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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Cuomo Simona

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Benatti Marianna

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Ruta Dino

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, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Ruta Dino, Antonelli Luca

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.

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/4) Billari Francesco C.

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Militello Elena, Mirabile Mario

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,” ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Opper Sonja

The Myth of Guanxi: What We Really Know

Doing business in China is difficult, but there seems to be an essential element: guanxi. Guanxi means particularly precious relationships with the principal decision-makers and gatekeepers. A guanxi offers preferential treatment in bureaucratic decisions and gives access to greater business opportunities. It allows for accessing resources on little liberalized markets, such as capital and land in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Perretti Fabrizio

Goodbye Workers?

This dossier is dedicated to work, and more specifically to workers in businesses and organizations in a broad sense. “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary. In its place people speak of “human resources” and “human capital,” and no longer of “employees” but “associates.” Yet we ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Perretti Fabrizio

Celebrating Heroes: On Rewards in Corporations

A fundamental part of our social life is based on the universal need to have the respect, esteem and approval of the people around us. Public prizes and awards are some of the instruments that carry out this important social function. Initially limited to situations outside of employment fields not driven by commercial logic (sports, culture, civil and military valor), prizes and public awards of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2015/05) Soda Giuseppe, Gomez Solòrzano Manuel David

Using social network analysis and network “numbers” to disentangle complexity

In questo numero Giuseppe Soda e Manuel David Gomez Solòrzano, dopo averci introdotto alla social network analysis, così da capire come si interpretano i numeri di questa metodologia, ci sorprendono con alcuni risultati relativi alle motivazioni degli employees e al knowledge sharing. Per esempio, si è più propensi a ricevere conoscenza da quanti hanno un ruolo inspirational, anche se in assenza ...