A film director’s challenge : To manage – to manage? – The creative process in a film project

The aim of this text is to discuss how it is possible to manage the art creating process in a film project, where the circumstances are often turbulent. In normative project management literature one proceeds from the idea that a project is realised in a stable world from a clear goal. In a film project there is often a need to change your plans, to improvise both in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. In the theoretical cinematic literature the responsibility for the final film text is more and more being viewed as a product of not only the director, but of the whole team’s work. Consequently, the narrative of leadership/management in a film team can be viewed from a relational perspective where the director and those s/he interacts with, are responsible for the action, relations and social situations they construe jointly in the process of filmmaking. The organization of a film project is a temporary one. The members of a team are seldom the same from one production to another, as well as the creative process always being unique. According to process thinking, organizing can be seen as the ongoing creative activity where we structure and stabilize the chaotic, moving reality. As concerns a film project, the process of becoming of the filmic expression; careful plans, on the one hand, and improvisation and flexibility in action, on the other hand, are a precondition for its realisation. The director when setting a linguistic formulation to what is to be done, can be considered as a practical author.

Working towards leisure

Expanded individual availability and flexibility is necessary in order to progress in a management career to senior level. If managers owe all their time to the organisation and their work as managers they are left with no time to invest in the management of their private lives. Therefore, it remains unspoken in their management work how they are able to create time and space to enjoy free time during their non-working hours. Managers female partners prepare all the domestic work in the private sphere in order for the manager to enjoy their free time in any leisure activity. The empirical evidence for this argument derives from 64 in-depth interviews with male managers from three European countries (Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom) working for one large multinational company. These interviews cover the views of a variety of male managers with an age range between 30 and 65 years and, thus, different management positions and life stages. This article explores three different layers of time in male managers work careers: non-working time, free-time and leisure time. It includes the concept of leisure work which enables managers to devote themselves absolutely to whatever they want to do in their non-working time. Therefore combining a professional career and family life for male managers is only a question of balancing their work as male managers and leisure time and not an issue of tension between employment and domestic obligations.

Análise comparativa das metodologias de remuneração adotadas pelas empresas no Brasil e sua influência na mudança organizacional

Este trabalho foi realizado partindo do pressuposto que os salários e benefícios praticados nas organizações podem influenciar significativamente o desempenho e/ou os resultados empresariais até então apresentados pelas empresas; o que é de extrema importância para empresas que vivenciam um momento de mudança organizacional. Neste contexto, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo principal revisar as metodologias de remuneração de pessoal e, realizar uma análise comparativa das práticas adotadas pelas empresas no Brasil e da sua influência na mudança organizacional. Esta pesquisa teórica e prática foi implementada através da revisão bibliográfica e da pesquisa de campo. Devido ao nível de complexidade do tema em questão foi utilizada a pesquisa exploratória, para melhor verificar como a remuneração influencia no processo de mudança organizacional. Com base em quatro (4) estudos de caso que foram desenvolvidos a partir de uma análise de conteúdo documental e da análise de questionários, observou-se que a remuneração variável é bastante utilizada como complemento do salário base. O resultado deste trabalho leva-nos a conclusão de que as metodologias de remuneração praticadas pelas empresas analisadas neste estudo foram capazes de influenciar positivamente seus resultados, auxiliando a implementação da mudança organizacional.

Treino de visualização mental em guarda-redes de futebol: Avaliação do impacto de um programa de intervenção sobre o rendimento desportivo e sobre as competências de autoconfiança e de concentração

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Social e das Organizações.