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Managing Disability Beyond the Stigma
In Italy, the degree of adoption of policies and practices on the subject of disability is still low. The few cases of success are determined more by personal factors (individual motivations) and contingent factors (a good boss, sensitive colleagues), than by the systematic efforts of HR and organizations. This shows that businesses are neither equipped in terms of knowledge and skills to manage the ...
Where Resistance Lurks
Some investigations show that only 20.7 percent of Italian businesses have adopted at least one non-legally mandatory measure with the aim of managing and promoting diversity among workers. This is a sign that the issue of "diversity and inclusion" still has difficulty entering the agendas of personnel directors and managing directors.#Faced with the possibility that a stigmatized group can threaten ...
Business Leadership and the Rise in Levels of Conflict
Even before the outbreak of the pandemic, a need was evident in organizations to structure the relations between management and their collaborators differently, abandoning the old top-down, control-centered management of relationships. To manage the rise of internal conflict and improve organizational and productive processes, businesses are increasingly turning to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms ...
High-Impact Leadership: The (Hidden) Power of the Relationship
The difficultly some leaders have in making the most of the human factor can be traced to the way they interpret the relationship with their associates. Positive leadership – understood as the process through which a leader achieves results and generates value with people – is able to promote engagement in individuals and psychological security in teams. A positive leader guides people investing ...
Enemy Number One: Rhetoric
In recent years, the label of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) is gradually substituting that of Diversity Management, including in managerial practice. The concept of inclusion stresses the importance of recovering the ethical dimension within discourse on diversity, a passage that in the context of the broader reflection on corporate social responsibility, underscores how companies have great responsibility ...
Bringing Employee Well-Being Back to the Center of Business
Well-being, understood as a strategy aimed at improving people's conditions in a holistic sense (physical, mental, and social), has been proven to be a priority for businesses. In Italy alone, in the past year 63 percent of companies have implemented well-being practices to allow workers to better integrate personal and professional life. Having an effective program for employee well-being offers ...
A Model of Sports Between Olympic Spirit and (Hyper) Professionalism
Sport represents a complex and varied set of meanings and values: it is a game, competition, show, but also respect for diversity, inclusion, and culture in the broadest sense of the term. These characteristics concern sports in its professional sense, where they are differentiated according to different cultural and social models, whose differences, especially in the field of football, are evident, ...
Athletes and Careers: The Game Is Played Off the Field Too
The athlete is the protagonist of all aspects of a sports discipline - competitive, social, and economic. However, an athlete's career is built on acquiring skills that accompany them in their professional pathway. Post-career planning should be established from the early stages of their sports journey.
Milan’s Olympic Ambitions Reach New Heights
The Olympics are an extraordinary opportunity for social, cultural, and economic growth for the countries that host them. The year 2026 marks the Winter Olympics, where Milan and Cortina will play a significant role in an important moment of visibility with tangible impacts, measurable in quantitative terms, and intangible values, equally significant for the event's success and the reputation of the ...
Smart Work, the South, and Internal Areas for Local Development
Prior to the pandemic, “smart work” involved only a limited part of the working population. Following the cultural, economic, and social upheaval caused by Covid-19, this mode of work suddenly took on great interest for the media, institutions, workers, businesses, and civil society. At the start of the pandemic, a group of young Southern Italians created the phenomenon of “South Working,” ...