Identificación y descripción de las características de un líder global

El liderazgo ha sido definido de diferentes maneras por cientos de autores debido al contexto en el que estudian este concepto. Ninguna de estas definiciones es errónea pero algunas han tomado mayor importancia debido a los diferentes factores que enfrenta la sociedad. Desde hace unos años los países se han abierto a diferentes mercados lo cual les ha permitido eliminar las barreras políticas, económicas y culturales existentes. Esto ha llevado a que los líderes deban evaluar la nueva forma de dirigir y direccionar las organizaciones. Este es tan solo uno de los ejemplos que han llevado a modificar el concepto de liderazgo, añadiendo los nuevos retos a los que se ven enfrentados los líderes. En este trabajo de grado se estudia el que se considera uno de los mayores retos de los siglos XX y XXI: la globalización. Este fenómeno ha acercado al mundo a través del intercambio de información, de bienes, de servicios, de conocimientos y sobre todo de cultura. Esto se ha logrado a través de nuevas tecnologías, nuevos servicios de comunicación y transporte, de la ciencia y los avances de la industria. El nuevo líder debe romper la barrera nacional y abrirse a mercados extranjeros, para esto debe contar con ciertas características que le permitirán entender los diferentes mercados y a las personas que se encuentran en este. En este trabajo se identifican las que se consideran las principales características de un líder global; estas son el resultado de la investigación de diferentes autores y estudios.

De la educación al trabajo: las pasantías laborales como un momento de la transición educativo-laboral

Esta investigación buscó indagar sobre la pasantía como un momento particular de la transición educativo-laboral de un individuo; para ello, planteé la pasantía como un momento intermedio en el que el estudiante vive cambios estructurales de la etapa laboral, aún en la etapa educativa. El análisis se centra en el proceso vivido por estudiantes universitarios durante su pasantía laboral en un escenario de trabajo real en diálogo con su formación profesional. Los resultados de esta investigación están orientados a responder a la pregunta ¿Cómo viven los estudiantes universitarios de un programa de sociología la transición educativo-laboral por medio de las pasantías laborales, en relación con su contexto y con el de la pasantía? El análisis se sustenta en una reflexión de carácter etnográfico que tuvo como punto de partida mí experiencia como pasante, narrada en un diario de campo y su contraste con seis casos de estudiantes de sociología de la Universidad del Rosario que pasaron por dicha experiencia; la aproximación a estos casos se dio a través de una serie de entrevistas a profundidad. Así mismo, desarrollé observaciones participantes en los Seminarios de seguimiento de las pasantías del programa de Sociología en la Universidad del Rosario, lo que me permitió elegir los casos que hicieron parte de la investigación. Por otro lado, elaboré un contexto de la profesión en Colombia desde 1959 con énfasis en la implementación de las pasantías a través de una revisión de archivo, acompañada de entrevistas a coordinadores de pasantía de diferentes universidades de Bogotá para conocer el momento actual de las pasantías; lo anterior, con el fin de dar un contexto más amplio de éste momento particular de la transición educativo-laboral.

Educating integrated catalysts: transforming business schools toward ethics and sustainability

Joining the sharpening critique of conventional University-based business school education, we argue that educating integrated catalysts is necessary to meet current sustainability challenges. The key feature of moving toward the integration required at the individual level is focusing on developing students' capacity for moral and cognitive maturity. Practically, this makes the practice of genuine dialogue focal as core interpersonal method for educating management students. In supporting such education, business schools must however first transform themselves. Acting as transformative social enterprises, they can demonstrate being a part in critically questioning and improving the impact and relevance of management on the flourishing of wider society and the practice of an ethically oriented economy. We offer practical suggestions and implications for future business education reform.

Den skickligt inkompetente chefen

The skilled incompetent manager Based on a critical interpretation of a leadership seminar we illustrate how the performance of the managers involved skilled incompetence. It expresses itself through a non-critical attitude, easily-made solutions and pseudo-communication, which together fuel a kind of knowledge flexibility. This uncritical, somewhat shallow and pragmatic attitude towards knowledge (e.g. management concepts), ought not to be understood as just dysfunctional, but also as a more or less unaware but adjusted competence, that in some situations works as a social lubricant in bureaucratic organizations.

O global e o contextual no aprendizado gerencial de multinacionais: uma perspectiva brasileira

The major purpose of this thesis is to verify, from a Brazilian perspective, how global and contextual issues influence the management learning in Multinationals. The management learning derived from the interaction of holding and sidiaries/colligates of Multinational corporation is supposed to be subject to convergent and divergent forces, the former related to global and standardized organizational practices, and the latter, is seen as a social practice subject to cultural and organizational singularities. A model was constructed to relate the dichotomy between the universality of the management practices and technologies and the particularity of the contexts where they operate, to the dichotomy between the singularities in organization and national level. This model is composed of the international, global, managerial and inter-organizational dimensions related, respectively, to the cultural and political diversity; to the universal forces of practices and values; to the managerial capabilities and resources in the organization, consolidated as best practices and to the interaction between holding and subsidiaries and the resulted learning. The combined result of these dimensions influences the knowledge flow and the learning derived from it. The field research was constituted of five cases of internationalized Brazilian firms, with a solid experience in their management systems. The main subjects of this study were executives and ofessionals/managers who respond to the management development. The data were first collected in the headquarters and complemented with visits to subsidiaries/joint ventures in other countries, in loco or with expatriated people who return to Brazil. The central supposition was validated. So, the management learning ¿ is driven by the global capitalism practices and by the global culture where they are immersed, reproducing a hegemonic vision and a common language (global dimension); ¿ incorporates the more propagated and dominant managerial values, although there are some variations when they are applied in the subsidiaries/joint ventures; is the product of the assimilation of international recognized and planned managerial practices, with the acculturation power, although not completely; is the result mainly of the managerial practice in work; is impacted not only by cross-cultural and managerial factors, but also by the business environment of the firm; is given according to the capabilities and resources in the organization, guiding the form of assimilation of practices and technologies, with global application or not (managerial dimension); ¿ is affected by the cross-cultural diversity involving the countries of the holding and the subsidiaries/joint ventures where the firm is and is given as a reproduction of the political context of the holding and subsidiaries countries (international dimension); ¿ faces aligned concurrent institutional pressures between corporate or global systems, practices of other subsidiaries/joint ventures and local practices; is more difficult to reach when there is not permeability between organizational cultures and identities of a Multinational firm; is affected by how much the relationship process across these unities is self-referenced; is facilitated by the construction and improvement of the knowledge network (interorganizational dimension). Finally some contributions of this study are exposed, including extensions of the proposed model and suggestions, recommendations for future research.

A formação de docentes para o exercício de cargos de gestão na universidade

O presente trabalho foi desencadeado a partir do seguinte problema de investigação: os professores que assumem cargos de gestão na universidade são previamente preparados para tal? Como? Por quê? Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram ouvidos, entre os meses de agosto e outubro de 2009, 16 professores-gestores de duas instituições de ensino superior localizadas na cidade de Belém-PA, uma pública e a outra privada. Os sujeitos da pesquisa ocupavam, à época da entrevista, cargos de diretoria de centro de ensino, pró-reitoria, vicereitoria e reitoria nas IES. As respostas às entrevistas foram submetidas à análise de conteúdo e cinco foram as categorias de análise, todas baseadas no referencial teórico utilizado: habilidades interpessoais; conhecimento do ambiente; atividades cotidianas; aprendizagem gerencial do gestor universitário e competências do gestor universitário. Concluiu-se que os professores-gestores não haviam sido preparados para assumir os cargos de gestão nas universidades, o que confirmou a suposição da pesquisa. O aprendizado gerencial ocorreu, principalmente, por meio de interações sociais no ambiente de trabalho e, segundo os entrevistados, as características pessoais são mais importantes do que a titulação do professor ao se escolher um gestor universitário.

Gestão ambiental na indústria do petróleo :um estudo sobre as práticas de gestão na perspectiva da aprendizagem organizacional

This work discusses the environmental management thematic, on the basis of ISO 14001 standard and learning organization. This study is carried through an exploratory survey in a company of fuel transport, located in Natal/RN. The objective of this research was to investigate the practices of environmental management, carried through in the context of an implemented ISO 14001 environmental management system, in the researched organization, from the perspective of the learning organization. The methodology used in this work is supported in the quantitative method, combining the exploratory and descriptive types, and uses the technique of questionnaires, having as scope of the research, the managers, employee controlling, coordinators, supervisors and - proper and contracted - of the company. To carry through the analysis of the data of this research, it was used software Excel and Statistical version 6.0. The analysis of the data is divided in two parts: descriptive analysis and analysis of groupings (clusters). The results point, on the basis of the studied theory, as well as in the results of the research, that the implemented ISO 14001 environmental system in the searched organization presents elements that promote learning organization. From the results, it can be concluded that the company uses external information in the decision taking on environmental problems; that the employees are mobilized to generate ideas and to collect n environmental information and that the company has carried through partnerships in the activities of the environmental area with other companies. All these item cited can contribute for the generation of knowledge of the organization. It can also be concluded that the company has evaluated environmental errors occurrences in the past, as well as carried through environmental benchmarking. These practical can be considered as good ways of the company to acquire knowledge. The results also show that the employees have not found difficulties in the accomplishment of the tasks when the manager of its sector is not present. This result can demonstrate that the company has a good diffusion of knowledge

Análise do uso do jogo mercado virtual como mediador do processo de aprendizagem de gestão empresarial

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

In search of innovative capabilities of communities of practice : a systematic review and typology for future research

Peer reviewed

Integrated safe driving information system development: volume III - state guide. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Integrated safe driving information system development: volume IV - catalog of available materials. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Integrated safe driving information system development. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Integrated safe driving information system development: volume II - system plan. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance

Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning and innovation play in determining multinational and multinational subsidiary performance. The present research seeks to understand the organizational paths leading to such desirable outcomes as greater learning, increased innovation and improved performance. Using a model tested with data collected through a survey of managers in subsidiaries of multinational firms, we find dual, independent paths to improved performance - one through networking and inter-unit learning and the other through subsidiary autonomy and innovation. A particular feature of these findings is that they can be shown to be robust after controlling for a wide range of environmental pressures and firm and industry factors. However, in the absence of environmental controls the dual path finding is rejected. These conflicting findings support the imperative to test models that include a diverse range of environmental pressures so that the true effects of organizational factors on learning, innovation and performance can be identified.