General induction at companies - between an administrative process and a sociological phenomenon

From the example of the process of general induction into the organization and using certain sociological resources, shows paradox are specialists in human management: is to carefor the motivation and the welfare of workers to achieve its high performance, their fidelity and his tenure at the company; However, current mutations of the social architecture in general and of work in particular –as structure of organized action– force thinking that organizational loyalty tends to be increasingly unlikely and that, conversely, the current personnel administration processes appear made inappropriate notions and appear to contribute directly to the adversities of human beings in organizational settings.

A motivação empreendedora e a satisfação com o desempenho organizacional em empresas de pequeno e médio porte de Blumenau: uma análise da indústria local

The current study arose from previous studies made by McClelland (1972), Namam; Slevin (1993), Kuratko; Hornsby; Naffziger (1997), Hoeltgebaum; Kato (2002); Hoeltgebaum;Debastini (2003), Hoeltgebaum; Santos; Loesch (2003) and Hoeltgebaum; Santos (2003). Its objective is to understand the reasons that that lead an entrepreneur to open his ownbusiness, his degree of satisfaction and to perceive if there is a relation between entrepreneurial motivation and the performance of companies. In order to concretize the objective, a descriptive qualitative/quantitative research was realized, amounting to 88 questions of a closed type, statistically ordered. Data collection was achieved by means of a questionnaire divided into 4 parts. Once responses to the questionnaires were obtained, analysis was performed on them, using LHSTAT software. Among the principal results, it was evident in the analysis of the questionnaires that there were a variety of motivations for opening a new business present among the interviewed, with a small, distinct difference in the frequency of the responses. When the satisfaction of the respondents regarding the performance of the company was analyzed, it was perceived that the greatest satisfaction derived from gross and net profit margin and return on investment. Several interdependencies between motivation and satisfactionand performance were evident in the research, with three in particular being the strongest. It was decided to include a category regarding behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs tothe objectives of the project in which, according to the interviewees, these have a strong entrepreneurial profile; results showed that all the characteristics are well developed. It wasconcluded that the intrinsic motivations are more evident in the entrepreneurs interviewed and that the greatest satisfaction among them lies in the area of gross and net profit margin andin return over investment. It was perceived that there are clear relationships between the motivation of entrepreneurs and satisfaction with the performance of companies.

Trabalho, gênero e desemprego em Lagoa do Carro.

El tema del ensayo esta insertado en un tipo de estrategia de supervivencia de la producción local frente a las transformaciones de los sistemas tradicionales de producción. Se refiere a cooperativas de mujeres en la zona de Mata de Pernambuco, en el Pueblo de Lagoa do Carro. Dichas cooperativas viene desarrollando un trabajo de producción de alfombras artesanales que son hechas, en general, en el propio hogar de las mujeres y que son comercializadas en una pequeña tienda localizada al margen de la carretera PE-90.