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Best practices and human resource management in the subsidiaries of multinational corporations: a comparison between Italy and Brazil
No full textElemento de gerencia de recursos humanos no chao da fabrica das multinacionai: uma analise comparativa da influenciadu syndicat na Italia e no Brasil
No full textVariedade de capitalismo e gestao de recursos humanos. O caso de tres multinationais no Brasil
No full text‘Are you a union member?’ Determinants and trends of subjective union membership in Italian society (1972–2013)
No full textThis article analyses so-called ‘subjective union membership’ among employees and non-employees in Italy between 1972 and 2013. Unlike trends drawn from administrative data (‘objective membership’), subjective membership, based on the declaration of the respondent, takes into account respondents’ awareness of being affiliated to a union, their sense of belonging and the social desirability of stating their membership status. Instrumental and ideational rationales inform our cross-sectional and longitudinal hypotheses. Using an ITANES pooled dataset based on 11,073 observations over 40 years (1972–2013), two major findings emerge. First, only a minority of politically engaged left-wing individuals have maintained the same probability of declaring themselves union members since the early 1970s. Secondly, subjective membership has sharply decreased over time not only among employees, but also – in clear contrast to administrative data – among non-employees. Subjective measures are thus particularly useful in improving our understanding of union membership
Unfolding the growing confidence in Latin American unions : a longitudinal analysis
No full textLa rilevanza dei sindacati nelle dinamiche del lavoro è un ambito di studio ampiamente esplorato. Scarsa attenzione è stata invece riservata al rapporto tra società, considerata in senso ampio, e sindacati. Il presente lavoro analizza quindi la fiducia sociale nel sindacato in diciassette paesi dell’America Latina in prospettiva longitudinale (2004-2009). Anche se i sindacati presentano delle caratteristiche proprie in ogni nazione, l’attenzione è rivolta ai loro molti aspetti comuni, evidenziati attraverso una prospettiva storica. Tale approccio consente di strutturare una serie di ipotesi in merito alla determinanti della crescente fiducia sociale nei sindacati. Tali ipotesi sono successivamente testate attraverso un modello di regressione logistica a due livelli, sviluppato a partire dai dati del "Latinobarometro" e della Banca Mondiale. I principali risultati evidenziano che la percezione che i cittadini hanno dell’economia, i loro orientamenti politici, nonché la loro fiducia negli altri (trust) svolgono un ruolo importante nel loro orientamento (confidence) verso i sindacati.The relevance of unions in labour dynamics has been widely explored. However, little attention has been given to the relationship between society, broadly considered, and unions. Drawing on this perspective, this paper offers a longitudinal analysis (2004-2009) of the social confidence in unions in 17 Latin American (LA) countries. Despite the different union specificities in these countries, we focus on the most important common aspects of these unions, through a historical lens. This analysis allows us to develop some hypotheses about the tenets of the growing level of confidence in unions. We test them through a double-level empirical regression model based on Latin Barometer surveys and national economic indicators. The economic perception and the political and trustful orientations of the citizens play an important role in their confidence orientation towards unions
La diversa rilevanza del sindacato nelle pratiche di Human resource management: una comparazione tra filiali italiane e brasiliane di tre multinazionali
No full textIntroduction : work, trade unions, and migrations: insights and challenges in different countries
No full textInternal and external patchworks : the relevance of religiosity in political positioning for Italian and Brazilian Catholics
Full text linkThe importance of structural versus value variables in determining political preferences is widely debated. The first ones seem to have declined substantially in favour of the second in Western countries. The possibility to generalize these findings beyond this cultural and political area is put to test in the paper through case studies - based on WVS data – on Italy and Brazil, both mostly Catholic countries. Italy is an almost exclusively Catholic country, but among Catholics a plurality of religious values and practices are observed (“internal patchwork”). On the contrary, Brazil is characterized by a plurality of religion denominations (“external patchwork”) and religious values and practices are more homogeneous. Religious practices and values (the importance of religion and God, service attendance, and pray practice), on the one hand, and socio-demographic variables (level of education, gender, age and occupation), on the other, contribute differently in explaining the self-positioning on the left-right scale in the two countries. Religious variables appear to explain political positioning more effectively in Italy than in Brazil: the “internal” patchwork” is more relevant than the “external patchwork”. The research contribute to broaden the discussion - through a most dissimilar research design – around a widely debated issue. Moreover, an in-depth analysis of the most important features of religiousness in the two cases is provided in the paper
Jovenes y mujeres en el mercado de trabajo brasileno : La vivencia desigual de precarizacion del trabajo
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