Aplicabilidade de teorias: microeconomia e estratégia empresarial

A matemática é um bem de capital, lógico e geral, para a construção da ciência empírica. A ciência empírica abstrata, aqui representada pela microeconomia, é um bem de capital, lógico, mas especifico, para a construção da ciência aplicada. A ciência aplicada, aqui representada pela teoria positiva da estratégia empresarial, é um bem de capital, dialético e específico, para o aperfeiçoamento da arte da ciência, isto é, do domínio da realidade. A complementariedade entre estas esferas do saber é obvia, mas encontra-se ofuscada pelo Vício Ricardiano de muitos economistas. Sob esta visão, faço um estudo de caso do trabalho de H. Igor Ansoff, precursor da teoria de estratégia empresarial. Partindo da iluminação neoclássica, Ansoff constatou penosamente a insuficiência dela. A prática empresarial exigia também iluminações que só a politica, a sociologia, e a psicologia podiam proporcionar. Através do entrelaçamento dialético ou quase-lógico delas, a teoria estratégica constituiu-se na indispensável passagem para a prática. A teoria aplicada da passagem para a prática da política econômica não é ensinada hoje. A lacuna é sugerida pelo estudo, transparecendo a maior causa para o desprestígio atual do economista, no Brasil e no Mundo.

A evolução da função e da carreira de O&M no Brasil (1985-1997)

Esta pesquisa investiga empiricamente o que aconteceu com a função e a carreira de Organização e Métodos (O&M) nas empresas no Brasil desde 1985. O estudo procura verificar empiricamente se, como afirmam alguns autores, desde os prósperos anos 70 e 80, O&M teria passado por um processo de transformação até seu virtual desaparecimento nas empresas atuais. Primeiro, investiga-se o destino da função entre 1985 e 1997, em uma amostra de 60 empresas paulistas, via questionários. Segundo, levanta-se a oferta de posições em O&M (comparada com outras áreas) no período, via evolução de anúncios de empregos em jornal paulista.

O modelo da carreira sem fronteiras no contexto organizacional: pesquisando a carreira do professor universitário no Brasil

O modelo da carreira sem fronteiras, que prevê o desenvolvimento de uma relação independente e transacional entre organização e indivíduo, constitui o objeto de estudo deste trabalho. A partir do questionamento teórico da possibilidade real do desenvolvimento de carreiras sem fronteiras, uma pesquisa foi realizada com 16 professores de diferentes Escolas de Administração de Empresas em São Paulo. Os resultados mostram que a carreira acadêmica tem potencial para ser desenvolvida como carreira sem fronteiras. No entanto, os fatores que propiciam a mobilidade para o desenvolvimento de carreiras sem fronteiras podem ser muito distintos, e dependem do tipo de vínculo estabelecido entre o docente e a instituição. Dessa maneira, embora o modelo da carreira sem fronteiras possa ser vivenciado na carreira acadêmica, isso não significa que seja um bom modelo ou o modelo pretendido por aqueles que a vivenciam e também não significa que seja adaptável ao contexto organizacional.

Sistema de informações para gestão ambiental

This Research Report presents the Environmental Management Information System, which has been planned for CEAMA - Center for Management and Environment. The System consists in the framework of data bases in the environment field, and the logic for information treatment. It has been developed to support current and future requirements of Center for Management and Environment in Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP/FGV). The System was developed for Windows/Access environment and consists of a Main Data Base and a Thematic Data Base. The Main Data Base can store libraries, NGOs, Environmental Impact Reports, technical reports, companies and many other items. The Thematic one can contain several subjects related with environment, specifying the place or access form in which the data can be obtained. The Report also describes several environmental information systems, as a result of a survey that has been done as a part of the research project.

Análise da gestão patrimonial de empresa privada

Este projeto destina-se a analisar a gestão dos bens patrimoniais na empresa privada. Procura-se obter um diagnóstico de como as empresas conduzem a gestão do seu patrimônio, relativamente a eficiência e produtividade, diante de uma economia globalizada. A pesquisa será fundamentada em levantamentos de conceitos e práticas da gestão dos recursos patrimoniais. Serão realizados também, levantamentos em algumas empresas para se conhecer e avaliar as dificuldades e as práticas conduzidas. Torna-se oportuno ressaltar que este trabalho não focará somente os aspectos contábeis e de legislação que a empresa está submetida, ainda que tais aspectos estejam contemplados no estudo.

O jovem administrador

This work was based on the findings obtained from an experimental class program designed for juniors and seniors of EAESP/FGV Business Administration graduation course, as well as the results from questionnaires and interviews carried on with undergraduate students in 1993 and 1994. The main goal was to evaluate the way the students are entering the work market, which has been marked by internal economic crisis and by a transformation process of the worldwide economy. We are looking for the impacts and consequences of these crisis either in the way they are entering the workforce and even in the construction of subjectivity, which has been associated to a notorious individualistic behavior. The work also presents the students ideas about their wishes and aspirations.

A intuição na formação acadêmica do administrador

A presente dissertação procura identificar se a intuição, sendo um importante componente das decisões administrativas, está presente na formação acadêmica dos administradores e como ela se manifestaria nesse contexto. Para o estudo foi realizada pesquisa de campo, por meio de 44 questionários mistos com os professores da EBAPE/FGV. Os dados foram tratados quantitativamente, com a construção de tabelas que nos permitiram inferir sobre o assunto, e qualitativamente, utilizando o método de análise do conteúdo. O estudo identifica que a intuição está presente no processo decisório e na tomada de decisão gerencial, porém sem ter seu desenvolvimento consubstanciado na formação acadêmica do administrador. Desse modo, é necessário um repensar na construção do conhecimento e no ensino administrativo, possibilitando uma formação acadêmica mais holística, que atenda aos anseios e as necessidades da sociedade, com rigor e relevância.

Reflexões sobre a gestão das organizações educacionais particulares educação infantil e ensino fundamental

The paper's main goal is to promote a deeper reflection on the use of the most important tools concerning business management, by respecting certain changes, in order to fit private elementary schools - both kindergarten and primary schools. It focuses on the main functions and support functions related to business administration, marketing elements concerning both related services and the department structures, in order to sketch the elementary school's reference matrixes. The study was carried out in Curitiba-Pr, between June and October/2001, gathering data from five different elementary school's management strategies and models, chosen according to their importance in the marketplace and structure. After this database had been created, the analogous study on the case report - São Judas Tadeu de Curitiba School - proceeded, focusing on its main management elements.

Tapping into your people: successfully managing idea generation in organisations

Over the past few years, innovation has increasingly garnered the headlines as one of the core competencies every sustainable organisation must have. Yet, it is the idea which is the foundation of any innovation. This paper draws together knowledge about idea generation, and its management, and how the process of encouraging ideas, creativity and then managing them effectively will enhance the opportunities of successfully finding and implementing innovations which will add value to the organisation and its stakeholders. Extensive review of literature in the field of idea and innovation management, as well as a study of Souza Cruz¿s recently conceptualised and implemented Idea Management programme has brought together the many facets involved in successfully harnessing and implementing ideas.

O MBA brasileiro na gestão de recursos humanos

Este estudo objetivou analisar de que forma as empresas brasileiras de grande porte utilizamse dos cursos de pós-graduação lato sensu brasileiros na área de Administração de Empresas, como critério de seleção e ferramenta de formação e atualização para executivos, assim como as principais características esperadas de profissionais oriundos destes cursos. Os resultados da pesquisa, realizada junto a profissionais da área de Recursos Humanos das maiores empresas brasileiras, indicaram que a maioria das empresas se utiliza destes cursos como critério de seleção para contratação de profissionais, inclusive sendo a instituição de ensino onde o mesmo foi realizado, diferencial para obtenção da vaga. Da mesma forma, concluiu-se que a maior parte das empresas deste grupo utilizam-se com freqüência destes cursos como ferramenta de atualização e treinamento de profissionais, sendo o curso escolhido geralmente pelo próprio profissional.

A influência da maturidade em gerência de projetos para uma atuação com maior responsabilidade ambiental: um estudo sobre os profissionais de SMS da Unidade de Negócios Bacia de Campos da Petrobrás

Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar a existência de relação entre o conhecimento de técnicas de projeto e a efetividade do processo de mudança para uma atuação com maior responsabilidade ambiental. Trata-se de um estudo de caso sobre a Petrobras, mais especificamente sobre a Unidade de Negócios Bacia de Campos, onde foram efetuadas pesquisas de campo por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e de questionários distribuídos a profissionais alocados na área de Segurança, Meio-ambiente e Saúde nos ativos desta unidade. Os dados resultantes das pesquisas foram tratados quali-quantitativamente, identificando-se que na percepção destes profissionais indica uma correlação significativa entre o nível de maturidade na utilização de técnicas de projeto e o nível de responsabilidade ambiental da organização.

Organizational design as an enabler for innovation: evidence from a German Mechanical Engineering Company

Over the past two decades there has been a profusion of empirical studies of organizational design and its relationship to efficiency, productivity and flexibility of an organization. In parallel, there has been a wide range of studies about innovation management in different kind of industries and firms. However, with some exceptions, the organizational and innovation management bodies of literature tend to examine the issues of organizational design and innovation management individually, mainly in the context of large firms operating at the technological frontier. There seems to be a scarcity of empirical studies that bring together organizational design and innovation and examine them empirically and over time in the context of small and medium sized enterprises. This dissertation seeks to provide a small contribution in that direction. This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between organizational design and innovation. This relationship is examined on the basis of a single-case design in a medium sized mechanical engineering company in Germany. The covered time period ranges from 1958 until 2009, although the actual focus falls on the recent past. This dissertation draws on first-hand qualitative empirical evidence gathered through extensive field work. The main findings are: 1. There is always a bundle of organizational dimensions which impacts innovation. These main organizational design dimensions are: (1) Strategy & Leadership, (2) Resources & Capabilities, (3) Structure, (4) Culture, (5) Networks & Partnerships, (6) Processes and (7) Knowledge Management. However, the importance of the different organizational design dimensions changes over time. While for example for the production of simple, standardized parts, a simple organizational design was appropriate, the company needed to have a more advanced organizational design in order to be able to produce customized, complex parts with high quality. Hence the technological maturity of a company is related to its organizational maturity. 2. The introduction of innovations of the analyzed company were highly dependent on organizational conditions which enabled their introduction. The results of the long term case study show, that some innovations would not have been introduced successfully if the organizational elements like for example training and qualification, the build of network and partnerships or the acquisition of appropriate resources and capabilities, were not in place. Hence it can be concluded, that organizational design is an enabling factor for innovation. These findings contribute to advance our understanding of the complex relationship between organizational design and innovation. This highlights the growing importance of a comprehensive, innovation stimulating organizational design of companies. The results suggest to managers that innovation is not only dependent on a single organizational factor but on the appropriate, comprehensive design of the organization. Hence manager should consider to review regularly the design of their organizations in order to maintain a innovation stimulating environment.

Gestão de conhecimentos e desempenho: evidências de uma amostra de Organizações do Terceiro Setor no Rio de Janeiro

This dissertation examines the implications of the organizational capability for the performance of organizations of the Third Sector. That relationship is examined in a sample of five organizations with headquarters in the city of the Rio de Janeiro, and acting in peculiar segments, like health, childhood and adolescence, sustainable development, environment and social inclusion. The organizational capability was studied from existing analytical frameworks available in the international literature, and adapted for this dissertation. The kinds of empirical evidences are quantitative and qualitative on first hand, and were obtained by multiple techniques: interviews, direct-site observation, exam of documents and casual meetings. These evidences indicators were examined in used in two levels: individual, specific of each one of the organizations, and general, common to all the organizations researched. Concerning organizational capability, the exam of the empirical evidences revealed that the organizations that had had the most significant development in terms of the dimensions identified by Tremblay (1998) as of high performance - that¿s the case of CIEDS and CDI -, were the ones with the best organizational performance. Another relevant point shown by the evidences is the importance of the dimension management attitude to human resources development, similar to previous studies presented by Tremblay (1998), Leonard-Barton (1998) and Figueiredo (2003). The study also shows that the organizations which developed projects aiming at the review and the improvement of managerial practices, approaching them to the models adopted by private companies, had the best performances among the researched group.

Desafios na economia do conhecimento - o caso do BNDES

Land, capital and work dictated the organizations¿ success in the industrial era. Added to these factors, the intangible assets are considered the key complement to determine business¿ sustainability in the knowledge era. The globalization creates a new dynamic in the markets and the knowledge management becomes focal point to the organizations. It becomes more common the incorporation of inter-organizational nets to improve business, in a strategy win-win where the tacit knowledge, noncodified, which is shared. More specifically, the innovation management, one of the intangible assets aspects, plays an important role in the Federal Government agenda, through the PDP and other market players. BNDES made significant progress to assist companies¿ demands in the knowledge era, among them: the adoption of the Intangible Assets BSC methodology to evaluate companies¿ credit risk and the partnership with Brightom University (UK) to train innovation management to companies¿ managers. Besides the initial steps, what are the challenges that BNDES will face from now on? In the bibliographic review, it is analyzed the competitive factors in the knowledge era, the evolution of the intangible assets concept, the consolidation of the networking as business strategy, evaluation its advantages and disadvantages, some innovation definitions and its management through the identification of the development level of the Brazilian companies¿ in this aspect. After that, it is analyzed the management tool so-called Balanced Scorecard, which is fundamental to the Intangible Assets BSC. The actions already implemented by BNDES, Sebrae and FINEP focused on the subject are identified in order to evaluate the integration level among those actions. Then, it is demonstrated the relevancy of the subject not only to BNDES, but also to society. This study faces the subject by the preparation of a diagnostic from 30 actives SMEs investments from BNDESPAR portfolio, a BNDES subsidiary, adopting the BSC methodology through questionnaire. The objective is to certify if there is enough space to elaborate an action plan focused on creating value to companies considering them intangible assets and, if it is viable, how this toll can be useful and adequate to achieve such objective. The questionnaire content, answered by the training participants in the innovation management program, is also evaluated to check the suggestions of actions to maximize the expected feedback. In the conclusion, it is verified that the tool so-called Intangible Assets BSC is adequate to the management activity of the investments in PMEs from BNDESPAR portfolio and there is enough space to adopt measures focused on creation of companies¿ value, mentioning some examples and highlighting some preliminary academicals contributions to improve the tool and also suggests other steps that BNDES can adopt to optimize the actions already implemented.

A negociação coletiva na resolução de conflitos trabalhistas

The interests of an employee are not always similar the employer¿s ones. When this situation occurs, it generates conflicts. This study suggests that labor negotiation is the most adequate approach to come up with an agreement. In order to do so, this study explains the evolution of the labor and union institutions, how they are structured, their relevance in the negotiation and legal context.