LIBRI DI GIORGIO GOSETTI

Il saggio considera la qualità del lavoro come l’esito del rapporto fra bisogni del lavoratore e profilo dell’organizzazione del lavoro. Le recenti trasformazioni hanno visto frammentarsi il lavoro e sempre più sovrapporsi il lavoro con la vita, con una richiesta rivolta al lavoratore di maggiore disponibilità. Tali cambiamenti implicano un passaggio concettuale ed analitico dalla qualità del lavoro (centrata sugli aspetti intrinseci del lavoro) alla qualità della vita lavorativa, che considera anche il rapporto fra lavoro e vita. Nella seconda parte il saggio presenta un quadro analitico della qualità della vita lavorativa, che individua componenti soggettive ed oggettive e gli elementi analitici fondamentali aggregati nelle diverse dimensioni.

La relazione fra lavoro e alta formazione è da tempo un oggetto di studio da diverse prospettive. In questo caso, il saggio propone una serie di considerazioni centrate sugli aspetti culturali del lavoro, sulle riflessioni che gli studenti universitari operano rispetto alla rilevanza del lavoro, ai cambiamenti in atto nel mondo del lavoro e alle loro prospettive di inserimento lavorativo. Il pretesto delle argomentazioni formulate è fornito dalle risultanze di un percorso di ricerca realizzato in un ateneo del Nord-Est, che ha visto il coinvolgimento di un campione di studenti appartenenti a facoltà di diverso indirizzo formativo. La presentazione di alcune risultanze della ricerca è preceduta da elementi del quadro teorico di riferimento e da alcuni dati tratti da altre indagini a livello nazionale.

Elementi per l’analisi di un altro modo di intendere e agire l’economico - Social enterprise and health care in contemporary Great Britain: a new way forward? The essay focuses on the relationship between social enterprises and the health care service in contemporary Great Britain. After highlighting the characteristics of health care and the role of the third sector, also by means of past experiences, the authors underline the specificities of the two models which currently characterize the relationship between organizations of the third sector and the state: the one which presents the third sector as a relationship between centre (state) - periphery (third sector), a relationship of substantial dependency, and the one which underlines relationships of cooperation and social enterprises as a radical alternative to the relationship of dependence between the local state and the third sector.

Organizzazione e pratiche organizzative: il tema della celtaTransformations in act inside welfare systems and person?s services organizations, propose the theme of organizational models changing. The choice concerns more and more the profile and contents in inter-organizational relations and to govern responsibility sharing. In such a context, characterized by a constant attention to construction and evaluation of organizational processes, we have to read in a new way the traditional relationship between knowing what to do and knowing how to be. The knowing how to be dimension is getting a new meaning, exactly because the worker is more and more asked to participate to the construction of the organizational conditions of his own work. Here is the centrality of a reflection on situated organizational practices as heritage of practical knowledge, shared and contextualized, finalized to organizational problems solution.

Social accountability has become one of the most interesting themes for public organizations, referring both the services constructing ways and the effects that services produce themselves, with a special focus on relationship between organization and its context of reference. Reflection on social responsibility and accountability has a particular meaning for public organizations, for it’s in their essence being socially responsible, and their actions and objectives are to consider mainly for their impact on community, on socio-economical and cultural context in which they operate. Starting from this point of view this work examines the specific case of health agencies in Emilia-Romagna Region, with a specific attention to the process to realize the mission balance, institutionally defined as a process and an instrument of social accountability.

The paper review the meanings that young people give to work through the relations between dualistic explanations. Starting from reflections focused on opposite distinctions, sociology has many times referred to the explicative valence that comes from the contraposition between an instrumental and an expressive orientation to work. This contribution wants to underline how, mostly after the latest changes in the world of labour and in the conditions of the young, the still valid interpretation based on this dualism could be progressively integrated with the explicative valence of other dualisms, the relevance of which is directly linked to the process of work’s meanings pluralization that is consolidating. The reflection proposed wants to make order of the results of a recent empiric research and define a general perspective of interpretation of relations among young people, work changes and meanings they give it.