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.

Modelagem organizacional : o sistema comercial da Companhia de Saneamento do Parana - SANEPAR

Este trabalho estã centrado no estudo do caso -- Sistema Comercial da Companhia de Saneamento do Paranã - SANEPAR e consequentemente na apresentação de alternativas organizacionais voltadas para o estabelecimento de coerência entre objetivos, recursos e ambiência que envolvem esse sistema. Foi dese~volvido tendo como base teórica o modelo de anãlise organizacional sustentado por Jay R. Galbraith em ORGANIZATION DESIGN, 1977. Calcado num diagnóstico participativo, foi buscado o alcance de objetivos voltados para o conhecimento de aspectos do sistema, como transação ambiental, a natureza das tarefas, a estrutura e o processo de tomada de decisão. Para tanto, foi recomendado a aplicação de um IIMix Organizacional composto de 6 estrategias basicas, provenientes tanto da administração classica quanto da contingencial/orgânica. Pela situação organizacional encontrada, se concluiu que o Sistema Comercial da SANEPAR apresenta uma administração difusa e, bastante descaracterizada estruturalmente, o que compromete a eficiência de seu desempenho. Sua ãrea de competência/autoridade funcional, estã subordinada a um orgao de planejamento que, alem das suas atividades peculiares, tambem se encarrega da direção do Sistema Comercial. Essa situação incide na qualidade dos resultados finais necessarios, i. e, na eficacia e efetividade dos dois sistemas dentro do contexto em que atuam, visto estarem seus principais recursos, humanos, gerando decisões sem uma base informacional consistente e relevante e, dentro de um desenho estrutural que dificulta a consecução dos resultados. O mix recomendado visa dotar o sistema de maior capacidade de transaçao com o ambiente em geral, via uma administração estrategica calcada num desenho estrutural concebido para propiciar informação precisa, decisao relevante e alcance de resultados necessãrios. r proposto visando subordinar o sistema diretamente a uma Diretoria, emancipando-o da subordinação ao Planejamento e, elevando sua autoridade, ao mesmo nivel de importância dos principais sistemas da Empresa. Dessa forma, foi planejada uma atuação gerencial mais dinâmica e profissional ao sistema via processo de tomada de decisão lógico, releva~ te e conhecido. Assim, objetiva-se reduzir a niveis insignificantes a incerteza constatada, principal causadora dos atrasos e distorções ocorrentes no processo e alcance dos resultados desejados. Esses instrumentos, certamente, facilitarão as relações no interior do sistema e, deste, com o ambiente em geral, garantindo assim, a abertura do caminho rumo ao atinamento da eficácia e efetividade gerencial.

Caracterização do processo de trabalho do cirurgiãodentista na estratégia de saúde da família do município de Parnamirim-RN

Family Health Strategy (FHS), founded in 1994 has appeared to play a strategic role in the SUS construction and consolidation. It has reaffirmed its Principles and Guidelines and has elected family as core of attention. The principle that has guided the work concerns the quality of the relationship between professional and family. Thus, the FHS has the family as a subject of health-disease process, and relations with its own characteristics and can be partners in building their health and improvement of quality of life of its members and the entire community. This study aims to characterize the surgeon-dentist (SD) working process in the family health strategy, from the knowledge of the SD integration with other team members; organization of services; development of shares, changes perceived by SDs, as well as knowing the surgeon-dentist profile who is part of this strategy. The collecting tool used was a semi-structured questionnaire, in which participated 30 professionals. As for profile, most professionals were women, completed the graduation in public university and did not have any training to work by joining the FHS. Almost all have other public or private working ties. They often carry out activities with students, and occasionally do home visits. In relation to team work, in activities such as home visits, school health, community activities, among others, they sometimes seek the cooperation of other members. The way of accessing for users in the most part has occurred through the schedule. The most frequently activities made to the Centro Especialidades Odontológicas (CEO), are in Endodontics and Prosthesis. The majority of them participate in team meetings, but they do not have frequency set to happen. As for the planning and programming of activities to be conducted, most said that individually develops them. Concerning the performance of their duties, most reported being satisfied, but that improvements could happen. Besides, they reported improvements in dental care following the inclusion of SD in the FHS in various aspects, such as access, organization, humanization, care and oral disease prevention. The professionals had poor integration with other team members, in addition to have a profile to more individualistic work, a fact seized by way of development and planning of actions. They work the actions in individual and curative way, in detriment promotion and collective ones. They work humanization, definition of territory and adscript population. Thus, it is concluded that the working process developed by SDs, includes the part which is advocated by FHS. This points out to a greater undertaking of this process aiming to detect the weakness met in order to reach the potential that the FHS represents in organization of basic attention

Democratic governance and gender: possible linkages

Includes bibliography

Tecnologias da informação e comunicação na gestão educacional: possibilidades e contribuições em uma escola técnica estadual

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Modelagem matemática no contexto dos ciclos de formação

Busca analisar o uso da Modelagem em um sistema escolar organizado em ciclos de formação, no que refere a configuração das barreiras que foram citadas pela literatura a partir de reflexões e análises da utilização da Modelagem em sistemas escolares organizados em séries anuais. Visamos analisar se as barreiras se mantêm, se são minimizadas, eliminadas e ainda se surgem outras, na organização escolar em ciclos de formação. Diante de tal objetivo, optamos metodologicamente por uma abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram obtidos, a partir de: leituras bibliográficas sobre os temas em questão; entrevistas semi-estruturadas; produções escritas e relatos orais dos alunos, obtidas nas atividades de Modelagem realizadas em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Belém, organizada oficialmente em ciclos de formação. Como resultado da análise dos dados a partir dessas fontes, construímos questionamentos, hipóteses, conclusões e sugestões em torno da configuração das barreiras, quando a Modelagem é utilizada na organização em ciclos de formação. Verificamos que a organização em ciclos é propícia ao uso da Modelagem de maneira ampla e efetiva, em suas diferentes maneiras de materialização, em virtude das medidas oficiais que esse sistema dispõe e suscita. Evidenciamos nesse sentido, o quanto essas medidas prescindem de consolidações e reformulações.

Análise comparativa de um documento de adequação curricular

From the ideologies of inclusive education, the development and adoption of new organizational practices in the school curriculum are noted. In this sense, the work presented here aims to report part of implementation and development process of a individual instrument of curricular adaptation (ACI), to students with special educational needs, especially disabilities, or strong disabilities evidences, who were enrolled in mainstream school. This research aim is to present and to analysis comparatively the structure and use of a didactic-pedagogical curricular adequacy tool, employed by the Department of Education City teachers from a city of Sao Paulo. Two different groups of teachers who worked with students with special educational needs participated in this study, the first (G-1) has had contact with the instrument, and the second (G-2) unknown the instrument. The data collection procedure was the application of a questionnaire consisting of 11 multiple choice questions to the sample. It was noted the document evaluation was positive for most participants from G-1, and participants in G-2 show interest in adopting an instrument to facilitate the teacher activity in organization of education process with special educational needs students. In this way, it’s possible concludes that the instrument analyzed ACI was considered by both teachers groups with a useful pedagogical procedure, able to guide them to elimination of procedural barriers to access to the curriculum towards the realization of an inclusive school.

O processo de integração de novos colaboradores nas organizações

This monograph ha as objective to study the process of integrating new employees in organizations. As the individual becomes inserted into a new professional reality, he is subject to some adjustment variables that can directly affect your income. Identifying this, companies started to worry about how to get these new members, since the way it is conducted is directly related to the success of your performance and productivity in the organization. The central focus of this study is to identify the characteristics of an integration program, as well as the grounds on which it is based. Thus, it is developed a literature review into three parts: the first discusses the importance of people in an organizational context, people management, organizational culture and socialization; the second part discusses organizational communication, and how it is an essential factor for the integrating process is finalized; the third part is allocated to programs of integration and report author's experience in organization Colégio Interativo. The integration process also brings benefits for new employees, once they start to feel like part of the team, is also advantageous for the organization, because the employee who knows what the company hopes it has more possibilities to meet the their needs

Identidade e estudos organizacionais: em direção a um novo paradigma?

This paper aimes to contribute to the analyzes of Caldas and Wood Jr (1997) concerning to the concept of identity. That concept has been developed in Organization Studies under the propositions of Albert and Whetten (1985). In that way, identity concept has been defined by the following characteristics: centrality, distinctiveness and continuity. Nevertheless, a new paradigm has been emerging within social science. In this paper, we present a synthesis on how the concept of identity has been discussed in Social Psychology and Cultural Studies. For both theoretical perspectives, the ideas of centrality and durability are put into doubt, as identity is seen as dynamic and fragmentary. Besides that, we intend to show how the new paradigm is getting formed within Organizational Studies, especially considering international context. Considering that the emerging organizational ideas concerning identity show proximity with those proposed by Social Psychology and Cultural Studies, we raise possible questions that the new paradigm will have to face.

O modelo de excelência de gestão do prêmio nacional da qualidade - PNQ: análise da evolução dos critérios de excelência

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Preparing writing centers and tutors for literacy mediation for working class campus-staff

Writing centers work with writers; traditionally services have been focused on undergraduates taking composition classes. More recently, centers have started to attract a wider client base including: students taking labs that require writing; graduate students; and ESL students learning the conventions of U.S. communication. There are very few centers, however, which identify themselves as open to working with all members of the campus-community. Michigan Technological University has one such center. In the Michigan Tech writing center, doors are open to “all students, faculty and staff.” While graduate students, post docs, and professors preparing articles for publication have used the center, for the first time in the collective memory of the center UAW staff members requested center appointments in the summer of 2008. These working class employees were in the process of filling out a work related document, the UAW Position Audit, an approximately seven-page form. This form was their one avenue for requesting a review of the job they were doing; the review was the first step in requesting a raise in job level and pay. This study grew out of the realization that implicit literacy expectations between working class United Auto Workers (UAW) staff and professional class staff were complicating the filling out and filing of the position audit form. Professional class supervisors had designed the form as a measure of fairness, in that each UAW employee on campus was responding to the same set of questions about their work. However, the implicit literacy expectations of supervisors were different from those of many of the employees who were to fill out the form. As a result, questions that were meant to be straightforward to answer were in the eyes of the employees filling out the form, complex. Before coming to the writing center UAW staff had spent months writing out responses to the form; they expressed concerns that their responses still would not meet audience expectations. These writers recognized that they did not yet know exactly what the audience was expecting. The results of this study include a framework for planning writing center sessions that facilitate the acquisition of literacy practices which are new to the user. One important realization from this dissertation is that the social nature of literacy must be kept in the forefront when both planning sessions and when educating tutors to lead these sessions. Literacy scholars such as James Paul Gee, Brian Street, and Shirley Brice Heath are used to show that a person can only know those literacy practices that they have previously acquired. In order to acquire new literacy practices, a person must have social opportunities for hands-on practice and mentoring from someone with experience. The writing center can adapt theory and practices from this dissertation that will facilitate sessions for a range of writers wishing to learn “new” literacy practices. This study also calls for specific changes to writing center tutor education.

Essays on behavioral aspects of the design and disclosure of compensation contracts

This thesis consists of four essays on the design and disclosure of compensation contracts. Essays 1, 2 and 3 focus on behavioral aspects of mandatory compensation disclosure rules and of contract negotiations in agency relationships. The three experimental studies develop psychology- based theory and present results that deviate from standard economic predictions. Furthermore, the results of Essay 1 and 2 also have implications for firms’ discretion in how to communicate their top management’s incentives to the capital market. Essay 4 analyzes the role of fairness perceptions for the evaluation of executive compensation. For this purpose, two surveys targeting representative eligible voters as well as investment professionals were conducted. Essay 1 investigates the role of the detailed ‘Compensation Discussion and Analysis’, which is part of the Security and Exchange Commission’s 2006 regulation, on investors’ evaluations of executive performance. Compensation disclosure complying with this regulation clarifies the relationship between realized reported compensation and the underlying performance measures and their target achievement levels. The experimental findings suggest that the salient presentation of executives’ incentives inherent in the ‘Compensation Discussion and Analysis’ makes investors’ performance evaluations less outcome dependent. Therefore, investors’ judgment and investment decisions might be less affected by noisy environmental factors that drive financial performance. The results also suggest that fairness perceptions of compensation contracts are essential for investors’ performance evaluations in that more transparent disclosure increases the perceived fairness of compensation and the performance evaluation of managers who are not responsible for a bad financial performance. These results have important practical implications as firms might choose to communicate their top management’s incentive compensation more transparently in order to benefit from less volatile expectations about their future performance. Similar to the first experiment, the experiment described in Essay 2 addresses the question of more transparent compensation disclosure. However, other than the first experiment, the second experiment does not analyze the effect of a more salient presentation of contract information but the informational effect of contract information itself. For this purpose, the experiment tests two conditions in which the assessment of the compensation contracts’ incentive compatibility, which determines executive effort, is either possible or not. On the one hand, the results suggest that the quality of investors’ expectations about executive effort is improved, but on the other hand investors might over-adjust their prior expectations about executive effort if being confronted with an unexpected financial performance and under-adjust if the financial performance confirms their prior expectations. Therefore, in the experiment, more transparent compensation disclosure does not lead to more correct overall judgments of executive effort and to even lower processing quality of outcome information. These results add to the literature on disclosure which predominantly advocates more transparency. The findings of the experiment however, identify decreased information processing quality as a relevant disclosure cost category. Firms might therefore carefully evaluate the additional costs and benefits of more transparent compensation disclosure. Together with the results from the experiment in Essay 1, the two experiments on compensation disclosure imply that firms should rather focus on their discretion how to present their compensation disclosure to benefit from investors’ improved fairness perceptions and their spill-over on performance evaluation. Essay 3 studies the behavioral effects of contextual factors in recruitment processes that do not affect the employer’s or the applicant’s bargaining power from a standard economic perspective. In particular, the experiment studies two common characteristics of recruitment processes: Pre-contractual competition among job applicants and job applicants’ non-binding effort announcements as they might be made during job interviews. Despite the standard economic irrelevance of these factors, the experiment develops theory regarding the behavioral effects on employees’ subsequent effort provision and the employers’ contract design choices. The experimental findings largely support the predictions. More specifically, the results suggest that firms can benefit from increased effort and, therefore, may generate higher profits. Further, firms may seize a larger share of the employment relationship’s profit by highlighting the competitive aspects of the recruitment process and by requiring applicants to make announcements about their future effort. Finally, Essay 4 studies the role of fairness perceptions for the public evaluation of executive compensation. Although economic criteria for the design of incentive compensation generally do not make restrictive recommendations with regard to the amount of compensation, fairness perceptions might be relevant from the perspective of firms and standard setters. This is because behavioral theory has identified fairness as an important determinant of individuals’ judgment and decisions. However, although fairness concerns about executive compensation are often stated in the popular media and even in the literature, evidence on the meaning of fairness in the context of executive compensation is scarce and ambiguous. In order to inform practitioners and standard setters whether fairness concerns are exclusive to non-professionals or relevant for investment professionals as well, the two surveys presented in Essay 4 aim to find commonalities in the opinions of representative eligible voters and investments professionals. The results suggest that fairness is an important criterion for both groups. Especially, exposure to risk in the form of the variable compensation share is an important criterion shared by both groups. The higher the assumed variable share, the higher is the compensation amount to be perceived as fair. However, to a large extent, opinions on executive compensation depend on personality characteristics, and to some extent, investment professionals’ perceptions deviate systematically from those of non-professionals. The findings imply that firms might benefit from emphasizing the riskiness of their managers’ variable pay components and, therefore, the findings are also in line with those of Essay 1.

El sexismo en el lugar de trabajo a la luz de los valores personales y de las percepciones de justicia organizacional

El sexismo contra las mujeres continúa ocasionando profundas desigualdades en el ámbito laboral a nivel mundial, a pesar de los esfuerzos por erradicarlo. Frente a esta problemática, la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo explorar empíricamente el impacto de variables sociodemográficas, psicológicas y organizacionales, sobre la emergencia del sexismo en el lugar de trabajo. Se efectuó una verificación empírica enmarcada en los lineamientos de la triangulación metodológica, a través de tres aproximaciones sucesivas. La primera aproximación metodológica, de corte cualitativo, estuvo orientada al desarrollo de un instrumento para explorar la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo. Se llevaron a cabo encuentros de grupo focal y entrevistas en profundidad con muestras teóricas de la población objetivo (12 y cuatro empleados, respectivamente). El análisis de la información recogida permitió la elaboración, puesta a punto y validación de la versión definitiva del instrumento. La segunda aproximación metodológica, de corte cuantitativo, tuvo como finalidad la adaptación y validación del Inventario de Sexismo Ambivalente para su empleo con muestras argentinas. En esta etapa se trabajó con una muestra por disponibilidad de 345 sujetos. Finalmente, la tercera aproximación metodológica, encuadrada en una perspectiva cuantitativa, tuvo como objetivo poner a prueba las hipótesis de trabajo planteadas. En esta oportunidad, se tomó una nueva muestra por disponibilidad integrada por 414 empleados de diversas organizaciones de la provincia de Santa Fe. La batería de recolección de datos incluyó la escala desarrollada en la primera aproximación, el inventario validado en la segunda, y reconocidos instrumentos para medir individualismo-colectivismo, percepciones de justicia organizacional y deseabilidad social. Los datos reunidos fueron sometidos a análisis descriptivos, correlacionales y multidimensionales. Los resultados más destacados muestran que: (a) los varones, los sujetos con nivel educativo primario/secundario y los trabajadores de organizaciones privadas, pequeñas y del sector industrial, presentan mayores niveles de sexismo que las mujeres, los individuos con nivel educativo superior, y los trabajadores de organizaciones públicas y grandes; (b) los empleados del sector privado y del ramo salud registran menores percepciones de justicia procedimental que los empleados del sector público; (c) los empleados permanentes perciben menos justicia distributiva, y los empleados contratados menos justicia procedimental, que sus superiores; (d) las dimensiones verticales del colectivismo e individualismo se relacionan positivamente con el sexismo en todas sus facetas, en tanto que el individualismo horizontal se vincula positivamente con el prejuicio sexista; (e) mientras el sexismo hostil se asocia negativamente con la justicia interpersonal, el sexismo benévolo se relaciona positivamente con las facetas distributiva, procedimental e informacional de la justicia organizacional; (f) por su parte, la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo presenta correlaciones positivas con la justicia procedimental; (g) los principales predictores del sexismo son el género (varón), el nivel educativo (primario secundario), el tamaño organizacional (pequeño), el colectivismo vertical y el individualismo vertical. Los resultados obtenidos se discuten a la luz de las teorías consideradas. Se concluye proponiendo posibles acciones para disminuir el sexismo y mejorar las percepciones de equidad en las organizaciones, y se efectúan sugerencias para futuros estudios en el área

El sexismo en el lugar de trabajo a la luz de los valores personales y de las percepciones de justicia organizacional

El sexismo contra las mujeres continúa ocasionando profundas desigualdades en el ámbito laboral a nivel mundial, a pesar de los esfuerzos por erradicarlo. Frente a esta problemática, la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo explorar empíricamente el impacto de variables sociodemográficas, psicológicas y organizacionales, sobre la emergencia del sexismo en el lugar de trabajo. Se efectuó una verificación empírica enmarcada en los lineamientos de la triangulación metodológica, a través de tres aproximaciones sucesivas. La primera aproximación metodológica, de corte cualitativo, estuvo orientada al desarrollo de un instrumento para explorar la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo. Se llevaron a cabo encuentros de grupo focal y entrevistas en profundidad con muestras teóricas de la población objetivo (12 y cuatro empleados, respectivamente). El análisis de la información recogida permitió la elaboración, puesta a punto y validación de la versión definitiva del instrumento. La segunda aproximación metodológica, de corte cuantitativo, tuvo como finalidad la adaptación y validación del Inventario de Sexismo Ambivalente para su empleo con muestras argentinas. En esta etapa se trabajó con una muestra por disponibilidad de 345 sujetos. Finalmente, la tercera aproximación metodológica, encuadrada en una perspectiva cuantitativa, tuvo como objetivo poner a prueba las hipótesis de trabajo planteadas. En esta oportunidad, se tomó una nueva muestra por disponibilidad integrada por 414 empleados de diversas organizaciones de la provincia de Santa Fe. La batería de recolección de datos incluyó la escala desarrollada en la primera aproximación, el inventario validado en la segunda, y reconocidos instrumentos para medir individualismo-colectivismo, percepciones de justicia organizacional y deseabilidad social. Los datos reunidos fueron sometidos a análisis descriptivos, correlacionales y multidimensionales. Los resultados más destacados muestran que: (a) los varones, los sujetos con nivel educativo primario/secundario y los trabajadores de organizaciones privadas, pequeñas y del sector industrial, presentan mayores niveles de sexismo que las mujeres, los individuos con nivel educativo superior, y los trabajadores de organizaciones públicas y grandes; (b) los empleados del sector privado y del ramo salud registran menores percepciones de justicia procedimental que los empleados del sector público; (c) los empleados permanentes perciben menos justicia distributiva, y los empleados contratados menos justicia procedimental, que sus superiores; (d) las dimensiones verticales del colectivismo e individualismo se relacionan positivamente con el sexismo en todas sus facetas, en tanto que el individualismo horizontal se vincula positivamente con el prejuicio sexista; (e) mientras el sexismo hostil se asocia negativamente con la justicia interpersonal, el sexismo benévolo se relaciona positivamente con las facetas distributiva, procedimental e informacional de la justicia organizacional; (f) por su parte, la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo presenta correlaciones positivas con la justicia procedimental; (g) los principales predictores del sexismo son el género (varón), el nivel educativo (primario secundario), el tamaño organizacional (pequeño), el colectivismo vertical y el individualismo vertical. Los resultados obtenidos se discuten a la luz de las teorías consideradas. Se concluye proponiendo posibles acciones para disminuir el sexismo y mejorar las percepciones de equidad en las organizaciones, y se efectúan sugerencias para futuros estudios en el área

El sexismo en el lugar de trabajo a la luz de los valores personales y de las percepciones de justicia organizacional

El sexismo contra las mujeres continúa ocasionando profundas desigualdades en el ámbito laboral a nivel mundial, a pesar de los esfuerzos por erradicarlo. Frente a esta problemática, la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo explorar empíricamente el impacto de variables sociodemográficas, psicológicas y organizacionales, sobre la emergencia del sexismo en el lugar de trabajo. Se efectuó una verificación empírica enmarcada en los lineamientos de la triangulación metodológica, a través de tres aproximaciones sucesivas. La primera aproximación metodológica, de corte cualitativo, estuvo orientada al desarrollo de un instrumento para explorar la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo. Se llevaron a cabo encuentros de grupo focal y entrevistas en profundidad con muestras teóricas de la población objetivo (12 y cuatro empleados, respectivamente). El análisis de la información recogida permitió la elaboración, puesta a punto y validación de la versión definitiva del instrumento. La segunda aproximación metodológica, de corte cuantitativo, tuvo como finalidad la adaptación y validación del Inventario de Sexismo Ambivalente para su empleo con muestras argentinas. En esta etapa se trabajó con una muestra por disponibilidad de 345 sujetos. Finalmente, la tercera aproximación metodológica, encuadrada en una perspectiva cuantitativa, tuvo como objetivo poner a prueba las hipótesis de trabajo planteadas. En esta oportunidad, se tomó una nueva muestra por disponibilidad integrada por 414 empleados de diversas organizaciones de la provincia de Santa Fe. La batería de recolección de datos incluyó la escala desarrollada en la primera aproximación, el inventario validado en la segunda, y reconocidos instrumentos para medir individualismo-colectivismo, percepciones de justicia organizacional y deseabilidad social. Los datos reunidos fueron sometidos a análisis descriptivos, correlacionales y multidimensionales. Los resultados más destacados muestran que: (a) los varones, los sujetos con nivel educativo primario/secundario y los trabajadores de organizaciones privadas, pequeñas y del sector industrial, presentan mayores niveles de sexismo que las mujeres, los individuos con nivel educativo superior, y los trabajadores de organizaciones públicas y grandes; (b) los empleados del sector privado y del ramo salud registran menores percepciones de justicia procedimental que los empleados del sector público; (c) los empleados permanentes perciben menos justicia distributiva, y los empleados contratados menos justicia procedimental, que sus superiores; (d) las dimensiones verticales del colectivismo e individualismo se relacionan positivamente con el sexismo en todas sus facetas, en tanto que el individualismo horizontal se vincula positivamente con el prejuicio sexista; (e) mientras el sexismo hostil se asocia negativamente con la justicia interpersonal, el sexismo benévolo se relaciona positivamente con las facetas distributiva, procedimental e informacional de la justicia organizacional; (f) por su parte, la tendencia a la discriminación de género en el lugar de trabajo presenta correlaciones positivas con la justicia procedimental; (g) los principales predictores del sexismo son el género (varón), el nivel educativo (primario secundario), el tamaño organizacional (pequeño), el colectivismo vertical y el individualismo vertical. Los resultados obtenidos se discuten a la luz de las teorías consideradas. Se concluye proponiendo posibles acciones para disminuir el sexismo y mejorar las percepciones de equidad en las organizaciones, y se efectúan sugerencias para futuros estudios en el área