94 resultados para impacto radiológico
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An increasing interest in society towards environmental and ecological issues have beaconed consumer¿s behavior research, particularly the ones related to the identification of the impact of environmental agendas on consumer habits. The objective of the present study is to attitudes related to brands, advertising and purchase intention. The study was based on data gathered through a ¿between subjects¿ experimental research, with three levels of manipulation. One hundred and sixty eight students from the city of Rio de Janeiro were selected for the experiment. The hypothesis suggested that subjects who were exposed to ecological cues demonstrate a more favorable behavior towards advertising attitude (H1A), brand attitude (H1B) and purchase intentions (H1C) than the ones who were not. In addition, an intrinsic health cue called ¿Omega 3¿ was introduced to the experiment to enhance the results of the research. The results have shown that subjects are indifferent to ecological cues regarding their attitudes towards the advertising and purchase intention. However, the study determined a more favorable attitude towards the brand by subjects exposed to the ecological cue. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that although ecological cues exposed in advertisements do not result on an increase of a positive of the product label is enhanced positively due to the relation of the brand with environmentally sound practices.
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This dissertation aims at understanding the impacts of telework in the teleworker's career by means of an empiric-exploratory analysis. To this end, we have analyzed the speech of teleworkers of an American multinational company in order to achieve an interpretation capable of identifying common aspects of said speeches. In this process, we have also dealt with issues such as infrastructure, social isolation, productivity, familiar environment, contact with other co-workers, allocation of private and work hours, and elements which motivated the choosing of work option. These factors were highly important for providing a better understanding of the work environment, and for completely covering the impacts of telework in the teleworker¿s career.
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O presente estudo discute o movimento das privatizações recentemente ocorridas e seus impactos nas relações trabalhistas e sindicais brasileiras. A discussão está focada em estudo de caso de três organizações, pertencentes a ramos de negócio diferentes e busca entender os reflexos havidos nas relações entre os agentes SOCIaIS envolvidos: empregados, empregadores, gerentes, sindicatos e autoridades. O fenômeno estudado se situa a partir da década de noventa e trás conseqüências ao movimento trabalhista, ao emprego e às relações capital e trabalho pelo potencial de conflito que as privatizações apresentam. Para organizar o pensamento desenvolvemos uma abordagem histórica que mostra o desenvolvimento das relações trabalhistas, com as organizações aperfeiçoando os instrumentos de regulação de conflito e construindo, com os empregados, uma considerável experiência de convivência ainda que marcada por interesses imediatos conflitantes. Um pouco à frente observamos uma ruptura que é explicitada pela definição do modelo vigente, pela internacionalização da economia que é imposta como um determinismo histórico e pela necessidade de sobrevivência das empresas submetidas à globalização e competição sem fronteiras. Ainda procuramos entender o movimento de flexibilização dos direitos trabalhistas que de algum modo se constituem em obstáculo à equalização competitiva dos custos das empresas e estão a sofrer forte pressão para que possam se adequar às novas realidades econômicas e necessidades empresariais. Na narrativa dos fatos apontamos erros e acertos observados e, de forma crítica, sugerimos alternativas aos modelos políticos e gerenciais adotados.
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This study analyses the impact of Information Technology used in the undergraduate course of Business Administration at Centro Superior de Vila Velha. The Information Technology considered in the study is computer connected to the Internet, projectors, televisions and VCRs. To support the analysis, a survey was conducted in three different groups: directors (shareholders, principal, dean and chairperson), faculty and students. A questionnaire was developed for each group and validated through discussions and critical reviews by the academic committee for of this study. Items and questions were explicitly defined from the literature and based on expert opinion to provide respondents with a common understanding of the questions. The questionnaire used in the directors group focused mainly on motivation and on the investment planning for Information Technology in the institution. For the faculty and student groups, the questionnaire focused on the extent to what the group use of IT for classes and assignments, and to what extent the faculty understands the availability of IT to be used. The instrument was sent each person, for directors and faculty, and applied during class for students. The results show that although faculty and students perceive Information Technology are important for research and as a tool in the teaching and learning process, the available IT in the institution has been used under its capacity of utilization.
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This dissertation seeks to recognize the impacts that outsourcing of the call center brings to firms of electrical energy in Brazil. For this research, two existing cases in the brazilian sector electric: i) case of Cemig, firm mineira of electrical energy; ii) case Light, firm carioca of electrical energy. The framework of this dissertation is based of the methodology of multiple study cases described by Robert Yin (2003). This work analyzed separately each of the cases and compared the results obtained in each analysis. In this way, this research aimed at analyzing the impacts that firms sufering in outsource the call center, despite the citys are diferents, like the factors of the environment. The obtained results suggest that the firms adopt the mixed call center, with the greatest part of outsources employees and with less proper. The importants impacts seeks in this research are the lost of the image, quality and the control of the process of answering. The aim impacts of a outsourcing the call center find in this research are the lost of the image of the firm and the reduction of the control of the process of customer service, impacting directly on the quality of the customer service.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o impacto da mudança de controle acionário, decorrente do processo de privatização ocorrido durante o Governo do Presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sobre a racionalidade de uma empresa do setor de telecomunicações, segundo a percepção dos dirigentes, gerentes e empregados. Defende-se a existência de uma racionalidade de Empresa Pública para o período estatal e uma racionalidade de Empresa Privada para o período pós-privatização e caracteriza-se cada uma. Foram definidos dois grupos de indicadores, cada um correspondente a um tipo de racionalidade. Levanta-se ainda a hipótese da existência de um período em que os dois tipos de racionalidade estiveram presentes, delimitado no entorno da privatização. Trata-se de um estudo de caso sobre a Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações S.A. - EMBRA TEL, baseado em dois pilares: pesquisa documental e pesquisa de campo. A pesquisa documental fundamentou-se nos Relatórios Anuais da Empresa desde 1967, período próximo à sua fundação em 1965, até 2002. Estes dados secundários foram comparados aos dados primários obtidos de entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas: com dirigentes, empregados da Empresa com cargos de Direção; com gerentes, empregados de qualquer nível gerencial entre a Direção e o corpo de empregados; e com empregados. Selecionaram-se dirigentes antigos e atuais e gerentes e empregados que foram admitidos na Embratel até 1995, como forma de garantir que todo empregado integrante da amostra tenha estado na Embratel durante os três períodos considerados. Os dados levantados na análise documental e os coletados durante o processo de entrevistas levaram a conclusão de que se podem caracterizar uma racionalidade de Empresa Pública e uma racionalidade de Empresa Privada e de que estas duas racionalidades coincidem com os períodos da Embratel como empresa estatal e da Embratel como empresa privada, respectivamente. Sobre o período de transição, os dados não foram suficientes para levar a uma conclusão definitiva. Foram ainda levantadas algumas indicações sobre um possível impacto do processo de privatização sobre o modo de os empregados realizarem suas tarefas diárias.
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The main purpose of this work is to show how the investments in training influence the financial returns of Aracruz Celulose S.A., in the period from january/1998 to december/2000. The data will be treated using quantitative and qualitative parameters. Our analyses will be based on the practical elements. In order to study the idea of investment return in terms of training and questions involving motivation, a knowledge of learning, which is in itself complex because of the varieties of learning theories which don¿t fit into the cultural models being studied, we direct our attention to the necessity of a model which understands the problems of existing conditions. For so much, the most appropriate method for the treatment of data relative to motivation, to knowledge and to learning, will be the ex post facto, because this refers to facts abready known and the researcher would be unable to control or manipulate the variables.
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The subject entrepreneurship has been gaining strength within the area of strategy, as the entrepreneurial activity represents one of the gears of economic growth and a political social and economic response of the entrepreneur¿s capital. Nevertheless, there are not many studies that investigated if entrepreneurial orientation influences firm performance in Brazil. The objective of the research is to understand and conclude on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. To achieve this objective, qualitative research through in-depth interviews with 14 managers was followed by quantitative research through data collection involving 104 managers in a heterogeneous sample of 104 companies. The research used the model of Lumpkin; Dess (1996) for entrepreneurial orientation in five dimensions (autonomy, innovativeness, risk taking, proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness), to which two more dimensions were added: strategic alliances and market orientation ¿ that emerged during the qualitative phase of the study. As a result a generic model was obtained ¿ composed of one variable (proactiveness) which positively impacts the firm performance. Proactiveness was also the key factor that positively impacted the firm performance for the service sector and small businesses. For the commercial sector, the model was composed by three dimensions (innovativeness, risk taking and market orientation). While the industry / construction sectors showed no linear relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Competitive aggressiveness is the key factor that impacts positively on firm performance for big companies, whereas for mediumsized companies it is the market orientation which relates positively to firm performance. Finally, there are no significant differences depending on the sector in which the firm operates or its size.
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In a highly competitive environment, the ability to retain a substantial customer base represents a tremendous competitive advantage, therefore this transaction-based emphasis in sales is increasingly being replaced by relationally focused approach. Although existing sales literature is in agreement to the theoretical composition of buyer-seller relationships, a lack of empirical evidence exists for the interrelationships of various aspects of relational selling on individual salesperson¿s performance. This paper explores the impact of interpersonal relationships on customer satisfaction and loyalty towards the firm. Based on a review of different streams of research, the paper contributes to the existing theories using a case analysis of customer behavior when there is salesperson turnover. Much of the relationship with the company comes from trust in the salesperson, which is built up through the development of the relationship. The existence of a friendship interpersonal relationship with a salesperson also increases the customer willingness to follow him in case he leaves the company, thus possibly switching to another service provider. Utilizing a case analysis method this paper has the objective to find evidences that could prove the positive or negative impact of the salesperson¿s turnover in the organizations. Finally, the paper discusses managerial implications and directions for future research.
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A presente dissertação trata do trabalho voluntário e da atuação das instituições privadas sem fins lucrativos que atendem pessoas portadoras de necessidades especiais. A questão central deste estudo é a investigação a respeito do impacto do trabalho voluntário na atuação das mencionadas instituições, e seu objetivo final é a avaliação deste impacto. O estudo tem como objetivos secundários o levantamento de informações sobre as motivações do trabalhador voluntário e a identificação dos significados atribuídos ao trabalho voluntário. Adotou-se a pesquisa do tipo estudo de caso com tratamento qualitativo e quantitativo dos dados obtidos. A aplicação de questionários junto aos familiares e voluntários da Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE-Rio) revelou aspectos importantes para a pesquisa e fomentou o estudo de assuntos vinculados ao voluntariado trazidos pelos próprios entrevistados, tais como o amor, a solidariedade e a cidadania. Questões próprias do voluntariado e do Terceiro Setor também são abordadas, juntamente com as principais correntes de pensamento no campo da ética, com o intuito de embasar as conclusões do estudo. Os resultados apontam para um impacto positivo do trabalho voluntário na atuação das instituições privadas sem fins lucrativos que atendem pessoas portadoras de necessidades eSpeCiaIS. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Trabalho Voluntário, Terceiro Setor e Solidariedade
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The present work has as main objective the identification and impact analysis for the practice ITIL in the organizational flexibility of a multinational IT company, being this study of quali-quantitative and exploratory nature. To achieve this objective, some theoretical studies on bureaucracy, organization flexibility, control, IT governance and ITIL were done, as a form to better understand the research problem. For analysis effect a set of eleven ITIL process was considered in this research ¿ service desk, incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management, release management, service level management, availability management, capacity management, continuity management and finally IT financial services management ¿ grouped in its two core areas ¿ service support and service delivery. Then a scale was constructed and validated, on the basis of theoretical models developed by Volberda (1997), Tenório (2002) and Golden and Powell (1999), to measure the flexibility related to each process comprising the ITIL core. The dimensions adopted to measure flexibility were: organization design task, managerial task, IT impact on work force, HR management, efficiency impact, sensitivity, versatility and robustness. The instrument used in research was a semi-structured interview, which was divided in two parts. The data collection was performed with ten interviewed people from an IT multinational company, based on convenience, some were managers and there were users, some were ITIL certified and others not. The statistic tests of t student and Wilcoxon non-parametric were adopted. The result of the research indicated that the ITIL service support area, for possessing greater operational focus, presents flexibility trend. The opposite was found for the service delivery area, which has greater tactical focus. The results also suggest that the change management discipline was the one that contributed for the most flexibility inside the company, followed by incident management discipline and the service desk function.
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In the actual competitive scenario the higher education institutions have been forced to become more active in recruiting students due to the reduction in candidates for its courses. Print advertising are important components in the educational services communications campaigns and, thus, they are an important focus of research. The literature on services communication suggests that the use of cues, as the installations picture and testimonial, presents an observable way to tangibilize educational services offers. We relate the cue paradigm theory as evaluative indicators of a product, with two of the four advertising strategies, with the objective to investigate the impact of the cues in the printed educational services ad¿s in relation to the consumers attitudes. More specifically, to investigate the impact of the physical representation strategy (installations picture - an intrinsic cue), and the association strategy (testimonial - an extrinsic cue), in the consumers attitudes toward the advertisement, the brand and the purchase intention. With this purpose an experiment between subjects with 123 students was carried through, with four levels of manipulation. In relation to consumer attitudes, none of the analyzed strategies presented a significative superiority in relation one with another. However, the subjects with low involvement in the value/auto-image dimension had presented more favorable attitudes in relation to the purchase intention in the presence of the advertising using a testimonial (association strategy - an extrinsic cue).
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A Ciência da Localização é amplamente utilizada por várias outras ciências, inclusive pelo Marketing, que, com o apoio da Geografia, forma o Geomarketing, área de estudo cada vez mais utilizada para a localização do ponto-de-venda. Na divisão do composto do Marketing, uma das estratégias é o canal de distribuição em que se encontra o Marketing de varejo. A localização do ponto-de-venda é uma das preocupações do empresário varejista, quando decide abrir uma loja ou uma nova loja para aumentar a sua rede. A abertura de um ponto-de-venda pode ser realizada intuitivamente pelo próprio varejista ou por um profissional do Marketing, com estudos técnicos e pesquisas. Nesse contexto, a criação de uma unidade escolar pode passar pelo mesmo processo técnico usado na abertura de lojas comerciais. O Colégio Americano Batista, situado no Centro de Vitória, Estado do Espírito Santo, instituição quase centenária, encontrava-se dentro do processo de transferência do comércio da cidade para outra área e, com isso, poderia sofrer as conseqüências desse processo. O presente trabalho concentra-se em estudar o impacto provocado pela abertura de novas unidades no total de matrículas da Instituição.
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Na presente dissertação tem como objetivo avaliar o impacto do programa JUNTOS sobre a taxa de freqüência escolar e sobre o trabalho infantil nas crianças de 6 a 14 anos. Estas duas variáveis foram selecionadas para o seu estudo, pois ao nosso entender estas são as principais variáveis que são influenciadas pelo programa JUNTOS e que tem uma influencia direta sobre o capital humano das crianças e assim sobre a diminuição da pobreza futura. As principais hipóteses derivadas das teorias de capital humano e de transferências de rendas condicionadas foram corroboradas pela nossa avaliação: (1) o programa JUNTOS tem um efeito positivo sobre o incremento da freqüência escolar, (2) o programa JUNTOS é efetivo na redução do trabalho infantil, (3) quando o chefe de família é de sexo feminino, a renda familiar é utilizada em bens e serviços em favor das crianças, e (4) o efeito do programa JUNTOS é maior nas crianças com piores características socioeconômicas (ex: menor renda familiar per capita, chefe de família com poucos anos de estudo, idioma do chefe de família, etc.) Outra conclusão importante da dissertação foi que o programa JUNTOS provoca uma realocação na oferta de trabalho intra familiar.