Emma GaravagliaPolitecnico di Milano | Polimi
Emma Garavaglia
Ph.D Social Sciences
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January 2009 - present
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Adult training is a fundamental strategy for the improvement of workers’ skills and employability. However, as workers age and remain in the same company, the risk of losing motivation for learning may grow. In a sample of 1,452 workers from 17 Spanish companies, we analysed to what extent the training factor increases their quality of employment a...
The Quality of Aging at Work (QAW-q) questionnaire allows to study the relationships between eight fundamental dimensions that characterise the perception of the quality of the work experience, expressed at different levels and with respect to several factors associated with the passage of time.
The number of studies on ageing within work organisations has rapidly increased (Boehm, Schröder, & Kunze, 2013). Nonetheless, recent insights on theory and methodological improvements have highlighted the need to conceptualise age and the ageing process as more complex constructs than it appears in the majority of studies carried out in the past a...
The demographic landscape of European countries is rapidly changing because of population ageing; in this context, societies are called to offer older people opportunities to age actively. Although ‘active ageing’ has been broadly explored, there is still room to further our knowledge on the individual conditions that may favour or hinder activity...
This paper investigates the use of smartphone in older people everyday life and it is based on an empirical research involving 30 Italian smartphone users aged 62–76. The research drawn on the analysis of 75,089 log data, 3 collective and 20 face-to-face interviews. The paper describes the digital practices through which older users use smartphone...
This article discusses the introduction of age management practices within organisations and the possible resistance to their implementation, linked to the persistence of stereotypes and barriers associated with employee age and the presence of hostile organisational cultures. The article proposes to adopt an action research approach to facilitate...
In this article, the authors argue that, within the framework of the current information society and the development of Industry 4.0, a revolution hinges on a stock of skills on which adults in general—and adult workers in particular—need to be trained in order to be prepared for the change and improve their employability. Within these skills, we f...
The process of transitioning to an ageing population has occurred later, but nevertheless more intensely, in Southern Europe than in other regions. Consequently, these countries have been forced to politically, socially and economically adapt to this significant challenge. Sociologists play an important role in identifying and understanding social...
Estudio de casos de la gestión del envejecimiento e impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en empresas aragonesas a partir de la herramienta QAW Proyecto dirigido por Tatiana Iñiguez Berrozpe Universidad de Zaragoza Resumen ejecutivo
Estudio de casos de la gestión del envejecimiento e impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en empresas aragonesas a partir de la herramienta QAW Proyecto dirigido por Tatiana Iñiguez Berrozpe Universidad de Zaragoza
Informe intermedio del proyecto Desarrollo y aplicación de la herramienta Quality of Ageing at Work (QAW) en la gestión del envejecimiento de la Industria 4.0 en Aragón (marzo 2019), galardonado con el Premio de Investigación Ángela López Jiménez del Consejo Económico y Social de Aragón
El progresivo envejecimiento de la fuerza del trabajo y el retraso en la edad de jubilación, derivado del decrecimiento porcentual de la población activa y, por tanto, de sus contribuciones a los sistemas de seguridad social, clama por acciones en favor de entornos laborales saludables que tengan en cuenta las características personales, laborales...
La presentación recoge el origen, los principales resultados y las aplicaciones prácticas del proyecto Quality of Ageing at Work en Aragón. Además introduce la presentación de una nueva herramienta, el QAW-Focus, como elemento de acompañamiento de los investigadores a las empresas en su puesta en marcha de medidas específicas de gestión del envejec...
El progresivo envejecimiento de la fuerza del trabajo y el retraso en la edad de jubilación clama por acciones en favor de entornos laborales saludables e inclusivos que tengan en cuenta las características de los trabajadores de mayor edad. La calidad del envejecimiento en el lugar de trabajo ha sido analizada a nivel europeo mediante un instrumen...
El progresivo envejecimiento de la fuerza del trabajo y el retraso en la edad de jubilación claman por acciones en favor de entornos laborales saludables e inclusivos que tengan en cuenta las características de los trabajadores de mayor edad. La calidad del envejecimiento en el lugar de trabajo ha sido analizada a nivel europeo mediante un instrume...
El progresivo envejecimiento de la fuerza del trabajo y el retraso en la edad de jubilación claman por acciones en favor de entornos laborales saludables e inclusivos que tengan en cuenta las características de los trabajadores de mayor edad. La calidad del envejecimiento en el lugar de trabajo ha sido analizada a nivel europeo mediante un instrume...
Contribution to Session #27
‘Leadeship and HR-strategies and older workers’
Nordic Work Life Conference 2018
Oslo, June 13th-15th
La empresa Arcelormittal, celebró el 26 de abril su XVIII Día de la Seguridad y Salud en su sede en Zaragoza. Entre los distintos actos programados, la empresa invitó a los investigadores del proyecto "Gestión del envejecimiento de los recursos humanos en las organizaciones. Desarrollo y aplicación del Quality of Ageing at Work Questionnaire (QAW-q...
The researchers of the project "Gestión del envejecimiento de los recursos humanos en las empresas. Desarrollo y aplicación del Quality of Ageing at Work Questionnaire (QAW-q) en Aragón" (University of Zaragoza, Ibercaja), in collaboration with Aragonese Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (ISSLA), organised the first workshop of the projec...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which social cooperatives in Italy
followed and managed to preserve their core values and principles while withstanding multiple
pressures during the great recession. Attention is paid to two key issues. First, the concept of political
agency is used to understand whether social co...
Recent reforms of statutory age to retire throughout Europe have shown the need – within work organizations – for HR policies to be able to face the challenges of an increasing employees’ mean age and of an imbalanced age mix among the labor force.
On the basis of the key concepts arising from the organizational literature on age management, as wel...
L’age management matura in campi che per proprie premesse postulano tra di loro una presa di distanza, come lo sono la medicina del lavoro con la sua attenzione alle dimensioni individuali e organizzative legate ai contenuti delle prestazioni di lavoro, da un lato, e la gerontologia sociale con la sua attenzione alle influenze esercitate sulle biog...
Recent reforms of retirement systems throughout Europe have shown the need – within work organisations – for HR policies addressed to face the challenges of an increasing employees’ mean age and of an imbalanced age mix among the workforces. Based on the analysis of the organisational literature on age management, as well as of the evidence-based a...
Il rapporto tra giovani e lavoro rappresenta uno dei focus di ricerca attualmente privilegiati dalle scienze sociali (Bertolini, Blossfeld, Hofacker, Rizza, 2011; Dell’Aringa, Treu, 2011) e costituisce uno dei temi più frequentemente discussi dai media e dibattuti in tempi recenti nell’arena politica. Tuttavia, con riferimento al contesto nazionale...
(re)Th!nking Diversity 2° International Conference on Narrative & Innovation Karlshochschule International University
Recent reforms of statutory age to retire throughout Europe have shown the need – within work organisations – for HR policies able to face the challenges of an increasing employees’ mean age and of an imbalanced age mix among the labour force.
On the basis of the key concepts arising from the organisational literature on age management, as well as...
Projects
Projects (4)
The scope of the ACTIVE IT project is to empirically investigate opportunities for active ageing promotion in pandemic and post-pandemic societies and to explore the set of resources older men and women enact to adapt to the digitalisation of society (a structural societal changes which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 outbreak).
Specifically, the ACTIVE IT project will address the following research questions:
What are the consequences of Covid-19 for active ageing and wellbeing in older age?
What type of social and digital resources (social networks, digital skills, etc.) older men and women enacted to adapt to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 outbreak?
How do older men and women’s adaptation strategies evolve to respond to the evolution of the pandemic situation?
What are the potentialities of peer-to-peer digital education to respond to older men and women’s needs?
This project is the continuation of the project Aging in a networked society. Older people, social networks, and wellbeing. More information available here: https://aginginanetworkedsociety.wordpress.com/ and https://www.researchgate.net/project/Aging-in-a-networked-society-Older-people-social-networks-and-well-being
Principal Investigator Professor Emanuela Sala (University of Milano-Bicocca)
V-DATA project seeks to contribute to building a more balanced relation between citizens and surveillance capitalism processes, as well as the actors that govern them.
Specifically, on the one hand it seeks to filling the knowledge gap about Italian public opinion on dynamics and logics of surveillance capitalism, as well as on the risks of inequality and discrimination related to surveillance capitalism in Italy.
On the other hand, it seeks to raise the public awareness on these issues, thus potentially enhancing citizens’ ability to questioning these processes.
The overall aim of this project is to investigate the impact of offline social networks, i. e., more “traditional” and face-to-face social networks, and online social networks, i. e., social relationships developed using SNSs on older people’ physical health, cognitive functions, and well-being. In addition, this project aims to explore the role of smartphone and social networking sites (SNSs) use on older people’s social inclusion and intergenerational solidarity. This research will contribute to fill in some of the existing gaps in this field in a number of ways, e.g., exploring the impact of the changes in older people’s offline social network characteristic (separately considering losses and additions) on physical health, cognitive functions, and well-being, and assessing causal relationship between SNSs use and older people’s health and well-being.
