Abstract
The analysis of Loccioni Group history, values, organizational features and its managerial practices in the field of internal communication and people management, permits to understand how humanistic principles of human dignity and human flourishing can be concretely put into practice within a knowledge enterprise. Such examination contributes to clarify and strengthen theoretical model of a “humanistic knowledge enterprise”, which would be able to harmonize its economic success with a fundamental ethical commitment towards human beings. Furthermore, it would offer to Loccioni owners, managers and collaborators a wider comprehension of the Group humanistic orientation, making it more explicit and even proposing its possible further improvement.
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Specifically, Loccioni business sectors are the following: Industry: measure, assembly and quality control for industrial processes, products and buildings; Mobility: assembly, testing and quality control systems for automotive components; Environment: integrated solutions for environmental monitoring; Energy: integrated energy efficiency solutions, solutions for energy production from renewable sources and green IT; Humancare: automating and quality control solutions for health care; Train and Transport: integrated solutions for transport and railways network; Aerospace: measure, automation and quality control solutions for aeronautic and aerospace processes, systems and components (http://www.loccioni.com/what-we-do/?lang=en).
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See From the “metalmezzadro” to the knowledge-based company, Loccioni internal document.
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Aristide Merloni (1897–1970) was an Italian businessman, founder of Merloni industries. He started his entrepreneurial adventure with the production of scales. In the following decades, he developed a large range of products, from gas cylinders to water heaters, from bathtubs to household appliances and kitchen furniture. And from his name, Aristide, the company drew inspiration to create its historical, most famous trademark, Ariston.
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Enrico Mattei (1906–1962) was an Italian public administrator. After World War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency Agip, a state enterprise established by the Fascist regime. On the other hand, Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI).
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Meeting/interview with Enrico Loccioni, 07/04/2014 (my translation).
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See Gruppo Loccioni (Eds.) (2008–2012). Quaderni di cultura di impresa. Ancona: Edizioni Loccioni. See also Varvelli, 2014, pp. 9–14. Camillo Olivetti (1868–1943) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. The company was later run by his son Adriano (1901–1960). The latter was an entrepreneur and innovator who transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory. In and out of the factory, he both practiced and preached the utopian system of “the community movement”.
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Meeting/interview with Enrico Loccioni, 07/04/2014 (my translation).
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Training meeting with Renzo Libenzi (General Manager at Loccioni Group), 12/03/2015, my translation.
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See Dalla conoscenza alla competenza [From knowledge to competence], Loccioni internal document. This document was elaborated by me starting from some notes of Enrico Loccioni of July 2013.
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Meeting/interview with Enrico Loccioni and Graziella Rebichini (Enrico Loccioni’s wife and co-owner of Loccioni Group), 26/06/2013, my translation.
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Ibid.
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Training meeting with Gino Romiti (Innovation Director at Loccioni Group), 18/06/2014, my translation.
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Training meeting with Maria Paola Palermi (Communication Manager at Loccioni Group), my translation. See also http://www.loccioni.com/about-us/mission-and-values/?lang=en.
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Meeting/interview with Enrico Loccioni and Graziella Rebichini, 26/06/2013, my translation. It should be noticed that there was some tension between Enrico and Graziella as regards the importance of profit and the use of it. Indeed, while the former strongly affirms profit as something to reinvest in the company, the latter shows a major attention in reducing wastes and putting money aside. The research of a balance between these two perspectives has been characterizing the evolution of the Group, contributing to integrate the economical wealth of the enterprise with a social commitment which goes beyond mere profit-making.
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http://www.play-factory.it/. See also Play Factory, Loccioni internal document.
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Such a vision is adopted by Friedrich Schiller’s Letters upon the aesthetic education of man, according to which “human being is really human only when he plays” (Schiller 2002, p. 48).
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“Work has to be at the service of the people’s growth. For this reason it should be not repetitive and has to be a meaningful and social dimension” (Meeting/interview with Enrico Loccioni, 10/02/2014, my translation). Such a vision is developed and promoted also thanks to the collaboration between Loccioni Group and Fondazione Lavoroperlapersona, a no-profit organization placed in Offida (Italy) and involved in the educational implementation of a virtuous relation between human beings and work (http://www.lavoroperlapersona.it/).
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Training meeting with Renzo Libenzi, 12/03/2015, my translation.
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Meeting with Enrico Loccioni, Managers and Departments Directors, 29/10/2013.
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See Gruppo Loccioni (Eds.) (2008–2012). Quaderni di cultura di impresa; Id. (2012) Al futuro per il passato. Ancona: Edizioni Loccioni.
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For example, Our Knowledge Company, Loccioni internal document previously shown.
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Specifically, the website section Our Knowledge Company is the space in which Loccioni way of conceiving and developing work, research and future emerges through confronting with external interlocutors. See http://www.loccioni.com/limpresa-della-conoscenza/?lang=en.
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See Speech of Fabrizio Pieralisi (employer branding and recruiter at Loccioni Group), 16/04/2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrneT0GNxJ0. See also http://www.videodimpresa.com/video_179_Human+Resources+No+People.html.
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Meeting with Enrico Loccioni, Claudio Loccioni, Cristina Loccioni, Renzo Libenzi, Luca Marassi (Mobility business unit manager at Loccioni Group), Graziano Cucchi (recruiter at Loccioni Group), 28/10/2013.
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See Bluzone, progetti per la scuola [Bluzone, projects for school], Loccioni internal document.
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Meeting with Enrico Loccioni, Renzo Libenzi, Luca Varvelli (Loccioni Group consultant), 26/05/15.
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Bluzone Camp, Loccioni internal document.
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See Open Knowledge. Loccioni Ph.D. Community, Loccioni internal document.
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Meeting with Riccardo Varvelli (Loccioni Group consultant), Enrico Loccioni, Renzo Libenzi, Maria Paola Palermi, Gino Romiti, Luca Marassi, 19/04/2013.
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Meeting with Loccioni Renzo Libenzi, Tommaso Puerini (Business Development Manager at Loccioni Group), People Team, 04/05/2015.
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Meeting with Enrico Loccioni, 10/02/2014.
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See Silverzone, Loccioni internal document.
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Meeting with Renzo Libenzi and Fabrizio Pieralisi, 08/10/2013.
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Sitography
http://www.loccioni.com/about-us/mission-and-values/?lang=en.
http://www.videodimpresa.com/video_179_Human+Resources+No+People.html.
Loccioni Internal Documents
Bluzone Camp.
Bluzone, progetti per la scuola [Bluzone, Project for School].
Dalla conoscenza alla competenza [From Knowledge to Competence].
First Charter of Values.
From the “metalmezzadro” to the Knowledge-Based Company.
Il mio progetto in Loccioni [My project in Loccioni].
Organizational Chart.
Open Knowledge. Loccioni Ph.D. Community.
Our Knowledge Company.
Our Knowledge Company. Spunti di miglioramento personale e organizzativo [Our Knowledge Company: Insights for Personal and Organizational Improvements].
Knowledge Players.
Play Factory.
Silverzone.
Social Balance 2016.
Twelve Rules of the Winning Team.
33 mq di opportunità [6000 mq of Opportunities].
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De Stefano, F. (2021). The Loccioni Model of “Humanistic Knowledge Enterprise”. In: von Kimakowitz, E., Schirovsky, H., Largacha-Martínez, C., Dierksmeier, C. (eds) Humanistic Management in Practice. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51545-4_3
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