Pasión por el Trabajo: Evidencias de Validez Discriminante, Predictiva e Incremental

El objetivo de este estudio fue establecer la validez discriminante, predictiva e incremental de la pasión por el trabajo respecto a los constructos de flow, implicación y satisfacción laboral, respectivamente. Se realizó un estudio empírico-instrumental con una muestra no probabilística (510 trabajadores, 54% mujeres). Análisis de ecuaciones estructurales exploratorios (ESEM) mostraron saturaciones cruzadas inferiores a .30 y un adecuado ajuste de un modelo hepta-factorial oblicuo (GFI= .92, CFI= .90, TLI= .91, RMSEA=.04). Los valores de varianza media extraída, de su raíz cuadrada y de la proporción heterorasgo-monorasgo indicaron capacidad de discriminación entre los constructos (AVE > .50; √AVE 0.50; √AVE 0,50; √AVE < r; HTMT < 0,90) indicaram capacidade discriminante entre os conceitos. Análises de regressão múltipla hierárquica confirmaram a contribuição significativa da paixão na explicação da satisfação (paixão harmoniosa: β = 0,49, t = 10,96, p = 0,000; paixão obsessiva: β = 0,15, t = 3,82, p = 0,000; F(6.503) = 91,87, p = 0,000; R2 = 0,579). Os resultados demostraram que a paixão pelo trabalho é um constructo teórica e empiricamente diferente, capaz de explicar atitudes organizacionalmente relevantes.Fil: Salessi, Solana Magalí. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Instituto de Investigaciones; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Omar, Alicia Graciela. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Instituto de Investigaciones; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentin

Impact of management practices on job satisfaction

Purpose: 1. to evaluate the effect of five human resource management practices (HRMP) oriented towards results, employees, rigid systems, permanent recruitment of new markets, and open systems on job satis faction of employees; 2. to analyze whether perceptions of organizational justice act as mediators in such relationships. Originality/value: clarifying the mechanisms through which HRMP influence desirable organizational outcomes, such as job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: a quantitative and transversal study, framed within the guidelines of the associative-explanatory strategy, was carried out. A theoretical model was proposed and tested through structural equations, with confirmatory modeling strategy. The empirical verification was performed with a sample of 557 Argentine employees, who completed the scales of HRMP (25 items); Generic Work Satisfaction (7 items), and Organizational Justice (20 items). Findings: the HRMP that generate the greatest satisfaction among workers are those oriented to employees, and to open systems. Perceptions of justice partially mediate the relationships between HRMP and worker satisfaction

Unfinished imagined communities: States, social movements, and nationalism in Latin America

This article addresses two shortcomings in the literature on nationalism: the need to theorize transformations of nationalism, and the relative absence of comparative works on Latin America. We propose a state-focused theoretical framework, centered on conflicts between states elites and social movements, for explaining transformations of nationalism. Different configurations of four key factors - the mobilization of excluded elites and subordinate actors, state elites' political control, the ideological capacities of states, and polarization around ethnoracial cleavages - shape how contrasting trajectories of nationalism unfold over time. A comparative analysis of early- and mid-twentieth century Mexico, Argentina, and Peru illustrates the explanatory power of our theoretical framework. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006