Learning how to work together
A thesis debated at the University of Padua summarises topics of lifelong learning and teambuilding
Businesses are made of individuals who, every day, work together towards a shared goal, with efficiency but also paying attention to the territory and the world. This is, after all, the key essence of good corporate culture, culture that, through different means, is making inroads within production organisations – caring for the human aspect of a company (and thus attain, more often than not, that kind of industrial humanism we are all striving for).
These are the themes that inform Eleonora Francesconi’s thesis, debated at the University of Padua’s School of Psychology.
Entitled “Lifelong Learning e Teambuilding: analisi storica e metodologie formative” (“Lifelong learning and teambuilding: historical analysis and training methods”), this work provides an excellent overview of one of the key aspects of doing good business: people’s training.
As Francesconi writes, “Conceiving human resources as the human capital of a company and as part of its wealth leads to invest in it, in order to make it more profitable in both professional and personal terms.” – avoiding, however, any pointlessly patronising attitudes. Thus, the particular attention to human resources is explained and analysed starting from the notion that this corporate function is a “genuine labour policy tool whose aim is to ease employment and work organisation in line with scientific and technological development.” In other words, training is a means to become more efficient and productive, as well as to grow in both individual and professional terms.
Francesconi’s study starts by outlining the topic through its historic and social analysis, before promptly refining relevant training tools and methods, and then focusing on the “group building” aspects that must follow.
Furthermore, this is not a purely theoretical work, as it also includes three case studies narrated by three corporate human resources managers and consultants.
Eleonora Francesconi’s study may not be adding anything new to the topic of appropriate training and people management in enterprises, but nonetheless has the merit of providing an effective outline of a complex and diverse theme, and thus acts as a good “guidebook” that contributes to a better understanding of the subject.
Lifelong Learning e Teambuilding: analisi storica e metodologie formative (“Lifelong learning and teambuilding: historical analysis and training methods”)
Eleonora Francesconi
Thesis, University of Padua, School of Psychology, Degree in social and work psychological sciences, 2023
A thesis debated at the University of Padua summarises topics of lifelong learning and teambuilding
Businesses are made of individuals who, every day, work together towards a shared goal, with efficiency but also paying attention to the territory and the world. This is, after all, the key essence of good corporate culture, culture that, through different means, is making inroads within production organisations – caring for the human aspect of a company (and thus attain, more often than not, that kind of industrial humanism we are all striving for).
These are the themes that inform Eleonora Francesconi’s thesis, debated at the University of Padua’s School of Psychology.
Entitled “Lifelong Learning e Teambuilding: analisi storica e metodologie formative” (“Lifelong learning and teambuilding: historical analysis and training methods”), this work provides an excellent overview of one of the key aspects of doing good business: people’s training.
As Francesconi writes, “Conceiving human resources as the human capital of a company and as part of its wealth leads to invest in it, in order to make it more profitable in both professional and personal terms.” – avoiding, however, any pointlessly patronising attitudes. Thus, the particular attention to human resources is explained and analysed starting from the notion that this corporate function is a “genuine labour policy tool whose aim is to ease employment and work organisation in line with scientific and technological development.” In other words, training is a means to become more efficient and productive, as well as to grow in both individual and professional terms.
Francesconi’s study starts by outlining the topic through its historic and social analysis, before promptly refining relevant training tools and methods, and then focusing on the “group building” aspects that must follow.
Furthermore, this is not a purely theoretical work, as it also includes three case studies narrated by three corporate human resources managers and consultants.
Eleonora Francesconi’s study may not be adding anything new to the topic of appropriate training and people management in enterprises, but nonetheless has the merit of providing an effective outline of a complex and diverse theme, and thus acts as a good “guidebook” that contributes to a better understanding of the subject.
Lifelong Learning e Teambuilding: analisi storica e metodologie formative (“Lifelong learning and teambuilding: historical analysis and training methods”)
Eleonora Francesconi
Thesis, University of Padua, School of Psychology, Degree in social and work psychological sciences, 2023