Collective voice mechanisms,HRM practices and organizational performance in Italian manufacturing firms

The literature on employee voice has grown enormously over the past decades. However, the relationships between different employee voice mechanisms and organizational performance are far from being fully understood, and the existing research shows mixed evidence. Moreover, the HRM literature tends to concentrate on individual voice mechanisms (e.g. employee involvement) and to underestimate the role that collective voice may have in the HRM performance relationship. This paper aims to analyze how collective employee voice mechanisms (i.e. union voice and team voice) affect organizational productivity and how these relationships vary when voice mechanisms are adopted in combination with other HRM practices (i.e. variable pay, training, performance appraisals and multitasking). The analysis of a sample of 223 Italian manufacturing firms matched with an external database (AIDA) containing balance sheet information found that union voice is positively related to labor productivity, while team voice does not show any significant relationship with labor productivity. Moreover, both union and team voice have important moderation effects in the HRM-performance relationship. Union voice moderates positively the relationship between variable pay and performance and negatively the relationship between training and performance. Team voice positively moderates the relationship between training and performance. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

Co‐production,governance and practice: The dynamics and effects of User Voice Prison Councils

Drawing on Bevir's (2013) decentered theory of governance, and Donati's (2016) theory of the relational subject, this article explores how User Voice Prison Councils in England have contributed to shifts in aspects of prison governance and practice. It discusses the cultural and policy context in which the Councils emerged and operate before exploring their perceived purposes, dynamics, and effects. User Voice Prison Councils represent an important example of different actors co‐producing alternative patterns of governance through innovations in democratic participation. Interviews with Prison Council participants, User Voice and prison staff revealed that the development of such “bottom–up” participatory governance practices require and restore interpersonal trust, the mechanisms of which are interactions underpinned by a distinct manner of relating and the establishment of a network of relations oriented to the common good. The effects include enhanced institutional legitimacy; improvements in prison officer‐prisoner relations; and greater quality of life for prisoners. Revealing the “how” of co‐production, from the “inside”, the argument advanced here is that while the effects of co‐production may be more ameliorative than transformative, such collaborative and dialogic approaches can enable differently situated people to forge new norms of interactions and forms of democratic participation to achieve collective goals.     

Challenging perceptions of disability through performance poetry methods: the ‘Seen but Seldom Heard’ project

This paper considers performance poetry as a method to explore lived experiences of disability. We discuss how poetic inquiry used within a participatory arts-based research framework can enable young people to collectively question society’s attitudes and actions towards disability. Poetry will be considered as a means to develop a more accessible and effective arena in which young people with direct experience of disability can be empowered to develop new skills that enable them to tell their own stories. Discussion of how this can challenge audiences to critically reflect upon their own perceptions of disability will also be developed.     

罗罗腔剧种研究综述

罗罗腔原是一个流布很广的古老剧种,几经波折,到现在仅见于山西北部灵丘及周边浑源、应县、繁峙及河北阜平等地,因为只有灵丘有专业剧团,所以称为"灵丘罗罗腔",是深受百姓喜爱的地方小剧种。2006年罗罗腔被正式列入"第一批国家级非物质文化遗产保护名录",给这一珍贵剧种带来新生,同时也受到学术界的瞩目。近年来,不少专家、学者从不同角度以不同的方法对其进行分析和研究,主要体现于罗罗腔曾经的流布与辉煌、源流演变、唱腔音乐与表演艺术、演剧资料与剧本整理及其价值与遗产保护五个方面。     

山西襄陵方言的亲属称谓语

襄陵话俗称红卫话,属于中原官话汾河片平阳小片,其亲属称谓语经过长期的发展演变而独具特色。襄陵农村家庭中祖孙三代人由于价值观等原因在亲属称谓语的使用和亲属称谓的语音方面有较明显的差异。运用归纳和演绎相结合的方法,以襄陵话的亲属称谓为主要研究对象,整理出了襄陵音系。采用矩阵的形式对襄陵亲属称谓语进行了概括和语义描述。最后文章提出了进一步研究襄陵方言的设想。     

“遭”字句——兼论被动标记词的界定与优胜劣汰

首先提出了界定汉语被动句的标准,在此基础上论证:近代汉语阶段“遭”字句也经历过词汇意义逐渐虚化的过程,即“遭”曾经拥有过一段时期的作为被动标记词的用法,同时探讨了近代汉语时期一些被动标记词此消彼长、优胜劣汰的原因。     

平等话语权:完善民主集中制的现实选择

“话语权”缺失,这是民主集中制这个党的根本组织原则面临的现实制约之一,必须从发展党内民主、体现民主集中制内在要求的角度,充分认识“话语权”在领导班子建设、营造和谐氛围过程中的积极作用,努力在实践中通过平等领导班子每个成员的“话语权”,实现民主集中制的完善和提升。     

Towards better understanding and narrowing of the science–practice gap: A practitioner-centered approach to management knowledge creation

The lack of mutual communication and collaboration between academic research and management practice, and the limited implementation of the research findings in strategic and tactical decision-making in practice settings, known as the science-practice ‘gap’, remains an essential issue in management research. We challenge the primary focus on academics for the possibilities of bridging the gap by arguing that the picture remains incomplete without a closer look at the positions, perceptions, and attitudes of practicing managers toward the joint production of relevant management knowledge. Based on the inductive, grounded theory approach, we conducted a qualitative study of 47 practicing managers with different organizational and functional responsibilities across various industry sectors. Although practitioners perceived practice-engaged research design and execution, relevant management research, and benefits from complementary knowledge as enablers of fruitful science-practice collaboration, our emerging findings revealed limited trust, limited cognition, coping strategies, and heuristic information processing to be important barriers for practitioners that hamper the collaboration process. Relying on the cognitive and information processing framework and theory of the conservation of resources, we aimed to explain the antecedent of (un)successful collaboration on the practitioners' side, thus extending our understanding of the scholarship of integration.     

普罗科菲耶夫《亚历山大·涅夫斯基》中合唱队的创作特点

从音色角度出发,人声是最能够直接表达人类情感的"黄金声音"。在《亚历山大·涅夫斯基》这部作品中,普罗科菲耶夫充分重视这种"黄金声音"对作品内容的直接表达,从而有效地表现出战争中人性化的情感关怀。本文主要针对这部作品中合唱队的创作进行分析,由此剖析作曲家精妙的创作手法。     

女性主义关怀伦理视野下的《接骨师之女》

谭恩美的《接骨师之女》描绘了在男权社会阴影下祖孙三代女性的生活故事。从女性主义伦理学的重要理论———关怀伦理学切入文本,从女性声音、女性关怀、伦理诉求三个方面探讨作者建构两性和谐社会的女性主义伦理愿望。