Manuti Amelia

University of Bari Aldo Moro Italy · Department of Education,Psychology,Communication

Nel corso degli ultimi anni è cresciuta l'attenzione intorno ai temi del benessere e della salute nel contesto accademico. Studi recenti suggeriscono che il personale docente e ricercatore è sottoposto a numerose pressioni sul lavoro provenienti da una varietà di fonti e questo determina importanti ricadute sui livelli di benessere. Nello specifico...

The profession of airline pilots is characterized by high levels of stress and a significant risk of burnout. The health emergency period has exacerbated these challenges to health and well-being, with long COVID adding further strain to aviation professionals even in the post-pandemic scenario. In this context, it is essential to promote positive...

ᴥ SUMMARY. Organizational identification is related to employees' perception of oneness with their workplace. Being identified with one's organization could promote organizational citizenship behaviors and protect from turnover, very important performance outcomes especially in healthcare organizations. Mael and Ashforth's (1992) scale is one of th...

The teaching profession, intrinsically vocational, bestows upon its practitioners a deep sense of meaning and personal dedication. However, this personal commitment can be affected by the constant evolution of labour demands, exacerbated by the increasing technification of education. Both these needs, at a personal and organisational level, can lea...

This section attempts to draw a conclusion to the several questions posed during the book. The authors start with the social representations of technology, seen both as a magic solution and as a restriction, a substitution to human action. Mediating these positions, the authors suggest adopting a critical perspective to analyze the impact of cognit...

This chapter considers the resources granted by new communicative technologies (e.g. people analytics, cloud technologies, social networks) as an opportunity to manage people, exploiting the affordances granted by cognitive intelligence. The authors argue that if properly adopted, cognitive intelligence could enable the function of HRM to rethink i...

Within the last decades, the idea that the competitive advantage of organizations can be driven by the accumulation of high-quality human resources has been affirmed in the scientific literature. The focus on human capital as a source of competitive advantage has led organizations to compete in the talent war and to adopt a strategic management of...

In light of the results coming from a case study, the chapter aims to show how a social platform dedicated to HRM could be beneficial both for individuals and for organizations. The first could explore new communicative channels in and with the organization, thus gaining a sense of agency and responsibility that inevitably have an impact on their p...

Framing the socio-cultural and economic revolution brought about by cognitive technologies, the chapter aims to discuss the redefinition of workers’ identities and the meaning they attach to work. Yet, authoritative studies in the field show that work experience represents a symbolic space for the development of personal and social identity. The em...

This chapter aims to discuss the negative and positive aspects connected to the cultural turn to the cognitive intelligence era in organizations. The opportunities granted by technology-based people management practices (e.g., Watson, big data, etc.) are critically analyzed in the attempt to redefine the role of human resource management (HRM) as a...

Because of the massive changes experienced within work contexts over the last decades, work design has received renewed attention both from scholars and practitioners interested in carefully balancing job demands with employees’ needs, aiming to boost performance. Hence, work design, meant as a strategic human resource management tool to craft job...

Within the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has contributed to changing many aspects of individual and collective life. Focusing on professional life, the forced shift to remote working modalities, the consequent blurring of work–family (WF) boundaries, and the difficulties for parents in childrearing have significantly impacted fam...

La preoccupazione per il benessere psicofisico della popolazione universitaria è sempre più al centro dell'at-tenzione degli Atenei, anche in virtù degli ultimi due anni di Pandemia che hanno esacerbato una situazione pregressa di malessere. Il presente studio si è, dunque, posto l'obiettivo di studiare alcune richieste e risorse contestuali e pers...

Italian university students face an uncertain future characterised by a competitive neoliberal academic environment with high demands and a weak labour market that often cannot hire those who are best qualified. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated students’ uncertainty and negatively affected their well-being. The purpose of this study is to expl...

Purpose This study investigated how consumers' confidence in medicine and health information seeking and usage could be related to purchase intentions and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A panel of 18 food supplements consumers were interviewed using soft laddering. Qualitative data were coded and used to develop a structured survey. Par...

The attention deserved to the recognition of qualifications (degrees) and competencies acquired elsewhere, as a means for equity and inclusion in education has progressively influenced educational research and also educational policy and decision-making. Different European countries, agreeing with the importance of valorising informal learning, hav...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused school systems to adapt very quickly to a variety of demands for change, and teachers, as frontline workers in the education system, were tasked with rapidly implementing new teaching practices in ways that promoted student learning while maximizing student safety. The aim of this study is to investigate how Italian tea...

The present study is aimed to two related objectives: 1) to make a systematic review of the relationship between toxic leadership, burnout and turnover intentions in the workplace 2) to use this knowledge to investigate if and to what extent a toxic leadership style might negatively impact workers' burnout and turnover intentions. This second objec...

The idea of this Special Issue emerged within the last two years that (exclusively focusing on the impact of the pandemic on working life) will pass to history as one of the most complex times for individuals and organizations [...]

Le restrizioni connesse alla gestione dell'emergenza sanitaria hanno inciso profondamente sulle opportunità di crescita dei minori, colpendo maggiormente i gruppi sociali più vulnerabili, come le famiglie a basso reddito e i bambini. Se i genitori home-workers hanno dovuto fronteggiare maggiori difficoltà di conciliazione, i caregiver che hanno per...

The aim of the study was to explore if and to what extent a positive perception of Human Resource Management Practices could be related to Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and if the Work–Family Interface could act as a mediator of such relationship. A group of 406 employees of an Italian sector of the Public Administration filled in a self-rep...

The present study provides evidence for a valid and reliable tool, the Academic Quality at Work Tool (AQ@workT), to investigate the quality of life at work in academics within the Italian university sector. The AQ@workT was developed by the QoL@Work research team, namely a group of expert academics in the field of work and organizational psychology...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to explore the moderating role of organizational learning culture in the relationship between training transfer and work performance. Design/methodology/approach A convenience group of 164 workers filled in an online questionnaire based on retrospective data about the last training experience they attended. Par...

In line with the general aims of scientific textuality, research papers in the biomedical and psychiatric academic domains mostly attempt to demonstrate the validity of their assumptions and to contrast with the sense of uncertainty that sometimes frames their conclusions. Moving from this premise, the present paper aimed to focus on these features...

Starting from the Positive Organizational Behavior movement, several studies showed that some personal resources and some contextual features within the working context might encourage individuals and groups in thriving, thus providing a concrete competitive advantage for organizations. Among the individual factors, psychological capital (PsyCap) r...

Purpose The current study makes two main contributions: one theoretical and one methodological. First, it investigated the theoretical prepositions of career sustainability perspective, which appears particularly suitable for examining project managers' careers' dynamics and patterns, featured by explicit and recursive interactions between individu...

Over the last decades, growing interest has been devoted to employees’ perceptions of Human Resource Management Practices because of their positive influence on individual attitudes and behaviors as well as on organizational performance. Furthermore, assuming the mutual benefits coming from a people-based management of the human capital in organiza...

Despite the strong criticisms, mass student surveys play an important role in the quality assurance process of national higher education systems. While some national higher education systems have a long history of using student surveys to inform teaching and course quality improvement (e.g. the UK, Australia), in Italy, where the quality assurance...

During times of crises, employees turn to their managers for information and guidance. Human resource (HR) research highlights the pivotal role of HR strength, which refers to distinctive, consistent, and consensual information, when communicating messages to sta. However, the literature has remained silent around the antecedents of HR strength. Dr...

The ongoing epidemiological crisis has suddenly steered us towards a new futuristic work scenario in which most service sector employees work remotely, which could be a permanent reality for most service sector employees. This paper focuses on the strategic role that leadership could play in the radical change process that is taking place in work e...

During times of crises, employees turn to their managers for information and guidance. Human resource (HR) research highlights the pivotal role of HR strength, which refers to distinctive, consistent, and consensual information, when communicating messages to staff. However, the literature has remained silent around the antecedents of HR strength....

The radical changes deriving from the COVID-19 emergency have heavily upset some of the most familiar routines of daily work life. Abruptly, many workers have been forced to face the difficulties that come with switching to remote working. Basing on the theoretical framework proposed by the Job Demands-Resources model, the purpose of this paper was...

During the first months of 2020, the world, and Italy at an early stage, went through the Covid-19 emergency that had a great impact on individual and collective health, but also on working processes. The mandatory remote working and the constant use of technology for employees raised different implications related to technostress and psycho-physic...

Over the last decades, consistent research showed that voluntary work could be considered as a tool for professional development and concrete employment: volunteering could be either experienced as a desire to improve career opportunities or to acquire new skills. The study aimed to investigate voluntary work as a context of informal and non-formal...

Drawing and adapting the Job Demands-Resources Model to the academic context, the study aimed at exploring how students manage academic study demands by seeking challenges and adopting their human (e.g. meta-competencies) and social capital (e.g. networking) to improve their academic performance. 152 undergraduate psychology students were asked to...

In the evolutionary context of Industry 4.0, where machine learning and machine to machine technology are powerful tools for the maintenance and replicability of knowledge, the implementation of hybrid systems based on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents the key to organizational innovation and to the capitalization of knowledge. At...

Although remote working can involve positive outcomes both for employees and organizations, in the case of the sudden and forced remote working situation that came into place during the COVID-19 crisis there have also been reports of negative aspects, one of which is technostress. In this context of crisis, leadership is crucial in sustainably mana...

Sustainable human resource management practices represent one of the main organizational strategy to survive and to prosper within the fast-moving current scenario. According to this view, sustainability is strictly linked to the consideration of the unique and distinctive value that each human resource means for organizations. The recent COVID19 p...

Introduction: The transformations that have affected the labour market in recent years have required companies to adapt to fast changes and to keep the pace of global competition. Consequently, workers have been confronted with multiple challenging demands: they have been required to develop flexibility in their jobs and to work faster and better,...

In recent years, most countries have been involved into a process of social and cultural integration because of an increasing global immigration. A context where this process becomes more visible is the workplace where migrant workers might be seen in two different ways. On the one hand, when high-skilled they are considered as precious resources t...

During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work from home. Thus, the use of remote working increased during the pandemic and is expected to maintain...

A common ground between mental health and judicial-legal domains concerns concepts like “care”, “control” and “possibility to foresee” human behaviour, with particular reference to the “social dangerousness”. The connections between these sense-making practices can be traced by discursive modulation of “certainty/uncertainty”. This study aimed to h...

This study reported on the development and initial validation of a multidimensional measure of employability based on Lo Presti & Pluviano (2016) theoretical model. Four different studies were designed and implemented. Study 1 was a qualitative study that involved a group of 15 labour market experts and aimed at developing the items’ pool. In Study...

This article focuses on the role of student feedback in the process of higher education quality assurance. The most recent reforms of the educational systems encourage teachers to enlarge their educational paradigm by experimenting with assessment practices that would go behind accountability and be more responsive to students’ learning needs. In I...

Over the years the debate on the aims, approaches, and impacts of formative assessment has never stopped to grow. Parallel to this growth is the awareness that it is crucial to understand what conceptions teachers have of assessment in order to guarantee more effective teacher education. This paper tries to connect these two fields of research: for...

Purpose The increasing flexibility and discontinuity of labor relations have been associated with the development of new forms of psychological contracts as well as the development of more self-directed and mobile career attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the forms of psychological contract and protean/boun...

The most recent developments in the field of sustainability science and the emergence of a psychology of sustainability and sustainable development have contributed to collect evidences about the fact that modern organizations need healthy and motivated employees to survive and to prosper within this fast-moving scenario. In this vein, a confirmati...

The meaning people attribute to working is a multidimensional construct, accounting for personal values, expectations, beliefs and attitudes towards work, which originates and develops because of life cycle experiences. The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the investigation of the ‘meaning of working’ by focusing on the causal relationshi...

In light with the results coming from a case study, the chapter aims to show how a social platform dedicated to HRM could be beneficial both for individuals and for organizations. The first could explore new communicative channels in and with the organization, thus gaining a sense of agency and responsibility that inevitably have impact on their pe...

Within the last decades, the idea that the competitive advantage of organizations can be driven by the accumulation of high quality human resources has affirmed in the scientific literature. The focus on human capital as a source of competitive advantage has led organizations to compete in the talent war and to adopt a strategic management of peopl...

This chapter aims to discuss the negative and positive aspects connected to the cultural turn toward the cognitive intelligence era in organizations. The opportunities granted by technology-based people management practices (e.g. Watson, big data, etc.) are critically analysed in the attempt to redefine the role of human resource management as an o...

This section attempts to draw a conclusion to the several questions posed in the course of the book. The authors start from the social representations of technology seen both as a magic solution and as a restriction, a substitution to human action. Mediating these positions, the authors suggest to adopt a critical perspective to analyse the impact...

Framing the socio-cultural and economical revolution brought about by cognitive technologies, the chapter aims to discuss the redefinition of workers’ identity and the meaning they attach to work. Yet, authoritative studies in the field show that work experience represents a symbolic space for the development of personal and social identity. The em...

This chapter considers the resources granted by new communicative technologies (e.g. social networks) as an opportunity to manage people, exploiting the affordances granted by cognitive intelligence. The authors argue that, if properly adopted, cognitive intelligence could support the function of HRM to rethink its practices and to make them more a...

Purpose The paper argues that the diatextual analysis could be considered a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis because it stresses out the role of hermeneutical procedures in catching the inter-subjective nature of meanings. These theoretical speculations were discussed in light with some empirical evidences coming from a discursi...

This book draws on recent debate surrounding the emergence of cognitive intelligence in organizations, exploring the redefinition of the labor market and consequently, employment. With a particular focus on Human Resource Management (HRM), the authors analyse the socio-cultural transformation of traditional practices and methodologies that are ocur...

This paper integrates contributions coming from psychology with a phenomenological and semiotic perspective and focuses on the relationship of reciprocal constitution between “Subject” and “Object.” This relationship is evoked through radically different concepts such as the notions of “experience,” “consciousness” and “embodiment,” focusing attent...

The aim of the study was to make a contribution to the understanding of the psychological resources (psychological capital, career commitment, labour market outlook and career orientation) associated with career choices in a sample of 294 young NEETs. Cluster analysis allowed us to trace back the recurrence of certain distinctive subjective resourc...

We present preliminary data on the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in mediating the relationship between psychopathy and detention term of authors of property crimes. We assumed that the detention term is an approximation of the severity of criminal behavior. A sample of 24 property offenders were individually administered a brief anamnestic in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of communities of practice in organizations and their most beneficial effects for both individual and collective development. Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review, from the first authoritative texts by Lave and Wenger until the most recent critiques, the paper has attempt...

Over the past decades, the rapid and radical changes in the labor market and in the organizational contexts have greatly emphasized the role of continuous learning as a challenging key factor to compete in national and international markets. Organizations need to learn more and quickly to adapt to fast-moving changes and to cope with the complex de...

This study aims to analyze the link between the construction of an effective psychological contract with the organization and the success of the socialization process. To this purpose 241 employees of a Call Center organization have been contacted. A questionnaire composed by measures of Organizational Socialization (Haueter et al. Journal of Vocat...

Most of past research on job search has focused on the relationship be- tween individual strategies and perceived quality of re-employment, focusing mostly on e�ort and intensity of job search behavior during unemployment. Few studies have investigated the role played by individual beliefs, values and representations of work in determining job sear...

Purpose – This paper aims to argue the beneficial effects of communities of practices for organizations. More specifically, given their intrinsic features, communities of practices support individuals and organizations in developing and diffusing the organizational culture, in making sense and guiding individual and collective actions, in defining...

The present paper addressed the different meanings attached to religion as cultural resource in the course of life. Indeed, abundant cultural research has confirmed that religion could be a powerful symbolic system that shapes people’s beliefs and attitudes. Its significance may depend on contextual factors and may vary over time and place, thus sh...

Purpose – Narrative is believed to be a crucial component of sense-making in organizations, and previous research in the field suggests that multiple levels and forms of narrative are inherent to the definition of professional identities (Clarke et al., 2009; Ybema et al., 2009; Brown and Lewis, 2011). For example, narrative can be found in the sto...

The author discusses how social media use has radically redesigned the ordinary practices of organizational (formal and informal) communication. Therefore, social media are described as a new class of technologies that may alter organizational dynamics in profound ways. Given this finding, the chapter attempts at explicating how and to what extent...

The aim of this book was to argue for the strategic value of social media in organizations adopting the perspective of human capital management.

The chapter is entirely devoted to enrich the debate with the experience of some of the most representative HR managers in the international scenario. Indeed, it contains 17 interviews about HR practices in the era of social media, which contribute to give invaluable insights precious, both for theoretical developments and professional practice.

The chapter aims at discussing the concept of human capital with reference to some of the main Human Resource Management practices (e.g., recruiting, talent management and marketing). The latter are re-read in light with the increasing use of social media as a strategic support to several organizational actions. Therefore, the authors discuss the c...

The chapter adds new insights to debate by focusing on the role social media might play in the strategic and global management of talents. More specifically, it investigates how new media could be a support to most traditional HRM tools in the management of some crucial organizational processes such as, for instance, career development and performa...

The chapter deals with the relationship between knowledge management, social media, and organizational learning. The authors discuss the role played by social media in improving the organizational processes of knowledge creating, sharing, and managing that are basilar to an effective human capital management. Accordingly, the chapter describes soci...

The aim of this book was to argue for the strategic value of social media in organizations adopting the perspective of human capital management. © Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016.

The author discusses how social media use has radically redesigned the ordinary practices of organizational (formal and informal) communication. Therefore, social media are described as a new class of technologies that may alter organizational dynamics in profound ways. Given this finding, the chapter attempts at explicating how and to what extent...

The chapter aims at discussing the concept of human capital with reference to some of the main Human Resource Management practices (e.g., recruiting, talent management and marketing). The latter are re-read in light with the increasing use of social media as a strategic support to several organizational actions. Therefore, the authors discuss the c...

The chapter adds new insights to debate by focusing on the role social media might play in the strategic and global management of talents. More specifically, it investigates how new media could be a support to most traditional HRM tools in the management of some crucial organizational processes such as, for instance, career development and performa...

The chapter is entirely devoted to enrich the debate with the experience of some of the most representative HR managers in the international scenario. Indeed, it contains 17 interviews about HR practices in the era of social media, which contribute to give invaluable insights precious, both for theoretical developments and professional practice. ©...

The chapter deals with the relationship between knowledge management, social media, and organizational learning. The authors discuss the role played by social media in improving the organizational processes of knowledge creating, sharing, and managing that are basilar to an effective human capital management. Accordingly, the chapter describes soci...

Social media is redefining how companies innovate by connecting people and ideas in previously unexplored ways. Organizations now have the ability to utilize knowledge from external audiences around the globe that they could never reach before. It is changing the way organizations do business today, but not without some considerable risk. The Socia...

The aim of the present research was to investigate employability in a group of mature workers, namely over 45-workers (Schalk e Van Veldhoven, 2010). More specifically, attention was focused on the involvement of workers in initiatives addressed to enhance personal employability (employability activities). The role of individual and organizational...

A theory-based evaluation of an in progress program for the development of new youth centers the South of Italy is presented and discussed in this paper. The evaluation study focused on how the program was working to increase youth participation in the design and the implementation of the youth centers. Data were collected through document analysis...

A matéria publicada neste periódico é licenciada sob forma de uma Licença Creative Commons-Atribuição 4.0 Internacional. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ " They should work the way we do ". The discursive construction of Chinese and Italian cultural identity " Eles deviam trabalhar como nós ". A construção discursiva da identidade cultur...

The radical economic, social and cultural changes experienced by the labour market within recent decades have helped to highlight the central role played by the learning process in individual career development and organizational success. In such fast-moving working contexts, skills and competencies rapidly become outdated and need to be continuous...

Since ancient times, sports have played the role of transposing, on a symbolic level, the aggressive behaviors that are built into human sociality. Mostly in their team manifestations, sporting events represent a so-called tame war. The main aim of this study is to show how the cultural psychology of sport might contribute to an understanding of th...

The main aim of this paper was to investigate how diversity management was discursively constructed in the words of 10 human resource (HR) managers of Small and Medium Enterprises located in Apulia, South of Italy. Following a discursive approach to organizations and a critical and rhetorical methodological perspective, the study has taken into acc...