Auditoria operacional: uma nova ótica dos tribunais de contas auditarem a gestão pública, sob o prisma da eficiência, economicidade, eficácia e efetividade, e o desafio de sua consolidação no TCE/RJ

Este estudo objetiva investigar o estágio em que se encontra a auditoria operacional no Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (TCE-RJ), quais as suas modalidades já foram realizadas, os benefícios gerados para a melhoria da gestão do gasto público e os estágios que faltam para ser considerada plenamente implementada. A pesquisa parte do pressuposto de que no TCE-RJ a auditoria operacional ainda se encontra num estágio embrionário, assim como em quase todos os Tribunais de Contas dos demais estados, e necessita avançar mais para alcançar o estágio pleno, uma vez que este tipo de auditoria amplia os seus papéis para além da fiscalização legal das ações governamentais, ao ter que verificar a existência de eficiência, eficácia, economicidade e efetividade nessas ações. Além de proporcionar o fortalecimento dos controles internos e aperfeiçoamento das rotinas e procedimentos dos órgãos auditados e abrir um canal para interação com os gestores públicos. Para materializar os objetivos fixados, levantamos todas as auditorias com enfoque de auditoria operacional ou de avaliação de programas realizados nos últimos dois anos no TCE-RJ, selecionamos então uma delas para uma análise detalhada dos seus conteúdos e benefícios gerados ao aperfeiçoamento da gestão pública. O estudo analisou, ainda, como os técnicos gestores do Tribunal percebem auditoria operacional, a fim de identificar os benefícios que ela traz e os estágios a serem alcançados para a sua plena implementação.

Visões das gerências da auditoriainterna da Petrobras sobre a sua estratégia de atuação em facedas práticas de mercado e da nova modelagem organizacional da companhia

The purpose of this study is to identify the strategic vision of the Internal Audit Department of Petrel Brasileiro S.A. PETROBRAS, in comparison with the audit function's proposals and practices in competitive organizations and their reality. It also aims at the verification of the possible solutions, within Petrobras itself, so as to constantly add value to the business and to the shareholders. With this in mind, a research was carried out, contemplating the conceptual proposals and market practices related to auditing and to the current diagnosis and the organizational model of Petrobras, so as to choose elements for comparison and analysis of such vision. The results of this research pointed in the direction of questioning the organizational value of the internal audit action, concluding that it will only be possible to continuously attain such value by means of a permanent coordination with the organization's strategic level. This is especially true if the audit action participates effectively in the process of Corporate Governance, in defining the risks, the internal control system and the measurement of corporate performance, as related to the development of the strategic plan. However, any action along these lines is still heavily impacted and limited by several aspects of culture and relationship of the organizational power as well as by the beliefs of the organization and of the body of auditors. The involvement of the auditors as employees was also considered relevant in the auditing process, by means of the participation of the audited entities in self assessment2. This procedure is still not sufficiently guaranteed by successful experiments in major organizations, considering that there is not a clear demonstration of the effective benefits of adopting this practice, as ompared to the central control, seldom shared but strongly monitored by integrated information systems. Finally, this research points to the need to renew the concept of the formation and role of the auditors in modern competitive organizations, in the face of information technology and of automation of the instrument controls of the business. Therefore, one may conclude that the trend will be toward an action aiming at the revision of formal internal control matrixes, as they are established in such systems. On the other hand, the majority of audit human resources will be increasingly deployed to the evaluation of risk and control, as related to relevant events of a more abstract nature, as in the case of those connected with the uncontrollable factors of the external environment.

Microcrédito como ferramenta de geração de renda e emprego: uma análise de experiências públicas municipais

The goal of this work is to study microcredit public policy as a mechanism of improving wage and decreasing unemployment rates. This study is contextualized by analysis of up-to-date macroeconomic national situation, Brazilian intergovernamental constitutional relationship, Brazilian job market and local development perspectives, trying to show that public microcredit driven by local government is a natural and useful way. Two cases have been chosen for analysis: Banco do Povo de Juiz de For a and São Paulo Confia.

Instrumentos de apoio financeiro específicos a empresas localizadas em arranjos produtivos locais: um estudo de caso do APL de Nova Friburgo

In the last decade, the debate concerning more adequate means of promoting social and economic development, through policies of firm supporting, has been gaining strength. Among several means of support, there is one that addresses issues related to credit and funding. At the same time, interest on the phenomenon of firm agglomeration, known by clustering, is increasing, as well as one of its advantages - facilitating the development and strengthening of its firms. Additionally, there can be spotted advantages on clustering that allow tailoring financial instruments, specifically to firms in it, based on collective solutions, with better conditions. This dissertation focuses on how the capture of these opportunities is being done, in the presence of specific financial products to Brazilian clusters. The present analysis is conducted from the cluster located in Nova Friburgo and Region, specialized in women underwear. This study sought to capture advantages from three main collective solutions: information systems, guarantees systems, alternative funding. These solutions address to the following issues: information asymmetries, absence of guarantees from the credit taker, limited sources of funding. Semi-structured interviews were made with members of the cluster, when it was possible to identify that the capture of advantages is in its early stages, being limited by other issues, such as: adequate degree of human capital, governance framework and process inefficiencies.

A importância do componente cívico para o funcionamento efetivo de canais participativos como instrumentos de inclusão democrática: um estudo de caso dos Comitês Gestores de Bairro do Programa Nova Baixada

The present research aimed at verifying the performance, as instruments of democratic inclusion, of the managing committees (¿Comitês Gestores de Bairro¿), created by the Government of Rio de Janeiro in the scope of the Nova Baixada Program. Thus, at first, it was presented the concept of democracy, its presuppositions and fragilities, as well as some mechanisms introduced with the objective to extend the effectiveness of this regimen, like the channels of popular participation. It was also demonstrated the importance of the diffusion of civic values for the consolidation of the democracy, mainly in countries like Brazil, where determined cultural characteristics of the society use to act in a negative way in the democratization process. With this propose, some democratic theories, which value aspects as civism and social capital, had been presented and it was also analyzed the cultural elements of the Brazilian society that had negative implications in the performance of the channels of participation introduced in the country. Finally, it was examined the performance of the Comitês Gestores de Bairro (managing committees) of the Nova Baixada Program, trying to establish a relation between the structure of them and the cultural characteristics of our society.

Transição cultural : divergências diante da formação de uma nova identidade : estudo de caso da Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão - CST

The employees' partlclpation in the cultural transltIon process occurred in Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST) was helpful in the identification of the group of measures that started to be managed in order to be established in the run of the control assumption. The company, in order to acquire proper features, had to change prior values, behaviors and identities through strategies shared by ali the organization members, thus, creating a new culture. The CST was seen as a company controlling and coordinating a group of people. It counted on vertical hierarchical leveis, departments and authority relations. It was neve r taken into account that the company could have its own personality, like each person that worked there. Before getting through this cultural transition process, that extremely changed its values, the company had a dominating culture, with a centralized administration. This way, it influenced the conduct of ali its members, in a controlling environment. When the company realized the necessity of investments in cultural changing programs, in order to eliminate the pathologies and disfunctions that were hitting its business structure, causing damage to productivity and to the quality of the results, it condensed energies in one direction implementing the participation of ali its leaderships as implementing and multiplier elements to orientate and facilitate the achievement of its goals. Trying to understand better the influences suffered by the changes brought by globalization and privatization, some theorical and operational concepts of culture and identity were developed in this study, mainly in the first chapters. In the research extension, several aspects of this complex anthropological and sociological concept of culture were managed, such as affectiveness, cognitive process, valuation process and everything that could be related to or that give elligibility to this concept and to the phenomenon this concept will consist in.

Fatores relevantes na geração de valor da marca PETROBRAS - um estudo com consumidores do segmento de combustíveis

The main purpose of this study is identify and select the assessment indicators for Brand Equity (BE), in the fuels segment. Within this perspective, we have chosen to assess the influences based on the following attributes: Brand Loyalty (Lealdade à Marca ( LM), Brand Recognition (Conhecimento da Marca ( CM), Perceived Quality (Qualidade Percebida ( QP) and Brand Associations (Associações à Marca ( AM), through perception of consumers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States. Based on deep interviews in the qualitative phase and in surveys, in the quantitative phase, we began the data analysis through Multiple Linear Regression, according to Atilgan et al. (2005) model and Ha (1996). In the first model, the (CM) was considered non-explanatory to (BE¿, and we¿ve chosen to remove it from the following study model. In the final model, besides remaining variables, demographic variables were included, such as: Family Income (Renda Familiar ( RF) and Federation State (Estado da Federação ( EF), as independent variables. The main relevant findings, through perception of consumers, indicated that the (BE) of company analyzed was better ranked in Rio de Janeiro than in São Paulo and, as for the income, higher level classes tend to have less understanding on the value of (BE) of Petrobras BR. The study finish with mentions the contribution of the research and management implication, as well as limitations and suggestions to further researchers.

Ambiente interno : a participação e o envolvimento das pessoas na busca do diferencial competitivo

Day after day, even small companies and multinationals brands need to compete in a worldwide market. All kind of global strategies have to involve production and regional market knowledge. Still being essential for company have a complete view of it market and it right position to gain competitive advantage. In a global market, get possible for the companies be in touch with last generation technologies and equipment's and all kind of research. Companies like that should develop products focused in customer's desire, even those extremely strict. Specifically in our country, as hard as we could think, the companies have access to credit lines, to the fiscal incentives offered by the states that alliance with the market potential are making possible the appearance of a lot companies and the growth of the companies already existent. However, these resources alone don't produce results to the company if it doesn't possess an internal organization able to assimilate the new market situation. The companies have to be able to apply the maximum resources offered by new technologies and understand how a communications facility means solution for many internal problems. In short terms, technology, financial resources, research and knowledge are available, however, the human resources might be prepared and developed in order to become the whole knowledge in profits. According 'JURAN' and his Total Quality Control philosophy the human resources playing fundamental role in the process, and in my opinion a company is something like a ship where all must be prepared to hold the rudder. I will develop a basic job looking for productivity and company's development through the people's involvement, focused in process of motivation, creativity and staff valorization. I believe that there no good production process without those requirements. Based on real case of a automotive parts and foundry company, located in Bento Gonçalves - RS, this work will look for to organize it mainly in its Industrial Division, adopting in participate administration where, through a information system and personnel involvement we will seek all favorable conditions to politics and strategies in get the growth of company.

A gestão da estratégia mercadologica sob uma nova perspectiva: existe relação entre a física e a administração?

A Física e a Administração concentram suas pesquisas sobre fenômenos que, de certa forma, se assemelham, fazendo com que nos questionemos a respeito da grande integral do universo a que estamos submetidos. Em uma exploração por analogias, aproxima-se aqui o mundo organizacional ao dos sistemas UnIVerSaIS, instáveis e não-integráveis, onde a flecha do tempo é quem determina a evolução dos mesmos. Mostra-se que na Administração, como na Física, tudo parece convergir na direção de um inesgotável repertório de bifurcações e possibilidades para o destino mercadológico de produtos, serviços e marcas ao longo de um continuum. Para amenizar os efeitos dessas incertezas, é buscada uma simplificação desses complexos sistemas sociais através de uma proposta de modelo baseado em fatores consagrados pela literatura da gestão empresarial como norteadores das escolhas dos consumidores; um processo gaussiano da 'percepção do valor', que pode servir de ferramenta nas decisões estratégicas e gerenciais dentro das empresas.

Atuação organizacional socialmente responsável: o caso do grupo Nova América.

Este estudo se propôs a investigar as motivações que levaram os proprietários do Grupo Nova América a atuar de fonna socialmente responsável e os impactos dessas motivações na cultura da organização. Uma visita a estudiosos dos temas responsabilidade social, motivação e cultura organizacional, compôs o referencial teórico. A metodologia empregada foi interpretativa, buscando identificar as motivações dos proprietários do Grupo, as percepções dessas motivações pelos funcionários e como tais motivações foram incorporadas à cultura organizacional. Diante das possibilidades que impelem as empresas à prática de uma atuação socialmente responsável, as conclusões apontaram para a existência de uma efetiva consciência social e ecológica do Grupo Nova América, impactando favoravelmente na fonnatação e desenvolvimento da cultura dessa organização.

O fluxo de caixa pelo método indireto como um instrumento gerencial para a avaliação qualitativa da capacidade de geração de caixa

O estudo em questão tem por objetivo atestar a eficácia do modelo do Fluxo de Caixa pelo Método Indireto em comparação ao Fluxo de Caixa Direto e à Demonstração de Origens e aplicações de Recursos, como sendo o instrumento mais recomendado para avaliar e mensurar a capacidade de geração de caixa em relação a um determinado período de tempo. O fundamento teórico foi baseado nos seguintes autores: Matarazzo (1998), Brigham e Houston (1999), Vinagre Brasil e Guimarães Brasil (1992); Sanvicente (1993), Assaf Neto (1991), Falcini (1992), Ross, Westerfild e Jaffe (1995), Hoji (2001), Brigham, Gapenski e Ehrhardt (2001), Campos (1999) e Gitman (2001). Para validar a questão central, foi elaborada uma análise dos dados relativos aos demonstrativos da Petrobrás SI A referentes aos anos de 2001 e 2000, comparando-se os resultados observados no Fluxo de Caixa Indireto com os da Demonstração de Origens e Aplicações de Recursos. A pesquisa conclui que o fluxo de caixa pelo método indireto é um instrumento útil para se avaliar qualitativamente a capacidade de geração de caixa, porém limitado às organizações de maior porte, em função da necessidade de um sistema integrado de planejamento e análise de informações gerenciais, que nem sempre é observado no universo das empresas de menor dimensão.

Uma aquisição, uma nova cultura e um velho clima

The purpose of this study was evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of being strategic tool, applied to Castrol Brazil, to make possible to conduct the company towards the needed changes facing the scenery that it was going through of being acquired by British Petroleum. Besides contributing to the administration of this changing process, providing a favorable atmosphere to motivation, synergy and mobilization of all employees facing the results maintenance, also contributed to the implementation of its sustainable development policy, via a solid culture of corporative social responsibility. Also, it doesn¿t present itself as a directive and exclusive tool, only applicable to the described reality, but adaptable and that could be used in several merger and acquisition processes, enabling the companies to be acquired the cleaned understanding of the mission and the corporative vision, the faster incorporation of the new values and the acquisition of the best results in short and medium terms. The methodology used was descriptive, explanatory and applied, making use of documental, bibliographical means, study of cases and mainly participative, by total interaction of the researcher in the context of this study

Alavancagem como instrumento de estratégia operacional: o caso da obra de construção da nova sede da Assembléia Legislativa do Estado do Maranhão

Devido à grande competitividade do mercado atual, estão em vantagem competitiva aquelas empresas que conhecem profundamente seus resultados financeiros, para que a partir deste conhecimento seus gestores possam tomar decisões visando a maximização do lucro. Dentro deste pensamento, esta pesquisa trata da alavancagem como instrumento de estratégia operacional, para isso apresenta o estudo de caso de uma obra de construção civil, setor este cuja mão-de-obra é um significante insumo, cujos funcionários de produção trabalham horas extras, aumentando o lucro da empresa. O objetivo do presente trabalho é demonstrar como a alavancagem operacional pode ser utilizada como instrumento de estratégia operacional neste contexto. Quanto aos fins se trata de uma pesquisa descritiva e aplicada; quanto aos meios é bibliográfica, documental e de campo. Foi realizada na obra de construção da nova sede da Assembléia Legislativa do Estado do Maranhão que está sendo executada pela empresa Petra Construções Ltda na cidade de São Luís.

Gestão do conhecimento em agências do Banco do Brasil S. A.: estudo de caso em filiais localizadas na cidade de Curitiba, Estado do Paraná.

In this text we tried to make a critic analysis of knowledge management, by means of case studies about some branches of Banco do Brasil S.A., trying to identify the presence or absence of elements that characterize the environmental working place focused on a continuous learning. The research was taken at several branches of Banco do Brasil S.A. in Curitiba ¿ State of Paraná ¿ Brasil. We asked the managers to answer the questions as they represent the leadership in every branch. The critic points that interfere positive or negatively the daily activities on knowledge management were examined, such as: time, administration of the branches, market changings, information systems, knowledge generation and transmission, besides the internal and external standard rules. The conclusion is that knowledge management in the researched branches is still in its beginning. Although there is an advanced technical infra structure and the managers have demonstrated some knowledge on this subject and are aware of its .importance for the company. The knowledge management is visualized more as an auxiliary technology for the updated models than a new way of managing the organization. The most important revolution expected - to modify the way of thinking and acting of the employees - is still in its starting point.