Il silenzio e l’umanità autentica : antropologia ed etica fra Montaigne e Heidegger

During the long history of Western thought, silence has always represented the main condition for the development of a deep meditation about the Self. Through this activity, which could seem to be in contrast with social life and philosophical praxis, several thinkers have tried to reach the spiritual nature of human beings. However, when they had to assign a foundation to it, the same meditation, which had started from the same bases, brought them to opposite conclusions. The motive for this divergence is grounded on the fact that materiality is not the only component that constitutes silence, since it has indeed a complex nature and so it consists also of an immaterial part. In addition, this inner and more hidden aspect could only be perceived through a direct contact that is rarely and personally achieved. As a consequence of this complexity, beside an interpretation of silence as a manifestation of God’s voice and a proof of the transcendent peculiarity of human beings, another reading has developed along a parallel path. This interpretation has represented silence as an expression of an utterly immanent spirituality that characterizes humanity. Two authors, in particular, can exhibit this frequently forgotten second stream of Western thought that has unceasingly run from Hellenistic age to contemporary culture: they are Michel de Montaigne and Martin Heidegger. This essay seeks to rebuild this long and complex plot of the history of Western thought through the texts’ recourse. At the same time, it seeks to grasp, in the relationship between men and silence, some fundamental prerequisites that could be considered absolutely necessary in order to design an anthropology and, consequently, an ethics with the characteristics of a recovered authenticity. These two renovated categories, according to the immanent feature of silence, have their own justification exclusively in the voice of human conscience and their purpose lies precisely in the relationship with others.

Teoria administrativa e educação : um estudo de caso da gestão da Educação Pública na Amazónia

School management is a recent worry in the history of Brazilian education. Still today the administrative theories from the industrial business model are reference for education, despite its specificities. This situation is not a misconception. Care is necessary to attempt to the goal differences from schools to companies. The aim of this research was to analyze the influence of administrative practices in the quality of education in the Brazilian state of Pará, taking as empiric reference the educational-administrative reality of the 10th Educational Regional Unit (ERU), in the period from 2007 to 2010. The study was made by means of document analysis, questionnaires and the revision of theoretic fundaments, analyzing the results of the national exams of high schools and the practice of ERU school directors and schools of the same unit. Our conclusion is that among managers, the is a lack of knowledge and lack of practice of an adequate theory for education, what has created problems to the students evaluation, whose right to success is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of Brazil. The academics and managers of education would need to discuss and reach the propositions of a management theory that meets the aims and goals of education

Motivação no trabalho: um estudo de caso na gestão administrativa do Hospital Divina Providência

A motivação organizacional é assunto que vem sendo estudado mais profundamente com o passar do tempo, buscando entender o que realmente faz com que o colaborador se sinta motivado para desenvolver suas atividades laborais. A fim de atingir o objetivo proposto nesta pesquisa foram estudados os aspectos motivacionais no ambiente de trabalho da área administrativa do hospital filantrópico Divina Providência, localizado no município de Marituba integrante da área metropolitana do Estado do Pará e, qual a percepção dos clientes em relação aos serviços prestados por estes profissionais. Para tanto, a primeira parte do estudo, apresenta uma pesquisa bibliográfica, com o objetivo de coletar contribuições de diversos autores sobre o tema motivação Estes aspectos foram estudados sob a égide de estudiosos como Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Aldefer e Adams. O estudo justifica-se pela necessidade de serem obtidos dados que dizem respeito a aspectos objetivos e subjetivos que podem ser captados ou não na correlação entre os fatores motivacionais e o êxito dos serviços realizados. Face à natureza do problema, este estudo de caso tem como procedimento metodológico a aplicação e a análise de três questionários em três amostragens: colaboradores da área administrativa sem cargo de chefia, colaboradores que possuem cargo de chefia na área administrativa em dados sobre motivação laboral, clientes sobre a qualidade de serviços prestados pelo hospital. Por um lado, os dados evidenciaram uma visão realista em relação a motivação dos colaboradores. Mostrando ainda uma visão positiva em relação à qualidade dos serviços prestados. Os resultados expostos conseguiram demonstrar quais os principais fatores que representam a motivação dos colaboradores no trabalho além de visualizar a satisfação dos usuários com os serviços prestados.