Sandra IdrovoUniversidad de La Sabana-INALDE Business School · Managing People in Organizations
Sandra Idrovo
Doctor of Philosophy
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Evidence suggests that Latin Americans display elevated levels of emotional expressivity and positivity. Here, we tested whether Latin Americans possess a unique form of interdependence called expressive interdependence, characterized by the open expression of positive emotions related to social engagement (e.g., feelings of closeness to others). I...
Los escándalos corporativos de principios del siglo XXI (Enron, Worldcom, subprime) generaron crisis económicas globales. Cuando poderosos graduados de reconocidas escuelas de negocios fueron responsabilizados por la opinión pública, surgió la pregunta de si la formación ética que recibieron de estas instituciones había sido insuficiente. Analizamo...
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Work orientation includes the individual’s beliefs regarding the role of work in his/her life as a whole and what they are searching for in their careers. There are three types of orientation to work: job, career, and vocation. Work orientation has the distinction of examining how work connects with people’s lives and is, the...
Dirigir, emprender, innovar e invertir en el mundo de los negocios son temas relevantes para el desarrollo social y económico de las naciones. Últimamente, se han estado estudiando estos fenómenos como procesos sociales, contextuales y relacionales. Muchos de estos procesos son particulares para las economías de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Es...
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This paper takes a closer look at the way firms combine human resources from different departments by analyzing firm-level data obtained from a series of innovation surveys conducted in Colombia by Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE). In particular, the authors inquire into whether there are differences in innovation...
Este libro es un llamado a la corresponsabilidad de cara a la construcción de paz en Colombia. Si bien el Estado lleva la delantera en las iniciativas, eso no reduce la responsabilidad de otros actores sociales en favor del desarrollo social del país y de todas las acciones que propendan por la convivencia pacífica. Las empresas, como piezas nuclea...
Telework has become a very popular arrangement that has grown rapidly worldwide, most recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to deepen our knowledge about the performance of companies and employees in the context of telework because the results of previous studies are contradictory. The present study examines the relationship among...
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The purpose of this paper is to identify workforce skills that protect an occupation from elimination due to automation technology.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors apply a Gaussian process (GP) classifier, based on the level of non-automatable work activities in an occupation, to USA and Colombian occupational datasets.
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The COVID-19 pandemic affected the relationship between work and life almost everywhere on the planet. Suddenly, remote work became the mainstream way of working for millions of workers. In this context, we explore how the relationship between remote work, work stress, and work–life developed during pandemic times in a Latin America context. In a s...
The purpose of this article is to discuss the relationship between sustainability and health in the context of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America, the region with the second highest number of deaths due to COVID-19. After performing a dialectical analysis on mass media discourses about the pandemic, we argue that sustainability must be under...
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This study aims to elucidate the relationship between women's participation on the board of directors and the company's financial performance in a sample of 45 Colombian companies listed on the Colombia Stock Exchange (CSE) (Bolsa de Valores de Colombia).
Design/methodology/approach
Using 50,214 financial records of 45 companies listed on...
The objective of this paper was to develop a Multidimensional Flourishing Scale and to study its psychometric validation. This paper includes three different studies, in Study 1, it was analysed the development of the item for each dimension, the initial factor structure (using parallel analysis and exploratory factor analysis) and the internal con...
The purpose of this research was to look into the work-life interface of professionals in a de-manding and high-risk occupation in an organization in the security sector. Specifically, it focuses on the interaction between supervisor behaviors and culture with turnover intention and work-family conflict. The present study centers on data from a pub...
Theories in cultural psychology assume that emotions disrupt social harmony, and thus, emotion moderation is a hallmark of interdependence. However, this assumption is based exclusively on research on East Asians. Here, we tested the hypothesis that Latin Americans are as interdependent as East Asians and more so than European Americans. However, L...
Este libro refleja cómo navegar en tiempos de crisis es un reto directivo que requiere adaptación, creatividad moral y una visión amplia y optimista para sortearla acertadamente. Nunca un marino podrá cambiar el viento y las olas, pero puede adaptar sus velas, orientar a toda su tripulación y recalcular la ruta para poner su proa hacia el destino....
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how family-supportive supervisor behaviour (FSSB) and organisational work–family policies (WFP) influence turnover intention (TI), satisfaction with work–family balance (SWFB) and prosocial motivation (PSM) in employees in organisations in the private sector in Colombia and Chile. It also explores whe...
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Most developing countries are characterized by large informal sectors. A substantial proportion of firms in these countries began operations in the informal sector, eventually becoming formal. The purpose of this paper is to study whether, after formalization, firms that began operations in the informal sector are more or less likely to use...
El principal objetivo de este segundo reporte es ofrecer una visión general de la realidad del hogar en 5 países latinoamericanos: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú y México. Estos documentos, que siguen un formato común, presentan una breve descripción del contexto de cada nación con datos socio-económicos, demográficos, aspectos legales o cultural...
In this paper we aim to advance the discussion on HRM’s quest to create value around social responsibility and environmental sustainability. We explore the perceptions reported by Human Resource managers in three Ibero-American countries (Spain, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica). We focus on the hospitality sector, one of particular relevancy...
EL LADO HUMANO DE LA SOSTENIBILIDAD Reflexiones desde lo privado y lo público Para hablar de sostenibilidad, es preciso aclarar que el término va más allá del con-cepto medio ambiente; aborda todas las actividades del ser humano, desde su ámbi-to privado y cotidiano, hasta las acciones públicas que comparte con diferentes acto-res sociales; de tal...
The characteristics of the environment in which a firm operates may be constraining a firm's choice of strategy in order to create and sustain a competitive advantage. In particular, we focus on the fact that the level of development of local human capital may be an important factor constraining the set of strategies that the firm may actually choo...
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RESUMENEsta investigación busca conocer cómo el ámbito familiar, específicamente el trabajo doméstico, afecta el ámbito laboral, determinando si tiene importancia al conciliar Trabajo – Familia (TF). Es una investigación exploratoria, descriptiva y cualitativa, en la que se emplea la estratificación ya existente en Bogotá y que hace referencia a lo...
RESUMENLos cambios económicos y sociales que se viven actualmente, demandan nuevas formas de vivir los ámbitos laborales y familiares. El presente estudio indaga acerca de la relación entre los componentes del modelo EFR® y prácticas de conciliación T-F implementadas por las empresas colombianas y los problemas más relevantes que ellas enfrentan. E...
This paper aims to develop the theoretical concept of social CSR through an empirical study focusing on the Ibero-American hospitality industry. We examined social initiatives in general and, in particular, diversity and social inclusion initiatives in four different Ibero-American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain. We conducted fift...
In this paper, we explore the perceptions of human resource (HR) managers on their contribution to social responsibility and environmental sustainability in three Ibero-American countries (Spain, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica). We rely on a qualitative approach and in-depth interviews at 28 firms in the travel and tourism industry (in the h...
This study aims to identify how Colombian women perceive their personal, family and work success and satisfaction, how family demands and work conditions influence these perceptions. 213 women who work at different sectors in Bogotá were surveyed. Through a comparative analysis of mean, synthesizing variables on perception indexes, ordinal regressi...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the subject of work attitude drivers within the current scenario considering two influencing factors, culture and generation. Both membership of a particular generation and membership of a particular culture can affect individuals’ work attitudes. The study considers these two factors in order to an...
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– This paper aims to determine the level of awareness and implementation of family‐responsible parameters: policies, enablers, practices, and culture, in Spanish and Latin‐American companies, and how they impact work‐life balance.
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– The study uses data from different national IESE's Family‐Responsible Employer I...
On suggère dans ce document, quelques intersections, pour avancer dans l'étude de la culture. 1) les liens entre économie politique, corporations internationales qui aident à déchiffrer la configuration de nouvelles modes de vie et de travail. 2) la dimention religieuse qui pénétre la culture latinoaméricaine et sans laquelle il est difficile de co...
It is a real irony that at a time when apparently business schools around the world are widely successful and accepted, the levels of criticism on the way business schools prepare and educate future and present managers have risen. In fact, the beginning of the new century brought with it a lot of strong disapproval by prominent scholars, professio...
La conciliación entre trabajo y familiapuede ser facilitada o diÞ cultadadesde la empresa. Las empresas soncada vez más conscientes de que elequilibrio personal repercute en elrendimiento y en la productividad.El artículo ofrece datos acerca dela situación actual de las empresascolombianas frente al tema de conciliación, trabajo y familia, de modoq...