L'AIUTO CHE TI SERVE

Il profitto e il capitale rappresentano oggi una sfida di lungo periodo alla quale si può partecipare solo mediante un sopporto informatico adeguato alla vision su dimensione contingente e prospettica della struttura organizzativa dell'impresa. Il libro presenta quindi tre categorie di servizi rivolte ad una specifica casistica di vicende in cui ciascun imprenditore si può ritrovare in relazione allo stadio di sviluppo della sua impresa ed una nuova tecnica, quella del Personal Event in cui le persone sono poste al centro del processo organizzativo rivolto all'accumulazione del capitale monetario e intellettuale.

ORGANIZZAZIONE DAL BASSO IL NUOVO SISTEMA DI COSTRUZIONE DEGLI ASSETTI ORGANIZZATIVI

La tecnica Personal Event è lo strumento applicativo del sistema di organizzazione “dal basso” nel quale il personale dell’azienda viene formato e accompagnato nella gestione del sistema organizzativo e amministrativo contabile affinché l’assetto organizzativo definitivo sia allineato all’obiettivo di produrre profitto in maniera duratura attraverso la gestione dei fattori di rischio individuali consoni alla mansione svolta in concreto dalla persona; questa responsabilizzazione individuale insegna alla persona a lavorare per obiettivi e progetti anziché per orari e mansioni, nel corso della formazione il personale diventa parte attiva nella formulazione delle procedure operative e vengono quindi concretamente fondate sui reali oggetti/rischi gestiti dal lavoratore in funzione del complesso sistema aziendale; questo modo di impostare la relazione con il lavoratore è molto fruttuosa ed è lo step preliminare per attuare lo Smart Working in maniera veramente produttiva per l’impresa.

The Psychology of Memory and the Study of the Gospels

New Testament scholars who have some acquaintance with the cognitive psychology of memory have tended to conclude that memory is generally unreliable. Research in cognitive psychology does not support that view. These New Testament scholars have been misled especially by failure to distinguish different types of memory, by relying heavily on study of eyewitness testimony in court (a special category from which it is not legitimate to draw broader conclusions), and by misunderstanding the deliberate focus on the failures of memory in much of the research (which is not because failures are common but because failures are interesting). For research in this field to be useful in the study of the Gospels, we need to distinguish personal event memory from other types and to specify the conditions under which this type of memory tends to be either accurate or misleading.

Enhancing Reappraisal by Linking Cognitive Control and Emotion

In the current study we explored whether training individuals to recruit cognitive control prior to exposure to negative pictures can facilitate the propensity to use reappraisal and reappraisal success. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. In the training group, negative pictures were typically preceded by a stimulus that recruits cognitive control, whereas in the control group, negative pictures were typically preceded by a stimulus that does not recruit cognitive control. Participants were subsequently asked to reflect on a negative personal event and to later reappraise the event. As predicted, compared to participants in the control group, those in the training group were more likely to use reappraisal spontaneously, and when instructed to reappraise, were more successful in doing so. We argue that the ability to employ cognitive control has a causal role in reappraisal use and success.

Sex Unleashes Your Tongue: Sexual Priming Motivates Self-Disclosure to a New Acquaintance and Interest in Future Interactions

Research has demonstrated the contribution of sexual activity to the quality of ongoing relationships. Nevertheless, less attention has been given to how activation of the sexual system affects relationship-initiation processes. Three studies used complementary methodologies to examine the effect of sexual priming on self-disclosure, a relationship-promoting behavior. In Study 1, participants were subliminally exposed to sexual stimuli (vs. neutral stimuli), and then disclosed over Instant Messenger a personal event to an opposite-sex stranger. Results showed that merely thinking about sex, even without being aware of it, encouraged self-disclosure. Study 2 replicated these findings in relatively naturalistic conditions (live face-to-face interactions following supraliminal video priming). Study 3 extended these findings, indicating that sexual priming facilitated self-disclosure, which, in turn, increased interest in future interactions with the stranger. Together, these findings suggest that activation of the sexual system encourages the use of strategies that allow people to become closer to potential partners.

A Quantitative Study of Right Dislocation in Cantonese Spoken Discourse

Right Dislocation (RD) has been suggested to be a focus marking device carrying an affective function motivated by limited planning time in conversation. The current study investigated the effects of genre type, planning load and affective function on the use of RD in Cantonese monologues. Discourse data were extracted from a recently developed corpus of oral narratives in Cantonese Chinese containing language samples from 144 native Cantonese speakers evenly distributed in age, education levels and gender. Three genre types representing different structures, styles and degrees of topic familiarity were chosen for an RD analysis: procedural description, story-telling and recount of personal event. The results revealed that genre types and planning load influenced the rate of RD occurrence. (1) Specifically, the lowest proportion of RD occurred in procedural description, assumed to be the most structured genre; whereas the highest rate was found in personal event recount, considered to be the most stylized and less structured genre. (2) The highest proportion of RD appeared near the end of a narrative, where heavier cognitive load is demanded compared with the beginning of a narrative; moreover, RD also tended to co-occur with disfluency. (3) There was a high percentage of RD tokens in the personal event recount for expressing explicit emotions; and (4) a lower rate of occurrence of RD was found in monologues than previous studies based on conversations. The overall findings suggest that the use of RD is sensitive to genre structure and style, as well as planning load effects.