262,287 research outputs found
What's New on Calling: Multi-Method Insights on its Predictors and Outcomes
No full textPeople increasingly seek meaning and purpose in their job and careers, and eventually quit their job if they experience a lack of meaning and purpose (Allan et al., 2019; De Smet et al., 2021). Extreme experience of meaning and purpose in one’s job or career is captured by the concept of calling. While scientists keep debating on its conceptualization (Dik & Shimizu, 2019), the experience of work as a calling can be broadly understand as as a purposeful, meaningful, and passion-driven engagement in a career that one feels drawn to pursue, that contributes to a greater good and for which people are willing to make sacrifices (Vianello et al., 2018). The past two decades has shown a growing scholarly interest in the topic (Duffy & Dik, 2013; Dobrow et al., 2019; Thompson & Bunderson, 2019; Shabram et al., 2022), showing that perceiving a calling is a positive resource and is related to well-being, higher life satisfaction, commitment, and better work performance (Dobrow et al., 2019; Vianello et al., 2022). Yet many questions concerning how people can develop a calling for their career as well as which are its behavioral and non-attitudinal outcomes remain unanswered (Lysova et al., 2019; Thompson & Bunderson, 2019). In line with the 2023 call theme of “putting the worker front and center”, this symposium brings together an internationally-diverse group of scholars (Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and USA) to offer five original contributions of exceptional quality on both the nature of work as a calling and on its correlates. The symposium will begin with two qualitative studies followed by three quantitative studies that address knowledge gaps on the predictors, outcomes and relevance of calling that have been previously identified in reviews of the literature (Dobrow et al., 2019; Thompson & Bunderson, 2019) and in a special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (Lysova et al., 2019). All questions that are addressed by these contributions are extremely timely and relevant for the theoretical development of the field, and help to understand the role of work as a calling in the current economy, which is characterized by an increase of flexible work arrangements and more frequent voluntary and involuntary job loss (Gulati, 2022; Spreitzer et al., 2017)
Awakening employee creativity in organisations
No full textBossink, B.A.G. [Promotor]Khapova, S.N. [Promotor]Lysova, E.I. [Copromotor
sj-pdf-1-hum-10.1177_00187267221094243 – Supplemental material for What enables us to better experience our work as meaningful? The importance of awareness and the social context
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hum-10.1177_00187267221094243 for What enables us to better experience our work as meaningful? The importance of awareness and the social context by Evgenia I Lysova, Luke Fletcher and Sabrine El Baroudi in Human Relations</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Random vs Class-based allocation policies: impact of the warehouse parameters on the distance traveled by pickers
No full textWithin most distribution centers, activities are managed with low levels of automation, often becoming cost and labor-expensive due to the occurrence of inefficiencies. Picking and product allocation are the activities most likely to be subjected to these risks and, in literature, numerous contributions aim to optimize them. The present study aimed to evaluate the impact that different strategic variables, such as the routing policy (RP), the warehouse shape factor, the numerosity of the picking list, or the location of the Input/Output (I/O) points, have on the variability of the average distances traveled by pickers to fulfill a picking mission (d). This evaluation was done by comparing, through a simulation approach, different levels of class-based allocation policies versus a random allocation policy under different operating scenarios. An ANOVA was then performed to rank the variables and their interactions according to their impact on d in each scenario. The RP turned out to be the parameter with the strongest impact, covering between 23% and 36% of the variance; at the same time, moving from mild to strong class-based scenarios, the impact of the interaction of I/O and RP increased more than that of I/O alone. Possible future research activities were finally outlined
Author in Essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere”
No full textFeatures of the embodiment of the author’s position in the essay by I. A. Goncharov “Pepiniere” are considered. The relevance of the study is due to the poorly studied poetics of this work. A review of the scientific literature on relevant topics is performed. Methodological and theoretical definitions are given. The scientific novelty of the article is in the fact that for the first time attention is paid to artistic techniques that allow to identify the author's position in the specified literary text. The author of the article grounds her opinion from the fact that, despite the dominance of the subjective point of view, other characters’ views stand out in the work. It is concluded in the study that the text of the work represents a biographical author and author-creator. It was established that the position of the author-creator is expressed through the title, epigraphs, which are quotes, as well as through different points of view, including the author-character, the author-narrator, the characters of the work. The author of the article dwells in detail on different ways of expressing the points of view of the author-character and the author-narrator. It is proved that the point of view of the author-character and the author-narrator can intersect, they are interchanged. The author's development of the term comic “point of view” is presented in the article
Espai i identitat en l'obra de Jordi Pere Cerdà. Una geografia literària cerdaniana
No full textL'obra de l'autor nord-català Jordi Pere Cerdà (1920-2011) teixeix una cartografia literària que abasta tota dimensió espacial -real, imaginada i ficcional. Les prospeccions que assagen els seus texts es fonen en el medi natural i rural, canten a l'amor, als veïns i als éssers fantàstics del folklore català, es comprometen amb els refugiats encarant-se a tota frontera i, també, a tot abisme interior i exterior que oprimesca l'ésser. El mapatge cognitiu i literari que crea Cerdà sobrepassa qualsevol obstacle per construir espais oberts i possibles, en comunió amb l'altre. Partint d'una aproximació teòrica geocrítica, aquest treball d'investigació aprofundeix en diverses nocions sobre l'espacialitat lligades a un context convuls, ple de transformacions a nivell socioeconòmic, polític, cultural i lingüístic, el qual determinarà la vida d'un autor i d'un territori transfronterer com el de la Cerdanya i la Catalunya del Nord. En definitiva, la rica experiència vital de Jordi Pere Cerdà ens permet reflexionar sobre les relacions que vulguem establir entre els individus i amb el nostre hàbitat natural i cultural, a fi d'esdevenir membres actius que participen de la transformació dels espais que configuren les nostres identitats.The work of the North Catalan author Jordi Pere Cerdà (1920-2011) weaves a literary cartography which reaches all spatial dimensions -real, imagined and fictional. The prospections proved by their texts merge with the natural and rural environment, sing to love, neighbours and the fantastic beings of the Catalan folklore. Such prospections also commit themselves with the refugees facing every frontier and, also, facing all interior and exterior abyss that oppresses the being. The cognitive and literary mapping created by Cerdà overcomes any obstacle to construct opened and possible spaces, in communion with the other. Based on the theoretical approach called geocriticism, this research study delves into various notions about spatiality linked to a convulsive context, full of transformations at a socioeconomic, political, cultural and linguistic level; these transformations will determine the life of an author and a cross-border territory such as Cerdagne and Northern Catalonia. In short, the rich experience of Jordi Pere Cerdà allows us to reflect on the relationships we want to establish between individuals, as well as between human groups and our natural and cultural habitat, in order to become active members that participate in the transformation of the spaces that make up our identities.Programa de Doctorat en Llengües Aplicades, Literatura i Traducci
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