El Grado de Conocimiento y Utilización del Cuadro de Mando Integral en los Ayuntamientos Portugueses

La búsqueda de la racionalización en la gestión de los recursos públicos y la necesidad de mejorar la calidad de los servicios prestados, aspectos asociados al modelo de “Nueva Gestión Pública”, han motivado la aplicación en las entidades públicas de conceptos y prácticas desarrollados y utilizados previamente en el ámbito privado. En este sentido, varias entidades públicas y sin ánimo de lucro han manifestado particular interés en la implementación del Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI). Este trabajo tiene como objetivo proporcionar algunas ideas acerca de la importancia, las características y las necesarias adaptaciones del CMI para su aplicación a organizaciones públicas y sin ánimo de lucro, así como averiguar si los ayuntamientos portugueses conocen y están a adoptar el CMI. En consecuencia, hemos enviado un cuestionario a los 308 ayuntamientos portugueses, con una tasa de respuesta del 32,5%. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que aunque la mayoría de los encuestados conoce el CMI, su utilización en dichas organizaciones es muy reducida.

An empirical assessment of customer satisfaction and quality of servisse: Comparing Servqual and Servperf

This paper assesses the validity and reliability of two instruments measuring quality of service, the SERVPERF and SERVQUAL scales, replicated in a novel cultural settings, a Portuguese energy company. To provide insights and strategies for managerial intervention, a relation between customers’ satisfaction and quality of service is established. The empirical study suggests a superior convergent and predictive validity of SERVPERF scale to measure quality of service in this settings when comparing to SERVQUAL. The main differences of this study with previous ones, are that this one resorts on a confirmatory factor analysis, the validation of the instruments is performed by using the same measures suggested by their creators and extends the line of research to a novel cultural settings, a Portuguese energy company. Concerning the relationship between service quality and customers’ satisfaction, all of the quality of service attributes correlate almost equally to the satisfaction ones, with a lower weight concerning tangibles.

An empirical assessment of customer satisfaction and quality of service: comparing SERVQUAL and SERVPERF

This paper assesses the validity and reliability of two instruments measuring quality of service, the SERVPERF and SERVQUAL scales, replicated in a novel cultural settings, a Portuguese energy company. To provide insights and strategies for managerial intervention, a relation between customers’ satisfaction and quality of service is established. The empirical study suggests a superior convergent and predictive validity of SERVPERF scale to measure quality of service in this settings when comparing to SERVQUAL. The main differences of this study with previous ones, are that this one resorts on a confirmatory factor analysis, the validation of the instruments is performed by using the same measures suggested by their creators and extends the line of research to a novel cultural settings, a Portuguese energy company. Concerning the relationship between service quality and customers’ satisfaction, all of the quality of service attributes correlate almost equally to the satisfaction ones, with a lower weight concerning tangibles.

I CONGRESSO JURÍDICO DE INVESTIGADORES LUSÓFONOS: não esqueça a lei!

Quando pessoas com as mais altas responsabilidades institucionais e políticas, em países da lusofonia, alegam “o desconhecimento da lei social e dos impostos”, nada melhor do que ir(em) assistir a um congresso em diversas áreas do Direito para aprenderem um pouco, com entrada gratuita e direito a perguntas e debate. § When people with the highest institutional and political responsibilities in Lusophone countries claim "ignorance of social law and taxation", nothing better than going (in) attend a convention in various areas of law to learn a little, with free admission and the right to question and debate.