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Tra prossimità e distanza: l’efficacia della leadership in un contesto “agile e digitalizzato”
No full textI cambiamenti socio-economici e tecnologici che già da tempo stavano interessando le organizzazioni hanno subito una drammatica accelerazione a causa dell’attuale emergenza sanitaria. Proprio in risposta alle necessità di distanziamento interpersonale dettate dalla gestione dell’emergenza, un numero ingente di lavoratori è passato da una modalità di lavoro tradizionale alla sperimentazione delle cosiddette “new ways of working”, che nel contesto italiano trovano espressione soprattutto nello smart working o (lavoro agile), e del lavoro di gruppo in team virtuali.
Ci si interroga allora sulla validità e trasferibilità dei principi che hanno guidato finora la ricerca e l’intervento sulla leadership nei contesti “tradizionali”, fatti di interazioni dirette e di prossimità, all’attuale contesto organizzativo, in cui il leader si ritrova ad assolvere la propria funzione di gestione dei collaboratori da remoto e attraverso interazioni mediate dagli strumenti tecnologici.
Questo contributo si propone dapprima di descrivere le più recenti prospettive sulla leadership avanzate dalla letteratura scientifica e contestualizzarne i principi nell’attuale scenario organizzativo. Verrà, poi, presentato uno studio empirico condotto su un campione di 642 smart worker italiani di una grande azienda di telecomunicazioni italiana prima dell’attuale emergenza sanitaria, volto ad indagare le determinanti personali e di contesto della percezione di efficacia dello smart working, ponendo particolare enfasi sullo stile di leadership adottato dal capo. Vengono infine discusse le implicazioni pratiche dello studio
Dual commitment profiles and job satisfaction among temporary agency workers
Full text linkTemporary agency workers (TAWs) are an ever-increasing type of employees which establish a double work relationship with both the agency and the client organization. Within this context, the concept of dual commitment has received considerable attention in the last years. The present contribution integrates dual commitment line of research with the one adopting a person-centered approach to the study of commitment configurations, to investigate commitment profiles on a large sample of TAWs. According to Sinclair et al.'s framework, we aimed to identify TAWs' commitment profiles based on their levels of dual affective commitment (to the agency and to the client organization) and on their general continuance commitment and to investigate differences in job satisfaction among profiles. Latent profile analyses on 7225 TAWs revealed 5 distinct profiles, namely Dually Free Agents, Dually Involved, Dually Allied, (Unilaterally) Client Allied and (Unilaterally) Agency Invested. The Dually Involved profile, followed by the Dually Allied profile, had the highest level of job satisfaction, whereas the Dually Free Agent profile and the (Unilaterally) Agency Invested had the lowest. Furthermore, the (Unilaterally) Client Allied group had a higher level of job satisfaction as compared to the (Unilaterally) Agency Invested profile. Implications are discussed
Well-being and Organizational Behavior of Agency Workers. Some Evidence from the National Study on the Temporary Work Agency Industry
No full textNowadays the number of agency workers are ever increasing and it is a persisting and significant type of contemporary employment in the Italian labour market. Although the use of agency contracts has become the norm in all public and private organizations, existing studies are mostly cross-sectional in nature, generally comparing behavioral differences between permanent full time workers with the plethora of all contingent workers (part-time, contracted, outsourced, temporary, agency, etc.), making difficult to generalize results. Several issues related to how to manage temporary and agency workers have been discussed in practical and literature (Guest et al., 2010; Koene et al., 2014), but still few empirical investigations have studied some aspects of workers and how their attitudes and behavior influence their work and other work-related attitudes (e.g. Liden et al., 2003; Galais and Moser, 2009; Giunchi et al., 2015; Borgogni et al., 2016). In particular, there is no consensus about how agency contract affects the satisfaction and the well-being of workers (in terms of workers outcomes), raising questions concerning the applicability of existing individual behavioral and psychological variables as commitment, job insecurity, satisfaction, burnout, turnover intention.
In order to fill this gap, we aim to offer a contribution by studying well-being and organizational behaviors of agency workers. As well known, agency workers differ from other type of “contingent” staff in that they are employed by a Temporary Work Agency (TWA), but principally managed by a client organization. Due to their nature, workers face a rather unique employment situation in which they build a double relation with two organizations: the TWA, that is the nominal employer and the client organization assigned. McLean Parks et al. (1998) and Lapalme et al., (2011) talking about multiple agency relationship
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
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