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How to Evaluate an Employee’s “Smartworkability”? Life Stories With Daily Dilemmas in a Double-Mixed Research Design
No full textCompanies often face the need to select and train personnel on the basis of their ability to manage remote work in an adequate and responsible manner, thanks to specific soft skills and a
specific attitude to work, that, with a neologism, we can define “smarkworkability.” This case
study illustrates how a new tool was invented for evaluating this specific ability of the candidates,
combining both quantitative with quantitative techniques and the self-evaluation of the workers
with the hetero-evaluation by their bosses.
The main novelty of the tool consists in the administration of some stories that come from everyday life dilemmas (e.g., behavior in front of a traffic light, choice of a trip for the holiday, etc.)
to the candidate and which allows the employer to evaluate his/her aptitude for smartworking
on these dimensions: sense of responsibility, proactivity, loyalty, interpersonal skills, stress management, ability to self-organize, result in orientation, ability to work in a team, and focused communication.
The case is a step-by-step guide for understanding the methodological choices adopted for the
construction of a useful evaluation tool for companie
Forme e livelli di integrazione degli stranieri in Italia: un'analisi dei dati del Censimento del 2001
No full textTenendo presente la natura interattiva e multidimensionale del processo di integrazione degli immigrati nella società di arrivo, in questo contributo si è cercato di indagare con i dati di censimento le dimensioni di ordine strutturale e socio-economico di tale fenomeno, aspetti che comunque sarebbero difficilmente investigabili su scala nazionale attraverso dati di altre fonti. L'analisi descrittiva viene condotta utilizzando come categoria interpretativa fondamentale la distinzione tra stranieri e acquisiti e, nell'ambito dei primi, facendo ricorso ad un'ulteriore articolazione tra nati in Italia e nati all'estero, distinguendo questi ultimi per durata della presenza. La condizione familiare, la situazione abitativa e l'inserimento lavorativo vengono esaminati attraverso indicatori elementari costruiti distintamente per nazionalità, nonché facendo ricorso a tecniche di analisi multi-dimensionale dei dati. Alcuni dei risultati emersi stimolano ulteriori quesiti o comunque evidenziano quanto sia difficile pervenire ad un quadro d'insieme univoco. In particolare, c'è da chiedersi se il netto vantaggio in termini di integrazione rilevato per gli acquisiti sia da interpretare come l'esito di un processo di integrazione ben riuscito o sia invece connesso alle difficoltà di acquisizione della cittadinanza nel contesto italiano. Inoltre, non sempre la stabilizzazione della presenza si coniuga con il conseguimento di migliori condizioni di vita e di lavoro. Ciò vale anche con riferimento ai diversi aspetti di una stessa dimensione: la stabilità lavorativa, ad esempio, si pone spesso in alternativa ad un'occupazione adeguata al proprio titolo di studio
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
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