Michela Cortini

Boundaryless careers and occupational well-being

Introduction G.Tanucci, M.Cortini & E.Morin PART I: NEW CAREER MODELS The Protean and Boundaryless Career in Italy: Game on? A.Lo Presti, M.Nonnis & J. Briscoe The Timing of a adjustment strategies during Work Role Transition: A Longitudinal comparison between newcomers and job changers S. Toderi & G. Sarchielli A newcomers career between community and identity M.Traetta & S.Annese Obscure Future? A Pilot Research on University Students Career Expectancies M.Cortini, E.Notarangelo & E. Cardellicchio PART II: OCCUPATIONAL WELLBEING What Makes them Happy? D. Moore Job Resources and Exhaustion at Work: the Mediating Role of Global Meaning M.E.Magrin, S.Gheno, M.Scrignaro & V. Vigano Risk perception and safety standards Violation: Psychosocial Antecedents of Injury in a Metalworking Factory V.Piras & M. Lacasella Hostile Behaviours in the Workplace, Consequences and Reactions of the Victims M.Nonnis, S.Cuccu & S.Porcu Occupational Stress and Job Insecurity may Reduce the Immune NK Response in Men Working in a University L.Forcella, A.Di Donato, L.Di Giampaolo, M.Turano & P. Boscolo The Role of Empathy in Health Professions: A Study with Professional and Volunteer Operators F.M. Marzano, C.Serino & G.DAprile Work Experience as a Discursive Resource for Wellbeing A.Manuti, G.Mininni, R.Rubino & R.Scardigno Models of workers Involvement in Societas Europaeas Governance, between Collective Efficiency and Individual Satisfaction: First Notes D. Caterino PART III: ATYPICAL WORKERS Atypical workers and burnout: preliminary research A.Callea & F.Ballone Work identity, well-being and time perspective of typical and atypical young workers E. Crocetti, A.Palmonari & B. Pojaghi A Typical Employment: an Explorative Study about Motivations and Attitudes of Atypical Workers E. Ingusci, F.Palano, L.Ressa & G.Tanucci Job satisfaction and values: a comparison between non-traditional workers and traditional workers S.De Simone & M.Mondo PART IV: WORK - LIFE BALANCE Perceived utility of welfare initiatives in an Italian multinational corporation S.Ricotta, C.G.Cortese & C.Ghislieri The role of work-family spillover in psychological well-being and psychological discomfort at work L.Colombo & C.Ghislieri The impact of Law 53/00 (regulation of parental leaves) on fathers: a good law disregard in daily life S.Mazzucchelli Female Participation to Labour Markets and the Role of Policy Measures in Local Performance R. Patimo Reconciling work and family life: the role of collective bargaining: A survey of local public services sector C. Spinelli PART V: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY Promoting psychological health and performance in educational work context: how the satisfaction of three basic psychological needs can help achieve both M.Brien, J.Boudrias, D.Lapointe & A.Savoie The Right Place for the Right Man L.Monacis & M.Sinatra A study of willingness to be a mentor: demographic differences, determinants and the moderating effect of organizational usefulness P.Gatti & S.Santoro

Learning Climate and Job Performance among Health Workers. A Pilot Study

This paper will explore if and how psychological strain plays a mediator role between the learning climate and job performance in a group of health workers. Although the relationship between learning climate and job performance has already been explored in the international literature, the role of psychological strain, which may hamper or deepen this relationship, has yet to be investigated. The research hypothesis is that psychological strain mediates the relationship between the climate toward learning (including also the error avoidance climate) and job performance. Data were gathered in a Public hospital in Italy. Participants (N = 61) were health professionals (nurses and obstetricians). Considering the relatively small sample size, a mediation analysis with the aid of the SPSS macro PROCESS was performed. The results show that the relationship between the learning climate (specifically its dimension of organizational appreciation toward learning) and job performance is mediated by psychological strain. The future research agenda and practical implications are discussed in the paper.

Aging and Work Ability: The Moderating Role of Job and Personal Resources

Objective: Demographic changes involving western countries and later retirements due to the recent pension reforms induce a gradual aging of the workforce. This imply an increasing number of workers with health problems and a decreasing of ability to work. In this direction, the present study aims at examining the role of job and personal resources between age and work ability within nurses. Method: The study was cross-sectional and not randomized; data were collected by a self-report questionnaire during a multi-center survey conducted in two Italian hospitals in 2016. In this way, 333 nurses were reached. Results: Multiple linear regression showed that age is significantly and negatively associated to work ability, and that job resources (e.g., decision authority and meaning of work) and personal resources (e.g., hope and resilience) moderate the relationship between age and work ability. Discussion: These results highlight that investing in work and personal resources to support WA is even more relevant for those professions where high physical effort is required.

Creativity at Work and Weblogs: Opportunities and Obstacles

The present paper aims at reflecting on the role of weblogs in fostering employee’s creativity. After having reflected briefly on the relationship between creativity at work and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), we present a typology of organizational weblogs, and finally we propose some preliminary considerations on weblogs as both opportunity and obstacle to employee’s creativity. In particular, the present paper aims at presenting challenges, opportunities and risks, in terms of employees freedom and self-expression, involving in blogging. A following section is devoted to understanding doocing and recommendations for setting blog policies. The paper ends with the formulation of some research questions and with the articulation of future research agenda on such a topic.

Informational Power and Perceived Collective Benefit Affecting the Users’ Preference for a Mobile Technology: Evidences From a Survey Study

This study takes place from the idea that the personal usage of mobile technologies can bring positive outcomes to the user and to their society in an indirect way. Technologies studied in this work are defined as persuasive technologies (Fogg, 1997) because they are intentionally designed to modify the users’ attitude or behavior. This research is aimed to evaluate if the intention to use the application can be influenced by positive attitudes toward technology, by the persuasive power of the application and by the perceived fun. Participants (N = 118; M = 55; F = 63; mean age = 27.4; range age = 15–69) filled in an online questionnaire that was partly based on the Media and Technology Usage and Attitude Scale (MTUAS – Rosen et al., 2013). An additional eight items were added to the scale, aimed at evaluating participants’ technophobia, technophilia, perceived technology pervasiveness and perceived persuasive power of technology. By using linear regression analysis, it was found that the application’s informational power and the perceived entertainment positively influenced the usage intention. Another interesting result, obtained through ANOVA, concerns a generational difference: baby boomers tended to trust more the fact that the single individual action through the application can have an effective impact on the environment. These results represent a basis for future in-depth investigations about socially relevant use of the ICT.

Defending Oneself From Tourists: The Counter-Environmental Bubble

According to the Environmental Bubble Theory, tourists perform a series of strategies in order to remain anchored to their residential spots. The environmental bubble is constituted by a sort of social pellicule able to immunize tourists from the identity/cultural attacks which the visit to a foreign country implies. Such a pellicule is activated by the tourists themselves as they decide to travel in group or, for example, to eat only at the restaurants proposing their own national cuisine, and so on. Generally the potential cultural shock of residents is not taken into consideration in literature, even if it is plausibile to make the hypothesis of a counter-environmental bubble performed by the residents in order to defend their own culture and their identity from the attacks of mass tourism, especially for cities that live on tourism, as, for example, Florence or Siena do. Our study aims at testing the access to local tradition made available in promotional material. The hypothesis we propose is that there should exist a difference in promoting cultural heritage and intimate culture. The intimate culture refers to the living culture, the way of living, comprehending cuisine, education, religion, the way by which the role of females and males are performed, and so on. On the other hand, the cultural heritage, or historical culture, makes reference to a culture meant as belonging to the whole mankind, as it happens, for example, for archeological sites or museums. In more detail, we propose the hypothesis that the intimate culture is maintained unaccessible for tourists gaze, or at least accessible only in the shape of a spectacularized event, the so called pseudo-event of Boorstin. Using the software NUD*IST we analyzed the promotional material of the city of Siena. Our results confirm Boorstins theory about pseudo-events realized for tourists. The difference between cultural heritage and intimate culture promotion we have revealed shows an additional lecture of the Boorstinian framework, which makes an echo to the environmental bubble theory (Cohen, 1972), stressing the risk in terms of social and cultural identity tourism implies for both residents and tourists.

Comunicazione di crisi: uno studio triangolare sulla risposta dei consumatori al richiamo mattel 2007

The present paper gives a psychological perspective on crisis communication, using a mix-method approach, by presenting the Mattel case. In the first study, 43 parents have been interviewed during the period that has immediately followed the Mattel crisis, in autumn 2007. The transcripts of the interviews have been analyzed adopting automatic content analysis. The second study aims at investigating, at a temporal distance of 4 years after the crisis, the perceived security of Mattel and the its level of trust and goodwill among potential consumers. The data of the second study have been collected thanks to an ad hoc questionnaire filled in by a sample of 89 people. The paper presents the main results of the research