Editorial

ID: 3809

Authors: Cid Gonçalves Filho, Luiz Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, Mário Teixeira Reis Neto.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 7-8, October-December, 2008. 2 page(s).

Document type: Editorial (Portuguese)

Entrepreneurship and public policies at small municipalities of Paraná State – Brazil: interpretations, participations and outcomes

ID: 3810

Authors: Juliano Mario da Silva, Hilka Vier Machado.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 9-32, October-December, 2008. 24 page(s).

Keyword: Economic activity , Enterprise environment , Entrepreneurship , Public policy , Small towns

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

Studies such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor are studying the environment in multiple countries entrepreneur and signaling to the public administrators’ initiatives that promote entrepreneurship in these countries. Thus, the aim of this paper is to seek the understanding of entrepreneurship by directors and actors of cases entrepreneurs in small Brazilian state of Parana, contributing to the discussion of public policy in small municipalities. The study is characterized as an interpretative approach of the qualitative study in six counties of northwestern Paraná taking as a tool for data collection semi-structured interview. It was in search of the existence of the relationship between the index of human development and public policies focused on entrepreneurship resulting from the interaction between the public and private sectors. However, barriers such as avoidance of young people and history of agriculture as the main economic activity in those cities are factors to be overcome. Finally, it is emphasized that entrepreneurship is seen in such cities as an alternative to generating jobs and income and the consequent improvement of the social condition of the municipality.

Evaluation of the social economic indicators of the municipalities of the São Paulo State groups 1, 3, 4 and 5 with the use of Multivariate Analysis of Variance

ID: 3811

Authors: Maria Aparecida Gouvêa, Patrícia Siqueira Varela, Milton Carlos Farina.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 33-53, October-December, 2008. 21 page(s).

Keyword: Multivariate Analysis of Variance , Public revenues , São Paulo State Social Responsibility Index

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

This article is part of an extensive study that deals several groups of municipalities that are analyzed through multivariate statistical techniques. The object of this study is to indicate whether the values per capita transfers from the Municipalities Participation Fund (MPF), Product and Service Circulation Tax Quota (PSCT) and Tax Revenue have averages statistically different among the municipalities of São Paulo State, characterized by the State Social Responsibility Index as municipalities with high economic and social index named “pole municipalities” (group 1), municipalities with low richness index and high / moderate social index (group 3), municipalities disfavored in richness with moderate social levels (group 4) and municipalities with disadvantages in both conditions (group 5), based on the multivariate analysis of variance. It was signed that the variable Tax Revenue has the major average difference among the four groups of municipalities. It is possible to say that, for these groups analyzed, the distribution of the MPF is also applied differently, contributing effectively to the equity of the conditions of municipalities.

Work and health: the role of outstanding management model at Beta Company

ID: 3812

Authors: Ana Lúcia Pellegrini Pessoa dos Reis, Almiralva Ferraz Gomes.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 55-82, October-December, 2008. 28 page(s).

Keyword: Human resources management , Management of excellence , Model of management , Occupational health , Work

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The actual productive and organizational changes have strong implications in the work and in the occupational health. Although economical factors stimulate the changes in the management models, the politics of human resource management should consider aspects that promote the occupational health, considering the trilogy: individual-work-organization. The present paper proposes to characterize the management model adopted by a big organization of the section of services in Bahia about occupational health. This investigation has a descriptive character and it accomplished documental research. One of the main evidences of the present research was that the organization investigated, in the implementation of your management model of the excellence, it incorporated good relationship practices with the workers. Consequently, it has been providing a protection atmosphere to the occupational health.

Real time strategic answer: decision making process of signals management

ID: 3813

Authors: Viviane Marchioni Figueiredo, Walter Bataglia.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 83-101, October-December, 2008. 19 page(s).

Keyword: Decision-making process , Environmental scanning , Fast-cycle environments , Organizational strategy , Signal management , Weak signals

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the recognition (or environmental scanning) as a stage of decision making strategic management of environmental signals in organizations and define the weak signals and environmental demands of process in organizations. Therefore, from the literature review were revisited the main theories of organizational decision-making process - and all the steps - setting a reflective analysis on the anticipated environmental signals in the trace from this theoretical framework, following the assumptions needed be considered for organizations in environments of dynamic changes. The important insight that results from this work is the systematization of a process of continuous monitoring of the competitive environment that is the environmental scanning, defined here as one of the stages of decision making in organizations. The environmental scanning focuses on the anticipation of environmental changes, preparing the organization to anticipate and manage actions to act quickly forward to strategic surprises. The work aims to further studies that incorporate qualitative analysis of organizations in environments of rapid cycling, where these propositions may be tested.

Rationality and irrationality at organizations: the contributions from Administration and Psychoanalysis

ID: 3814

Authors: Carlos Roberto Alcântara de Resende, Luiz Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, Mário Teixeira Reis Neto.

Source: Revista PRETEXTO, v. 9, n. 4, p. 103-121, October-December, 2008. 19 page(s).

Keyword: Irrationality , Psychoanalysis , Rationality

Document type: Article (Portuguese) Show Abstract

The organizations manage the performance of their employees by setting goals and using modern tools of planning, monitoring and control, in an effort to achieve sustainable competitive advantages and. To the effectiveness of the administrative system, applied science has been devoted to the production of tools capable to tailor individual responsibilities in order to assure the desired results. However the corporate environment is determined by contingencies that are difficult to identify, predict and manage. This effort may occur as opposed to unconscious resistance of individuals to act with the expected rationality. The Freudian theory (psychoanalysis) is an alternative to the understanding the of genesis of unconscious mental processes, beyond reason and will. The conclusions take into account the close, dialectical, conflict and inseparable, relationships between the individual and the organization.