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INOVAÇÃO E GESTÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA NO TRABALHO: ESTUDO DE CASO NA INDÚSTRIA PETROQUÍMICA DO GRANDE ABC
Full text linkA inovação de produtos e de processos no mundo globalizado tem se afirmado como condição essencial à competitividade empresarial. Num contexto contemporâneo marcado pela acirrada concorrência, as organizações também necessitam rever seus modelos de gestão. E nesse ambiente de transformação, a gestão de pessoas está cada vez mais relacionada à capacidade de diagnóstico e formulação de políticas e programas que contemplem a qualidade de vida no trabalho, considerando uma visão ampla do ser humano e do seu bem-estar em múltiplas dimensões. O presente estudo de caso, de caráter exploratório e qualitativo, apresenta uma análise dos fatores críticos de gestão da qualidade de vida no trabalho em cenário de inovação de processos na indústria petroquímica do Grande ABC, no período de 2001 a 2006, buscando assim contribuir com uma perspectiva integrada para os estudos sobre trabalho e inovação. O cenário de inovação na indústria foi validado a partir da percepção dos trabalhadores, com base especialmente nos conceitos de Tidd, Bessant e Pavit (1997) sobre as características das empresas inovadoras. Com essa validação, partiu-se para a investigação dos fatores críticos de gestão da qualidade de vida no trabalho (GQVT), a partir dos estudos de Limongi-França (2004) que compreendem o conceito de qualidade de vida no trabalho, a produtividade, a legitimidade, as práticas e valores, o perfil do gestor e a nova competência. A análise dos fatores críticos de GQVT em ambiente de inovação permite destacar evidências de melhorias na qualidade de vida no trabalho a partir da constatação de benefícios ergonômicos, integração da equipe, preservação do meio ambiente e confiabilidade dos processos. Por outro lado, conclui-se pela persistência de desafios integrados para a gestão da inovação e a gestão de pessoas, especialmente vinculados ao desenvolvimento do trabalhador para a operação dos novos processos, e à implantação de programas eficazes de participação e comunicação em ambiente de inovação.Products and processes innovation in a globalized world has been affirmed as essential condition to companies’ competitiveness. In a contemporary context marked by severe competition, organizations also need to revise their administration models. Within such environment of transformation, the people management is increasingly related to the capability of diagnosis and formulation of programs and policies that contemplate lifequality at the workplace, also considering a broad view of the human being and its well being in multiple dimensions. In a scenario of industrial processes’ innovation, the present case study presents an analysis of the critical factors of life-quality administration at the workplace, within the petrochemicals sector of the Great ABC region (São Paulo State, Brazil) from 2001 to 2006. The research has a descriptive and qualitative character, and it aims to contribute to an integrated perspective for labor and innovation studies. Based specially on Tidd, Bessant and Pavitt’s (1997) concepts on the characteristics of the innovative companies, the scenario of innovation at the industry included the workers’ perception. This validation set out the investigation of the critical factors of life-quality management at the workplace (GQVT), mainly based on Limongi-França’s (2004) studies, which comprise the concept of life-quality at the workplace, productivity, legitimacy, practices and values, the manager’s profile, and the new competence. The analysis of the critical factors of GQVT in an environment of innovation allows highlighting evidences of improvements on the life-quality at the workplace resulting from the acknowledgment of ergonomic benefits, team integration, environmental preservation and processes reliability. On the other hand, the research stresses the persistence of integrated challenges for innovation and people management. This is particularly important in the training of the workers to operate new processes, and to set up efficient participation and communication programs in an environment of innovation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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