A empresa produtiva e a racionalidade substantiva : a teoria da ação comunicativa de Jürgen Habermas no ambiente organizacional interativo : de Mary Parker Follett a Collins e Porras

Este estudo trata da possibilidade de as empresas produtivas possuírem elementos característicos das organizações substantivas, tendo como perspectiva geral a construção de um ambiente organizacional integrativo, com base na teoria da ação comunicativa, de Jürgen Habermas e na noção de racionalidade substantiva, de Guerreiro Ramos. Apresenta, a partir dos trabalhos de Mary Parker Follett e de Araujo Santos, o conceito de ambiente organizacional integrativo, que sustenta a identidade de interesses entre trabalhadores e empresa e valoriza aspectos como a auto-realização, o autodesenvolvimento e a satisfação do ser humano, confrontando-o com a realidade do ambiente cultural brasileiro e sua influência nas práticas administrativas. Tendo como ponto de partida a pesquisa empreendida por Maurício Serva sobre o fenômeno das organizações substantivas, empreende, através de estudo de caso, um exame no cotidiano organizacional de uma empresa produtiva brasileira do ramo industrial, de modo a investigar a existência da ação racional substantiva nas suas diversas dinâmicas, processos e práticas administrativas, submetendo-a a uma avaliação com base em uma escala de intensidade da racionalidade substantiva e da racionalidade instrumental. Investiga ainda a possibilidade da existência de integração de interesses entre trabalhadores e empresa, caracterizando assim o ambiente organizacional integrativo.

"Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" : romantic imagery in Mary Shelley's Frankstein

Romantic English literature – written at a time when prose fiction was predominantly a medium for sheer entertainment – is rooted in poetry. One or two novelists may exceptionally be granted the adjective “Romantic”, but Mary Shelley is not ranked among them. For centuries, her work has been restricted to that section in handbooks reserved for exotic Gothic literature. This thesis argues that literary criticism has failed to recognize Frankenstein’s obvious relation with the movement. The argument will be fostered by a brief look at such handbooks, and developed through the analysis of the imagery of the novel, so as to trace the Romantic elements there contained. The analysis relies mainly on the frame developed by Northrop Frye concerning the nature and function of imagery in literature. The concept of intertextuality will also be useful as a tool to account for the insertion of images in the novel, and for the novel’s insertion within the Romantic context. The work is divided into three parts. The first contextualizes the main issues set forth by Frankenstein, establishing connections with the life of the author and with the Romantic movement. The second exposes the theoretical basis on which the thesis is grounded. The last presents my reading of the novel’s web of images. In the end, I hope to validate the thesis proposed, that Frankenstein embodies the aesthetic and philosophical assessments of the English Romantic agenda, and therefore deserves to be situated in its due place in the English Literary canon as the legitimate representative of Romanticism in prose form.

Fine needle aspiration biopsy of gastrointestinal stromal tumor presenting as an umbilical mass (Sister Mary Joseph's nodule)

The Sister Mary Joseph (SMJ) nodule is a clinical sign of metastatic cancer involving the umbilicus. The vast majority of these instances represent adenocarcinomas arising from ovarian or colorectal primaries. We present a patient who presented with ascites and the SMJ lesion that turned out to be a metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor after fine needle aspiration biopsy was performed. The lesion was subsequently histologically confirmed. Gastrointestinal stroma tumor involving the umbilicus is exceedingly uncommon and only rarely presents in this fashion. The cytomorphological features, differential diagnosis, and comparison with the tissue specimen are made. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.