Strategisk utveckling och ekonomistyrning : Ett livscykelperspektiv

This dissertation synthesizes previous research and develops a model for the study of strategic development, strategic congruence and management control. The model is used to analyze a longitudinal case study of the Swedish engineering company Atlas Copco. Employing contingency theory, the study confirms that long-term survival of a company requires adaption to contingencies. Three levels of strategy are examined: corporate, business and functional. Previous research suggests that consistency between these levels (strategic congruence) is necessary for a company to be competitive. The dissertation challenges this proposition by using a life-cycle perspective and analyzes strategic congruence in the different phases of a life cycle. It also studies management control from a life-cycle perspective. In this context, two types of management control are examined: formal and informal. From a longitudinal perspective, the study further discusses how these types interact during organizational life cycles. The dissertation shows that strategic development is more complex than previous studies have indicated. It is a long, complex and non-linear process, the results of which cannot always be predicted. Previous models for strategy and management control are based on simple relationships and rarely take into account the fact that companies often go through different phases of strategic development. The case study shows that strategic incongruence may occur at times during organizational life cycles. Furthermore, the use of management control varies over time. In the maturity phase, formal control is in focus, while the use of informal control has a bigger role in both the introduction and decline phases. Research on strategy and management control has intensified in recent years. Still there is a gap regarding the coordination of complex corporate structures. The present study contributes with further knowledge on how companies manage long-term strategic development. Few studies deal with more than two levels of strategy. Moreover, the present study addresses the need to understand strategic congruence from a life-cycle perspective. This is particularly relevant in practice, when management in large companies face difficult issues for which they expect business research to assist them in the decision-making process.

Paradoxos organizacionais e mudança: a análise crítica de 3 estudos de caso

Neste relatório apresentaremos a análise crítica do tema Paradoxos Organizacionais e apresentaremos 3 estudos de caso onde pode compreender a aplicação do conceito de paradoxos organizacionais em situações de mudanças organizacionais. Utilizaremos o paradigma da Sociologia Interpretativa em nossas análises, mais especificamente os trabalhos de Peter Berger e Thomas Luckmann e a metodologia Etnográfica para estudo de caso, conforme apresentado no corpo do trabalho.

O impacto das práticas ITIL na flexibilidade organizacional - evidências empíricas em uma empresa multinacional de TI

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.

A Contribuição do IBGE para a avaliação dos programas do plano plurianual

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a participação do IBGE no processo de avaliação do Plano Plurianual 2004-2007. O estudo inicia pela contextualização da melhoria da gestão pública e pelo embasamento teórico sobre a temática de avaliação de programas, seus indicadores e a perspectiva da efetividade. O planejamento na administração pública brasileira passou por várias fases, cada qual com suas características marcantes, chegando ao modelo atual, o Plano Plurianual, que integra planejamento e orçamento, busca dar transparência aos objetivos e prioridades do governo e melhorar a gestão orientando-a para resultados. O IBGE tem atribuições definidas em lei, um papel importante no desenvolvimento do país e competências reconhecidas, que o legitimam perante a sociedade como o principal coordenador e produtor de informações de natureza estatística e geocientífica. Assim almeja-se verificar a real participação do IBGE e das informações divulgadas por ele nos programas do PPA 2004-2007, dando um enfoque maior no processo de avaliação dada a sua relevância para a gestão pública. Para tanto, a pesquisa utiliza como métodos a pesquisa bibliográfica, a revisão documental e questionários com pessoas-chaves que são os gerentes de programa do Plano Plurianual. A pesquisa se restringiu aos programas considerados finalísticos e de serviços ao Estado. Os resultados obtidos nesta pesquisa demonstram que a atuação do IBGE se encontra muito aquém de sua competência técnica reconhecida nacional e internacionalmente, da credibilidade e qualidade de suas informações, e de sua relevância percebida pelo Governo para o processo de gestão do PPA. Pode-se concluir que o IBGE tem um vasto campo de atuação de modo a contribuir efetivamente para o desenvolvimento sustentável do país.

Da administração de pessoal a administração estratégica de recursos humanos: evolução natural ou consequência de uma estratégia empresarial: um estudo de caso

Este trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar, através de um estudo de caso desenvolvido no Grupo Lachmann, por meio de entrevistas, questionários e workshops realizados junto à diretoria e aos funcionários, que a mudança eficaz ocorrida nas organizações a nível dos modelos de Administração de Recursos Humanos - ARH é fruto de uma estratégia empresarial. O Grupo Lachmann, líder na América Latina, no setor de agenciamento e transporte marítimo de mercadorias, viu-se diante de um impasse com o desaparecimento repentino de seu presidente: seria capaz de responder aos desafios de reestruturações internas, associados às pressões ambientais geradas pela crescente competitividade do setor? A expectativa era que sim. Mas como? Como mudar uma cultura organizacional sem descaracterizar-se? Como proceder a esta mudança e simultaneamente responder, com sucesso, às demandas crescentes de um mercado onde a concorrência se acirra a olhos vistos? A resposta a tais questionamentos foi sendo desenvolvida através de um processo de mudança planejada, onde a área de Recursos Humanos desempenhou um papel-chave realizando suas ações em sintonia com o planejamento estratégico da corporação e contribuindo para o alcance de seus objetivos. O resultado obtido na pesquisa, realizada no Grupo Lachmann, respaldado pelo exame bibliográfico, permite concluir que a ARH tem uma missão importante no contexto das organizações do mundo contemporâneo, porém sua eficácia está vinculada diretamente à integração de seu planejamento ao planejamento estratégico das organizações. Esta associação, por sua vez, não se faz de forma casual, mas é resultado de uma estratégia empresarial onde os aspectos de recursos humanos são projetados no planejamento estratégico da organização, fornecendo elementos valiosos para a tomada de decisão pela alta direção.

A implementação do programa Gestão nota 10 no sistema municipal de educação em Mossoró/RN (2005 a 2009)

This research work is focused to show the changes in educational administration from the agreements between the Mossoró / RN and the Ayrton Senna Institute IAS, for education provision. Nowadays, the partnership policy is a constitutive element of the reform of the Brazilian State, which dropped its action on social policies and to strengthen its regulatory role, encouraging private participation in planning, preparation and implementation of public policies, new printing setting the political-social. In this context, the 10 Note Management Programme, developed by the IAS, is part of the neoliberal logic of modernization of public school systems, focusing on results and developing strategies for control and regulation of schools work and its efficiency, effectiveness and greater productivity. The 10 Note focuses on two dimensions: the management of learning and teaching in networking, in a managerial perspective to overcome the culture of failure (expressed as age-grade, dropout and repetition rates in) and implantation of culture of success (as measured in the improvement of the indices). To understanding the process, we have delimited as the object of study, the process of implementing them mentioned program in the city, which its objective is to analyze implications for the school community from the perspective of democratic management, adopting the dimensions of autonomy and participation in institutional processes as a criterion of analysis. From a methodological point of view, the survey was conducted from a literature review and documentary about educational policy developed in the country since the 1990´s, seeking to understand, in a dialectical perspective, the political dimensions of teaching, training and performance of the subjects involved in the school work. Besides the empirical observation, it was also used semi-structured interviews with a methodological tool for gathering information and opinions about the partnership and the implementation of the 10 Note Management Program in the county. The interviewee participants were ex-former education managers, coordinators, school managers, secretaries and teachers. Regarding the dimensions inside the analysis (autonomy and participation), the research led to the conclusion: that GEED, under the guidance of IAS promoted regulation of school autonomy, set up the selection process for exercising the office of school administration and system awards to schools, pupils and teachers, subject to results, there is mismatch between the managerial logic and the democratic management principles, that the ideological discourse of modernization of municipal management coexists with traditional practices, centralizing patronage, which ignores the democratic participation in the school decisions processes, the goals of the partnership were partially achieved, since that the city has improved over the approval and dropouts, although the approval of the Education Municipal Plan of the rules institutional (administrative, financial and educational) and the creation of the Councils observed that the school community participation is still limited, not being characterized as a coordinated intervention, capable of promoting the transformation and improvement its quality in the county. In the same way, the orientation of networking is a limit to the autonomy of schools, given the external definition of goals and strategies to be adopted, along with pressure exerted through the accountability of each school community for their achievements

Um método para desenvolvimento de abordagens generativas com composição de linguagens específicas de domínio

The software systems development with domain-specific languages has become increasingly common. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) provide increased of the domain expressiveness, raising the abstraction level by facilitating the generation of models or low-level source code, thus increasing the productivity of systems development. Consequently, methods for the development of software product lines and software system families have also proposed the adoption of domain-specific languages. Recent studies have investigated the limitations of feature model expressiveness and proposing the use of DSLs as a complement or substitute for feature model. However, in complex projects, a single DSL is often insufficient to represent the different views and perspectives of development, being necessary to work with multiple DSLs. In order to address new challenges in this context, such as the management of consistency between DSLs, and the need to methods and tools that support the development with multiple DSLs, over the past years, several approaches have been proposed for the development of generative approaches. However, none of them considers matters relating to the composition of DSLs. Thus, with the aim to address this problem, the main objectives of this dissertation are: (i) to investigate the adoption of the integrated use of feature models and DSLs during the domain and application engineering of the development of generative approaches; (ii) to propose a method for the development of generative approaches with composition DSLs; and (iii) to investigate and evaluate the usage of modern technology based on models driven engineering to implement strategies of integration between feature models and composition of DSLs

Análise do Plano Integrado de Gestão, Gerenciamento e Manejo de Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos no município de Lençóis Paulista

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeito do manejo alimentar nos Parâmetros nutricionais e comportamento ingestivo em cabras leiteiras

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O serviço social na reabilitação profissional do INSS: a experiência da agência da Previdência Social de São José do Rio Preto-SP

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS