Eva Rimbau-Gilabert

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | UOC · Department of Economics and Business Science

The globalization of work within organizations has generated a greater need for all types of workers to exert interpersonal influence through technology-mediated communication tools. This paper sheds light on the interpersonal relations process in virtual environments from the specific perspective of the choice of upward influence (UI) tactics. We...

The idea that the skills that are useful in companies are in opposition to the skills needed in family life has created a separation between work and personal areas, which diminishes the value placed on the learning obtained in the family environment. In opposition to this view, this paper argues that the informal learning obtained through child re...

In recent years, the stakeholder approach has been widely applied in the debate on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although many authors of this approach have reviewed many elements of the model, they have unconditionally accepted several criteria assumed by Freeman (1984) to identify stakeholders. In general, stakeholder authors have assume...

The expansion of flexible work experienced since the 1980s in developed economies is consistent with a more generic trend towards organizational flexibility, which many authors see as essential in order to compete in the dynamic global environment (Volberda, 1998). From this point of view, the changing demands of the environment have forced organiz...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research has primarily focused on the challenges posed by flexible working arrangements. However, there has been a lack of exploration into managers' intentions to either promote or reject remote work. This paper utilizes a TAM analysis to examine managers' attitudes and motivations towards impleme...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant share of workers has been involved in some form of telework. Remote work arrangements are currently affecting a wide range of firms and industries. However, its usage is significantly lower among small and medium companies. So far, the study of the attitudes and motivations of business owne...

Este artículo examina la relación entre el teletrabajo, los cambios en la dinámica del lugar de trabajo y lacreciente importancia de los espacios de coworking, con un enfoque particular en la ciudad de Barcelona.Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, el teletrabajo experimentó un crecimiento significativo y se estableciócomo una modalidad laboral importa...

El artículo describe en primer lugar los diferentes significados que se ha dado a la expresión «nuevas formas de trabajar» en las últimas décadas. Destaca su vínculo con la flexibilidad en la relación entre el empleador y la mano de obra, con un creciente énfasis en la separación respecto al empleo indefinido a tiempo completo y realizado en las in...

Tras el incremento del teletrabajo por la pandemia por COVID-19, muchas organizaciones han visto las potencialidades de esta forma de trabajar y desean iniciar o avanzar su implementación de un modo planificado. Para este fin, puede serles útil desarrollar la capacidad de sus mandos o profesionales para ser agentes de smart working que promuevan la...

The article first describes the different meanings given to the expression “new ways of working” in recent decades. It highlights its link to flexibility in the relationship between the employer and the workforce, with increasing emphasis on the separation from full-time, permanent employment conducted on company premises. This is followed by an in...

Cita completa: Rimbau-Gilabert, Eva (2021): El complejo impacto del teletrabajo sobre el bienestar individual. Dossieres EsF, 42(verano): 22-31. Las empresas españolas nunca han destacado por utilizar el teletrabajo de forma intensiva. Los datos de Eurostat indican que en 2019 solamente un 8,3 % de los ocupados trabajaban desde su casa habitual u...

Wikipedia is an open educational resource whose frequency of use and importance in higher education are growing. However, empirical evidence about Wikipedia’s contribution to students’ academic performance is scant and many higher education actors express concern regarding its value. By applying a combined theoretical and empirical approach, we exa...

Despite some quality concerns, the success of Wikipedia as a resource of information is influencing education. New technology-enhanced learning strategies are recently developed to include this open educational resource in courses’ design. Although research about the use of Wikipedia in higher education and its quality perception is scarce, there a...

El artículo presenta algunos impactos sobre el bienestar de los trabajadores de las tecnologías impulsoras de la Cuarta Revolución Industrial y las nuevas formas de trabajar que las han acompañado. Se definen brevemente algunas de estas tecnologías y formas de trabajar y se comentan sus posibles impactos sobre el bienestar físico y psicosocial de l...

Transformació digital. Aplicacions de les tecnologies digitals amb gran impacte en el treball. Què canvia? Elements clau de la direcció de persones en l'empresa digitalitzada. Problemes amb les capacitats. Problemes amb les oportunitats. Eines. http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/80365

La robótica, la automatización y la inteligencia artificial (RAIA) están cambiando la forma en que se realiza el trabajo, pero hay una escasez de investigación sobre su impacto desde la perspectiva del empleado. Por lo tanto, realizamos una revisión exploratoria de la literatura para conocer la investigación existente con el fin de respaldar las de...

This chapter describes and analyzes the result of an active, cooperative learning design adopted in “Change Management,” an elective course at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), which is a fully online university. The paper describes the context and foundations that support the learning design, outlines the learning activities and their evo...

La dirección de personas basada en evidencias es una aproximación a la profesión y la práctica de la dirección de personas que se centra en aumentar el uso del pensamiento crítico y el uso de las mejores evidencias disponibles para tomar decisiones. Este artículo sugiere varias razones por las que los profesionales de la dirección de personas no ad...

Wikipedia is core to the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement and is considered as the biggest OER in the world (Caswell et al., 2008). Wikipedia provides learning and research resources through a public online platform, and it is widely used to find information and to collaborate in knowledge creation. Although Wikipedia is frequently used b...

The psychological wellbeing of workers derives from a proper balance between, on the one hand, motivating challenges and obstacles faced and, on the other hand, job and personal resources to overcome them. Managers or supervisors are in a privileged position to make this bal-ance possible, through their daily behavior shown in their leadership styl...

Purpose: The paper describes the development’s and assessment’s process of transversal and specific competencies, in a coordinated wayfor an undergraduate program which is large in terms of enrolment, and which has many subjects in common with other programs. The ultimate goal is to develop a full description of what is considered a good change’s m...

This paper describes and analyzes the result of an innovative learning design adopted in “Change Management”, an elective course in the UOC, which is a fully online university. The design had three main goals: enhancing comprehension of the content, motivating and engaging students in their learning process, and improving the students’ competence i...

E-learning is broadening education horizons all over the world. The contribution sought by this work is to evidence innovations and practices that are applied in teaching environments and fields of knowledge connected to Economics and Business in an on-line environment. In this sense, some contributions related to concepts and subjects considered a...

Purpose: The performance of service activities with high added value, offered by manufacturing companies, in the same way as those of knowledge-intensive services can be affected by the hiring of labor used in them. We study the impact of the use of contingent work (temporary and autonomous) on labor productivity in knowledgeintensive services. To...

There is a lack of research about how to manage the advising role in purely virtual universities. This paper highlights the need for virtual universities to coordinate a large, distributed teaching staff through virtual workgroups. In the particular case of academic advising, these groups may function in a virtual, matrix structure -as occurs in th...

The globalization of work within organizations has generated a greater need for all type of workers to exert interpersonal influence through technology-mediated communication tools. This paper contributes to the analysis of interpersonal relations in virtual environments from a specific perspective: the choice of upward influence tactics. We propos...

In an age where the use of wireless technology is increasing in most domains of society, this paper discusses the relations between work arrangements that adopt computer technology as a flexibility-aiding tool on one hand, and the work-life interface on the other. Through in-depth interviews, we explore how men's interactions with their children ar...

Este estudio analiza el efecto del trabajo contingente sobre la productividad del trabajo en el sector servicios. Para ello, se analizan los datos de una muestra de 645 empresas de servicios localizadas en Cataluña, mediante una regresión lineal múltiple jerárquica. Los resultados muestran que el empleo de formas de trabajo no permanentes, como el...

Academic advising is a key element for learning success in virtual environments that has received little attention from researchers. Since academic advising can contribute to improve the satisfaction and retention of online students, research on this activity is especially needed in the current situation of competition among online universities. Th...

The expansion of flexible work experienced since the 1980s in developed economies is consistent with a more generic trend towards organizational flexibility, which many authors see as essential in order to compete in the dynamic global environment (Volberda, 1998). From this point of view, the changing demands of the environment have forced organiz...

En un entorno online la actividad de tutoría de los estudiantes juega un papel fundamental. Su eje central es el acompañamiento del estudiante a lo largo del programa académico que curse, desde el momento en que muestra su interés en matricularse hasta que se titula. La literatura disponible sobre cómo organizar la actividad tutorial en entornos vi...

The scarcity of studies on academic advising in virtual environments hinders the development of alternative models that can be compared in search for greater efficiency. As a contribution to fill this gap, this paper describes the online academic advising system in a virtual university. We describe the background of this system and its main element...

Academic advising is a key element for learning success in virtual environments that has received little attention from researchers. This paper focuses on the organizational arrangements needed for the delivery of academic advising in online higher education. We present the general dimensions of organizational structures (division of labor, hierarc...

The aim of the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) is to show all the competences that a person possesses, independently of the context in which their acquisition originally took place. This paper analyzes the role of RPEL within a wide vision of education and its key elements are introduced. The role of RPEL in higher education is co...

The current interest in lifelong learning has resulted in work and personal experiences being recognized by educational authorities as valuable sources of informal learning, which may have a positive impact on society in general, and on individuals’ employability in particular. This paper argues that one specific type of informal learning -that whi...

The recognition of prior experiential learning (RPEL) involves the assessment of skills and knowledge acquired by an individual through previous experience, which is not necessarily related to an academic context. RPEL practices are far from generalized in higher education, and there is a lack of specific guidelines on how to implement RPL programs...

IEl elevado ritmo de cambio en los entornos y en las actividades exige a las empresas ser lo más flexibles posible. Pero no siempre está claro qué significa ser flexible. Por esto, este artículo revisa de qué formas puede ser flexible una organización, en general, y en sus recursos humanos, en particular. Además se reordenan los elementos que delim...

One of the main challenges for sports centre managers in Spain is how to improve customer loyalty. Numerous authors suggest that highly satisfied customers tend to be loyal (Oliver, 1980; Fornell, 1992; Jones and Sasser, 1995; Stewart, 1995). Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to identify the elements that most influence customer satisfaction in...

El auge de la formación superior en línea se ha traducido en un esfuerzo por desarrollar metodologías de enseñanza-aprendizaje específicas para el entorno virtual. En contraste, falta un esfuerzo similar para adaptar los mecanismos de coordinación del profesorado a las características de las universidades virtuales. Esta carencia es especialmente n...

El propósito del Reconocimiento de los Aprendizajes derivados de la Experiencia Previa (RAEP) es hacer visible el abanico de competencias que posee una persona, independientemente del contexto donde la adquisición de éstas tuvo lugar. En este artículo se analiza el papel del reconocimiento del aprendizaje experiencial dentro de una visión amplia de...

The recognition of prior experiential learning (RPEL) involves the assessment of skills and knowledge acquired by an individual through previous experience, which is not necessarily related to an academic context. RPEL practices are far from generalised in higher education, and there is a lack of specific guidelines on how to implement RPL programs...