La Spagna e la seconda guerra mondiale. Politica,ideologia e consenso nella stampa falangista (1939-1943)

La ricerca ricostruisce, attraverso lo spoglio sistematico dei principali quotidiani spagnoli ed una parallela ricerca di archivio, l'orientamento del regime franchista nella prima parte del secondo conflitto mondiale. sullo sfondo della irrisolta questione storiografica rispetto ad una adeguata collocazione della dittatura di Franco nello spettro delle esperienze totalitarie o autoritarie, viene messo in particolare risalto il punto di vista della Falange, con le sue aspirazioni totalitarie e la continua tensione fra le diverse anime del composito mosaico politico sociale che sostenne il Caudillo, assai abile nel trasformare questa debolezza intrinseca del suo regime nella condizione della propria indispensabilità come garante della vittoria della guerra civile contro la II Repubblica

How Does Positive Work-Related Stress Affect the Degree of Innovation Development?

Many studies sustain that work-related stress exerts pervasive consequences on the employees’ levels of performance, productivity, and wellbeing. However, it remains unclear whether certain levels of stress might lead to positive outcomes regarding employees’ innovativeness. Hence, this paper examines how the five dimensions of work-related stress impact on the employees’ levels of innovation performance. To this aim, this study focused on a sample of 1487 employees from six Italian companies. To test the research hypotheses under assessment, we relied on the use of the partial least squares (PLS) technique. Our results reveal that, in summary, the stressors job autonomy, job demands, and role ambiguity exert a positive and significant impact on the employees’ levels of innovativeness. However, this study failed to find evidence that the supervisors’ support–innovation and colleagues’ support–innovation links are not statistically significant. View Full-Tex

FROM ORGANIZATIONAL WELFARE TO BUSINESS SUCCESS: HIGHER PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

This e-book provides insight into the link between employee health and productivity/performance, with a focus on how individuals, groups, or organizations can intervene in this relationship to improve both well-being and performance-related outcomes. Given the continuous changes that organizations and employees face, such as the aging workforce and continued economic turbulence, it is not surprising that studies are increasingly finding that employee health is related to job conditions. The papers in this e-book emphasize that organizations make a critical difference when it comes to employees' health and well-being. In turn, healthy employees help their organizations to flourish. Such findings are in line with the recent emphasis by both the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) on the importance of work for individual well-being and the importance of individual well-being for productive and sustainable economic growth (see e.g., ILO, 1985; World Health Organisation, 2007; UN, 2015). Overall, the papers report findings from a cumulative sample of nearly 19,000 workers and perspectives from 68 authors. They suggest that performance cannot be successfully achieved at the cost of health and well-being, and provide various perspectives and tools to guide future research and practice

Editorial: Exploring social networks, competitive actions, and dynamic capabilities in organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed workplace relations (Stewart, 2021). For instance, employee relationships have weakened, while working at home has become the norm. Consequently, employee networks are continually changing firms’ dynamic capabilities and competitive actions. Organizational network competitive actions and dynamic capabilities are crucial for understanding how to effectively manage internal and external organizational networks, especially when many employees are working in a hybrid or offline environment. Integrating social networks, competitive actions, and dynamic capabilities is important to address the growing crises in our natural, social, economic, and political environments since many decisions made are based on self and collective interests through networks and dynamic capabilities in organizations. Furthermore, there is scant literature that examines social networks, competitive actions and dynamic capabilities together. In order to address this important and under explored area in the literature, the editors submitted this Research Topic. We accepted 9 manuscripts that cover social networks and dynamic capabilities with a strong focus on trust and collaboration, followed by competitive advantage. The contributions to this Research Topic and to the literature point to a number of key insights within mechanisms and structures of dynamic capabilities, social networks, and competitive advantage/actions

Could emotional intelligence ability predict salary? A cross-sectional study in a multioccupational sample

The study of emotional intelligence (EI) in work environments is a trending topic. However, few studies have examined the relationship between EI and salary. Therefore, the presented research aims to analyze the influence of EI on salary using a multioccupational sample. The participants were 785 subjects aged between 18 and 58 years (M = 39.41; SD = 10.95). EI ability was measured using the Mobile Emotional Intelligence Test (MEIT), while the salary was collected together with other sociodemographic variables in a questionnaire created ad hoc. After controlling for the age, gender, social class, educational level, and work experience variables, the results of correlation and regression analysis showed that participants with higher EI and emotional-repair capacity generally have higher salary. These findings provide preliminary evidence that EI is a relevant variable in achieving career success. The ability to channel and manage emotions could help employees develop stronger interpersonal relationships, leading to higher positions and greater financial compensation

Política de la supervivencia / Politics of Survival

Distintas intervenciones desde prácticas activistas y culturales en torno al VIH escenifican poéticas y políticas del resto corporal en las que se juegan, por un lado, una reorganización de los modos en que se dramatiza en umbral entre lo vivo y lo muerto en lo público ?redefiniendo así el tejido mismo de lo que llamamos ?comunidad??; y por otro, indican los modos en que estos activismos impulsan una disputa sobre los ?marcos de temporalización? desde los cuales lo viviente se vuelve reconocible políticamente y donde la noción de supervivencia adquiere una centralidad decisiva. Combinando materiales heterogéneos el artículo busca iluminar los modos en que los activismos y las culturas en torno al VIH configuran un terreno decisivo para pensar políticas de la supervivencia del presente. Palabras clave: VIH, ACT-UP, Supervivencia, Temporalidades, Biopolítica

Organizational Emotional Intelligence and Top Selling

The purpose of this study is to explore emotional intelligence in association with effective sales performance. The participants involved in this study were sellers in a home furniture company and completed a new tool measuring emotional intelligence at the beginning of their employment with the company. After four months, their volume of sales was calculated and compared with other results. Briefly, evidence from this study indicates that emotional intelligence skills are relevant in association with job performance, particularly relationship management and self-management. The final results support the main hypothesis. Subsequent implications for sales organizations and researchers are discussed