A representação social do papel de gestores em organizações não governamentais

The discussions concerning the absence of a management model appropriate to the peculiarities of third sector organizations have not been impeditive to their emphasized expansion in the last decades. In the attempt of understanding this phenomenon from the perspective of those who manage social organizations, this work based on the theory of social representations to understand the notion that organization managers of the third sector - based in Fortaleza CE - have of the part that they play and how this notion influences the direction of their activities. Social representations of managers of four different categories of non-governmental organizations have been investigated, each category composed of two unities. The categories researched were: social integration through art and education, prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse, children s health assistance and community action. By using Doise s Societal Approach, the role of social managers translated in intraindividual, interindividual and situational processes of their actions, has been analysed within the social representations, focusing on beliefs, values, symbols and stories that give meaning to the existence of non-governmental organizations. Analysis and discussion of data displayed the existence of diversity in the understanding of managers within their practice, in other words, the management profile is also its own manager s. The branch where an organization acts is also preponderant in the shaping of a management style. It could be deduced, from to the organizations researched, that professional formation and the manager s social insertion mainly, are determinative factors in the outlining of a management model of its own. It was concluded that, due to heterogeneity of interests and action segments, there is no systematic process for social management among organizations. Management styles are supported by their director s own perception of achievement, who model organizations according to their contingencies

Gestão da informação: um estudo de caso em um instituto de pesquisa tecnológica

Each two years the amount of available information in the world double. This is the Information Age, where the success depends on what one knows, not on what one has. A new economy appears with the capacity to generate, to store, to process and to apply effectively the knowledge, based on information, determining the companies productivity and competitiveness.The objective of this work is to understand the information management model of a technological research institute - CTGÁS (Gas Technology Center). The research has been done focused on the 5 main processes and the 15 support processes of the organization value chain , aiming to understand the information management in the organization based on Davenport´s Information Management model (1998). Therefore, it was necessary to identify how the necessary information for the organizational processes accomplishment are determined, obtained, distributed and used by the organization. The research can be classified as descriptive, regarding to its aims, and as a case study, related to the research ways. Interviews with the managers of the organization value chain processes have been carried through, with the objective to identify how they perceive the Information Management process that circulates in the organizational processes. Complementarily, a documentary research has been carried through, associated to the direct observation and procedures and actions follow up, involving the Information Management. The data treatment and analysis have been done from the authors theoretical support and from the managers interviews analysis, documents and processes observed by the researcher in the organization. It was noticed that the organization has raised its level of information needs that are not difficult to be determined and are satisfactorily obtained and distributed, although the majority of them are not structuralized, automatized or even classified regarding to its confidence. These peaces of information have good quality and are important, however they reflect a medium dependence on external and informal information, besides being used only in its great majority for people to know what and how to do something

A gestão da floresta e o planeamento do uso do solo

A temática desta dissertação é a gestão sustentável da actividade florestal. Tem como objectivo o desenvolvimento e aplicação de metodologias de planeamento e gestão do uso do solo. As preocupações com as intervenções na paisagem e com a incorporação das componentes que a constituem no planeamento e na gestão do território tem vindo a ter um maior desenvolvimento desde a década de 70. Por sua vez, as iniciativas políticas nacionais e internacionais na área do ambiente tiveram um maior impulso a partir dessa época, conduzindo a uma situação em que as preocupações com a sua conservação, gestão e qualificação assumem um papel fundamental. Um aumento da qualidade das paisagens implica um correcto planeamento do uso do solo e um subsequente esquema de incentivos à realidade sócioeconómica, potenciadores de um desenvolvimento sustentável. A gestão e o desenvolvimento sustentável pressupõem, por um lado, uma utilização parcimoniosa dos recursos, mas também uma articulação correcta dos usos às potencialidades do território, num quadro de planeamento e gestão do espaço que permita e promova o desenvolvimento de actividades económicas viáveis. Reconhecendo a forte influência que a acção antrópica tem exercido sobre a paisagem, privilegia-se a avaliação do factor evolução do uso do solo e a relação destas alterações com origem na actividade humana e com causas naturais de forma a determinar as causas específicas das alterações de uso. Nesta perspectiva efectua-se uma avaliação retrospectiva do impacto das diversas medidas de gestão com reflexo nas paisagens do Concelho de Arganil. A metodologia desenvolvida divide-se em cinco fases e tem como resultados os cenários de evolução do uso do solo e da demografia bem como a proposta de um modelo de ocupação sustentável. A escolha deste concelho como território de estudo para aplicação da investigação produzida prende-se com o facto de se considerar que ele é representativo de toda uma realidade da actividade florestal numa região vasta e de características razoavelmente idênticas, na qual existiram mudanças acentuadas de uso do solo e do meio sócio-económico nos últimos 50 anos, e de apresentar tendências evolutivas semelhantes às dos outros concelhos envolventes, o que permitirá aplicar a metodologia desenvolvida a outras áreas.

Processo de planejamento estratégico em universidade pública: o caso da Universidade Federal do Pará

The goal of this research is to check if the strategic planning developed between 2001 and 2009 into the State University of Para (Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA) was consolidated into its Academic Centers as a management practice. To this end, we identified the planning formalization degree of the Academic Centers, the conceived tools for the planning, the conception and the methodological process used in the tools elaboration, as also its implementation. The research used a qualitative approach: it is descriptive and it uses the case study technique. The data were gathered from primary and secondary sources, through bibliography, documents, and field researches through semi-structure interviews. The analysis and data interpretation were done by each investigated Academic Center from the analytics categories guided by the specifics goals. We used theoretic fundamental based principles and the university as a study empiric reference based on its structure analysis, organizational processes and institutional strategic plan. We inspected how the strategic planning process was developed throughout the fixed period and how the investigated Academic Centers are from the collected documents and interviews. The theoretical foundation was built from three axis: the Brazilian undergraduate and posgraduate education system; the university itself including its singularity and complexity as an organization; and the planning as a strategic management process. The main results show us that the UFPA has updated regulatory milestones, presenting organizational structure, laws, instructions, manuals and deployed management model that give the strategic planning development conditions beyond its administration, i. e., into its Academic Centers. The centers also present those established milestones and develop the basic planning processes of the institution. Those processes are conceived based on the institutional strategic planning and the managers mainly use the procedural orientation defined by the university management, from where the conceptual foundation is originated and propagated. According to the literature and to the research done in this work, we can conclude that the Academic Centers from the UFPA developed the strategic planning practice. This planning is organized and founded and guided the plans and decisions which avoided the disordered management and, according to the managers, allowed the advances and performance improvement. We can conclude that the UFPA built an important foundation with respect to the management professionalization. On the other hand, we can not conclude that the management practice is consolidated since there are weaknesses into the structuring of the technical teams and there is not any management tool for the implementation of the elaborated plans

Avalição de desempenho de protocolos de autenticação para redes sem fio heterogêneas

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, 2016.

Percepções de maturidade em gerenciamento de projetos à luz da nova gestão pública: uma investigação com gestores das secretarias estaduais do Rio Grande do Norte

This study aimed to measure the perception of maturity project management of state boards of Rio Grande do Norte by the perception of its managers. Argues that project management has been highlighted as a critical factor for the success of any organization, because the projects are directly related to the set of activities that result in organizational innovation as products, services and processes and the improvement of project management is directly aligned with the main pillars of the New Public Management. Methodologically, this is a quantitative research of a descriptive nature in which 161 forms were applied with coordinators and subcoordinators of state departments of Rio Grande do Norte, culminating in a sampling error of less than 6% to 95% confidence according to the procedures finite sampling. The process of tabulation and analysis was done using the package Statistical Package for Social Sciences - SPSS 18.0 and worked with techniques such as mean, standard deviation, frequency distributions, cluster analysis and factor analysis. The results indicate that the levels of maturity in project management in state departments of Rio Grande do Norte is below the national average and that behavioral skills are the main problem for improving management in these departments. It was possible to detect the existence of two groups of different perceptions about the management of projects, indicating, according to the managers, there are islands of excellence in project management in some sectors of the state departments. It was also observed that there are eight factors that affect maturity in project management: Planning and Control , Development of Management Skills , Project Management Environment , Acceptance of the Subject Project Management , Stimulus to Performance , Project Evaluation and Learning , Project Management Office and Visibility of Project Managers . It concludes that the project management in state departments of Rio Grande do Norte has no satisfactory levels of maturity in project management, affecting the levels of efficiency and effectiveness of the state apparatus, which shows that some of the assumptions that guide the New Public Management are not getting the levels of excellence nailed by this management model

Os sistemas integrados de gestão na Administração Pública : Estratégias de desenvolvimento e reorientação organizacional. Estudo de um caso

Os Organismos públicos encontram-se, actualmente, a desenvolver estudos a nível dos Sistemas Integrados de Gestão, motivados pela necessidade que existe em adoptar novas técnicas de Gestão capazes de responder às novas exigências de informação. Em termos gerais, os Organismos públicos encontram-se numa fase de viragem na sua actuação, em que surge a necessidade de dispor de novos sistemas de informação capazes de dar resposta às exigências da Nova Gestão Pública. É certo que a Nova Gestão Pública conduz a uma maior motivação, proporcionando uma melhoria na obtenção dos resultados e modernizando a relação entre o controlo das despesas públicas e a prestação de contas a nível dos órgãos do Estado, e onde a uniformização de critérios se apresenta como um dos principais requisitos para criar condições de implementação de uma contabilidade pública que funcione como instrumento de apoio aos utilizadores da informação e, em particular, aos Órgãos de Chefia e Direcção. Este trabalho analisa o caso do Exército Português, como exemplo de um Organismo público que aproveitou a obrigatoriedade de adesão ao novo Regime de Administração Financeira do Estado, para promover a implementação de um Sistema Integrado de Gestão capaz de responder às novas exigências de informação. Analisam-se também as estratégias de actuação e reorientação organizacional utilizadas pelo Exército Português, de modo a permitir o desenvolvimento e implementação do sistema baseado na uniformização de critérios que garanta os requisitos e as técnicas de Gestão capazes de criar condições para desenvolver uma contabilidade pública que funcione como instrumento de apoio à decisão. ABSTRACT; At present, government entities are developing studies at an Integrated Management System level, impelled by the actual need of adopting new Management techniques capable of responding to the new demands regarding Information. ln global terms, government entities are reaching a turning point in its way of acting, due to the arising need of settling new information systems which provide an answer to the demands of the New Public Management. It is assured that the New Public Management leads to a higher motivation, providing an improvement in accomplishing results and modernizing the link between the control of public expenditure and presenting accounts of State Organs. It also presents the criteria standards as one of the main requirements to create implementation conditions of a public accounting which operates as a support mean to the information users and, more specifically, to the Command and Boarding Bodies. This study analyses the Portuguese Army, an example of government entity which seized the obligation of joining the New Public Financial Management Regime to promote the implementation of an Integrated Management System capable of responding to the new information demands. The performing strategies and organizational refocus used by the Portuguese Army are also analyzed in order to allow the development and implementation of the system. It is based in the standard criteria that secure the requirements and Management techniques which enable the progress of a public accounting acting as a support resource in decision-making.

Utilização de um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem: um estudo na perspectiva da prática docente

Advances related to information technology are visible and inherent to the management of contemporary organizations, regardless of industrial action. Synchronized with this dynamic, educational institutions are incorporating technological tools that assist its management and academic support to teachers in teaching and interaction with the students. Given that technological innovations are not always taken homogeneously and with the same degree of coverage, remain current and relevant studies on how these technologies are being used in academia. The objective of this research is to identify the usage profile of the functionality of a virtual learning environment related to teaching (undergraduate or postgraduate), demographic variables (age and gender) and institutional (time of admission and academic center of origin.) The methodology applied to the study is descriptive and quantitative. The research is characterized as census, covering all 2152 teachers of undergraduate and graduate students of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, who accessed the virtual classes of the Integrated Management of Academic Activities. The study findings revealed that there is a statistically significant difference regarding the use of these tools to teachers who work with undergraduate (49.3%) compared to graduate (6.6%). Regarding gender, women (40.1%) use the system more than men (38.5%). It was also observed that the younger teachers, aged 37 years, are the most active users (42.5%) of the Virtual Class with respect to their elders. For teachers with up to three years time of admission to the UFRN, the pattern of use is more advanced than those with more seniority, as well as the faculty of the Center for Science and Technology are the least likely to use the tools available in relation to other academic centers. It is hoped that with this study managers can direct actions to improve and expand the use of this environment by teachers

Propuesta de diseño de una Oficina de Gestión de Proyectos para la Dirección de Planeación de la Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca (CVC)

Con el propósito de contribuir a los resultados de gestión en una entidad ambiental como es la Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca (CVC), se diseñó una Oficina de Gestión de Proyectos (PMO), con base en el PMI, por su sigla Project Management Institute, integrada a la estructura orgánica de la entidad -- La idea surgió de la necesidad de posicionar su imagen corporativa en un escalón más alto ante la comunidad, al considerar para el efecto las circunstancias organizativas internas de la entidad, como los nuevos sistemas competitivos de gestión administrativa, operativa y técnica -- En dicho contexto, la entidad requiere fortalecer su capacidad de gestión institucional y se deben adoptar tácticas que definan el direccionamiento de la gestión, como la propuesta de diseño de una Oficina de Gestión de Proyectos para la Dirección de Planeación en cuanto a las políticas, los objetivos y los proyectos, que la lleven a superar los condicionantes, soportado en procesos de modernización, innovación y tecnología, mediante la organización de sus funciones y sus competencias y la formalización de sus procesos y procedimientos, tanto los técnicos como los administrativos y financieros, así como sus instrumentos de coordinación, comunicaciones, seguimiento y control

A Framework for Energy-Efficiency in Smart Home Environments

Part 7: Cyber-Physical Systems

Uma cidade para pessoas: funcionalidade, racionalidade e emotividade nas relações mobiliário urbano, espaço público e cidadãos

This research investigates how functionality, rationality, and emotionality applied to urban furniture design contribute to the organization, legibility, and qualification of public spaces, according to different layouts, physical and visual qualities of the urban furniture as well as the quality of urban infrastructure that may influence the uses and appropriation of urban spaces by pedestrians, turning those spaces into socially centripetal or centrifugal places. The work consists of two parts. First refers to a bibliographical review concerning two main issues of the investigation: product design and legibility of public space, defining the conceptual and theoretical bases, linked to methodological strategies aimed at systemic planning and integrated management of urban furniture design and legibility of public spaces (sidewalks), that are necessary to define the existing relationships among the user s interface (pedestrians); product (urban artifacts); built environment (sidewalks). The second part refers to the achievement of empirical approach throughout visual analysis of public spaces and the functional and qualitative evaluation of the existing urban furniture in the central neighborhood of Cidade Alta, Natal, RN, according to the theoretical researched concepts and methodological procedures. The results expose the weaknesses and levels of intensity arising from the relations among public space, urban furniture, and users, revealing the need for theoretical and practical approaches which would help the decision-making in planning, designing and integrating innovative, sustainable, and ethical solutions in order to design attractive public spaces that could provide sociability and citizenship throughout integrated public management, city systemic thinking and urban identity. The suggested guidelines at the end of this research will provide the necessary strategies to design suitable urban furniture systems according to aesthetic and practical urban infrastructure and city context, aiming to ease visual and physical conflicts that may negatively interfere with the appropriation of public spaces by the citizens

As ferramentas de gestão estratégica na avaliação de desempenho organizacional das Forças Armadas

As organizações em geral procuram alcançar objetivos, adotando estratégias que lhes permitam cumprir aquele desiderato com a máxima eficiência e eficácia. Os ramos das Forças Armadas procuram implementar a estratégia ao longo de um período que, face ao impacto das alterações entretanto verificadas, exige a capacidade para fazer ajustamentos àquela estratégia inicial. Nesse sentido, recorrem a ferramentas para avaliar o desempenho organizacional, que lhes permita saber qual o desempenho real e quais os ajustamentos necessários a fazer para alcançar esses objetivos. O objeto de estudo são as ferramentas de gestão estratégica utilizadas pelos ramos das Forças Armadas com o objetivo de analisar a sua pertinência, a sua eficiência na avaliação do desempenho organizacional e as diferenças relativamente ao Sistema Integrado de Gestão e Avaliação do Desempenho na Administração Pública (SIADAP). Seguiu-se uma estratégia de investigação qualitativa e um desenho de pesquisa comparativo, verificando-se que as ferramentas de gestão estratégica são pertinentes para a formulação e implementação da estratégia, são eficientes na avaliação do desempenho organizacional e diferenciam-se do SIADAP por integrarem a formulação, a implementação e a avaliação da estratégia segundo quatro perspetivas relevantes para o cumprimento da missão dos ramos das Forças Armadas. Abstract: The general organizations seek to achieve goals, adopting strategies that will enable them to fulfil that desideratum with maximum efficiency and effectiveness. The branches of the armed forces seek to implement the strategy over a period that address the impact of changes however checked, and it requires the ability to make adjustments to that initial strategy. In that sense, they use tools to assess organizational performance, enabling them to know what the actual performance and what adjustments needed to do to achieve those goals. The object of study are the strategic management tools used in the branches of the armed forces, with the aim of analysing their relevance, their effectiveness in assessing organizational performance and the differences from the Integrated Management and Performance Evaluation System in Public Administration (SIADAP). There was a qualitative research strategy and a comparative research design, verifying that the strategic management tools are relevant to the formulation and implementation of strategy, are effective in assessing organizational performance and differentiate SIADAP by integrating the formulation, implementation and evaluation of the strategy in four relevant perspectives to fulfil the mission of the branches of the armed forces.

Dinâmica das pescas e gestão participativa do polvo vulgar (Octopus vulgaris) capturado pela frota de covos e alcatruzes no sul de Portugal

Tese de Doutoramento, Ciências do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Extensão universitária e sua eficácia : estudo de caso do UnB Idiomas

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Departamento de Economia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia, 2015.

Estudio y análisis de los modelos de gestión aplicados en las pymes de cuenca en el sector comercial de venta al por mayor de artículos de bazar. Propuesta de un modelo de gestión integral para la empresa Distribuidora Bravo Abad en el periodo 2013- 2014

El objetivo de la presente investigación es realizar el estudio y análisis de los modelos de gestión aplicados en las pymes de Cuenca, en el sector comercial de venta al por mayor de artículos de bazar, a través de este capítulo se conoce aspectos generales del sector comercial, las Pymes a nivel nacional, la provincia, y la ciudad, en la que muestra su importancia y contribución en la economía de la ciudad. Posteriormente se desarrolla la propuesta de un modelo de gestión integral para la empresa Distribuidora Bravo Abad; la tesis se desarrolla en 5 capítulos, el segundo capítulo se realiza el análisis de la situación actual de la empresa, antecedentes generales, análisis del entorno, análisis de la industria, análisis interno. En el tercer capítulo se realiza el direccionamiento estratégico, organigrama, filosofía corporativa, desarrollando la misión, visión, valores, objetivo general, objetivos específicos, objetivos estratégicos, estrategias y el mapa estratégico. En el cuarto capítulo se construye el cuadro de mando integral o balance score card utilizando los indicadores y las perspectivas; se propone un plan operativo, para luego sugerir la evaluación y el monitoreo del cuadro de mando integral. Se finaliza con las conclusiones y recomendaciones de la propuesta del modelo de gestión, y su importancia para el funcionamiento de la empresa.