Italian Abstract: A dispetto della sua diffusione e dell'importanza per l'economia mondiale, il family business non è ancora stato studiato in tutti i suoi aspetti. Anche un tema ampiamente discusso come il passaggio generazionale presenta lacune nel campo della ricerca scientifica, sia a...

This paper explores the relationship between flexibility and skills development: the initial hypothesis was that precariousness and flexibility had a negative correlation with the opportunity to develop professional skills. Rather surprisingly, in Italy it seems that being employed on contracts...

Le imprese sono interessate alla soddisfazione lavorativa dei propri dipendenti poiché tale soddisfazione è positivamente correlata con alcuni esiti desiderati, in particolare la riduzione del tasso di assenteismo e del turn over lavorativo. Questo articolo presenta e discute i risultati di...

Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes and contributes to reduce significantly the rate of absenteeism and job turnover. Job satisfaction...

This publication was produced by a job on a bilateral basis within the project MEC-LAB: "The new frontiers of automation - training days for employees seniors”. This work has allowed a theoretical study and moments of reflection on skills, negotiation, career plans, highlighting the centrality...

Action research described in this article has produced a first integrated set of actions to lay the foundations for local development cooperative. In particular, we sought to broaden and strengthen the network of actors (institutions, associations, businesses, education, training institutions)...

The purpose of this article is to present preliminary findings of a research on job satisfaction in relation to a professional profile (the nurse), analyzing aspects of work that can be identified as antecedents according to their correlation with greater satisfaction as a whole. This research...

The present action-research investigated the state of the art in connection to the planning of the vocational training and built a model of good praxis to develop such practices. The search is itself carried out through interviews to entrepreneurs, trade unions, technicians of the vocational...

Purpose Drawing on Bandura’s social learning theory (SLT), the purpose of this paper is to investigate, analytically, the impact that after-training skills level (i.e. perceived skill match) has on change self-efficacy. Moreover, this research also aims to identify which specific skills sets...

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...