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The “Signaling Theory” is a theoretical framework that investigates the content reported in sustainability reports, considering that through signaling, companies can influence stakeholders’ perceptions, create a competitive advantage and positively impact their corporate image. Signals can be classified into three types: camouflage, intent and necessity. By analyzing their sustainability reports, this study presents a step-by-step approach to classifying sustainability practices reported by companies according to the aforementioned types of signals. We propose a step-by-step approach based on a thematic and qualitative analysis that encourages replication by the research community. Details in the study will validate the proposed method and consider the lessons learned. A method is proposed that allows the sustainability practices reported by companies to be classified into camouflage, intent and necessity signals through their sustainability reports. A seven-step process for thematic analysis is described based on a qualitative research approach for achieving the above-mentioned goal. The classification of sustainability practices into the camouflage typology is a challenging process, as it tends to be biased, hence the identification of this type of signals in comparison with those of intent and necessity requires the adoption of measures that guarantee the reduction of bias on the part of the researcher.

Work plays a significant role in societies; however, currently, work is a particularly difficult area for those in the most vulnerable social categories who have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because there is scarce research on labor integration of people affected by armed conflicts from work adjustment (WA) perspectives, we have developed research to understand the relationship between people and their work setting in an employment program inspired in supported employment models (SEMs). To achieve this, a nonexperimental mixed-methods research design with a convergent parallel approach and multilevel design was developed. The results show that the work-adjustment approach is a useful framework with which to understand the relationship between the work setting and individuals. The conclusions of the research are as follows: (1) people who have been involved in armed conflicts can develop attitudes and abilities to properly develop their work; (2) the configuration of a labor-inclusion model is related to the results in the medium and long term, both in the program itself and in its participants and society; (3) the SEMs contribute to the effective inclusion of people affected by armed conflicts, which have low skills, scarce social contacts, and low educational levels.

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented situation, impacting all productive sectors. Human resources departments have been instrumental in migrating from a functional to a strategic perspective, contributing to the strengthening of organisations. This chapter aims to analyse workplace responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the adoption of human resources practices through a systematic literature review. Findings indicate that the main responses to the pandemic were creating a work team to manage the crisis; virtual work at the individual and group levels; encouraging virtual leadership; psychological, financial, and health support; fostering a work environment favourable to empowerment, shared decision-making, and participation. Other frequently mentioned human resources practices were compensation, flexible working, work design, performance management, remote working, work-family balance, recognition programmes, and training and development practices.

Desafíos en la formación de psicólogos de las organizaciones y el trabajo es un libro que mueve al lector hacia la radicalización de la reflexividad, como diría Anthony Giddens, y hacia la posibilidad de enfrentar el mundo por medio de la construcción de nuevas formas de pensar y actuar, saliendo de una POT enraizada en el siglo XX, para entrar en una POT dirigida hacia el siglo XXI, sin la pretensión ni la ingenuidad de pensar que ahora todo es diferente. ¿Podríamos, tal vez, hablar de una continuidad con rupturas y fisuras? Nuevas demandas del mundo del trabajo, la rivalidad paradigmática generadora de deformación de la identidad de carrera en POT, la investigación, la producción y las prácticas como estrategias de formación; la cuestión de la inclusión social, la formación como productora de subjetividades, los antagonismos y las interfaces con el coaching, el papel del sindicato, la emergencia de la psicología positiva, entre otras cuestiones, constituyen algunos temas abordados en este libro.