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Il sistema di relazioni di ruolo come fattore di miglioramento della conoscenza organizzativa
No full textLe organizzazioni mutano di continuo, affrontando contraddizioni e ricercando coerenze, uno dei loro mandati è proprio quello di cambiare migliorando la loro qualità.
L’innovazione è sempre più sinonimo di cambiamento per rispettare le esigenze del mercato e per garantire la qualità dei prodotti, dei processi e dei servizi offerti. In questo percorso è determinante il ruolo di tutti gli attori organizzativi al fine di rendere riconoscibili, diffusi e condivisi i “saperi” e le migliori soluzioni.
Altrettanto determinante è il ruolo del ricercatore di psicologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni al fine di facilitare l’integrazione e l’efficacia del sistema delle relazioni di ruolo come fattore di miglioramento della conoscenza organizzativa rendendo visibile, manifesto e socializzato il patrimonio delle best practice.
In questo lavoro vengono presentati i risultati di una ricerca - intervento che ha permesso la conoscenza empirica di una realtà organizzativa e che ha offerto un contributo attivo al suo cambiamento e miglioramento.
La ricerca ha coinvolto l’universo del management di un’organizzazione di servizi su rete nazionale (285 soggetti) nella categorizzazione degli ostacoli al cambiamento e nell’individuazione di un piano di miglioramento condiviso a livello interprofessionale e interfunzionale. E’ stato anche realizzato un monitoraggio dell’efficacia dei piani di miglioramento in riferimento a specifici standard quantitativi e qualitativi rispetto ai livelli di conseguimento del miglioramento atteso.
Il processo di action learning si è costituito a partire da un percorso di self assessment degli stili di leadership e dei modelli di cultura organizzativa che caratterizzano i rapporti interfunzionali ed interprofessionali e da un contestuale processo di self empowerment realizzato negli stessi laboratori di action learning.
Inoltre il modello dell’apprendimento attraverso l’azione ha permesso di valutare l’efficacia di uno strumento di analisi dei piani della leadership agiti dal management per promuovere l’efficacia del processo di miglioramento e di cambiamento organizzativo. I risultati ottenuti sono a sostegno dell’ipotesi secondo cui l’action learning è uno strumento efficace per la diagnosi e l’intervento nei processi di miglioramento della qualità secondo un’epistemologia costruttivista ed interazionista
Meaningfulness and isolation effect for normal and retarded subjects
No full text The aim of this study was to verify whether, in the normal and retarded subjects (aged 11.7 yr.), the isolation effect is less evident the lower the meaningfulness of the material to be recalled. 12 groups were tested, six normal and six retarded, each of 25 subjects. The retardation was diagnosed with Raven's Progressive Matrix ′38. Three series each of 9 CVC trigrams were used at 15–20%, 50–55% and 85–90% of associative value, respectively. Each trigram was exposed for 3 sec. As the level of meaningfulness increased so did the isolation effect for both normal and retarded subjects. For the retarded, however, the isolation effect only appears when the level of meaningfulness is very high. </jats:p
L'analisi dei dati
No full textStatistical analysis of data.
The present investigation has created an opportunity to listen to the opinions of associations and organizations that have come into contact with the Foundation Cassa di Gorizia last three years.
The first phase of the project, phase Themis, was born from the need to check what is the image that the Foundation Cassa di Gorizia gives of himself to the recipients of his contributions, checking levels of satisfaction and usefulness and expectations regarding the Foundation and the quality of service delivered. To this end, for the first time in the history of the Foundation, between February and May 2007 a survey was conducted at all facilities that have applied for aid in 2004-2006.
The results confirm a high level of satisfaction both in general and with respect to individual aspects of the service under investigation. The courtesy and professionalism of the operators are the distinctive elements of the service offered by the Foundation, which is perceived as a prestigious institution of higher than expected. But also other elements related to the management of the service delivery of the contributions are in good consideration such as the speed of delivery and the ease of finding information.
The comparison with other entities that make contributions showed that the Foundation Cassa di Gorizia aligns mostly with other institutions, presenting features of competitiveness and excellence on the timing of delivery (69.1% faster than the second), on clearer procedures (55.1%) and forms (48.0%). According to 39.1% the best available information, the access mode contributions are communicated better (36.3%) and criteria for evaluation of proposed projects for the contribution they are better defined (35.1%). There has, however, even evaluations of dissatisfaction that represent areas of improvement, but apart from the simplicity of forms, never exceed, 4.5% (equal to 11 units).
Factorial analysis applied to assessment scales of the Foundation Cassa di Gorizia revealed three factors (explaining 60.4% of the observed variance): the first represents the effectiveness and transparency, according to the size bureaucratic efficiency and the third.
It can be concluded that the picture that emerges is that of an effective institution and attentive to requests for assistance, valuable for the territory, whose activities should, however, apparently free from the comments, be more promotion and advertising
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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