Apresentação

ID: 7871

Authors: José Antonio Gomes de Pinho.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 203-204, April-June, 2009. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Organizational communication: opportunities for an interdisciplinary research approach between Business Administration and Language Studies

ID: 424

Authors: José Roberto Gomes da Silva, Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 207-223, April-June, 2009. 17 page(s).

Keyword: Institutional theory , Interdisciplinarity , Language studies , Organizational communication

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

One of the challenges for organizational studies is that of trying to create their own language from knowledge generated in other sciences, often resulting in an oversimplified translation of concepts. In the case of organizational communication, this challenge is even more complex, as communication is traditionally viewed by management theories in a more instrumental perspective, while approaches in other areas have been diversified. This theoretical essay analyses the possibilities of approximating Management and Language Studies areas in order to develop research on organizational communication and help organizations solve their practical managerial problems. The source of inspiration are the experiences of an interdisciplinary research group that seeks an interdisciplinary approach based on the joint production of knowledge by researchers of both areas, rather than on the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and the mere importation of concepts and methods. The reflections presented show that on one hand, it is not always easy to negotiate the investigative logics and tools used in the process; on the other hand, this exercise may facilitate the production of new knowledge in both areas, with practical relevance for the organizational context.

Organizational values and rationalities: an incursion into the third sector

ID: 425

Authors: Jones Louback, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Diógenes de Souza Bido.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 225-246, April-June, 2009. 22 page(s).

Keyword: Non Governmental Organizations , Organizational Values , Rationality , Third Sector

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Human values are guide-lines of the individuals’ lives, groups, organizations and societ ies. These values are organized in two bipolar dimensions: Self transcendence versus Sel f-enhancement and Openness to Change versus  Conservation. The first one refers, respectively, the people orientation for the others versus for themselves; the second one, independence of thought and action versus the preservation of customs, rules and material security. Knowing that rationality is behind every action, this work aimed to investigate the relationship between the bipolar dimensions of values and the instrumental and subjective rationalities. This research was dedicated to the study Organizations of the Third Sector, as they keep a privileged position to perform in based on the substantive rationality. A multi case study strategy was adopted with qualitative and quantitative research techniques. The results indicated that there is a relationship between the both rationalities and the Self-transcendence and Self-enhancement of the organizational values. On the other hand, other factors, as the historical moment of the organizations origin, and the religious or spiritual beliefs, had become important on the explanation of the relationship found.

Mobility as a new organizational capital or are we becoming nomads?

ID: 426

Authors: Maria Ester de Freitas.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 247-264, April-June, 2009. 18 page(s).

Keyword: Expatriation , Intercultural management , Mobility , Symbolic value

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article aims to analyze the mobility as a new symbolic capital in the organizational world. We based our analyses in three key questions: a) mobility is already a socioorganizational need; b) the ideological transformation from this need into virtue gives to mobility the character of new capital; and, c) the expatriation of both – professionals and companies – leads to a new type of nomadism which reinforces mobility as a desirable value. We propose and use a wide concept of mobility, based on organizational empirical life, which means the ability, the disposition and the individual wish to move abroad in order to interact with cultural differences, different types of organizations, positions and knowledge. The concept of symbolic capital was taken from Bourdieu, whom developed and consolidated conceptual elements for a social action theory (1972, 1980, 1994), and, in association with Passeron (1964, 1970), analyzed social reproduction mechanisms.

The meanings of employees’ participation in social projects and actions of the Espírito Santo State’s Post Office

ID: 427

Authors: Reziere Degobi da Silva, Márcia Prezotti Palassi.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 265-286, April-June, 2009. 22 page(s).

Keyword: Information Technology , Participation , Participative management , Social organizational projects and actions , Subjectivities

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Project management and social action organizations and voluntary work of the employees have attracted the attention of managers and academics since 1990. This article examines the meanings of participation of employees in social projects and actions of the Espirito Santo State’s Post Office, seeking to understand if the participation, through the Participatory Management related to Information Technology could be increased. This is an exploratory qualitative research. Data collection took place over 09 interviews,and 23 e-interviews and participant observation. The results were subjected to content analysis. The directions refer to the satisfaction, omission, opportunity, frustration, spirituality and mission. It follows that participation is still weak, but latently potential. The employees point to the need for regional and corporate definitions to manage projects and social activities, establishment of channels for two-way communication and information access.

Motivations for cooperativism in small property

ID: 428

Authors: Clédio Roberto Marschall.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 287-306, April-June, 2009. 20 page(s).

Keyword: Cooperativism , Regional development , Small landowner

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The accomplishment of the present study objectifies to examine, through a case study in the associated of a agricultural cooperative of the west of Paraná, theexistent relationship between an invigoration strategy and the small proprietor’s associative behavior. As corollary, it was evidenced that that strategy is materialized in a need of defense of the economic interests, production valorizing and construction of the small proprietor’s identity. Another aspect evidenced in the results of the case study, demonstrates that the social-catholicism, summed up in the cooperation relationships, supplied the bases for the development of the associativism of the area of inclusion of the cooperative in study.

Precarious work senses in the Metropolis: fact and fiction!

ID: 429

Authors: Sérgio Carvalho Benício de Mello, Maria Christianni Coutinho Marçal, Francisco Ricardo Bezerra Fonsêca.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 307-323, April-June, 2009. 17 page(s).

Keyword: Alienation , Capital , Exploration , Precarious work , Technology

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Capitalism disseminates technological advancements with its restructuring character. It reveals itself as an intriguing phenomenon that impacts substantially everyday life in modern societies altering basic human behavior categories. In perspective, the main aim of this study was to apprehend and bring to light some of the characteristics that institutionalizes this unchanging mode of production and reflects the world of work since the beginning of the 20th century to our days. For such, we selected and investigated a corpus extracted from the German film Metropolis of Fritz Lang, 1926. The significance and consequent interpretation of the data was obtained through image and movement analysis as an analytical method. The conceptual framework was based on the Marxist theory of Ricardo Antunes. This way, we conclude that the precarious world of work, the alienation and exploration of the work force are characteristicallypresent in both of the analyzed worlds – fact and fiction.

Participatory democracy and socio-political inclusion in Bobigny (France) and Barreiro (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

ID: 430

Authors: Héloïse Nez.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 325-350, April-June, 2009. 26 page(s).

Keyword: Brazil , France , Local government , Participatory Budget , Participatory democracy , Political inclusion , Social inclusion

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

By wondering about the purpose of participatory democracy, a new political phenomenon that has emerging since the 90’s in diverse local contexts from Europe to South America, this article proposes an analysis about the link between participation and inclusion from a political and social point of view. The aim of comparing different innovating participatory experiments in France (Bobigny) and in Brazil (Barreiro, Belo Horizonte) is to find out why those so different cities try at the same historical moment to lean on similar principles of local management, and also how the concrete actions may differ or get closer.

Evolution in finance research: epistemology, paradigm and critics

ID: 431

Authors: Robert Aldo Iquiapaza, Hudson Fernandes Amaral, Aureliano Angel Bressan.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 351-370, April-June, 2009. 20 page(s).

Keyword: Behavioral finance , Epistemology , Finance research , Modern finance , Paradigm

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The objective of this article was to analyze the theoretical-methodological evolution in the finance area, emphasizing the important stages, marking their contributions and contradictions, with special emphasis in the dominant paradigm and the postmodern critics. It is a theoretical reflection with an ad hoc revision of the literature. It is observed that around the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century there was a methodological and theoretical revolution in finance research that, due to the adoption of the foundations of the positivist functionalism, took this to be more normative, quantitative and close to the natural sciences, losing their classic characteristics of being positive, and the recognition of its capacity of affecting the research object, the individuals and companies’ financial behavior. Only in the last two decades there seems to be some alternative proposals, among them behavioral finance studies. That approach had shown important contributions to finance studies, even though is being hardly challenged by the dominant paradigm.

The expedient: the neglected dimension of political administration

ID: 432

Authors: Reginaldo Souza Santos, Eduardo Fausto Barreto, Elizabeth Matos Ribeiro, Maria da Graça Pitiá Barreto.

Source: Organizações & Sociedade, v. 16, n. 49, p. 373-388, April-June, 2009. 16 page(s).

Keyword: Expedient , Project for the Nation , Public servant , Work contract , Work process

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This essay, of expedient regard to the employment contract with the state, has two purposes: to better understand, from the performance of the server the reasons for low productivity at work when hired by the State to carry out the production of goods or the production of services of collective interest; and with this analysis, it is intended to supplement the basic elements to compose the contents of the Project for the Nation.