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The Challenge of Managing Knowledge Workers and Their Skills

2018

Knowledge workers are people with a high degree of expertise; education is the main purpose of their jobs, which includes the processes of creation, distribution, and application of knowledge. One of the major challenges for today’s managers is to find the right tools to manage knowledge workers and measure their performance individually. The increased demand for employees who know how to use their professional skills and their talent to perform complex tasks within the organization has led to the emergence of opportunities, as well as challenges. The aim of this article is to identify and present what are the key skills of knowledge workers and what makes them so difficult to be managed by…

Analysing the Impact of the Glass Ceiling in a Managerial Career: The Case of Spain

2021

The need to break down the barriers facing women in the labour market arouses great interest for reasons of social and sustainability justice. This study breaks new ground on the topic of the “glass ceiling” by assessing the evolution of gender inequality in the proportion of individuals reaching high managerial positions. The application of the csQCA method to a survey of two cohorts of Spanish graduates in management sharing the same starting conditions reveals two factors: job variety and additional education, as conditions that are usually present in a successful managerial career. Our findings confirm the prevalence of the gender gap with little progress in recent years. Women find it …

Il mercato del lavoro agricolo e la formazione professionalizzante

2021

Questo volume nasce dalla necessità di offrire una lettura aggiornata, contemporanea appunto, delle peculiari regole che tradizionalmente han- no attribuito al Diritto agrario un carattere di specialità. Facciamo riferimento alle norme che in un’ottica di programmazione di un settore produttivo peculiare disciplinano l’impresa agricola, la proprietà terriera, i contratti agrari, il lavoro agricolo, il credito agrario, il mercato dei prodotti agricoli. Regole la cui chiave di lettura è sempre passata dalla considerazione dell’esistenza di un legame stretto tra “agricoltura” e “terra”, considerazione che non riteniamo superata, ma piuttosto aggiornata, dalle numerose innovazioni legislati…

Lavoro e diritto penale

2021

A linguistic Insight into Legislative Drafting. Tradition and Change in the UK Legislation

2023

The main assumption proposed in this book is that legislative drafting represents an example of professional discourse, where the propositions of specialized information is translated into meanings, and such meanings are given as input to the rules and strategies of grammatical formulation. A relevant question for our understanding of modern legislative process is related to the effects of ‘context’ at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. By looking at those levels, the analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to reach a deeper understanding of the professional groups taking part in the process, better assess the lexico-grammatical and …

Promoting mentalizing in organisations through learning operative groups

2021

Current and pressing scientific and technological changes are producing drastic transformations within organisations, creating anxiety and uncertainty and inhibiting the reflective function of the workers who experience conditions of senselessness and estrangement from their work. This article presents a case study from learning operative group training sessions aimed to promote the identity work through the (re)activation of the reflective function towards the definition of new shared meanings. As part of a broader organisational development process, group training sessions based on learning operative groups were arranged in order to offer participants a group reflective space in which eac…

PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE FOR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION INTO THE LABOUR MARKET

2019

Good knowledge of a foreign language is an important factor contributing to the professional recognition and career prospects. In order to improve professional foreign language competence, the study of the situation in professional foreign language teaching and learning was carried out in three business sectors: logistics, transport, service industry. The survey was carried among three target groups: employers, foreign language teachers and students. Employers were asked to name language skills which employees need most to perform work, to express an opinion on the role of employers in the English language learning process as well as to identify topics, most common words, phrases, or specif…

'Legal Education in China: the Emerging of a Legal Profession? A Weberian Perspective'

2015

Latvijas Bibliotekāru biedrība un profesionālie pieredzes apmaiņas pasākumi kopš darbības atjaunošanas

2019

Pētījuma “Latvijas Bibliotekāru biedrība un profesionālie pieredzes apmaiņas pasākumi kopš darbības atjaunošanas” mērķis ir izpētīt LBB organizētos profesionālos pieredzes apmaiņas pasākumus, to tematiku un apmeklētību laika posmā no darbības atjaunošanas 1989. gadā līdz 2018. gadam, jo plaši pieejamā apkopojošā informācija ir nepietiekama. Bakalaura darbs izstrādāts, pētot mācīšanās, sociālo tīklu un tās atzara – sociālā kapitāla – teorijas, analizējot iepriekš veiktus tematiski saistītus pētījumus un veicot LBB pārstāvju intervijas, arhīva dokumentu un nozares publikāciju analīzi un LBB pasākuma apmeklētāju anketēšanu, kā rezultātā apkopoti un analizēti LBB un tās reģionālo nodaļu un tema…

Court Interpreting 2009: an undervalued and misunderstood profession? Or: will justice speak?

2010

The article addresses a number of topical issues relating to court interpreting. After examining a number of issues discussed among US interpreters in July 2009, it considers the provision of court interpreting in a number of different English-speaking jurisdictions, including the position of agencies. It presents the cost of a lack of judicial awareness of the issues involved in providing competent interpreting in legal proceedings, and looks at how rare languages are dealt with in the United States. It examines best practice and how this can quickly turn into worst practice. It considers the situation in Canada’s Province of Ontario, where a class action has been brought against the Minis…