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Abstract: Giovanna Vicarelli The first thesis of the article is that the public health sector experiences, after the financial crisis of 2007 and until 2019, a process of increasing labour flexibility. This is a numerical flexibility (in the number of employees and in the type of em-ployment contracts), rather than a functional flexibility. Indeed, the latter is diffi-cult to implement in a sector based on high proportion of professional work, with corporatist forms of self-regulation. The second thesis, relating to the pandemic period, argues that between 2020 and 2021 even more flexible labour policies in the NHS were produced, with further deregulation dictated by the emergency. The concluding question concerns to what extent the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) issued in 2021 and the new Budget Law for 2022 may be able to reverse the long cycle of labour flexibilisation that entered the public health sector more and more. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Massimiliano Monaci, Laura Zanfrini The article opens the monographic section dedicated to the relationship between religion(s) and organizations. After dwelling on the reasons of the scarce attention traditionally devoted to this nexus, the authors describe how this topic is now re-emerging almost unintentionally, through a research agenda that has gradually been enriched by contributions from different fields. They then review the main outcomes of its developments within organizational studies and highlight the most promising prospects for further study. Finally, they outline some points reaffirming the centrality of the issues addressed in the contemporary scenario. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Dounia Bouzar, Lylia Bouzar The authors demonstrate that reducing Islam to an "all-encompassing essence", as some Islamist and political discourses do, has the disadvantage of placing the debate on the register of ideology by depriving it of anthropological and historical data. They analyze the consequences of the mutation of traditional and institu-tional Muslim forms into increasingly individual and subjective choices, which lead to the best and the worst: if the world of work has proved to be a constitu-tive element of a new European Muslim theological production, which has elabo-rated a "Muslim social thought" open to pluralism, Europe is also seeing the growth of the foundations of an anti-social thought of Muslims who refer to Wahhabi ideology. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Marco Ciziceno, Fabio Massimo Lo Verde During the last few years, the sociological literature has demonstrated that both the objective and subjective aspects of work-life influence employees’ attitudes at work. This article focuses on the concept of job satisfaction. It aims to reflect on the potential link between this one and the spiritual dimension (in terms of spiritu-ality and religiosity) experienced in the workplace. This article uses a sociological conceptualization of terms like religion, spirituality, and job satisfaction to shed further light on a topic little explored by the scientific literature. The authors sug-gest that the sharing of spiritually-oriented values in the workplace can improve the quality of the work environment and increase, indirectly, the employees’ job satisfaction. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Monica Martinelli, Mauro Magatti The authors outline the evolution of leadership models within the different forms of capitalism around three temporal passages: the beginnings of modern Western capitalism, the transformations that took place in the 1900s and especially at the beginning of the 21st century, the possible alternative towards a new spirit of capi-talism. This reconstruction keeps the categories of "authority", "power" and "spir-it" in the background. The analysis assumes that the identification between au-thority and power draws out unresolved issues, especially for organizations and socio-economic development models in their essential link with anthropological dimensions that the term ‘spirit’, in the Weberian sense, reveals. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Michela Cortini, Teresa Galanti The influence of spirituality in organizational contexts has attracted a significant and growing number of scholars to understand whether and how spirituality can influence workplace behaviour. This paper aims to offer a critical reflection of the scientific literature related to spirituality at work. The corpus under analysis, identified through the SCOPUS database, consists of 359 entries. After having coded the textual material, a content analysis was conducted. From the analysis, it emerges how spirituality has the power to impact on both group and organizational levels, manifesting itself in behaviours and in attitudes with which we look at ourselves, others, and the world. This study represents the first review in Italian of the scientific literature dedicated to the theme of spirituality applied to occupational contexts. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Monia Anzivino, Annalisa Dordoni The article investigates the gender gap in scientific productivity in Italy, using data from a national survey carried out between 2015 and 2016. It allows us to observe the relationship between gender and productivity on a large representative sample of structured academic staff (N = 5,123) in all disciplinary areas and on different types of publications, i.e. monographs, curatorships of edited volumes, essays and articles. The results show that the gender productivity gap is articulated differently by field and type of product: it is more present in disciplines with a greater presence of women, it is more widespread for articles and essays and is conversely limited to the humanities for monographs and curatorships. Some possible interpretations of these results, which are partly unexpected, are discussed starting from the existing literature. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Maura Benegiamo, William Loveluck The article examines the reactions of two important agricultural trade unions in France, the 'Confédération Paysanne and the Coordination Rurale, to the liberalisation and financialisation of the 'European Common Agricultural Policy. It highlights the adoption of a "producerist populism" approach 'focused on the role of transnational economic and financial elites in co-opting the state, reducing 'public aid and as the main driver of the economic crises experienced by French farmers. The article 'traces the manifestations of this approach in the claims and analyses of the two unions in the face of 'recent economic developments in the wheat and dairy sectors in France. It argues that the producerist understanding of the crises in agriculture leads these two farmers unions, from opposite political backgrounds, to develop common arguments, opening to strategic alliances. Finally, based on the current 'debate on authoritarian populism in rural areas, the article discusses the interest in overcoming these 'narratives in favour of a more emancipatory rural perspective.' PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Vincenzo Fortunato The article presents the main evidence of a recent research carried out on six regions on the gap in the number of managers and executives within Southern Italian companies, along with the lack of managerial culture in the South of the country. In fact, the role of managers in the process of economic and social development is particularly relevant, although less explored by socio-economic literature which, in turn, draws greater attention to entrepreneurs as well as to economic and political élites. Instead, managers and executives represent a privileged bench for analysis in order to deeper understand the dynamics within firms, the elements of backwardness and innovation, the strengths and weaknesses related to the development of modern enterprises. In a context such as the Italian Mezzogiorno which seems to be refractory to innovation, the presence and diffusion of management may represent a significant element of modernization and confer, where present, an added value to the company, improving productivity and performance, also triggering virtuous processes of economic and social growth and development for the territory. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Vincenzo Luise This study contributes to the theoretical perspectives on digital nomad identity. The aim is to go beyond the construction of the nomadic identity framed as identi-ty work in liquid modernity. In doing that, the paper offers an empirical investiga-tion of how knowledge workers construct and perform nomadic subjectivities through liminal work identities in under-institutionalized contexts and symbolic consumption. Drawing on the life history of digital nomads living in Chiang Mai and Bangkok (Thailand), this work concludes that digital nomads know or make the experience that the nomadic lifestyle is not a permanent way of life but a spe-cific stage of their life paths. Digital nomads frame their projects of self-realization through the digital nomad lifestyle as a liminal transition. The digital nomad identi-ty emerges as a temporary and opportunistic assemblage of neoliberal do-it-yourself biographies toward the emergence of a post-nomadic identity. However, the paradoxes and constraints embedded in the digital nomad lifestyle can freeze digital nomads in an objective and subjective permanent liminal condition. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Claudio Marciano, Adelina Brizio, Alberto Carpaneto, Marco Giachino, Alberto Robiati, Monica Molino The aim of this article is to share the results of a research on personal characteris-tics and work behavior of innovators in Italy. The study was conducted following two phases, through the integrated use of quantitative and qualitative techniques. The results showed distinctive motivations, personality characteristics, and abilities of innovators: from risk-taking propensity to rejection of authority, to self-esteem. Moreover, the research analyzed innovators’ work behaviors and described them through three main action patterns, from idea generation to idea promotion and implementation. By emphasizing the presence of certain contextual variables, such as gender and economic sector, the research aims to undermine the social representation that describes the innovator as a ‘genius’, in place of a vision in which innovation is a widespread quality of social action. PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Massimo Follis PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Rita Palidda PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2022 8:00:00 GMT
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