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Prof. Amelia Manuti
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"

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Concept paper
Published: 17 August 2021 in Behavioral Sciences
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The ongoing epidemiological crisis has suddenly steered us towards a new futuristic work scenario in which most service sector employees work remotely, which could be a permanent reality for most service sector employees. This paper focuses on the strategic role that leadership could play in the radical change process that is taking place in work environments. Particular attention was paid to the role of ‘middle managers’ who perform an important function as a link between the strategic vision of top management and the workforce. In addition, special attention was paid to gender differences in work-life dynamics, which are particularly relevant in countries with traditional cultural identities. As this is a conceptual contribution, the most recent studies on this specific role of middle managers have been taken into account and embedded in the current scenario. Therefore, the main contribution in terms of originality was that the current review aimed to leverage such a legacy of knowledge and create a system of evidence-based practical implications for effectively supporting change in organizational culture through the identification of the most appropriate middle management leadership models for remote working that could prevent and/or limit any psychosocial risks (e.g., workaholism and technostress) and longer-term outcomes such as sustainable work-life interface.

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Paola Spagnoli; Amelia Manuti; Carmela Buono; Chiara Ghislieri. The Good, the Bad and the Blend: The Strategic Role of the “Middle Leadership” in Work-Family/Life Dynamics during Remote Working. Behavioral Sciences 2021, 11, 112 .

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Paola Spagnoli, Amelia Manuti, Carmela Buono, Chiara Ghislieri. The Good, the Bad and the Blend: The Strategic Role of the “Middle Leadership” in Work-Family/Life Dynamics during Remote Working. Behavioral Sciences. 2021; 11 (8):112.

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Paola Spagnoli; Amelia Manuti; Carmela Buono; Chiara Ghislieri. 2021. "The Good, the Bad and the Blend: The Strategic Role of the “Middle Leadership” in Work-Family/Life Dynamics during Remote Working." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 8: 112.

Journal article
Published: 08 April 2021 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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During the first months of 2020, the world, and Italy at an early stage, went through the COVID-19 emergency that had a great impact on individual and collective health, but also on working processes. The mandatory remote working and the constant use of technology for employees raised different implications related to technostress and psycho-physical disorders. This study aimed to detect, in such a period of crisis and changes, the role of organizational communication considering the mediating role of both technostress and self-efficacy, with psycho-physical disorders as outcome. The research involved 530 workers working from home. A Structural Equations Model was estimated, revealing that organizational communication is positively associated with self-efficacy and negatively with technostress and psycho-physical disorders. As mediators, technostress is positively associated with psycho-physical disorders, whereas self-efficacy is negatively associated. As regards mediated effects, results showed negative associations between organizational communication and psycho-physical disorders through both technostress and self-efficacy. This study highlighted the potential protective role of organizational communication that could buffer the effect of technostress and enhance a personal resource, self-efficacy, which is functional to the reduction of psycho-physical disorders. This study contributed to literature underlying the role of communication in the current crisis and consequent reorganization of the working processes.

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Margherita Zito; Emanuela Ingusci; Claudio Cortese; Maria Giancaspro; Amelia Manuti; Monica Molino; Fulvio Signore; Vincenzo Russo. Does the End Justify the Means? The Role of Organizational Communication among Work-from-Home Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 3933 .

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Margherita Zito, Emanuela Ingusci, Claudio Cortese, Maria Giancaspro, Amelia Manuti, Monica Molino, Fulvio Signore, Vincenzo Russo. Does the End Justify the Means? The Role of Organizational Communication among Work-from-Home Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (8):3933.

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Margherita Zito; Emanuela Ingusci; Claudio Cortese; Maria Giancaspro; Amelia Manuti; Monica Molino; Fulvio Signore; Vincenzo Russo. 2021. "Does the End Justify the Means? The Role of Organizational Communication among Work-from-Home Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 8: 3933.

Original research article
Published: 01 March 2021 in Frontiers in Psychology
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Over the last decades, consistent research showed that voluntary work could be considered as a tool for professional development and concrete employment: volunteering could be either experienced as a desire to improve career opportunities or to acquire new skills. The study aimed to investigate voluntary work as a context of informal and non-formal workplace learning and vocational guidance, useful to develop skills and abilities, namely the capital of personal and social resources, that could promote future employability. Participants were 38 young volunteers who experienced the Universal Civil Service, a national Italian program addressed to young people aged up to 28 years, giving them both the opportunity to engage in social activities useful for the community and have the first contact with a working context. In line with the objectives of the study, participants were invited to describe their volunteering experience in a diary, highlighting if and to what extent this context contributed to enhancing their employability capital, namely the asset of skills, knowledge, and networks acquired, that they could transfer to a future professional domain. The narrative data collected were examined through diatextual analysis, a specific address of discourse analysis designed to catch the relationship between enunciators, text, and context of the talk. This qualitative analysis allowed us to investigate the meanings young people attributed to these activities. In light of these results, the paper contributed to investigate volunteers’ perceptions about the conditions that could best foster this specific kind of workplace informal and non-formal learning and at proposing a qualitative perspective on the analysis of the employability capital they developed.

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Maria Luisa Giancaspro; Amelia Manuti. Learning to Be Employable Through Volunteering: A Qualitative Study on the Development of Employability Capital of Young People. Frontiers in Psychology 2021, 12, 1 .

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Maria Luisa Giancaspro, Amelia Manuti. Learning to Be Employable Through Volunteering: A Qualitative Study on the Development of Employability Capital of Young People. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021; 12 ():1.

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Maria Luisa Giancaspro; Amelia Manuti. 2021. "Learning to Be Employable Through Volunteering: A Qualitative Study on the Development of Employability Capital of Young People." Frontiers in Psychology 12, no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2020 in East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
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In the evolutionary context of Industry 4.0, where machine learning and machine to machine technology are powerful tools for the maintenance and replicability of knowledge, the implementation of hybrid systems based on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents the key to organizational innovation and to the capitalization of knowledge. At the same time, the benefits of digital transformation for individuals and teams are often not so clear - and uncertainty surrounding the future often results in fear in those being impacted. Fear of changes to their job, fear of a job role change, job losses, being faced with learning new skills, new technology or new ways of working. Therefore, to secure the transition to the digitization organizations need to carefully support their human resources and to provide them with the reasons why they need to commit to change. In this perspective, the study aimed to investigate how high-qualified knowledge workers cope with this new situation. Yet, participants were a group of project managers, employed in some knowledge-based organizations, in which AI and digitalization systems are going to be introduced to improve replicability, circulation and storage of knowledge. The choice of this peculiar target of participants was guided by the acknowledgement of their important role within the organization, being project managers generally considered as agents of change. In view of the above, the main goal was to collect project managers’ expectations and fears about the upcoming integration of secularized company flows with performing process automation strategies. In-depth individual interviews were conducted and diatextual analysis was used to approach the discursive data collected. Results showed interesting insights both in terms of organizational management implications as well as of future research development. Participants showed clear awareness about the need to “go digital” to improve organizational performance and to stay competitive. However, they underlined the importance of parallel invest on human capital, improving crucial soft skills such as: openness to change, flexibility and the ability to work in a team, that could concretely support digital changes in procedures and work processes.

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Amelia Manuti; Dalila Monachino. Managing Knowledge at the Time of Artificial Intelligence: An Explorative Study with Knowledge Workers. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 2020, 7, 1 .

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Amelia Manuti, Dalila Monachino. Managing Knowledge at the Time of Artificial Intelligence: An Explorative Study with Knowledge Workers. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics. 2020; 7 (2):1.

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Amelia Manuti; Dalila Monachino. 2020. "Managing Knowledge at the Time of Artificial Intelligence: An Explorative Study with Knowledge Workers." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 7, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 07 December 2020 in Sustainability
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Sustainable human resource management practices represent one of the main organizational strategy to survive and to prosper within the fast-moving current scenario. According to this view, sustainability is strictly linked to the consideration of the unique and distinctive value that each human resource means for organizations. The recent COVID19 pandemic is having a serious impact on organizations and on their employees, it is profoundly changing the working modalities, mainly introducing smart working practices that were showed to have significant consequences on workers’ wellbeing. This study aims to investigate employees’ perception of sustainable HRM in the frame of the COVID19 emergency, exploring if and to what extent perceptions of involvement and organizational support together with individual coping strategies associated with organizational change could influence positive organizational behaviors, namely organizational engagement and extra-role behavior. The research involved 549 participants who completed a self-report online questionnaire encompassing psycho-social measures of the abovementioned variables. Results confirmed the important role played by sustainable HRM practices both for the capitalization of human resources and of organizational performance in a time of great uncertainty and global crisis. Implications for theory and HRM practice development were also discussed.

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Amelia Manuti; Maria Giancaspro; Monica Molino; Emanuela Ingusci; Vincenzo Russo; Fulvio Signore; Margherita Zito; Claudio Cortese. “Everything Will Be Fine”: A Study on the Relationship between Employees’ Perception of Sustainable HRM Practices and Positive Organizational Behavior during COVID19. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10216 .

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Amelia Manuti, Maria Giancaspro, Monica Molino, Emanuela Ingusci, Vincenzo Russo, Fulvio Signore, Margherita Zito, Claudio Cortese. “Everything Will Be Fine”: A Study on the Relationship between Employees’ Perception of Sustainable HRM Practices and Positive Organizational Behavior during COVID19. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):10216.

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Amelia Manuti; Maria Giancaspro; Monica Molino; Emanuela Ingusci; Vincenzo Russo; Fulvio Signore; Margherita Zito; Claudio Cortese. 2020. "“Everything Will Be Fine”: A Study on the Relationship between Employees’ Perception of Sustainable HRM Practices and Positive Organizational Behavior during COVID19." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 10216.

Chapter
Published: 25 October 2020 in Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being
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In recent years, most countries have been involved into a process of social and cultural integration because of an increasing global immigration. A context where this process becomes more visible is the workplace where migrant workers might be seen in two different ways. On the one hand, when high-skilled they are considered as precious resources that could contribute to the organizational success. On the other hand, when low-skilled, migrant workers often undergo a process of discrimination that if lucky gives them the opportunity to work as manual labourers. This happens mainly because even if most migrants are educated and skilled workers with many years of experience in a specific professional field, they often cannot formally certify their knowledge, because of the difficult life, political and religious conditions that have led them to leave their country. Consequently, organizations cannot fully exploit their huge potential. Given the evidence that knowledge is a precious intangible asset that can make the difference on the market, organizations need to recognize the added value that migrants might bring in terms of strategic performance. In this vein, a crucial role is played by the Human Resource function since it can contribute to design and promote working contexts and practices addressed to support migrants in transferring their prior expertise and in using this knowledge to develop new core skills in the workplace. This becomes a priority to align the peculiar potentialities of migrants with those of their colleagues in line with the wider organizational demands. At a larger extent this effort is mainly consistent with the people-based approach to Strategic Human Resource Management described in the chapter.

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Amelia Manuti. Migrants’ Human Capital in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities for a People-Based Strategic Human Resource Management. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being 2020, 43 -59.

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Amelia Manuti. Migrants’ Human Capital in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities for a People-Based Strategic Human Resource Management. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being. 2020; ():43-59.

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Amelia Manuti. 2020. "Migrants’ Human Capital in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities for a People-Based Strategic Human Resource Management." Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being , no. : 43-59.

Arena of health
Published: 01 September 2020 in Human Arenas
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In line with the general aims of scientific textuality, research papers in the biomedical and psychiatric academic domains mostly attempt to demonstrate the validity of their assumptions and to contrast with the sense of uncertainty that sometimes frames their conclusions. Moving from this premise, the present paper aimed to focus on these features and to investigate if and the extent to which biomedical and psychiatric texts convey different social-epistemic rhetoric of uncertainty. In view of this, a qualitative study was conducted adopting diatextual analysis to investigate a corpus of 298 scientific articles taken from the British Medical Journal and from the British Journal of Psychiatry published in 2013. Our analytical approach led to identifying two different types of social-epistemic rhetoric. The first one was mostly oriented to “describing” the world, accounting for the body-mind nexus as conceptualized within the “medical” point of view. On the other hand, the second one was oriented to “interpreting” the world, debating the problematic and critical features of the body-mind relationship as developed within the psychiatry discursive realm.

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Amelia Manuti; Giuseppe Mininni; Rosa Scardigno; Ignazio Grattagliano. Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: a Diatextual Analysis. Human Arenas 2020, 1 -23.

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Amelia Manuti, Giuseppe Mininni, Rosa Scardigno, Ignazio Grattagliano. Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: a Diatextual Analysis. Human Arenas. 2020; ():1-23.

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Amelia Manuti; Giuseppe Mininni; Rosa Scardigno; Ignazio Grattagliano. 2020. "Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: a Diatextual Analysis." Human Arenas , no. : 1-23.

Journal article
Published: 23 July 2020 in Sustainability
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During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work from home. Thus, the use of remote working increased during the pandemic and is expected to maintain high levels of application even after the emergency. Despite its benefits for both organizations and workers, remote working entails negative consequences, such as technostress. The present study had a double aim: to test the psychometric characteristics of the Italian translation of the brief version of the technostress creators scale and to apply the scale to investigate technostress during the Covid-19 emergency. The research involved 878 participants for the first study and 749 participants for the second one; they completed a self-report online questionnaire. Results confirmed the three-factor structure of the Italian technostress creators scale and highlighted positive relationships between workload, techno-stressors, work–family conflict and behavioural stress. The role of remote working conditions has been analysed as well. The study provided a useful tool for the investigation of technostress in the Italian context. Moreover, it provided indications for practice in the field of remote working and workers’ wellbeing.

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Monica Molino; Emanuela Ingusci; Fulvio Signore; Amelia Manuti; Maria Giancaspro; Vincenzo Russo; Margherita Zito; Claudio Cortese. Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5911 .

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Monica Molino, Emanuela Ingusci, Fulvio Signore, Amelia Manuti, Maria Giancaspro, Vincenzo Russo, Margherita Zito, Claudio Cortese. Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):5911.

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Monica Molino; Emanuela Ingusci; Fulvio Signore; Amelia Manuti; Maria Giancaspro; Vincenzo Russo; Margherita Zito; Claudio Cortese. 2020. "Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 5911.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2020 in East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
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A common ground between mental health and judicial-legal domains concerns concepts like “care”, “control” and “possibility to foresee” human behaviour, with particular reference to the “social dangerousness”. The connections between these sense-making practices can be traced by discursive modulation of “certainty/uncertainty”. This study aimed to highlight the discursive peculiarities of a specific socio-cultural context and genre, namely scientific papers. The corpus of data consisted in a selection of 30 papers published by the BJP (from 1975 to 2015), on subjects concerning forensic psychiatry, subjected to Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Results showed that the papers adopted two main socio-epistemic rhetorics. On one side, the enunciators proceeded in an “assertive” and rigorous manner through a social-epistemic rhetoric of “reassurance”; on the other side, they gave voice to rhetoric of the “limit”, lacking any cognitive “closure”. References Bakhtin, M.M. 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Clinical and actuarial predictions of violence. In D. Faigman, D. Kaye & M. Saxs (Eds.) Modern scientific evidence: the law and science of expert testimony (pp. 300-318). New York: West. Mullen, P. (2000). Forensic mental health. British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, 307-311. Rasanen, P., Tiihonen, J., Isohanni, M. (1998). Schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and violent behaviour: A 26-year follow-up study of an unselected birth cohort. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 24, 437-41. Salvatore, S., Gelo, O.C., Gennaro, A., Metrangolo, R., Terrone, G., Pace, V., Venuleo, C., Venezia, A., & Ciavolino, E. (2017). An automated method of content analysis for psychotherapy research: A further validation. Psychotherapy Research, 27 (1),38–50. Salvatore, S., & Valsiner, J. (2011). Idiographic science as a nonexisting object: The importance of the reality of the dynamic system. In S. Salvatore, J. Valsiner, A. Gennaro, & J.B. Travers...

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Rosa Scardigno; Ignazio Grattagliano; Amelia Manuti; Giuseppe Mininni. The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 2020, 7, 1 .

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Rosa Scardigno, Ignazio Grattagliano, Amelia Manuti, Giuseppe Mininni. The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics. 2020; 7 (1):1.

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Rosa Scardigno; Ignazio Grattagliano; Amelia Manuti; Giuseppe Mininni. 2020. "The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 7, no. 1: 1.

Original article
Published: 12 October 2019 in International Journal of Training and Development
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This article reports the development and initial validation of a multidimensional measure of employability based on the theoretical model of Lo Presti and Pluviano (2016). Four different studies were designed and implemented. Study 1 was a qualitative study that involved a group of 15 labour market experts and aimed at developing the items pool. In Study 2, an exploratory factor analysis of 526 employees was carried out to examine the structure of the employability measure as previously obtained. Study 3 aimed at verifying the employability measure that had emerged from Study 2 through confirmatory factor analysis of 699 employees, resulting in a 28‐item shortened version encompassing the original four employability dimensions. Finally, in Study 4, concurrent and predictive validity of the definitive version of the employability measure were tested on a sample of 712 employees. Implications for vocational guidance and human resource management, as well as future employability research, are discussed.

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Alessandro Lo Presti; Emanuela Ingusci; Maria Elena Magrin; Amelia Manuti; Fabrizio Scrima. Employability as a compass for career success: development and initial validation of a new multidimensional measure. International Journal of Training and Development 2019, 23, 253 -275.

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Alessandro Lo Presti, Emanuela Ingusci, Maria Elena Magrin, Amelia Manuti, Fabrizio Scrima. Employability as a compass for career success: development and initial validation of a new multidimensional measure. International Journal of Training and Development. 2019; 23 (4):253-275.

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Alessandro Lo Presti; Emanuela Ingusci; Maria Elena Magrin; Amelia Manuti; Fabrizio Scrima. 2019. "Employability as a compass for career success: development and initial validation of a new multidimensional measure." International Journal of Training and Development 23, no. 4: 253-275.

Book chapter
Published: 19 September 2019 in Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World
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Parallel to the huge cultural, economic and social revolution of the social systems, currently even working organizations are experiencing a time of radical change. They are called to face all the challenges brought about by globalization, technology and the advent of a growing diverse workforce and to keep in the market as well. That is why they are becoming more and more demanding in terms of soft skills required to workers to perform efficiently, beyond role prescriptions and technical requirements. In view of this, an imperative for both research and professional practice in the field of education is to help individuals to recognize, capitalize and manage their learning, marking the difference in terms of human capital. Given these premises, the aim of the chapter is to argue for the need to integrate formal with informal learning in higher education enhancing learning methodologies that could better serve self-directed learning and self-management skills. This priority is even more urgent in consideration of the peculiarities, needs and expectations of the new generation of students that is currently experiencing the transition from education to work, the Millennials.

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Amelia Manuti. Integrating formal and informal learning to develop self-management skills: Challenges and opportunities for higher education in the university-to-work transition. Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World 2019, 168 -178.

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Amelia Manuti. Integrating formal and informal learning to develop self-management skills: Challenges and opportunities for higher education in the university-to-work transition. Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World. 2019; ():168-178.

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Amelia Manuti. 2019. "Integrating formal and informal learning to develop self-management skills: Challenges and opportunities for higher education in the university-to-work transition." Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World , no. : 168-178.

Journal article
Published: 07 May 2019 in Career Development International
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Purpose The increasing flexibility and discontinuity of labor relations have been associated with the development of new forms of psychological contracts as well as the development of more self-directed and mobile career attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the forms of psychological contract and protean/boundaryless career attitudes on the one hand and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) on the other. Design/methodology/approach In total, 458 employees of three large Italian organizations were sampled through a self-report questionnaire. Zero-order correlations were carried out to examine the associations between study variables while dominance analysis, along with multiple linear regression, was used for evaluating their unique contribution with respect to OCB. Findings OCB were positively predicted by relational and balanced psychological contracts, protean career attitude and boundaryless mindset. Practical implications Organizations must pay particular attention to the content of the psychological contract and the career attitudes of their employees because they influence their willingness to carry out OCB. Originality/value The results add new evidence to the careers literature in terms of boundary conditions with regard to the effects of protean and boundaryless career attitudes as well as different forms of psychological contracts.

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Alessandro Lo Presti; Amelia Manuti; Jon P. Briscoe. Organizational citizenship behaviors in the era of changing employment patterns. Career Development International 2019, 24, 127 -145.

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Alessandro Lo Presti, Amelia Manuti, Jon P. Briscoe. Organizational citizenship behaviors in the era of changing employment patterns. Career Development International. 2019; 24 (2):127-145.

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Alessandro Lo Presti; Amelia Manuti; Jon P. Briscoe. 2019. "Organizational citizenship behaviors in the era of changing employment patterns." Career Development International 24, no. 2: 127-145.

Journal article
Published: 12 March 2019 in Sustainability
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The most recent developments in the field of sustainability science and the emergence of a psychology of sustainability and sustainable development have contributed to collect evidences about the fact that modern organizations need healthy and motivated employees to survive and to prosper within this fast-moving scenario. In this vein, a confirmation to these evidences came from the abundant research on HEalthy and Resilient Organizations (HERO), showing that when organizations make systematic, planned, and proactive efforts to improve employees’ subjective resources then organizational processes and outcomes benefit in turn. Moving forward from these premises, the present study aimed to explore these assumptions within the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), investigating the relationships among the organizational practices, employees’ subjective resources, and organizational behaviors. Two hundred and thirty-six participants working in SMEs located in the south of Italy took part. They were invited to fill in a questionnaire investigating their perception of organizational resources and practices (autonomy, leadership, communication, organizational mindfulness, and commitment to resilience), of their individual resources (work engagement and psychological capital), and finally, of some organizational outcomes (extra-role behavior). Results showed that psychological capital was a significant mediator of the relationship between employees’ perception of the organizational resources and practices and extra-role behaviors. Concrete implications of these conclusions in terms of human resource management (HRM) are discussed together with limitations of the study and future developments.

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Amelia Manuti; Maria Luisa Giancaspro. People Make the Difference: An Explorative Study on the Relationship between Organizational Practices, Employees’ Resources, and Organizational Behavior Enhancing the Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1499 .

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Amelia Manuti, Maria Luisa Giancaspro. People Make the Difference: An Explorative Study on the Relationship between Organizational Practices, Employees’ Resources, and Organizational Behavior Enhancing the Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (5):1499.

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Amelia Manuti; Maria Luisa Giancaspro. 2019. "People Make the Difference: An Explorative Study on the Relationship between Organizational Practices, Employees’ Resources, and Organizational Behavior Enhancing the Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development." Sustainability 11, no. 5: 1499.

Articles
Published: 08 February 2019 in European Journal of Teacher Education
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Over the years the debate on the aims, approaches, and impacts of formative assessment has never stopped to grow. Parallel to this growth is the awareness that it is crucial to understand what conceptions teachers have of assessment in order to guarantee more effective teacher education. This paper tries to connect these two fields of research: formative assessment and teacher education through an analysis of teachers’ conceptions: What do teachers think about assessment? What aims do they pursue through it? Do teachers really distinguish between formative and summative assessment? On the backdrop of the formative assessment literature, the article reports on an exploratory research study. Limitations and issues are analysed in order to shed light on teacher education implication and on future educational research paths in the educational assessment field.

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Serafina Pastore; Amelia Manuti; Anna Fausta Scardigno. Formative assessment and teaching practice: the point of view of Italian teachers. European Journal of Teacher Education 2019, 42, 359 -374.

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Serafina Pastore, Amelia Manuti, Anna Fausta Scardigno. Formative assessment and teaching practice: the point of view of Italian teachers. European Journal of Teacher Education. 2019; 42 (3):359-374.

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Serafina Pastore; Amelia Manuti; Anna Fausta Scardigno. 2019. "Formative assessment and teaching practice: the point of view of Italian teachers." European Journal of Teacher Education 42, no. 3: 359-374.

Articles
Published: 02 January 2019 in Quality in Higher Education
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This article focuses on the role of student feedback in the process of higher education quality assurance. The most recent reforms of the educational systems encourage teachers to enlarge their educational paradigm by experimenting with assessment practices that would go behind accountability and be more responsive to students’ learning needs. In Italy, despite the widespread acknowledgment of the role played by students’ feedback in providing information about the outputs of their education, the quality assurance process has remained, thus far, largely unchanged. Student compliance with rather traditional academic teaching practices and a diffused sense of uselessness of the results coming from end-course surveys represent increasing malpractices in the Italian quality assurance system. In view of the above, the article reports an explorative study aimed to develop a mid-term survey for student feedback. Implications for future research are discussed.

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Serafina Pastore; Amelia Manuti; Fausta Scardigno; Antonella Curci; Monica Pentassuglia. Students’ feedback in mid-term surveys: an explorative contribution in the Italian university context. Quality in Higher Education 2019, 25, 21 -37.

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Serafina Pastore, Amelia Manuti, Fausta Scardigno, Antonella Curci, Monica Pentassuglia. Students’ feedback in mid-term surveys: an explorative contribution in the Italian university context. Quality in Higher Education. 2019; 25 (1):21-37.

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Serafina Pastore; Amelia Manuti; Fausta Scardigno; Antonella Curci; Monica Pentassuglia. 2019. "Students’ feedback in mid-term surveys: an explorative contribution in the Italian university context." Quality in Higher Education 25, no. 1: 21-37.

Original article
Published: 29 October 2018 in International Journal of Training and Development
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The meaning people attribute to working is a multidimensional construct, accounting for personal values, expectations, beliefs and attitudes towards work, which originates and develops because of life cycle experiences. The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the investigation of the ‘meaning of working’ by focusing on the causal relationships between the core components of the construct in a sample of young people – namely the Millennials – who have not yet entered the labour market. Participants, 466 high school and 357 university students, selected from different educational domains, were invited to fill in a questionnaire encompassing the central variables of the ‘meaning of working’ protocol (that is, work centrality, work goals, valued working outcomes and societal norms about work). Results showed a direct relationship between work centrality and valued working outcomes, and a partial mediation effect of work goals and societal norms about work, in the relationship with work centrality. The results raise several research questions which need to be answered by further investigation, both as regards the current evolution of the construct of the meaning of working and as regards its measurement. The results can also be useful in helping to plan tailor‐made vocational guidance programmes as well as organizational training and development interventions targeted on the specific features of this new workforce.

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Amelia Manuti; Antonietta Curci; Beatrice Van Der Heijden. The meaning of working for young people: the case of the millennials. International Journal of Training and Development 2018, 22, 274 -288.

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Amelia Manuti, Antonietta Curci, Beatrice Van Der Heijden. The meaning of working for young people: the case of the millennials. International Journal of Training and Development. 2018; 22 (4):274-288.

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Amelia Manuti; Antonietta Curci; Beatrice Van Der Heijden. 2018. "The meaning of working for young people: the case of the millennials." International Journal of Training and Development 22, no. 4: 274-288.

Book
Published: 01 January 2018 in Digital HR
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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. Digital HR. Digital HR 2018, 1 .

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Amelia Manuti, Pasquale Davide De Palma. Digital HR. Digital HR. 2018; ():1.

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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. 2018. "Digital HR." Digital HR , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 13 November 2017 in Qualitative Research Journal
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Purpose The paper argues that the diatextual analysis could be considered a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis because it stresses the role of hermeneutical procedures in catching the inter-subjective nature of meanings. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these theoretical speculations in light with some empirical evidences coming from a discursive study exploring the construction of organizational identity through socialization practices. Design/methodology/approach Two focus group discussions were conducted, respectively, with retired workers and young workers employed in the same working organization to investigate how workers discursively shape their sense of belonging to the organization. Narratives of past and present membership were analyzed adopting the diatextual perspective, which was precious in tracking down the discursive traces of subjectivity, modality and argumentation emerging from their discourses. Findings Diatextual analysis was a precious tool to explore organizational identity through the different rhetoric that older and young workers used to make sense of it: “enchantment” vs “disenchantment.” Research limitations/implications The study was a case study. It involved few people and results cannot be generalized, but the main aim of the paper was to support qualitative methodology. Practical implications The implication of the study are precious to design formal socialization and human resource management practices better attuned with the need of workers. Social implications The social implications are connected with a wider revision of the organizational policies in terms of HRM. Originality/value The value of this paper is the discursive diatextual approach in organizational research.

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Amelia Manuti; Rosa Scardigno; Giuseppe Mininni. Diatexts at work. Qualitative Research Journal 2017, 17, 319 -334.

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Amelia Manuti, Rosa Scardigno, Giuseppe Mininni. Diatexts at work. Qualitative Research Journal. 2017; 17 (4):319-334.

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Amelia Manuti; Rosa Scardigno; Giuseppe Mininni. 2017. "Diatexts at work." Qualitative Research Journal 17, no. 4: 319-334.

Chapter
Published: 06 August 2017 in Digital HR
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This chapter aims to discuss the negative and positive aspects connected to the cultural turn toward the cognitive intelligence era in organizations. The opportunities granted by technology-based people management practices (e.g. Watson, big data, etc.) are critically analysed in the attempt to redefine the role of human resource management as an organizational strategic asset. The authors see positively the affordances granted by technology as long as HRM practices would succeed in integrating them within the organizational vision. An concrete example is given by organizational network analysis, that might support organizations in investigating informal network and in planning adequate HRM practices.

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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. The Cognitive Technology Revolution: A New Role of HR Practices? Digital HR 2017, 39 -53.

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Amelia Manuti, Pasquale Davide De Palma. The Cognitive Technology Revolution: A New Role of HR Practices? Digital HR. 2017; ():39-53.

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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. 2017. "The Cognitive Technology Revolution: A New Role of HR Practices?" Digital HR , no. : 39-53.

Chapter
Published: 06 August 2017 in Digital HR
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This section attempts to draw a conclusion to the several questions posed in the course of the book. The authors start from the social representations of technology seen both as a magic solution and as a restriction, a substitution to human action. Mediating these positions, the authors suggest to adopt a critical perspective to analyse the impact of cognitive technology in the working setting. They content that technology provides tools that have potentialities that if adequately exploited might certainly lead to the improvement of the social and working context. With special reference to the latter and to the role played by the HR function, the authors conclude that these tools should be carefully framed within the organizational culture. Their use should be aimed to reinvent how to manage people but always adopting a people-based and bottom-up approach to human capital.

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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. Conclusion. Digital HR 2017, 81 -85.

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Amelia Manuti, Pasquale Davide De Palma. Conclusion. Digital HR. 2017; ():81-85.

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Amelia Manuti; Pasquale Davide De Palma. 2017. "Conclusion." Digital HR , no. : 81-85.