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Valutare l'apprendere nelle organizzazioni: trasformazioni di pratiche lavorative e identità professionali.
No full textValutare l’apprendere nelle organizzazioni: trasformazioni di pratiche lavorative e identità professional
Il processo di selezione del personale come possibilità di apprendimento: il caso della Cooperativa Sociale Aeper
No full textIl paper presenta un caso di ricerca relativo al processo di selezione del personale di una cooperativa sociale operante sul territorio bergamasco. Il tema della valutazione è qui inteso come processo situato, strettamente connesso al contesto in cui viene applicato, anziché come procedura standard e universalmente applicabile. Obiettivo dell’articolo è evidenziare come la costruzione di pratiche a parti-re da una conoscenza situata, considerata come esito di un processo di costruzione sociale, sia una condizione necessaria affinché si produca una valutazione generatrice di cambiamento. Il presente contributo propone un approccio creativo, contestuale e generativo, con l’intento di mostrare come la selezione del personale possa configurarsi come momento di ascolto interlocutorio. Per mezzo di tale processo di interlocuzione, da una parte, il neoassunto è in grado di venire in contatto con gli elementi della cultura organizzativa, valutandone la sintonizzazione su di essa, e, dall’altra, l’organizzazione può riconoscere le diversità, aprendosi alla negoziazione. Per questo motivo la fase di valutazione e selezione del personale può divenire occasione di cambiamento, trasformazione e, di conseguenza, apprendimento organizzativo. Il paper si sofferma inizialmente sulla prospettiva epistemologica adottata, proponendo la sfida di una valutazione context driven, intesa come esito di un processo di negoziazione tra gli attori sociali che appartengono a una specifica organizzazione. Successivamente l’articolo descrive il contesto di riferimento e la metodologia utilizzata la quale, in accordo con l’approccio proposto, ha consentito di raccogliere i dati a partire da un lavoro con i soggetti che abitano il contesto studiato. I principali esiti del presente studio sembrerebbero supportare una sintonizzazione dei lavoratori con la cultura organizzativa, sia in termini di identificazione, che di interpretazione operativa dei valori di riferimento, facendo supporre un’azione trasformativa del processo di selezione. In questo senso, quest’ultimo non solo diverrebbe strumento utile di individuazione di lavoratori idonei per la cooperativa, ma si configurerebbe come momento di apprendimento per il candidato e per l’organizzazione stessa, aprendo nuove direzioni per la ricerca sul tema della valutazione
Organizational Learning in Alzheiimer Services: an action-research
No full textThe paper illustrates an action-research
experience carried out in an Italian Foundation with a great tradition in dealing with Alzheimer patients. The experience has involved different professionals and patient’s relatives. The aim was directed to improve the quality of the services, with particular attention to the quality of relation between professionals and caregivers. Data comes from different methods proposed with professionals and caregivers: semi structured interviews; clinical-social elaboration groups;
DSVO (symbolic drawing of organizational lifespace); CBI (caregiver burden inventory). Verbal data has been analyzed by content analysis with the support of the software Atlas.ti,
a symbolic – interpretative analysis on
drawings and a statistical analysis on CBI. The most relevant outcomes are illustrated (e.g. change of the represenations concerning patients with Alzheimer's disease and their care
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
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