute
rilevanti e significative dipenda da specifiche modalità di circolazione e
scambio di conoscenze inerenti pratiche professionali e culture organizzative diffuse.
Obiettivo dell’articolo è evidenziare come il riferimento alla conoscenza situata
sia condizione ed esito di un processo di costruzione sociale, rivolto sia alla configurazione
sul campo di profili dirigenziali, sia alla valutazione reciproca delle
competenze generata da tali processi situati.
Il contributo si sofferma inizialmente sugli scenari emergenti, che introducono
la sfida di funzioni manageriali sempre meno riducibili ad approcci orientati alla
razionalizzazione e standardizzazione, secondo una logica context free.
L’articolo descrive conseguentemente il contesto di riferimento e il dispositivo
metodologico attivato per valorizzare le pratiche situate, le modalità in cui i processi
organizzativi e le competenze connesse sono concepiti e realizzati nelle differenti
situazioni.
Il disegno di ricerca adottato prefigura un processo di costruzione sociale di conoscenza,
orientato ad avvicinare ed evidenziare sia repertori di pratica dirigenziale
emblematica (riconosciuti dagli attori organizzativi come rilevanti ed esemplari,
quindi opportuni, adeguati, da seguire), sia l’ordine simbolico negoziato che emerge
nelle diverse situazioni (in cui le persone costantemente discutono e configurano
ciò che è giusto e ingiusto, corretto e scorretto, tollerato e intollerabile, opportuno
e inaccettabile
UNDERSTANDING COWORKING: BETWEEN TYPOLOGY AND CONTRADICTION
No full textLa globalizzazione e i cambiamenti tecnologici hanno portato a importanti trasformazioni nel mercato del lavoro. Questi cambiamenti enfatizzano le dimensioni democratiche e collaborative del lavoro e si basano su processi di lavoro simultanei, multidirezionali e reciproci, in contrapposizione alle forme di lavoro e organizzazione che si realizzano attraverso una consolidata divisione del lavoro, comunità e sistemi formali e informali di regole altamente definiti. Il coworking sta emergendo in questo attuale scenario sociale e organizzativo come componente chiave delle trasformazioni. Compare come fenomeno emergente nei primi anni del 2000, sottolineando il suo potenziale collaborativo nella promozione dei cambiamenti sociali nel mercato del lavoro e promuovendo valori quali l'accessibilità, l'apertura, la sostenibilità, la creazione di comunità e la collaborazione. Questa tesi è incentrata sull'analisi qualitativa di spazi di coworking in Italia. Lo scopo del presente lavoro è quello di mettere in discussione e di discutere criticamente potenzialità e vantaggi del coworking. Attraverso l'utilizzo di un approccio critico, la tesi offre una comprensione articolata del coworking e discute le sfide e i rischi del fenomeno e della sua potenziale evoluzione. Nella tesi si fa riferimento all'approccio teorico dell'Activity Theory e viene si presentano i due studi qualitativi per l'analisi del coworking, attraverso cui si giunge alla presentazione di una tipologia di coworking e all'individuazione di tensioni storiche e contraddizioni locali che caratterizzano il fenomeno nella sua evoluzione.In recent decades, globalization and technological changes have brought about important transformations in the labor market. These changes emphasize the democratic and collaborative dimensions of labor, and they are based on simultaneous, multi-directional, and reciprocal work as opposed to forms that take place in organizations with an established division of labor, demarcated communities, and formal and informal sets of rules. Coworking has been emerging in this current social and organizational scenario as a key component of the unfolding transformations. It started in the early years of the 2000s, emphasizing its collaborative potential in promoting social changes in the labor market and promoting values related to accessibility, openness, sustainability, community, and collaboration (Kwiatkowsky, 2011). This thesis is focused on the analysis of the kinds of spaces that are defined as coworking spaces and that, generally speaking, are said to be focused on the promotion of a collaborative approach to work. The aim of this work was to question and critically discuss various potentials and benefits of coworking. by evaluating coworking from a critical perspective, the dissertation offers an articulated understanding of coworking and discusses the challenges and risks of coworking and its potential evolution. In order to provide a foundation for fruitful discussion of the logic of the thesis that can be supported by the theoretical framework, the idea of moving from the history of coworking to its classification and to its dynamic contradictions is implemented. Given these premises, in the thesis, I problematize coworking using the Activity Theory approach in an effort to counter the optimistic views, which are emphasized in the existing literature. In the dissertation, a sequential, qualitative and mixed-methods research design is proposed that is aimed at improving the available information concerning coworking and enhancing the understanding of its implications, contradictions, potentials, and risks that coworking presents as a way of work and organization inside the current complex and quickly developing social and labour market
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