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- The impact of internal communication on employee purpose programs : a case study with Alaya by Benevity,the corporate giving & volunteering softwarePublication . Rego, Margarida Ribeiro Alves; Novais, João Carlos FerreiraInternal Communication resides in how the people in an organization share information with one another. Several research has proved that communicating properly with the internal stakeholders is a significant factor that contributes heavily to a good corporate strategy and performance. A company needs to know how to communicate its purpose and values internally, to advocate them externally. Allowing companies to define their reason for existing, which translates to Corporate Purpose, helps to incorporate within business operations a set of social and environmental concerns that can cause impact from the inside out, what we call Corporate Social Responsibility. Establishing a good and meaningful purpose and looking inside to resolve societal issues is an important tool on the way to building Employee Engagement. Employees aim to work for an organization where they relate to its values and purpose, which allows them to find meaning in the work they do. Having an engaged workforce boosts financial performance, improves the organization’s reputation by increasing productivity, promotes higher job satisfaction, and even reduces turnover.
- Da remuneração dos administradores : em particular, a influência do desempenho individual e coletivo sobre a remuneração dos administradores executivos nas sociedades cotadas portuguesasPublication . Lourenço, Inês Ferreira; Mendes, Evaristo Ferreira
- Competition for endothelial cell polarity drives vascular morphogenesis in the mouse retinaPublication . Barbacena, Pedro; Dominguez-Cejudo, Maria; Fonseca, Catarina G.; Gómez-González, Manuel; Faure, Laura M.; Zarkada, Georgia; Pena, Andreia; Pezzarossa, Anna; Ramalho, Daniela; Giarratano, Ylenia; Ouarné, Marie; Barata, David; Fortunato, Isabela C.; Misikova, Lenka Henao; Mauldin, Ian; Carvalho, Yulia; Trepat, Xavier; Roca-Cusachs, Pere; Eichmann, Anne; Bernabeu, Miguel O.; Franco, Cláudio A.Blood-vessel formation generates unique vascular patterns in each individual. The principles governing the apparent stochasticity of this process remain to be elucidated. Using mathematical methods, we find that the transition between two fundamental vascular morphogenetic programs—sprouting angiogenesis and vascular remodeling—is established by a shift of collective front-to-rear polarity of endothelial cells in the mouse retina. We demonstrate that the competition between biochemical (VEGFA) and mechanical (blood-flow-induced shear stress) cues controls this collective polarity shift. Shear stress increases tension at focal adhesions overriding VEGFA-driven collective polarization, which relies on tension at adherens junctions. We propose that vascular morphogenetic cues compete to regulate individual cell polarity and migration through tension shifts that translates into tissue-level emergent behaviors, ultimately leading to uniquely organized vascular patterns.
- Exploring inclusive education in times of COVID-19: an international comparison of German, Austrian and Portuguese teachersPublication . Letzel-Alt, Verena; Pozas, Marcela; Schwab, Susanne; Schneider, Christoph; Lindner, Katharina Theresa; Dias, Paulo; Cadime, IreneWith the start of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the global education system has a faced immense challenges and disruptions resulting in and the necessity for an immediate redesign of teaching and learning in the school context. Face-to-face classroom instruction had to be replaced by ‘emergency remote teaching’, requiring teacher to adapt their daily routines to a new and unprecedented educational reality. Researchers and policymakers worldwide have agreed that, despite the fact that efforts were made to immediately adapt to emergency remote teaching, disadvantaged and vulnerable students may be especially at risk in emergency remote teaching. Given the differences in schooling organization across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic it can be expected that teachers performed inclusive instructional practices significantly different. Against the unpredictable situation, cross-country research has been urgently required to provide data that could inform education policy. Thus, this study explored teachers’ perceptions of supporting at risk students during the first COVID-19 school closures, as well as examining teachers’ inclusive teaching practices in three countries: Germany, Austria and Portugal. ANOVA results revealed important country differences. In general, it appears that teachers in Germany and Austria reported to have implemented less practices to address vulnerable and at-risk students compared to Portuguese teachers. Implications of the results, as well as further lines of research are outlined.
- O self-branding da geração Z no TikTokPublication . Figueiredo, Catarina da Costa Baptista; Soares, Fátima Patrícia Nunes da Encarnação Marques DiasO TikTok, enquanto plataforma digital recente e popular entre a Geração Z, tem um grande poder de autopromoção. Foram muitos os jovens que mundialmente, e de uma forma inesperada, ascenderam à fama através da plataforma tornando-se microcelebridades, fenómeno que também ocorreu em Portugal. Através desta investigação, pretende-se compreender em que medida é o TikTok uma ferramenta eficiente para fins de self-branding e autopromoção para os influenciadores portugueses na plataforma. As estratégias utilizadas pelas microcelebridades, assim como as tipologias de conteúdos produzidos, e ainda as vantagens e desvantagens resultantes das especificidades do TikTok foram estudadas. Para tal, recorreu-se a entrevistas semiestruturadas a microcelebridades portuguesas do TikTok (18-24 anos) pertencentes à Geração Z. Os resultados obtidos comprovam a eficiência do TikTok no que respeita à profissionalização de uma carreira no mundo digital, resultante da interface do TikTok, do conteúdo produzido que se revela humorístico, e ainda, da forte comunidade construída através da plataforma.
- Empathy development from adolescence to adulthood and its consistency across targetsPublication . Gaspar, Augusta; Esteves, FranciscoThis research was conducted with two main goals—to contribute to knowledge on the development of empathy from early adolescence to adulthood, including its contribution to decoding emotion expression, and to improve the understanding of the nature of empathy by simultaneously assessing empathy toward two different targets—humans and animals. It unfolded into two cross-sectional studies: One (S1) obtaining measures of empathy toward humans and animals as targets across five age groups (from pre-adolescents to adults); and another (S2) where a subset of the adolescents who participated in S1 were assessed in emotion expression decoding and subjective and physiological responses to emotional video clips. The results of S1 showed that empathy toward animals and most dimensions of empathy toward humans increase toward adulthood, with important gender differences in empathy to animals and humans, and empathy levels in girls starting off in the age trajectory at higher levels, A moderate correlation between empathy toward human and toward animal targets was also found. S2 showed that the expression of positive emotion is better recognized than that of negative emotion, surprise, or neutral expression, and that the measure of human-directed empathy predicts successful decoding of negative emotion, whereas skin conductance responses (SCRs) and subjective valence ratings predicted successful identification of positive emotion. Gender differences emerged but not across all age groups nor all subscales. Results yield keys to the developmental “pace” and trajectory of the various dimensions of empathy and to how empathy relates to emotion decoding.