O trabalho dos executivos: A mudança que não ocorreu

A preocupação com o trabalho dos executivos tem chamado cada vez menos a atenção dos pesquisadores. Tal fato nos parece um contra-senso quando relembramos que eles desempenham papel fundamental nas organizações atuais e que o discurso que é difundido sobre mudanças organizacionais parece alterar substancialmente o seu trabalho. O objetivo deste artigo foi comparar o trabalho dos executivos na atualidade brasileira com estudos sobre o tema. Percebemos em nossas análises, que o trabalho dos executivos de nossa amostra se assemelha muito com os descritos pela literatura consagrada. Parece que nada mudou em relação aos estudos de Fayol (1976 [1916]), Barnard (1938); Carlson (1951) e Mintzberg (1973). Eles continuam organizando, controlando e promovendo a cooperação nas organizações. Suas atividades são fragmentadas, intensas, superficiais. Além disso, notamos que há vários caminhos para desenvolvimento de pesquisas, principalmente investigar a diferença entre o trabalho desempenhado pelos executivos em empresas brasileiras e estrangeiras no país, questões relativas ao impacto de sua profissão na vida das suas famílias, aspectos relativos a controle e ideologia e influência do ensino de administração nas tarefas que desempenham no dia a dia.

Estudo da potencialidade da incorporação de resíduo de granito e da queima da casca do café em cerâmica vermelha

The industrial production of ornamental rocks and the burning of coffee husk generate waste that is discarded into the environment. However, with the study of the incorporation of these residues in ceramic products, may be found an alternative to reducing environmental impacts and detrimental effects on human health caused by its indiscriminate disposal of waste in nature. Thus, this work aimed to study the addition of ashes of the coffee husk and granite residue in matrix of red ceramic. The raw materials were dry milled and sieved to mesh 100. To characterize the raw materials were carried out analyzes of X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), particle size analysis (PSA), differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TG). Six formulations were prepared where the clay content was kept constant (70%wt) and ashes contents and granite residue varied from 10, 15, 20 and 30%. Dilatometrics analyzes were performed at four selected formulations, containing them: 100% clay (A100); 70% clay and 30% ashes (A70C30); 70% clay and 30% granite residue (A70G30); and 70% clay, 15% granite residue and 15% ashes (A70G15C15). The samples were prepared by uniaxial compaction with pressure of 25 MPa, and fired at temperatures of 800°C, 850ºC, 900ºC, 950ºC, 1000ºC and 1100°C. Assays were performed to determine the linear shrinkage of burning (LSB), water absorption (WA), apparent porosity (AP), density (D) and tensile bending. Also were performed analyzes of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the samples fired. The formulations incorporating granite residue and/or ashes reached the required limits of water absorption according to NBR 15270-1 and NBR 15310 and tensile bending according to classical literature (SANTOS, 1989) necessary for the production of tiles and ceramic block for masonry sealing

A dictionary of classical antiquities, mythology, religion, literature and art /

Mode of access: Internet.

A dictionary of classical antiquities : mythology, religion, literature and art /

Includes index.

From Homer to Theocritus; an outline history of classical Greek literature with selected translations.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of classical Greek literature,

I. The poets (with an appendix on Homer, by Prof. Sayce).--II. The prose writers (with an index to both volumes)

A history of classical Greek literature /

Includes index.

From the Montaigne to Molière or, The preparation for the classical age of French literature /

Mode of access: Internet.

Classical studies: essays on ancient literature and art.

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of German literature, containing classical specimens of German prose and poetry, systematically arranged.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of classical Greek literature.

v. 1, pt. 1 "rev. and enl."; v. 2, pt. 2, "4th ed." v. 2, pt. 2. 4th ed., rev. and enl.

A history of classical Greek literature /

v. 1, pt. 1. The epic and lyric poets [with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce].--v. 1, pt. 2. The dramatic poets.--v. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.--v. 2, pt. 2. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle (with an appendix on Aristotle).

The role of decision-maker preferences in tenancy selection of CBD office accommodation – preliminary literature review

The literature and anecdotal evidence suggests that that there is more to tenancy selection (firm location) than the profit maximisation drive that traditional neo-classical economic location theory suggests. In the first instance these models assume property markets are rational and perfectly competitive; the CBD office market is clearly neither rational nor perfectly competitive. This fact alone relegates such models to the margins of usefulness for an industry that seeks to satisfy tenant demand in order to optimise returns on capital invested. Acknowledgment of property market imperfections are universally accepted to the extent that all contemporary texts discuss the lack of a coherent centralised market place and incomplete and poorly disseminated information processes as fundamental inadequacies which characterise the property market inefficiencies. Less well researched are the facets of the market which allow the observer to determine market activity to be significantly irrational. One such facet is that of ‘decision maker preferences’. The decision to locate a business operation at one location as opposed to another seems ostensibly a routine choice based on short, medium and long term business objectives. These objectives are derived from a process of strategic planning by one or more individuals whose goal is held to be to optimise outcomes which benefit the business (and presumably those employed within it). However the decision making processes appear bounded by how firms function, the institutional context in which they operate, as well as by opportunistic behaviour by individual decision makers who allow personal preferences to infiltrate and ‘corrupt’ the process. In this way, history, culture, geography, as well as institutions all become significant to the extent that these influence and shape individual behaviour which in turn determine the morphology of individual preferences, as well as providing a conduit for them to take effect. This paper exams historical and current literature on the impact of individual behaviour in the decision making process within organisations as a precursor to an investigation of the tenancy decision making process within the CBD office market. Literature on the topic falls within a number of research disciplines, philosophy, psychology and economics to name a few.

Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participator turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement

The participatory turn, fuelled by discourses and rhetoric regarding social media, and in the aftermath of the dot.com crash of the early 2000s, enrols to some extent an idea of being able to deploy networks to achieve institutional aims. The arts and cultural sector in the UK, in the face of funding cuts, has been keen to engage with such ideas in order to demonstrate value for money; by improving the efficiency of their operations, improving their respective audience experience and ultimately increasing audience size and engagement. Drawing on a case study compiled via a collaborative research project with a UK-based symphony orchestra (UKSO) we interrogate the potentials of social media engagement for audience development work through participatory media and networked publics. We argue that the literature related to mobile phones and applications (‘apps’) has focused primarily on marketing for engagement where institutional contexts are concerned. In contrast, our analysis elucidates the broader potentials and limitations of social-media-enabled apps for audience development and engagement beyond a marketing paradigm. In the case of UKSO, it appears that the technologically deterministic discourses often associated with institutional enrolment of participatory media and networked publics may not necessarily apply due to classical music culture. More generally, this work raises the contradictory nature of networked publics and argues for increased critical engagement with the concept.