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    L'intreccio invisibile tra le relazioni familiari e lavorative

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    L’intreccio invisibile tra le relazioni familiari e lavorative Nel contesto sociale contemporaneo, gli ambiti e le sfere di vita delle persone sono sempre più interconnessi tra loro, in particolare la famiglia e il lavoro. Tale intreccio può essere adeguatamente compreso attraverso una concezione relazionale della persona, che la considera un unicum pur nei suoi molteplici ruoli – familiari e professionali – e inserita in reti di relazioni significative. Questo contributo intende offrire una riflessione sul tema adottando non un approccio individuale, ma una prospettiva relazionale, prendendo in considerazione la dimensione di coppia come dispositivo di mediazione nella relazione tra famiglia e lavoro, il capitale sociale come risorsa sia sul versante familiare che professionale e gli scambi tra le generazioni nei due ambiti di vita. Vengono presentati i risultati della ricerca “Talenti senza età”, realizzata nel 2018, su un campione di 12.746 dipendenti senior, tra i 50 e i 70 anni, di 34 aziende italiane di diversi settori.The invisible interweaving between family and work relationships In the contemporary social context, people’s life domains are increasingly connected with one another, especially the family and work domains. This interweaving can be adequately understood through a relational conception of the person, who is considered as an unicum despite playing multiple roles ‒ family and professional ‒ and embedded in networks of significant relationships. This contribution will offer a reflection on the topic not by using an individual perspective, but rather, a relational approach, taking into consideration the element of the couple as a mediator between family and work relationship, social capital as a resource both from a family and professional point of view, and exchanges between generations in the two life domains. Moreover, results from the project ‘‘Talents without age” will be presented, a project carried out in 2018 on a sample of 12,746 senior employees aged between 50 and 70 working in 34 Italian companies from different sectors

    Leave policies in Italy. Focus on Maternity Protection Leave

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    il contributo intende tracciare una analisi del sistema legislativo italiano in materia di conged

    I Percorsi di Enrichment Professionale

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    Il contributo presenta un programma di enrichment proposto in una azienda: il Relationship Antistress Programme (RAP). Il RAP si ispira alla letteratura sull’enrichment familiare e all’approccio relazionale simbolico di Scabini e Cigoli. Attraverso una metodologia rigorosa il programma si pone l’obiettivo di ridurre lo stress e di promuovere l’identità integrata della person

    L’indagine qualitativa

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    Negli ultimi anni il mondo ha vissuto cambiamenti dirompenti che hanno impattato significativamente sulle condizioni di lavoro delle donne, amplificando le disparità di genere e minando il loro benessere e produttività. In tale scenario, l’imprenditoria rappresenta un’opzione preziosa per le donne: consente loro di esprimere pienamente la propria identità, affrontare il conflitto tra lavoro e famiglia, migliorare il benessere e superare stereotipi negativi. Essa ha inoltre ripercussioni positive sulla società promuovendo la creazione di posti di lavoro, l’innovazione, lo sviluppo economico e la giustizia sociale. L’imprenditorialità femminile è purtuttavia ancora una risorsa non sfruttata che deve essere promossa con interventi appropriati. Attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che integra psicologia sociale, sociologia, economia e pedagogia, questo volume si connota come un’indagine approfondita che esamina i fattori macro, meso e micro che influenzano la decisione delle donne di avviare una attività imprenditoriale. Questo progetto ambizioso offre una visione complessa e dettagliata delle dinamiche che guidano l'imprenditorialità femminile in Italia. L’esito di tale analisi è certamente un avanzamento della conoscenza scientifica sul tema - mediante la creazione di un modello esplicativo dei fattori di sostegno e ostacolo all'imprenditorialità - ma anche l’offerta, basata su prove empiriche, di indicazioni e raccomandazioni utili a quanti - politici, associazioni imprenditoriali, professionisti – intendono sostenere le donne nella scelta imprenditoriale. Attraverso interviste, focus group, studi sperimentali e una mappatura delle policies, il volume delinea un percorso per ridurre le disuguaglianze e valorizzare il potenziale dell'imprenditoria femminile come strumento di resilienza e sviluppo economico, connotandosi quindi come una lettura essenziale per ricercatori, policy maker e chiunque sia interessato a comprendere e sostenere l'imprenditorialità femminile in un contesto globale sempre più complesso e sfidante

    The Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy: With Special Reference to the Effects on Women and Families

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    In Italy, the pandemic has been developing since February 2020 and was one of the first European countries to be violently affected by the contagions. The health and emergency responses included the closure of schools, childcare and non-essential activities and the increase Working From Home (WFH) with some specific and ambivalent effects on the social sphere. WFH – an uncustomary practice in most organisations in Italy - became in fact mandatory for private companies and the public sector in March 2020. The Italian Government implemented different containment measures at the various phases of the pandemic to support families and workers. This has profoundly transformed people’s lives, both from the point of view of family and significant relationships, and at work, substantially modifying the relationship between these two significant areas. In this chapter, we’ll first present an overview of the containment measures implemented to tackle the spreading of the virus and outline the main policies introduced by the Italian Government, highlighting their contents, aims, and underlying focus. Then we will focus on consequences for women. The pandemic has highlighted ambivalences and risks concerning some phenomena regarding gender relations. In particular, the relationship between men and women is structured in terms of cohabitation and proximity in family relationships. Situations in which the social distancing on a collective level has had as a counterpart a closer closeness and co-presence on a personal level. With the emergence of the Covid 19 emergency in the early 2020s, the media immediately started to highlight the likely future increase in cases of violence against women in the home due to the increased risk of lockdown and the difficulties for victims living with their abuser to report and seek support services. A second theme is the impact on family and work responsibilities integration. Several studies in Italy, including a longitudinal survey conducted by the Authors, have shown how the emergency and containment measures impacted both personal/parental and work spheres, producing adverse effects on the specific group of working parents, especially women. Using a longitudinal approach, with data collected in three waves - April, July, and December 2020 – we assessed the consequences of Working From Home, showing that wellbeing decreased and work-life conflict increased with time and that working parents found the first lockdown particularly challenging

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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
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