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  • Grateful Workers, Satisfied Workers? A Portuguese Study about Organizational Happiness during COVID-19 Quarantine
    Publication . Ataíde, Inês; Araújo, Patrícia; Araújo, Alexandra M.; Fernandes, Rosina; Martins, Emília; Mendes, Francisco
    Although work satisfaction has been largely studied, gratitude is an emerging field within multiple sciences, including positive psychology, organizational behavior, and human resources marketing. This ex post facto study aims to characterize gratitude and understand its relations to job satisfaction in a non-probabilistic sample of 521 Portuguese workers (62.2% women), 30.90% and 69.10% in the public and private sector, respectively, mean ages of M = 43, SD = 12.6. Data were collected using anonymous questionnaires during the COVID-19 lockdown. Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS 26, and include Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlations, and a hierarchical linear regression model. Results confirm that Portuguese workers are grateful and satisfied at work. There were statistically significant differences between groups in sociodemographic (p < 0.001 and p < 0.05), professional (p < 0.01 and p < 0.001), and perceived living conditions variables (p < 0.05) regarding gratitude. Gratitude, alone, explains 8% of job satisfaction. According to the regression model (32.4%), perceptions of satisfaction initiatives and greater job security are also associated with higher levels of job satisfaction (23.6%). Implementation of gratitude-promoting strategies may increase job satisfaction, especially in the post-pandemic period. The investment in workers’ organizational happiness, after the impacts of COVID-19 on work dynamics, is a differentiating organizations success dimension.
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  • (In)Visíveis interstícios: aproximações entre dupla-consciência e sarjeta em Roseira, Medalha, Engenho e Outras Histórias
    Publication . F. Miranda Jr, Edmilson
    Investiga relações entre a concepção de “dupla-consciência” de W.E.B. Du Bois e a sarjeta – componente específica da linguagem das histórias em quadrinhos. Para tanto, utiliza-se um método fundamentado no conceito de “encruzilhada” de Simas e Rufino (2019) para articular o cruzamento entre o afrofuturismo e a história em quadrinhos Roseira, Medalha, Engenho e Outras Histórias, de Jefferson Costa. O resultado apresenta aproximações entre fissuras no pensamento hegemônico expostas pelo afrofuturismo, e os “entre-lugares” de Homi Bhabha – espaço/tempo de produção de subjetividades. A sarjeta torna-se, então, uma metáfora para a alternativa contra-hegemônica de práticas discursivas de produção de identidade associadas com o Afrofuturismo.
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