A Comunicação Social do IBGE e as novas tecnologias para a integração da informação: o caso da introdução da Internet

O presente trabalho tenta mostrar a importância da aplicação de novas tecnologias no mundo globalizado, especialmente a rede Internet, como ferramenta indispensável na melhoria da qualidade da divulgação dos estudos produzidos pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE, pela Coordenação de Comunicação Social do órgão. A pesquisa valeu-se de documentos administrativos, tais como Decretos, Resoluções, Portarias, Boletins de Serviço, entre outros materiais disponíveis que pudessem auxiliar nessa memória institucional. Utilizou como embasamento teórico a literatura especializada e para a pesquisa qualitativa aplicou a metodologia pertinente à pesquisa com coleta de dados da História Oral. Com o propósito de resgatar e percorrer o caminho histórico da criação do site do IBGE na Internet e a ampliação de seu uso por localidades do Brasil, esta pesquisa priorizou a importância que a Internet teve para a divulgação e disseminação dos trabalhos produzidos pelo IBGE. Para poder analisar esse processo foi preciso recorrer a alguns conceitos capazes de ajudar na reflexão sobre as transformações em curso, tais como: inovação tecnológica, cultura comunicacional, globalização, identidade global, identidade nacional, entre outros.

From legal commons to social commons: Brazil and the cultural industry in the 21st century

This article describes some of the current transformations regarding the processes by which information and culture are generated, from the point of view of developing countries. In this brief analysis, the article discusses the role of projects such as Creative Commons for developing countries. It also discusses the idea of legal commons and social commons. While the idea of legal commons can be understood as the voluntary use of licenses such as Creative Commons in order to create a “commons”, the idea of social commons has to do with the tensions between legality and illegality in developing countries. These tensions appear prominently in the so-called global “peripheries”, and in many instances make the legal structure of intellectual property irrelevant, unfamiliar, or unenforceable, for various reasons. With the emergence of digital technology and the Internet, in many places and regions in developing countries (especially in the “peripheries”), technology ended up arriving earlier than the idea of intellectual property. Such a de facto situation propitiated the emergence of cultural industries that were not driven by intellectual property incentives. In these cultural businesses, the idea of “sharing” and of free dissemination of the content is intrinsic to the social circumstances taking place in these peripheries. Also, the appropriation of technology on the part of the “peripheries” ends up promoting autonomous forms of bridging the digital divide, such as the “LAN house” phenomenon discussed below. This paper proposes that many lessons can be learned from the business models emerging from social commons practices in developing countries. The tension between legality and illegality in “peripheral” areas in developing countries is not new. The work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and others in the 1970s was paradigmatic for the discussion of legal pluralism regarding the occupation of land in Brazil. This paper aims to follow in that same pioneer tradition of studies about legal pluralism, and to apply those principles to the discussion of “intellectual property” rather than the ownership of land.

Organizações comunitárias de provisão social nos Estados Unidos e França

Documento de pesquisa que aborda o perfil, a dimensão e a magnitude das organizações comunitárias de provisão social na França e nos Estados Unidos, relacionando suas formas de vinculação, dinâmicas e identidades em face da esfera governamental e da esfera privada capitalista, apontando: (i) tipos dominantes de atores e como funcionam seus quadros em relação ao Estado e aos interesses capitalistas no mercado; (ii) recursos mobilizados na interação com o poder político e poder econômico (Estado e empresas capitalistas) quando recebem doações: significado do trabalho voluntariado e das iniciativas de geração de ocupação e renda (associativismo/cooperativismo) e (iii) fins visados e valores expressos. São discutidas as formas de atuação de base, participação local em cada país e é analisada, comparativamente, a questão do significado desses agentes no quadro atual dos atuais sistemas de bem-estar (Welfare State) na sociedade civil norte-americana e francesa.

Reconstruindo o estado: gestão de organizações e serviços públicos em processo de mudança

This study is a gathering and analysis of the main proposals and initiatives of Public Reform in Brazil, in a specific social area: the Education sector. The research considered the period that goes from the beginning of the 80's to the first half of the 90's, with special emphasis to the role of management in the sector's reform. The debate over the Education Reform was centered on the more general theories of the Government's reform, related on the one hand to the functions and size of Government, and on the other hand, to the management of the governmental policies. Two distinct moments were identified in the period considered, with respect to the role of Education and the priorities of the sector's reform. In a first moment, between the beginning of the 80's and the new Constitution, Education was seen as a citizen's right. In a second moment, the qualification for work was also added, as a condition for Brazil's entering a new international order. As to priorities, the emphasis was in the democratization of management and decision making processes, in the 80's. From the end of the decade on, and through the 90's, besides the democratization theme, emphasis was given to modernization of the decision making processes and management. The interaction between democratization and modernization became one of the biggest challenges for the sector's reform, and is a condition for Government to enhance quality and equity in education.

História social de uma empresa brasileira: a cerâmica Porto Ferreira

O objetivo da pesquisa é construir a história social de uma empresa familiar brasileira fundada nos anos trinta no estado de São Paulo. A investigação acompanhou o desenvolvimento da organização até os dias atuais e pretendeu abranger diferentes dimensões desse processo: econômico-financeiros, políticos, gerenciais e tecnológicos.

Discursos e a construção do "real": um estudo do processo de formação e institucionalização do campo da biotecnologia

Comprehension of the processes of formation of new organizational fields is the main objective that stimulated the theoretical reflection and empirical research that I present in this paper. My intention here is to uphold the potential for the application of seemingly dichotomous perspectives in terms of the objectivity/subjectivity dimension in the comprehension of the objective in question. The contribution of Foucault, with his concept of discourse, is linked to the proposal of critical constructivism represented by Latour and studies of science and technology. Juxtaposing these perspectives, I examined the dynamics of the biotechnological field on the basis of the dialectic of movements of demarcation/circularity, which is basically a simultaneous movement of (dis)construction of the boundaries of a field. The dialectic of demarcation/circularity is made up of the set of relations established between heterogeneous elements ¿ institutions, economic and social processes, behavioral patterns, systems of norms, techniques, types of classification, forms of characterization, in other words it finds ways of emerging in the course of discursive formations. This theoretical proposal ¿ which incorporates an overlooked dimension in institutional analysis, especially in organization studies (power) ¿ has the advantage of contributing to enhancing comprehension of the dynamics of institutionalization. By proposing that the institutional processes arise within discursive fields, the argument put forward is that such processes contribute to the productivity of the power relations in these fields. In empirical terms, I conducted a descriptive and exploratory research directed at the biotechnology sector. The research was based on a historical perspective, since the analysis spans the period from the origins of genetic science (beginning of the 20th century) through to recent developments in biotechnology in the USA (beginning of the 21st century). The USA was chosen as the locus of research, principally due to the fact that structuring of the field of biotechnology originated in that country, subsequently spreading to other countries around the world. Starting from this theoretical and methodological framework, three discursive formations are highlighted: organization, information and network. Each of the discursive formations is characterized by a dominant set of discourses that prepare the ground for the appearance and (trans)formation of the focus-objects under analysis. In this process, organizations appear in at least two ways: as boundary-organizations ¿ which are important for understanding the movement of the approximation of different discursive domains ¿ and as new organizations, which accompany the (trans)formation of new fields, whereby prevailing discourses materialize at a given historical moment and contribute to breathe life into new discourses, which in turn spark off new power relations. Among the conclusions of this work, I would highlight the following: questioning the 'organizational' dimension of the fields; the relationship revealed not only between the discourses and the institutionalized practices, but also with the process of construction of legitimacy; and the redefinition of the concept of organizations, based on new conceptions relating to the limits of the topic, the objectivity/subjectivity, and space/time dichotomy.

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.

Autodeterminação local e desenvolvimento: uma análise da dinâmica social no município de São Roque de Minas

In this thesis, the basic research of Chase and Simon (1973) is questioned, and we seek new results by analyzing the errors of experts and beginners chess players in experiments to reproduce chess positions. Chess players with different levels of expertise participated in the study. The results were analyzed by a Brazilian grandmaster, and quantitative analysis was performed with the use of statistical methods data mining. The results challenge significantly, the current theories of expertise, memory and decision making in this area, because the present theory predicts piece on square encoding, in which players can recognize the strategic situation reproducing it faithfully, but commit several errors that the theory can¿t explain. The current theory can¿t fully explain the encoding used by players to register a board. The errors of intermediary players preserved fragments of the strategic situation, although they have committed a series of errors in the reconstruction of the positions. The encoding of chunks therefore includes more information than that predicted by current theories. Currently, research on perception, trial and decision is heavily concentrated on the idea of 'pattern recognition'. Based on the results of this research, we explore a change of perspective. The idea of 'pattern recognition' presupposes that the processing of relevant information is on 'patterns' (or data) that exist independently of any interpretation. We propose that the theory suggests the vision of decision-making via the recognition of experience.

Ação social das empresas privadas: uma metodologia para avaliação de resultados

In the recent years Corporate Social Action (CSA) has become more and more relevant to corporate context. The aim is to benefit both poor communities and the donnor companies, as it meets the needs of their salient stakeholders. Nevertheless, there still exists considerable scepticism concerning CSA. In order to become a solid management practice, it is critcal to evidence the attained results. Up to now, the focus has been on process evaluation, that is, on the policies companies are adopting. Literature revision has shown a great need of studies related to results identification in this field. Therefore, using stakeholders` framework (according to Wood, 1991; Donaldson and Preston, 1995; Hopkins, 1997; Hamil, 1999), we have developped a methodology to evaluate CSA results, based on public and private effectiveness criteria. As we applied it to assess Xerox social action in Brazil we were able to identify the attainment degree of expected results related to the benefitted community (Mangueira) and also to some Xerox salient stakeholders (employees and clients).

Políticas sociais e hegemonia: um estudo sobre o processo de formulação da proposta de reforma sanitária

The principles of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) - universal attendance, integrated and decentralized administration and the users' participation - were included in the Federal Constitution of 1988 as a result of a political movement around the subject of the health which has begun in the second half of the decade of 70, together with the overcoming process of the authoritarian regimen established in 1964. This movement, which got the name of sanitary movement or movement for the Sanitary Reform, can be understood in its relationship with a process of cultural changing among the Brazilian left, that looked for new forms of facing the democracy and, with it, the social policy. This work part of the premise that one of the main influences to guide this new vision was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci's thought. We've tried to identify, in the formation of the speech on the Sanitary Reform and in the definition of the political strategies of those that make efforts for it, the influences of Gramsci. To reach this objective, we analyzed the editorials of Saúde em Debate (Health in Debate) magazine, official vehicle of the Centro Brasileiro de Estudos de Saúde (Brazilian Health Studies Center - Cebes), which is still in activity, that represented, in the analyzed period, 1976 to 1988, the critical thought about the reality of the health in the country and finished to be the institution that supported the project of Sanitary Reform.

As organizações sociais no contexto da reforma do Estado: o caso da associação de Comunicação Educativa Roquete Pinto

Diante da incapacidade do Estado em atender às demandas que lhe são exigidas, o governo federal propôs alterações na máquina pública, através do Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho do Estado, de forma a estabelecer novas formas de gestão e novos modelos para as instituições. O objetivo é possibilitar maior interação entre Estado e Sociedade e ao mesmo tempo atingir níveis maiores de eficiência. Em especial, o projeto das Organizações Sociais (OS) pode representar a primeira tentativa de fomentar uma nova espécie de parceria entre o Estado e a Sociedade. Não obstante, existem defeitos na implementação das OS, pois surgiram na prática por iniciativa do governo e não da sociedade civil; o processo de qualificação mostrou-se extremamente centralizador e a composição do Conselho de Administração fortemente comandada pelo poder público. Portanto, as OS devem ser analisadas como um processo em curso, uma possibilidade de vir ainda a se constituir em alternativa eficiente nas áreas de produção e veiculação de radiofusão educativa e cultural, de saúde, de pesquisa científica, de educação e de cultura. Para que atinja os seus objetivos, não se limitando à maior flexibilidade administrativa conquistada, terão de ser revistas e corrigidas as falhas iniciais e introduzidos mecanismos que possibilitem maior controle social da gestão pública. Esta dissertação está voltada para a experiência piloto das OS: a transformação da extinta Fundação Roquette Pinto em ACERP (Associação de Comunicação Educativa Roquette Pinto), I apontando desafios e dificuldades da mudança organizacional, os objetivos e as metas fixados no contrato de gestão e a busca da concretização da implementação de novos valores de direcionamento ao cliente com qualidade. Há críticas em relação ao processo de mudanças adotado, em especial à ausência de planejamento e à dificuldade de diálogo manifestadas pelos dirigentes da ACERP. A mudança organizacional tem importado valores culturais e buscado, a curtíssimo prazo, a modificação de traços de cultura e de comportamento predominantes na organização, provocando o êxodo dos servidores públicos.

Valores, atitudes e comportamentos gerenciais requeridos pelo processo de globalização e as diretrizes para as ações de desenvolvimento de recursos humanos

O processo de globalização hoje uma realidade, alterando as relações entre nações, sociedades organizações. movimento de globalização da economia modifica radicalmente as relações do homem com meio produtivo social, levantando questões fundamentais quanto essência das transformações em curso, que justifiquem fenômenos tendências aparentemente inexplicáveis. Mudanças fortes velozes, exigindo dos indivíduos das organizações habilidade em se adaptarem em graus nunca antes requeridos, tornam-se as únicas certezas da atualidade, propiciando aparecimento simultâneo de várias tendências administrativas de mudança organizacional no contexto empresarial brasileiro. Este trabalho pretende proporcionar uma reflexão sobre os efeitos que as mudanças em curso tem produzido no quadro de valores, atitudes comportamentos gerenciais requeridos pelas organizações, bem como sobre novo papel ser desempenhado pela área de Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos.

A informação no processo de descentralização administrativa do setor saúde: o caso do cartão nacional de saúde em Niterói

A importância da informação como recurso estratégico nas organizações conduz à relevância que o projeto Cartão Nacional de Saúde (CNS) do SUS assume na reestruturação do setor público de Saúde, que busca um novo modelo de gestão, nas três esferas de governo. A descentralização da gestão, como um processo extremamente dinâmico e participativo, rede fine os papéis dos gestores, que assumem novas responsabilidades, exigindo um aparato burocrático mais flexível. Seus desafios são muitos, visto que as organizações de saúde são sempre complexas. Neste estudo buscou-se o entendimento da dinâmica organizacional e de sua adaptação às mudanças impostas pelo ambiente, com base no referencial teórico proposto por H. Mintzberg e sua aplicação às organizações do SUS. A experiência de implantação desse novo sistema de informação, CNS, de abrangência nacional, é analisada em seus aspectos locais, com seus êxitos e dificuldades, no município de Niterói.

Estrutura e cultura na mudança das instituições: um estudo sobre a complexidade do processo de desenvolvimento institucional: o caso do Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE)

Este estudo procura analisar a fragmentação institucional de uma organização pública, o Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE), que passou por inúmeras transformações organizacionais, como fusões e incorporações de outros órgãos. Essas mudanças parecem ter gerado, em seu processo histórico, uma pluralidade de sub-culturas dentro da organização que são compartilhadas por grupos com diferentes interesses e valores. No sentido de se compreender como agem esses grupos foi desenvolvido um estudo que ocorreu em três grandes etapas. Na primeira criaram-se tipos ideais, que representam um perfil geral dos diferentes grupos que compõem a organização, com seus valores e interesses. Concomitantemente ao processo de criação de tipos ideais, foi desenvolvida uma análise histórico-institucional, onde foram verificados fatos importantes na história do FNDE. Na segunda etapa foram realizadas entrevistas com os servidores de cada grupo, onde se buscou colher informações sobre suas percepções acerca da história do FNDE, assim como seus principais interesses e valores. Na terceira, e última, etapa comparou-se os tipos ideais aos depoimentos dos entrevistados, estabelecendo-se um quadro de seu processo histórico e de suas características culturais. A partir desse quadro desenvolveu-se uma análise sociológico-interpretativa de como essas características geram desafios para alinhamento de valores entre os servidores da organização hoje.

Gestão de pessoas em organizações em processo de transformação: a experiência da Rede Ferroviária Federal em liquidação

This study apprehends the living experiences of the RFFSA employees who still remain in the organization until its final moments of existence. In order to comprehend and analyze these experiences to generate knowledge related to personnel relationships in critical management realities as it is the case in a process of organizational liquidation. Due to the fact that the case study focus on a railroad enterprise, the presence of which is inherent to the history of the nation, social implications related to that liquidation process were investigated under cultural concepts, new organization context, added to a phenomenological approach. Through the consideration of that philosophical dimension of the relationships which constituted the object of this study, the railroader being could be more broadly understood. The employed methods include bibliographic and documental research to describe the organization and to reinforce sources for a deeper study of the railroad employee¿s culture and values. The posture assumed in that investigation was participation with the subjects including the researcher. Some characteristics were extracted out of questionnaires and interviews as a means of answering questions which would not come out trough numbers. What emerges as a fundamental learning in the conclusions can be summarized as follows: the understanding of an organization as a slice detached from society, is a deviation from human relevance paths, since implications of human actions in leabenswelt are ignored and their impacts are not considered concrete. That especial learning which the case study helped to clarify and which is an alert to liquidators and employees, independently of hierarchy, is not limited to liquidation processes. The phenomenon which shows itself in that strategic category of management is that its deviation from human relevance appears in higher dramaticism.