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Ripensare la gestione inclusiva delle risorse umane: prospettive intersezionali sulla diversità per un'esperienza di lavoro più equa
No full textIl tema della Diversity, Equity ed Inclusion (DEI) ha assunto, negli ultimi anni, una posizione centrale nella ricerca accademica e nella gestione delle risorse umane. La crescente diversificazione della forza lavoro offre opportunità e sfide per le imprese. Sebbene seppure uno degli orientamenti prevalenti nella ricerca accademica (il business case for diversity) riconosca il valore generato dalla diversità, altre ricerche ne evidenziano la complessità quando si considerano le caratteristiche identitarie dei lavoratori, facendo emergere le costellazioni di bisogni personali della forza lavoro.
L'interesse per la DEI è confermato da analisi bibliografiche recenti (Robertson, 2019; Yadav & Lenka, 2019), che mostrano un incremento degli articoli pubblicati. Tuttavia, molta della ricerca si concentra sulla legittimazione della DEI, esaminandone gli esiti, mentre aspetti come le pratiche di gestione delle risorse umane per promuovere l’equità restano in gran parte ignorati (Yadav & Lenka, 2019).
Definendo la diversità come una manifestazione di sistemi sovrapposti di disuguaglianze strutturali della società, rappresentative di relazioni di potere asimmetriche, possiamo declinarne gli esiti in ingiuste distribuzioni di opportunità per individui e gruppi nell’accedere alle risorse. Da qui l’obiettivo della materia: correggere le storture nel sistema distributivo delle risorse, adattandole alle istanze individuali generate dalle diverse caratteristiche identitarie di lavoratori e lavoratrici. La complessità aumenta con l'adozione di una prospettiva intersezionale (Crenshaw, 1989; Collins, 1992), che riconosce come molteplici identità influenzino simultaneamente la distribuzione delle opportunità, bilanciandosi o aggravandosi reciprocamente.
I sistemi di performance management, tra le pratiche di gestione delle risorse umane, sono fondamentali per comprendere le dinamiche di equità. Analizzando come le imprese valutano i dipendenti, si possono dedurre valori e aspettative organizzative che definiscono implicitamente il "lavoratore ideale" (Acker, 1992, 2006), generalmente un uomo bianco, eterosessuale, cisgender, abile e privo di responsabilità di cura.
La tesi si compone di tre articoli di ricerca. Il primo capitolo adotta la metodologia della systematic literature review (SLR) per individuare pratiche inclusive relative ai sistemi di performance management e DEI. Due round di SLR hanno permesso di identificare un sistema di pratiche inclusive presenti nella letteratura e di evidenziare quante pratiche restino non considerate a causa dei rigidi canoni della SLR, fornendo una prospettiva critica sul metodo.
Il secondo capitolo esamina l'effetto sul benessere dei lavoratori dei sistemi di performance management orientati allo sviluppo delle competenze- (developmental), spesso identificati come inclusivi (Ganji et al., 2023; Hoobler et al., 2014; Hopkins et al., 2008). L’analisi, basata su un questionario somministrato dai ricercatori ad un campione di lavoratori italiani e su un modello di interazione a tre vie, valuta l’impatto di questi sistemi sul benessere di uomini e donne di diverse età, mostrando come essi favoriscano in particolare giovani donne e uomini anziani.
Infine, il terzo capitolo presenta un'indagine qualitativa sull'inserimento e inclusione di donne vittime di violenza e discriminazione intersezionale nel mercato del lavoro. Attraverso interviste narrative condotte con donne, tutor di centri antiviolenza e imprese coinvolte, è stato possibile esplorare il loro percorso di reinserimento lavorativo. L’analisi, basata sul metodo Gioia (Corley & Gioia, 2011), ha portato alla creazione di strumenti per monitorare e valutare l’esperienza lavorativa, successivamente applicati a tre casi di reinserimento.The topic of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has taken centre stage in academic research and in the design of human resources management systems in recent years. The increasing diversification of the workforce offers opportunities and challenges for companies. Although one of the prevailing orientations in academic research (the business case for diversity) recognises the value generated by diversity, other research points to its complexity when considering the identity characteristics of workers, bringing out the personal needs constellations of the workforce.
Interest in DEI is confirmed by recent literature reviews (Robertson, 2019; Yadav & Lenka, 2019), which show an increase in published articles. However, much of the research focuses on the legitimacy of DEI, examining positive and negative outcomes of diversity in companies, while aspects such as human resource management practices to promote equity remain largely ignored, leaving a research gap (Yadav & Lenka, 2019).
By defining diversity as a manifestation of overlapping systems of structural inequalities in society, representative of asymmetrical power relations, we can decline its outcomes in unjust distributions of opportunities for individuals and groups in accessing resources. Hence the objective of the subject and its studies: to correct the distortions in the distribution system of resources, adapting them to the unique individual instances generated by the different identity characteristics of workers. Complexity increases with the adoption of an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 1989; Collins, 1992), which recognises how multiple identities simultaneously influence the distribution of opportunities, balancing or compounding each other.
Performance management systems, among human resource management practices, are key to understanding equity dynamics. By analysing how companies evaluate employees, organisational values and expectations can be deduced that implicitly define the ‘ideal worker’ (Acker, 1992, 2006), generally a white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied man with no caring responsibilities.
The thesis consists of three research articles. The first chapter adopts the systematic literature review (SLR) methodology to identify inclusive practices related to performance management and DEI systems. Two rounds of SLR identified a system of inclusive practices found in the literature and highlighted how many practices remain unconsidered due to the strict canons of SLR, providing a critical perspective on the method.
The second chapter examines the effect of competence-oriented (developmental) performance management systems on employee well-being, often identified as inclusive (Ganji et al., 2023; Hoobler et al., 2014; Hopkins et al., 2008). The analysis, based on a questionnaire administered by the researchers to a sample of Italian workers and a three-way interaction model, assesses the impact of these systems on the well-being of men and women of different ages. The results show that these systems do not generate equal outcomes for all workers, favouring in particular young women and older men.
Finally, the third chapter presents a qualitative investigation on the insertion and inclusion of women victims of violence and intersectional discrimination in the labour market. Through narrative interviews conducted with women, tutors from anti-violence centres and companies involved, it was possible to explore their path to re-employment. The analysis, based on the Gioia method (Corley & Gioia, 2011), led to the creation of tools to monitor and evaluate the work experience, which were subsequently applied to three reintegration cases
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
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