Research as a profession and as an art
Giuseppe Scaratti, Ezio Fregnan, Silvia Ivaldi
This paper is positioned within the debate concerning the applicative nature of human and social sciences, with specific reference to Work and Organisational Psychology. New trajectories for relevant, meaningful and appropriate research are called for. Carrying out research related to objects and questions concerning the emergence of new organisational scenarios requires a professionalism capable of rereading and redirecting the epistemological, methodological and operational coordinates connected to this production of knowledge, in line with an epistemology of practice, realised in a relational and transformative emic research methodology. Hence the relationship between the professional dimension and art, which the contribution explores in its declinations in the context of WOP research.
Keywords
Professionalism, Art, Applied research, Complexity, Epistemology of the particular.
