Showing papers in "Narrare i Gruppi in 2014"

Tracce e forme del convivere organizzativo

Abstract: Traces and Forms of Organizational Cohabitation This article aims at taking stock of the state of the art as far as the theme of cohabitation in organizations and outlining a new theoretical proposal are concerned. A thorough examination of literature highlights that there are almost no works specifically coping with this theme, defining its theoretical perspective and specifying the choice of proposed indicators. Several, instead, are the works indirectly dealing with cohabitation, mostly considered equivalent to the quality of interpersonal relationships, or developed starting from the theme of diversity and conflict. An important defining effort was carried out by Renzo Carli (2000), who defines cohabitation as the symbolic component of a social relationship, caused by three components: association systems, strangers and rules of the game. Cohabitation means integrating these three elements of a relationship in order to create innovative products. This article proposes a review of this model, specifically designed for the organizational field. Organizational cohabitation is meant as the result of the intertwined whole of Identity, Otherness and Work Purpose, within specific organizational cultures of diversity. Starting from this reading model in communication with the multi-year research and intervention experience in various organizational contexts, we propose a typology of organizational cohabitation forms which were empirically pointed out: generative-efficient, affiliation, prestation, and chaotic-paralyzing cohabitation forms.

Crescere in terre di mafia

Abstract: Growing in mafia territories As a theoretical extension of other previous studies, this work represents an improvement of the notions about the relationship between adolescence and Mafia. The research has been aiming at exploring teenagers’ universe within specific social contexts where the presence of criminal organizations is significant, focusing the attention on the modalities through which evolutionary tasks are coped with in contexts with high Mafia density and often characterized by a perception of social space which makes personal, financial and political development problematic. The research has involved 93 teenagers who live in southern regions where the presence of Mafia organizations ( Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra ) is widespread. Six focus groups have been carried out, audio recorded and then transcribed. Verbalizations have been analyzed through appropriate qualitative grids which allowed detecting three thematic macro-areas: representations of the phenomenon of Mafia, emotions connected to it and planning skills. The qualitative analysis of transcriptions points out that the presence of Mafia organizations, the contiguity between legal and illegal symbolic-cultural codes, the commonality of belonging matrices, sharing the same symbolic and social spaces are all elements which violently enter these teenagers’ identification and release paths, deeply influencing them.

Segni della 'Ndrangheta in Lombardia: studio di un artefatto culturale

Abstract: Signs of ‘Ndrangheta in Lombardy: study of a cultural artifact This work would like to be a contribution for a more thorough knowledge of the phenomenology of Mafia in Lombardy. It is a study carried out according to an ethnographic approach, proposes the analysis of a cultural artifact (Schein, 1985) aiming at understanding the logics and structure of Mafia organization from different social interlocutors’ representations and lived experiences. The research, consistent with previously conducted studies (Gozzoli, Giorgi, D’Angelo, in press), has the purpose to explore this anthropo-psychical and socio-cultural system which is ‘Ndrangheta and the way it has characterized involved territories as well as their inhabitants (Di Blasi, Lo Verso, 2011). Through an in-depth qualitative analysis of a video-documentary containing testimonies, wiretapping and interviews to people who have in/directly been having to do with ‘Ndrangheta , we could understand how strongly this phenomenon is present in the considered territory (a city in the North of Italy), controlling its political, social and financial transformations, and at the same time there would seem to be phenomena of social denial, feelings of sufferance, pain, fear in victims and a crucial impossibility of cohabitation. The possibility to connect information coming from different looks and grasp some recurrences allows highlighting effective tools for counter-action and intervention modalities.

La 'Ndrangheta e la strada. Gruppo esperienziale con gli agenti dell'unità mobile di Reggio Calabria

Abstract: 'Ndrangheta and the street. Experiential group with reggio calabria flying squad policemen Calabrian Mafia seems to be animated by a hunger for power with no precedent in other crime organizations, and an ability to hide its presence so much to make it an obvious and inevitable component of the decreed social system, deeply crept into the community cohabitation norms. In the study we will present below, we have aimed at investigating on Reggio Calabria flying squad policemen’s representations and lived experiences. The qualitative analysis of the text, carried out through dedicated software, has pointed out two super codes (aggression to social connections within solitude; no freedom encloses paranoia). In other words, “solitude” as lived experience is spatially contained in “aggression to connections” and “the absence of freedom” encloses the lived experience of constant and systematic danger (“paranoia”). This means that the emotional elaboration on Mafia, carried out during the group process, has highlighted thinking categories connected to the coercion of relational space which articulate themselves along the emotional dimensions of solitude and paranoid anguish. In our last working session, the participants revealed all their internal contradictions and the confusion ‘Ndrangheta causes in them, since on one hand they have to fight against it, and on the other they try to prevent it from affecting them, thus risking to escape not only Mafia, but the relation they have with the world.

Quando la formazione è leva per una convivenza generativa nell'organizzazione

Abstract: When Training Can Leverage a Generative Cohabitation within Organizations This paper was born from two considerations: on one hand, cohabitation in a work environment is becoming more and more challenging; on the other hand, professional training represents a common interventional incentive in order to support and improve individual, group and organizational development. In the light of the fact that organizations are asking more and more complex questions, the aim of this work is to think over on how, adopting a certain perspective and educational method (for instance, using the group as a main training tool, commending the importance of learning starting from the individual experience and the relevance of considering individual, group and organizational levels as integrated), could result particularly adequate in order to support the organization to achieve substantial outcomes (such as developing a generative organizational cohabitation). In this paper, we will analyze two illustrative cases, underlining the evolution and learning process with a particular focus on organizational cohabitation consequences.

Lo sviluppo economico e della persona in contesti mafiosi: il ruolo dei beni relazionali

Abstract: Economic and Personal Development in Mafia Contexts: The Role of Relational Goods The work we present has a double purpose: sketching some thinking guidelines to overcome the typical Sicilian Mafia mindset and, at the same time, helping reinforcing the theoretical-methodological paradigm of group analysis by means of a dialogue with the concept of relational good. In this framework of dialogue and confrontation, since psychical, social and economic developments influence each other, they can determine a strong repercussion in the social context of individuals. Relational good thus becomes not only an interdisciplinary intersection, but also a tool which can significantly help fulfilling suitable programs of local development.

Le vittime del racket. Imprenditori e commercianti alle prese con Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta e Camorra

Abstract: Victims of racket. Entrepreneurs and traders dealing with Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta and Camorra This work proposes a research on a still unexplored psychical world: thoughts, emotions and real events experienced by racket victims of the three largest criminal organizations of the South of Italy: Mafia, Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta . The purpose is to understand the multi-faceted psycho-anthropological and social issues criminal organizations have settled on, and particularly which psycho-relational dynamics and socio-cultural codes come into play in the complex and controversial relationship between victim and criminal system, between victim and support systems. With entrepreneurs and tradesmen victims of organized crime, we have analyzed lived experiences – in particular fear – and psychological problems they had to cope with; events and motivations which allowed them “breaking” the silence and asking for help; the representation of a support network before and after their possible pressing charges; the kind of help offered by support systems.

Prerequisiti della convivenza entro i contesti di promozione e tutela della salute. Lo screening mammografico al nord e al sud d'Italia

Abstract: Promotion and Health Care in Various Coexistence Contexts. Breast Screening in the North and South of Italy The effectiveness of early detections of cancer masses has been widely demonstrated by medical research; this kind of diagnosis is particularly important in the cases of breast cancer. A diagnosis of this form of cancer at its early phases, in the 97% of cases allows women to survive at least five years after it. For this reason the Italian healthcare system promotes and finances a breast cancer screening program - that consists in a free mammogram every two years - addressed to all women living in Italy ranging in age between 48 and 69 years. Although this important program, statistics shown by the Osservatorio Nazionale Screening reveal a big numeric gap, comparing the regions of the North and the South of the country, referring to the adherence rate. This study aims at exploring the reasons for this discrepancy, assuming that the trust in health care facilities is a prerequisite for a stable relationship between people and institutions and, therefore, the basis of social coexistence; so the trust, or not, in the local hospitals determines women’s access to the national screening program. In order to answer the research questions of this study we chose to use the focus group technique: 32 Italian women, ranging in age between 48 and 65 years (M= 53, SD= 5.26), 17 living in the North (in or around Milan) and 15 living in the South (in or around Naples) of Italy, took part to a 5 Focus Group concerning breast cancer prevention. The analysis on the groups’ verbatim, done with software allowing a text analysis (ATLAS.ti and T-LAB), highlighted important differences in the way northern and southern subjects emotionally symbolize the context where they live and coexist. The southern hospitals are considered, by the women who live in this geographic area, as places characterized by “incompetence”; this consideration limits the probability that the need of an early detection “coexists” with the possibility that these hospitals would give an appropriate answer to it.

Le strategie comunicative di Cosa nostra: una ricerca empirica

Abstract: Communication strategies in Cosa Nostra: an empirical research The following article proposes an empirical study to explore communication strategies in Cosa Nostra. Psychological studies on the characteristics of the language used within the criminal organization are undoubtedly recent, but crucial to thoroughly understand the characteristics of the implicit and explicit communication it adopts in the various contexts it works, as well as the power and value they assume. The data we have obtained from some videos concerning interviews and police interrogations to men of honor have been analyzed through a method which refers to the grounds of qualitative research in clinical psychology, the Grounded Theory (Glaser, Strauss; 1967). The analysis we have carried out and its relevant data show us a world of Mafia where the care for linguistic choices, for both form and contents, is characterized as a crucial activity, even when words are replaced by silence or gestures.

Quando la buona convivenza organizzativa si trasforma in convivenza sociale. Il caso del Circolo dei Talenti

Abstract: When Positive Organizational Coexistence Turns Itself into Social Coexistence. The case of Circolo dei Talenti In the contemporary age, where individualism and mutual distrust are widespread among people, society is “liquid” and disoriented, the so-called intermediate units (groups, associations) promoting a positive coexistence within the organization itself are able to sustain positive coexistence in local communities too. The present contribution describes the Circolo dei talenti , an example of such an intermediate unit located in a peripheral neighborhood of a metropolitan area in Northern Italy. This case study shows how the development of a positive organizational coexistence has become the mean of community development and a better coexistence within the neighborhood. Qualitative and quantitative data show that the relational aspect is crucial in the Circolo dei talenti because it promotes authentic exchange and sharing behaviors among people, sustaining participation and social cohesion against self-referential habits and isolation. Although at this moment the Circolo dei Talenti is functioning mostly on an affiliative coexistence among members, seeds of a more generative coexistence are clearly detectable.

Lo svelamento della differenza: tra mediazione del conflitto e applicazione della “Legge”. La convivenza organizzativa snodo concettuale e metodologico per attivare processi trasformativi in un servizio di mediazione penale minorile

Abstract: Revealing differences between conflict mediation and law enforcement. Organizational cohabitation as a conceptual and methodological turning point to activate transformation processes in a service of juvenile criminal mediation This paper aims at proposing the construct of organizational cohabitation (Gozzoli 2014) as interpretation and tool proposed in a service of Juvenile Criminal Mediation in order to highlight how important it was as turning point to activate the working group’s reflexive function as far as their sense of belonging, otherness, conflict and work subject matter are concerned and to start an important transformation process in the very service delivery. Our proposal finds its roots in a follow-up experience regarding the abovementioned service, which has been taking place for almost three years and is structured in three different phases: a research phase evaluating the process and the results of the activity which was carried out; a phase monitoring the mediation practice; a research-action phase in a clinical perspective on the operation mode of the working group. The leverage of organizational cohabitation is specifically proposed as far as this last working phase is concerned, lasting approximately ten months.

Cambiamento e management di servizi complessi: la scheda etno-narrativa per sostenere buoni processi di convivenza

Abstract: Change and Management of Complex Services: The Ethno-Narrative Record to Support Good Cohabitation Practices Managing change in complex services requires nowadays the middle management to re-design its objects and professional practices in order to cope with new needs. Therefore, it seems crucial to activate educational settings which could allow managers to: 1) develop analytical skills for researching around their own practices and professional objects 2) face and manage the conflict, which physiologically emerges in every change, and represents an opportunity to reflect and review one’s own practices; 3) build new shared repertories of managerial practices, able to rebuild new relational agreements and forms of cohabitation. Moving from these hypotheses, the paper presents the case of an intervention conducted in an educational service organization, and discusses a specific formative tool used to help middle managers face the change, by exchanging experiences and reflections and finally building new generative forms of cohabitation in a scenario of challenging transformation.