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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Bagdadli Silvia, Gianecchini Martina

Career Progression in Italy: Old Paths, New Tensions

Over the last decade, the world economy has lived through big transformations, that have had repercussions on businesses with phenomena such as outsourcing, downsizing, and organizational flattening, to name a few. Working relationships have become less long-lasting, with a steady increase in temporary contracts, supported also by digital platforms. These transformations have had a significant impact ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Manzoni Beatrice, Magni Federico

What Different Generations Want from Employers

Today, at least three different generations work together at companies: the famous Millennials (between 23 and 39 years old), the Baby Boomers on their way out (between 59 and 73) and Gen X (between 40 and 58), a sandwich generation stuck between the other two, despite being the most important in numerical terms. Examining differences (including generational differences) is important to design effective ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Amendola Eugenio

Hunting Talent with Employer Branding

In the past it was decidedly easier for a company searching for talent to find people due to a stronger position on the labor market. Today seeking and keeping talented resources has become perceived not only as particularly important, but also as difficult to achieve. The reasons for this reversal are to be attributed to radical changes in the labor market in the past twenty years. Employer branding ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Alberti Duccio, Baruffaldi Laura, Panigati Simone, Pinucci Isabella

How To Get To The Top. A Profile of Italian CEOs

A survey on the careers of Italian CEOS can help whoever wants to develop their career or change direction so as to take the right steps to achieve their objective. A SDA Bocconi study highlights that the job market for corporation chiefs in Italy remains conservative for the moment. When it comes to appointing the head of a company, shareholders tend to choose fifty-year-old men who have had a stable ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Leonardi Matilde, Guastafierro Erika, Scaratti Chiara, Toppo Claudia, Silvaggi Fabiola

Managing Chronic Diseases in the Workplace

The ageing of the population and the constant progress of medicine and scientific research mean that a growing number of people of working age live with one or more chronic diseases. Chronic diseases not only impact health care and welfare systems, but also the organization of work in the single companies that must manage the presence or return to work of a workforce with health problems. Demographic ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Gramano Elena

Dismissals in Italy: Regulations and Good Practice

Dismissal is a delicate moment in the life of a worker, who suffers from the employer’s decision to end the agreement between them. But it is also a delicate moment for a Company, whose functioning is based on human capital and must therefore handle its relationships with its employees appropriately, even in the most difficult phases.#Dismissal is surrounded by a series of limits, of both a substantive ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) De Stefano Federica

Human Resources in the Time of People Analytics

By People Analytics (or HR Analytics) is meant the use of data to advance how organizations make decisions about people, and help leaders operate based on evidence rather than intuition. Given the increasing availability and granularity of data on employees that has characterized the last decade, the interest of managers, consultants, and academics for the use of People Analytics in the management ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Basaglia Stefano, Simonella Zenia

Looking Back over the Magazine’s First Thirty Years

Between 1988 and 2018 Economia & Management changed, reflecting the changing socio-economic context of Italy, its publishers, its directors. What changed was the subject matter covered, but not the importance placed on businesses and on the management of all institutions. As a “bridge journal” spanning academia and practice, connected with a business school, Economia & Management contributes to ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Amatori Franco

Searching for European Capitalism

Contractual cooperation, family management of businesses, the entrepreneurial state and the presence of a labor movement with a leading role in political and social life; these are the four pillars of European capitalism, the common denominators of certain importance. However, after the mid-20th Century, they were overwhelmed by three waves: the Americanization resulting from the Marshall Plan, the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Reviglio Edoardo

The Virtues of the Social Market Economy

At the end of the Second World War, the attempts by the United States to export its model of capitalism to Europe ran up against the economic and social structures present in the countries of the Old Continent. However, following the crisis of the 1970s and the start of the process of privatization, a deep Americanization of European capitalism began, initially led by merchant banks and consulting ...