A gestão de empresas de projeto e a sustentabilidade ambiental de edificações.

O projeto é uma etapa importante do empreendimento do subsetor Edificações, pois é o momento em que muitas decisões sobre o seu desempenho e a execução podem ser tomadas. Por essa razão, essa etapa é estratégica em relação à sustentabilidade ambiental. O objetivo geral da presente tese é propor diretrizes de gestão para empresas de projeto com foco no atendimento a requisitos ambientais em projetos de edificações. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, três etapas de pesquisa foram realizadas. A Etapa 1 tem foco no diagnóstico das práticas de algumas empresas que atuam no mercado: empresas de projeto de edificações e de consultoria em sustentabilidade ambiental. Os métodos utilizados nessa etapa são pesquisa-ação, questionário e pesquisa exploratória. Na Etapa 2 da pesquisa, três estudos de caso envolvendo empresas de projeto da cidade de São Paulo foram realizados, a fim de analisar a sua gestão com foco em sustentabilidade ambiental. Na Etapa 3, uma pesquisa survey foi realizada buscando investigar, de modo mais abrangente, se a sustentabilidade ambiental é considerada nos processos gerenciais das empresas. Os principais resultados dos estudos mostram que há fatores externos e internos à empresa que influenciam em sua reação frente às demandas de mercado ou da sociedade; a consideração da sustentabilidade ambiental pela empresa de projeto trouxe mudanças aos seus processos gerenciais. Esses resultados e a literatura fundamentaram a proposição de diretrizes de orientação de gestão para empresas de projeto com foco no atendimento a requisitos ambientais. A gestão propicia um ambiente mais favorável aos conceitos de sustentabilidade, durabilidade e desempenho.

Analisi e riprogettazione dei processi aziendali in un’azienda di Global Service. Il caso A.C.R. S.p.A.

La tesi tratta dell'analisi e della riprogettazione dei processi in un'azienda di global service. Vengono pertanto illustrati le principali metodologie e teorie riguardanti il process management e gli strumenti di supporto più utilizzati per la modellazione dei processi. Viene inoltre presentato il caso riguardante l'azienda ACR SpA, in cui si è eseguita la riprogettazione dei processi critici al fine di migliorare sensibilmente i principali parametri di performance del sistema. Tale riprogettazione è stata finalizzata all'introduzione di un sistema di document management all'interno delle principali funzioni aziendali, grazie a cui si è potuto razionalizzare e automatizzare i processi ritenuti critici ottenendo una sensibile riduzione dei relativi lead time e costi di processo, quantificata attraverso KPI definiti ad hoc. In conclusione la tesi ha permesso di illustrare con un caso pratico l'applicazione degli strumenti di business process reengineering, evidenziandone i pregi e ribadendo l'importanza della continua ricerca di efficienza all'interno dei processi di business aziendali.

Management aids for small manufacturers.

At head of title, 1958- : Small Business Administration publications.

Materiel resources management : materiel logistics.

Consists of reprints of previously published articles.

The small business executive decision simulation: administrator's manual

Appendix IB (p. 55-90): Operating manual.

Strategic plan for information systems and technology /

Description based on: Fiscal years 1991-1995; title from cover.

Starting a winery in Illinois : profile and business plan workbook /

"Updated ... by Bradley Beam." -- p. [1].

The new science of management decision.

Mode of access: Internet.

Carbon credit trading in Brazil: an overview of a new business sector

This article discusses the Carbon Credit Trading Market in Brazil and opportunities for technological development and innovation related. The international trade in carbon credits becomes a source of opportunities for developing countries because of the Clean Development Mechanism. Committed to reduce polluting levels from 2008 to 2012, and ahead, industrialized countries started to seek ecological solutions internally or compensatory actions such as buying carbon credits from low-emission countries. This strategy brought up a brand-new industrial sector that still requires productive structures and a solid international commercialization system. This is a qualitative study, based on documentary research, referring to the Brazilian territory. The data obtained point out a set of efforts such as researching and developing products and processes environment friendly. Other findings indicate opportunities to expand Green Economy Sector through supporting a set of newborn firms such as waste management and recycling, in addition to other actions that reinforce sustainable development opportunities to the country and, at the end, to the world.

A longitudinal study of employee adaptation to organizational change: The role of change-related information and change-related self-efficacy

This study examined the role of information, efficacy, and 3 stressors in predicting adjustment to organizational change. Participants were 589 government employees undergoing an 18-month process of regionalization. To examine if the predictor variables had long-term effects on adjustment, the authors assessed psychological well-being, client engagement, and job satisfaction again at a 2-year follow-up. At Time 1, there was evidence to suggest that information was indirectly related to psychological well-being, client engagement, and job satisfaction, via its positive relationship to efficacy. There also was evidence to suggest that efficacy was related to reduced stress appraisals, thereby heightening client engagement. Last, there was consistent support for the stress-buffering role of Time I self-efficacy in the prediction of Time 2 job satisfaction.

Action research to explore perceptions of risk in project management

Uses research in a major UK company on the introduction of an electronic document management system to explore perceptions of, and attitudes to, risk. Phenomenological methods were used; with subsequent dialogue transcripts evaluated with Winmax dialogue software, using an adapted theoretical framework based upon an analysis of the literature. The paper identifies a number of factors, and builds a framework, that should support a greater understanding of risk assessment and project management by the academic community and practitioners.

The role of the board in firm strategy: Integrating agency and organisational control perspectives

The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has long been the subject of debate. However, research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies: the lack of an overarching theoretical perspective, reliance on proxies for the strategy role rather than a direct measure of it and the lack of quantitative data linking this role to firm financial performance. We propose a new theoretical perspective to explain the board's role in strategy, integrating organisational control and agency theories. We categorise a board's approach to strategy according to two constructs: strategic control and financial control. The extent to which either construct is favoured depends on contextual factors such as board power, environmental uncertainty and information asymmetry.

A framework for diagnosing board effectiveness

Pressure on boards to improve corporate performance and management oversight has led to a series of inquiries and reports advocating governance reform. These reports largely reflect an agency perspective of governance and seek to ensure greater board independence from and control of management. While board independence is important to good governance, we contend that frameworks, models and advice centred on one element of governance ignore the complexity of how boards work. We develop a holistic board framework based upon the concept of board intellectual capital to address this concern. Our framework proposes a series of inputs (e.g. company history, company constitution, legal environment) that lead to a particular mix of board intellectual capital. We contend that the balance of the different elements of board intellectual capital will lead to a series of board behaviours. Further, the board needs to mobilise its intellectual capital to carry out a series of roles. The exact nature of these roles will depend on the company's requirements. Thus, the governance outputs of organisational performance, board effectiveness and director effectiveness will depend on the match between the board's intellectual capital and the roles required of it. We conclude by demonstrating the benefits of this framework as a diagnostic tool. We outline how boards wishing to improve their governance systems can diagnose common governance problems by evaluating their own board's capabilities in relation to the different components of the framework.