Editorial

ID: 15313

Authors: Ana Maria Bernardes Goffi Marquesini.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 5-6, July-September, 1979. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Planejamento estratégico em organizações sem fins lucrativos: considerações sobre dificuldades gerenciais

ID: 15314

Authors: Paulo Ribeiro Motta.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 7-21, July-September, 1979. 15 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Service-rendering public organizations and non-profit private organizations have been performing increasingly wide and relevant functions in Brazil. In recent years, they have proliferated. Their activities can deal with assistance, education, culture, sports, research and other fields. The private organizationsare created as non-profit corporations or foundations; the public  ones, as authorities or public enterprises. 1. Their survival and action do not depend upon market mechanisms or the obtention of profit or surplus. 2. To a great extent, their overall remuneration does not depend upon the price the client pays for services rendered. 3. Their objectives are based on wider community interests, whose range surpasses the limits of satisfaction of their particular interests. 4. The organizational culture tends to be characterized by a strong sense of identity and adherence to their socio-economic mission. Despite the importance of such organizations, they have deserved little attention from management researchers, who have not cared to analyze their main characteristics and the possibility of applying modern management theories to them. Almost all published works on strategical planning have been oriented to  private organizations. This has made it difficult to apply it to organizations not having simmilar objectives or working conditions. Despite the importance of such organizations, they have deserved little attention from management researchers, who have not cared to analyze their main characteristics and the possibility of applying modem management theories to them. Almost all published works on strategical planning have been oriented to private organizations. This has made it difficuIt to apply it to organizations not having simmilar objectives or  working conditions. Such works show that strategic planning generally accepts three basic premises which do not invalidate it but hamper its application to public and non-profit private organizations: 1. Growth strategies based on competition are not administered, not even evaluated through a marketing-sense, profit-loss system. 2. The decision-making process does not possess the same organizational rationality. 3. The effectiveness of organizations depends on their capacity of adaptation and fast response to new demands which result from the frequent environmental changes. This analysis intends to oppose the basic premises of management theory to the management practices of public and non-profit private organizations.

Reflexões de ordem administrativa sobre as empresas estatais no Brasil

ID: 15315

Authors: Beatriz Marques de Souza Wahrlich.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 23-46, July-September, 1979. 24 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The author analyzes the phenomenon of multiplication of organs in indirect (also called decentralized) federal administration. The phenomenon's roots lay mainly in government's decision to expand its intervention in this country's economy. Both intentional factors (such as the administrative-reform doctrine itself,  implemented in 1967 through Decree-Law n.200) and unintentional factors (of a political, economic and social nature) have contributed to the proliferation of indirect federal administration. Such a process has included the autarch, the so-called mixed-economy corporations (those where federal  and/or state andjor cit) governments hold more than 50% of the shares but allow private shareholders as well as and public enterprises (totally government -owned concerns). To attain a better understanding of the nature and role of public enterprises in the Brazilian federation, the author initially discusses an intentional factor of an administra tive nature, by presenting a summary of the administrative reform doctrine, which is directly or indirectly related to these enterprises. Next, she provides data on public enterprises' scope (expressed by their connection to the different ministries, their denomination and origin), showing the periods when the multiplication was more intense. The final part brings into focus a factor which is of an administrative nature though having economic implications, namely the increasing gap between direct-administration and public-enterprise salary scales (and the resulting dysfunctions). The consequences of this gap is analyzed throug use of Riggs' Prismatic Model.

Desenvolvimento organizacional intercultural: aplicação na América Latina

ID: 15316

Authors: Rogério F. Pinto.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 47-68, July-September, 1979. 22 page(s).

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Cross-culturally transposed, OD can be inadvertently if not overtly insensitive to the cultural implications of its interventions. Inadvertent transposal of OD technolog may evoke cultural displacement in the form of contrived compliance behavior, institutional mimicry and formalism wich appears as the culture change predicted by OD. Meaningful cross-cultural application of OD requires at least the rudiments of a comparative theory of a caliber higher than presently available. The starting point for building this comparative theory is the recognition of the potential of OD, which is its vocation to achieve change through utilization of social knowledge and experiential alteration of that knowledge. Following up on this theory building effort, this study proposes to characterize the points of congruency or incongruency between conventional OD technology and social context other than the one in which OD has evolved and initially applied. With this study the author tries to get such characterization as it pertains to the application of OD to Latin America. This characterization is designed around a parallel that contrasts certain OD assumptions with equivalent or counterpart cultural dimensions of Latin American societies expressed through notable traits of sociall and organizational idiosyncrasies. The OD assumptions were extracted from current OD literature while equivalent counterpart cultural dimensions were drawn from empirical and theoretical writings on comparative administration, development and politics concerning Latin America. In the author's point of view, further efforts towards building a comparative OD theory to inform cross-cultural application should be oriented towards the verification of results of OD practice in Latin America. This verification should enable validity testing of the parallel as well as prove to be more effective in bringing about contextual transformation of organizations.

Afinal, a administração de recursos humanos é uma função realmente estratégica?

ID: 15317

Authors: Carlos César da Silva Souza.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 69-83, July-September, 1979. 15 page(s).

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The author points out that in most organizations the participation of human-resource management is almost negligible in the mapping of overall strategies and directives. This fact becomes even more serious because it impedes the adaptation of human-resource management to the present, changing conditions of the organizational environment. Such an adaptation would allow human-resource management to become a really strategic function in the process of organizational development. The author intends to promote a dialogue on the role of human-resource management in Brazilian organizations. Also, he seeks to call attention in concrete terms to the fact those responsible for human-resource management must acquire a new competence, as well as develop a new model for action, new functions and new techniques to accomplish new objectives.

Medidas de turnover na indústria do Rio Grande do Sul

ID: 15318

Authors: Sylvia Maria Roesch Ely.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 85-108, July-September, 1979. 24 page(s).

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The author intends to offer a contribution to the recently created National Employment System, by trying to elucidate a few aspects of the problem of labor turnover in Rio Grande do Sul's industry. Her specific objectives are: a) to divulge the methodology; b) to propose the use of labor turnover rates as  employment indicators; e) to provide the employer and the analysti with a parameter of industrial labor turnover for each industrial activity in different periods. Being the first work on the subject to be produced in Rio Grande do Sul, it is necessarily exploratory and concerned with the computation of local rates of labor turnover. The turnover phenomenon is analyzed according to its own characteristics. Available data allowed the analysis to cover seven distinct periods, from 1969 to 1975. Notwithstanding the limited data available on other aspects, the author is able to conclude that: a) the fundamental employment problem in developing countries stems from qualitative, not quantitative deficiencies; b) the high average turnover makes most sectors follow behaviors and trends which are similar to the average pattern. At the individual level, the change of occupation requires: the abandoning of habits, skills and routines, which are different for each working environment. To the organization, it causes high turnover costs. To societ and the economy as a whole, it means high social costs. The author hopes this quantitative study may be of value, since its subject - labor turnover - is quite wide, and may raise a series of relevant issues for research, as well as call public administrators attention to some aspects of labor employed in industry as well as in others sectors of the economy.

Indicadores de modernização administrativa (Conclusão)

ID: 15319

Authors: Secretaria de Planejamento do Estado do Paraná.

Source: Revista de Administração Pública, v. 13, n. 3, p. 109-151, July-September, 1979. 43 page(s).

Document type: Article (Portuguese)