Apresentação

ID: 22738

Authors: O Editor.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 0-0, September-December, 2000. 1 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Organizações e Sociedade: a cultura brasileira

ID: 22739

Authors: Fernando Prestes Motta.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 13-17, September-December, 2000. 5 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)

Novas formas organizacionais: onde se encontram as evidências empíricas de ruptura com o modelo burocrático de organizações?

ID: 22740

Authors: Eloisa Livramento Dellagnelo, Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 19-33, September-December, 2000. 15 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The objective of this work was to verify whether empirical evidences of new organizational forms, as published in domestic and foreign publications in English, from 1995 to 1998, did or did not represent a break away from the organizational bureaucratic pattern. There have been outstanding discussions in the field of organization about the emergence of new organizational patterns, which may stand for a break away from stablished ones. The looked-through organizations have been analysed in terms of their potentiality in technological, structural and cultural flexibility, and further consideration has been given to the type of rationality which predominates in actions of the scrutinised organizations. The technological dimension has been rated as being the one with the largest potential for flexibility while rating a medium potential in the structural and cultural dimensions. Instrumental rationality has been considered as the predominant one. It was concluded that there is a strong tendency in favor to the flexibilization of the bureaucratic model regarding the categories analysed. But the rupture with the model was not perceived, since the predominant logic of action was the instrumental one.

Por fora bela viola, por dentro...: análise crítica sobre a gestão do espaço nas organizações através de um estudo de caso sobre a implementação de um escritório aberto no Brasil

ID: 22741

Authors: Rafael Alcadipani, Aline Almeida.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 35-52, September-December, 2000. 18 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The question of the space and its functions are being disregard at the organization analysis field. The space is take as a neutral aspect of the production and the work process. In the world of organizational practices there is a strong adoption of open plan offices. There is a strong believe that this kind of office allow better integration among people in the workplace, the increase of information flow, autonomy, freedom and participation of employees. However, some analysis are showing that the reality of the open plan office are not so beautiful. This article analyze the adoption of a open plan office through a critical point of view. We will discuss a Brazilian case study about it based on the Michel Foucault ideas about power.

Diagnóstico Organizacional Participativo: potenciais e limites na análise de organizações

ID: 22742

Authors: Flavia Luciana Naves, Luiz Antonio Staub Mafra, Marcos Affonso Ortiz Gomes, Robson Amâncio.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 53-66, September-December, 2000. 14 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The increasing complexity that involve organizations in the middle in which they are inserted has lead its members and the researchers of the management area to continuous quests for new and more suitable approaches for analysis. However, the major part of these theorical and practice efforts are shown not to have reached the expected results, because the gamut of available methods which the more distinct characteristics, haven’t learnt the contradictions and connections that compound the organization. A urgent need to adapt these methods to the social and organizational needs is characterized, overcoming the traditional scientific methods. A proposal of change would be the use of Rapid Organizational Appraisal. The present paper tries to evaluate the possibilities to adopt this methodology to the nowadays changes needs, and also to discuss the limits and restrictions to its applicability in the real context of the organization and society.

Entre a competição e a cooperação: valores e atitudes empresariais na perspectiva de uma atuação sistêmica

ID: 22743

Authors: Amílcar Baiardi, Ruthy Nadia Laniado.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 67-80, September-December, 2000. 14 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This paper discusses the dilemma between competition and co-operation among entrepreneurial elite, focusing on the study of entrepreneurs in Bahia. Analytically, it approaches the understanding of issues such as initiative, power relations, decision-making systems and ethical and social values in business. Contemporary debates flesh out that despite the entrepreneurs pursue their aims in a world marked by a rationality and a formal order - articulating their cultural heritage with the new values of economic action that involves restructuring labour and production organisation - they are faced with a continuum tension between competition and co-operation. This affects the formal and informal networks related to business organisation. This paper approaches some of the issues involved in this dilemma, according to a case study carried out with entrepreneurs in Bahia, by identifying guidelines related to the modes of producing synergism in societies, characterised by differentiated types of social capital and of civic engagement, among the entrepreneurial elite.

A Identidade é construída através da Mídia ou do Estado?

ID: 22744

Authors: Gilberto Wildberger de Almeida.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 81-90, September-December, 2000. 10 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This text aims to bring about a dialog with authors for whom the means of communications represent the proeminent variable, maybe the very one which explains the process by which a community constructs its self identity. It focus on the role of the state, with its capacity to influence on the process of identity building of any given society. The text covers a historical period depicting deliberate choices of public policy made by different governors in the state of Bahia. In parallel, the text also focus on how televisive narratives impact on how a society interprets itself. The text is based on a historical descriptive approach. This is a slightly modified version of a text previously presented by the author at INTERCOM, Manaus, 2000.

Novas tecnologias e organização do trabalho

ID: 22745

Authors: José Maria Carvalho Ferreira.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 91-108, September-December, 2000. 18 page(s).

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The effects of the inter-dependence and complementarity between new technologies and labour organization are more visible in the contemporary societies, particularly in the developed capitalist ones. This process has a structural character not only at the labour division level, in terms of the hierarchical structure of the formal authority, the decision process and the leadership process, but also in terms of qualification and profiles of the labour factor. As the new technologies and labour organization fit the capitalist instrumental rationality, both show an historicity which moves towards displacement and integration of a large amount of energy, of information and knowledge, which was placed in the functions and tasks of the attributes and skills of the salaried labour. As a result, a dual labour world has emerged:skilled/unskilled; employment/ unemployment; stable labour contracts/unstable labour contracts, and social integration/social exclusion.

Geoestretégia dos espaços econômicos: transformação e poder no Sítio Portuário-Retroportuário do Rio Grande-RS

ID: 22746

Authors: Marcelo Milano Falcão Vieira, Eurípedes Falcão Vieira.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 109-122, September-December, 2000. 14 page(s).

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This paper analyses both the redefinition and the new strategy of the harbor area of the city of Rio Grande (RS) in Brazil, as well as manifestations of power that emerge from the global area. Harbor operations in Rio Grande characterize a new model of administration, since such operations were transferred to private enterprises. The internationalization of harbor terminals and the transference of corporate control of the harbor area to multinational businesses resulted in the creation of a new global space, with new power relationships. More profound studies are recommended with regards to public/private partnerships and, particularly, on the influences of power within territories that characterize global-areas.

Los dilemas de la descentralización en México

ID: 22747

Authors: Enrique Cabrero Mendoza.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 123-141, September-December, 2000. 19 page(s).

Document type: Article (Spanish)

Investimento social das empresas: cooperação organizacional num espaço compartilhado

ID: 22748

Authors: Paula Chies Schommer.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 145-160, September-December, 2000. 16 page(s).

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This work is a product of a research searching to identify features of organizational structures which make possible Brazilian companies to invest in a systematic way in community programs. It also identifies types of cooperation established between corporations and social organizational structures to achieve common goals and elements that influence these relations. Using a qualitative and comparative exploratory approach, twenty organizations members of GIFE – Group of Institutes, Foundations and Private Enterprises was studied. The analysis underlies some concepts related to corporate social investment initiatives, such as philanthropy, corporate citizenship, business ethics and social responsibility. The corporate social investments practices are analyzed under the perspective of interorganizational cooperation relations, specially through networks. Among the conclusions, this study points out that the models of action on this field in Brazil are characterized by heterogeneity and hybridism, and they are in transformation. The cases are clear examples of the slight limits between public and private spheres and the different kinds of organizations built on the space of interaction for the common-good. It is also identified that some conditions must be developed in order to strength the virtues of interorganizational cooperation relations in the case of corporate social investment programs.

Remando a favor da maré: racionalidade instrumental no Curso de Administração de Empresas

ID: 22749

Authors: Manoel Joaquim Fernandes de Barros, Elizete Silva Passos.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 161-174, September-December, 2000. 14 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This study analyses the conditions that leads the education of Business Management undergraduate students to guide the action and thinking of the graduated manager according to a predominantly instrumental reasonableness. In search of this purpose, the social and historical conditions that built the creation of Business Management Undergraduate Courses in Brazil and worldwide are addressed. The case study of a university in Salvador, Bahia – Brazil is strictly addressed, as a reference of educational philosophy model adopted in the area of study. Using life telling method to rebuild elements of the teaching process from the students and teachers speech, the study demonstrates how the instrumental reasonableness reproduces itself in the daily life of the course through teaching methodology, learning infrastructure and the use of educational instruments.

Uma análise dos impactos da descentralização fiscal no brasil sobre o equilíbrio orçamentário dos Estados

ID: 22750

Authors: Luiz Marques de Andrade Filho.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 7, n. 19, p. 175-185, September-December, 2000. 11 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The aim of this work is discuss the process of fiscal descentralization in the ninety years in Brazil, by the degree impacted of the income variables of the federation’s states on the respective primary budget result, under the context of the State Reform and tax reform in Brazil.