The Bank man.

Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 9 (Nov. 1906); title from cover.

O ambiente de trabalho no setor bancário e o bem-estar

Wich the big transformations at the world of labor, thus as the appearing of the negatives psicologicals consequencies? Publications in books and articles about the health of the workers have been seen in the last 40 years, pointing at the increase of occupational ills, increase of the absenteeism, reach the redation between the labor and the family. With the appearing of the neoliberal sistem, changed all the net of relations, thus as the temporary labor contract, the flexibility at the work timetable, and others, that privilege the capitalism, in detriment of the worker health. It was given emphasis to the banking worker, in time that the banks and the banking agencies were one of the departaments that more suffered the impact of the productive restructuring at the last years. 200 bank clerks shared the search, in that 41,9% was female and 58,1% was male, 60,9% presenting a civil state married, following of 28,4% of single. The participants answered the following instruments: Scale of Positives and Negative Kindness, General Health Questionaire GHQ 12, Scale of Organization, Conditions and Labor Relations, Scale of Desire (own authorship), Scale about economic situation and a social-demographic record car. With the objective of trying the instruments of measure, it was checking the psychometric parameter of the search scales. We could verify that it has been more positive than negative ones for the mental health, but it was found some kind of depression and unsatisfied with their lives in some pieces of the sample. We can finally say that the work place has an impact at the mental health of the bank clerks. So, some interventions actions to promote the worker health could be essential

Estudo dos problemas ergonômicos da posição sentada em bancários

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Entre bancos e espadas: os bastidores da mediação no sindicato dos bancários do Pará entre 1964 e 1974

Aborda o impacto da 1 Reforma Bancária no Pará entre 1964 e 1974 e a institucionalização do Estado Autoritário pelo Regime Militar pós-64. O Estado Autoritário, justamente com políticas de controle social e fechamento político contribuiu para um arrocho salarial, controlando reivindicações e reações dos trabalhadores. Com o cenário da Reforma Bancária, os bancos tiveram que se adaptar ao novo formato do sistema com aumento de capital e mais adiante se desenvolveu um clima propício à reivindicação englobando a luta dos trabalhadores ao longo de várias etapas. Fruto de uma tradição anterior, a experiência de classe presente na prática de movimento sindical assumiu a mediação nas negociações junto aos representantes do Estado.

Reestruturação produtiva, inovações tecnológicas nos bancos nas décadas de 1980 e 1990: mudanças no perfil do trabalhador bancário em Belém

Este trabalho tem como objetivo demonstrar que a reestruturação produtiva bancária no Brasil, nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, com foco para a realidade em Belém, é resultado de um conjunto de eventos econômicos, sociais e políticos em nível internacional com sérias repercussões no mundo do trabalho. O trabalho percorre tentando compreender os impactos da reestruturação produtiva nos bancos com ênfase para a questão do emprego, envolvendo a automação e a lógica flexível na relação dos direitos; a mudança de perfil dos trabalhadores bancários por conta das transformações do modelo de produção em nível geral no mundo do trabalho. Estas mudanças vieram acompanhadas de um desenvolvimento rigoroso de organização do trabalho, que consistiu em um processo complexo de mudanças no sistema produtivo com a introdução de novas tecnologias para aumentar a produtividade e diminuir a intervenção humana na produção e serviços, ocorridos nas últimas décadas no contexto da crise estrutural do capitalismo. O foco específico tenta responder como transformações interferiram no trabalho bancário, mudando o perfil dos trabalhadores, diminuindo, deste modo, a intervenção dos bancários nas tarefas, o que redundou em desemprego, precarização do trabalho e novas qualificações, como a polivalência funcional, novas competências para os bancários se enquadrarem às exigências do mercado e trabalho.

Bulletin.

In July 1910 the Bulletin was absorbed by the Journal of the American bankers' association, and continued to be published in that periodical until 1918, when it again become independent under its former title: Bulletin of the American institute of banking.

Processo de Abertura de Conta Bancária - Início da Relação entre Clientes e Instituições Bancárias

Mestrado em Contabilidade e Gestão de Instituições Financeiras

Serviços e trabalho no sector bancário : Um estudo do (des)empenho e satisfação no trabalho em dois balcões de uma instituição bancária

Quem faz e garante a qualidade dos serviços prestados são as pessoas, muito mais do que os ambientes, os processos e as tecnologias. Nesse sentido, o nosso trabalho procurou analisar sociologicamente o (des)empenho e satisfação dos funcionários bancários, factores que conduzem à prestação de "serviços-produto" de qualidade, com um nível significativo de acompanhamento, evidenciando a relação entre a satisfação dos empregados e o correspondente reflexo na satisfação dos clientes. Através da análise de dois balcões de uma instituição bancária procurámos identificar os níveis de satisfação existentes e os factores envolvidos. Optámos por realizar um estudo de caso, descrevendo as características das agências, e procurámos identificar os factores sócio-organizacionais responsáveis pela satisfação/insatisfação dos empregados, abordando aspectos como a organização do trabalho, a qualidade de vida, os problemas de saúde/doença, os relacionamentos interpessoais, as remunerações, o reconhecimento. A "servicialização" de que a banca tem vindo a ser objecto, tal como outros sectores económicos, foi igualmente abordada na nossa investigação, analisando-se a relação de serviço e o modelo de competência preconizados no sector bancário, actualmente reconhecido como um sector dedicado à prestação de "serviços-produto". Os processos informais que medeiam as regras e as práticas concretas de trabalho, enquanto "espaços sociológicos" nos quais se concretizam diferentes formas de negociação, continuamente accionadas pelos actores (trabalhadores bancários), também foram objecto de observação, dada a sua importância como geradores de possibilidades de redefinição dos limites e alcance estratégico dos recursos do grupo profissional dos bancários. ABSTRACT; People are responsible for the quality of services, much more than ambient, procedures and technologies. Our project tried to analyse through the sociological point of view the performance and satisfaction of bank employees and the factors which are responsible for “services-product" of quality, with high attendance standing out the relation between employees’ satisfaction and clients' satisfaction. Analysing two branches of a bank we tried to identify the satisfaction level and other connected factors. We opted to make a case study describing the branches' characteristics, trying to identify the socio-organizational responsible factors for satisfactionIno satisfaction of employees, dealing with aspects such as work organization, life quality, health/illness complaints, employees’ relationship, wages and reconnaissance. The bank sector and other financial sectors are becoming a "service area", so, our research pointed out the service relations and the competence model seen in the bank sector. The "actors" (bank employees) were observed and interviewed, because they are the main responsible for the informal procedures, the norms and practical work methods, inside the “sociological spaces” where different negotiation procedures occurred, generating new limits and strategic ranges for the resources of the professional group of bank clerks.

What lies beneath? : The pattern and abundance of the subterranean tuber bank of the invasive liana cat’s claw creeper, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae)

Cat’s claw creeper, Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) Gentry (Bignoniaceae) is a major environmental weed of riparian areas, rainforest communities and remnant natural vegetation in coastal Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. In densely infested areas, it smothers standing vegetation, including large trees, and causes canopy collapse. Quantitative data on the ecology of this invasive vine are generally lacking. The present study examines the underground tuber traits of M. unguis-cati and explores their links with aboveground parameters at five infested sites spanning both riparian and inland vegetation. Tubers were abundant in terms of density (~1000 per m2), although small in size and low in level of interconnectivity. M. unguis-cati also exhibits multiple stems per plant. Of all traits screened, the link between stand (stem density) and tuber density was the most significant and yielded a promising bivariate relationship for the purposes of estimation, prediction and management of what lies beneath the soil surface of a given M. unguis-cati infestation site. The study also suggests that new recruitment is primarily from seeds, not from vegetative propagation as previously thought. The results highlight the need for future biological-control efforts to focus on introducing specialist seed- and pod-feeding insects to reduce seed-output.

A restrike waveform predictive model for shunt capacitor bank switching with point-on-wave recommendation

Circuit-breakers (CBs) are subject to electrical stresses with restrikes during capacitor bank operation. Stresses are caused by the overvoltages across CBs, the interrupting currents and the rate of rise of recovery voltage (RRRV). Such electrical stresses also depend on the types of system grounding and the types of dielectric strength curves. The aim of this study is to demonstrate a restrike waveform predictive model for a SF6 CB that considered the types of system grounding: grounded and non-grounded and the computation accuracy comparison on the application of the cold withstand dielectric strength and the hot recovery dielectric strength curve including the POW (point-on-wave) recommendations to make an assessment of increasing the CB remaining life. The simulation of SF6 CB stresses in a typical 400 kV system was undertaken and the results in the applications are presented. The simulated restrike waveforms produced with the identified features using wavelet transform can be used for restrike diagnostic algorithm development with wavelet transform to locate a substation with breaker restrikes. This study found that the hot withstand dielectric strength curve has less magnitude than the cold withstand dielectric strength curve for restrike simulation results. Computation accuracy improved with the hot withstand dielectric strength and POW controlled switching can increase the life for a SF6 CB.

By the day nurses bank up in a casual pool!

We suspect that the array of silly names used to refer to temporary staff worldwide may be indicative of the extent to which these nurses have been relegated to, and we would argue, remain in, a type of underclass – relatively unsupported by employers in terms of professional practice and ipso facto excluded from contributing professionally to team work, practice development, clinical governance and evidence based practice. This may be acceptable to some but in a climate of risk averseness and in the interests of strategic planning we would suggest it is an accident waiting to happen. The recent UK Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (Ball & Pike, 2006) survey of bank and agency nurses brings a welcome focus on a group of nurses that make a significant contribution to the smooth running of health services in many countries.