Uma Medida de Atitudes em Ambientes Organizacionais Masculinos

Esta pesquisa partiu da necessidade de recolocar as questões de género no âmbito dos estudos de gestão. Partiu também do pressuposto de que as organizações de trabalho e as práticas de gestão são determinadas pelas relações sociais de género, expressas nas identidades, opções e performances dos seus vários agentes. Nessa medida, questionaram-se as representações de género de homens, que trabalham num ambiente profissional maioritariamente masculinizado. Para a sua realização aplicou-se o questionário “Men’s Polarized Gender Thinking”, traduzido e validado, a uma amostra de 160 trabalhadores de duas organizações, sendo elas a Águas de Coimbra e a Delegação Regional do Centro do Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (DRC INEM). Os resultados obtidos demonstram que as atitudes dos homens em relação à igualdade de género não se distribuem aleatoriamente. As participações no mercado de trabalho dos homens com níveis de instrução mais elevados articulam-se com atitudes mais igualitaristas, ao passo que são os menos escolarizados que menos reconhecem as desigualdades. Compreender a persistência de conceções assimétricas assentes em ideologias de género dos trabalhadores é fundamental para organizações que desejem desenvolver planos de gestão da diversidade ou para a igualdade. Neste sentido, esta escala de medida revelou-se um instrumento com algumas limitações a explorar e melhorar em futuras pesquisas. /This research arose from the need to remake gender issues in the scope of management studies. It also started from the belief that the labor organizations and management practices are determined by social gender relations, expressed in identities, options and performances of its various agents. To that extent, we questioned the gender representations to men who work in a mostly masculine professional environment. For its accomplishment we applied the questionnaire "Men's Polarized Gender Thinking", translated and validated, in a sample of 160 workers from two organizations: Águas de Coimbra and the Delegação Regional do Centro do Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica. The obtained results show that the attitudes of men towards gender equality are not distributed randomly. The participation in men’s labor market with higher levels of education are linked with more equalitarian attitudes, while the less educated men are the ones that less recognize inequalities. In order to understand the persistence of asymmetric conceptions based on workers' gender ideologies it is fundamental that organizations want to develop plans to manage diversity or for equality. That is why, this measurement scale proved to be a tool with some limitations to explore and improve in future researches

The impact of job insecurity on adaptive performance via burnout

Difficult and unpredictable times, due to economic instability, lead employees to feel high job insecurity. Organizations’ only way to subsistence is to search innovative ways of solving problems and find creative solutions. This study focuses on the impact that job insecurity has on adaptive performance, a recent measure integrating the response of creativity, reactivity in the face of emergencies, interpersonal adaptability, training effort, and handling work stress, and, mediated by burnout. From the responses of two questionnaires (1=252; 2=145), we conclude that job insecurity leads to exhaustion, but not to disengagement. In turn, it is the latter that demonstrates to have negative relations with some measures of adaptive performance. Thus, it is crucial to understand how organizations can minimize the inherent process

Sovereign debt crisis and the use of the community method in the making of EU responses (2010-2011) : the six-pack case on economic governance reform

Doutoramento em Estudos de DesenvolvimentoIn early 2010, the weak design of the Economic and Monetary Union and the tools for economic governance provided by the Treaty of Lisbon proved to be inadequate for preventing or resolving the European sovereign debt crisis. Up to December2011, the EU response comprised legislative files aiming to reform economic governance and the establishment of financial supervision and stabilization mechanisms. Drawing on new institutionalism theories, namely rational choice and historical institutionalism, this research’s main objective is to investigate the use of the Community method in the responses to the EUcrisis. Some of the responses, found within the EU framework, suchasthe ‘SixaPack’adopted in 2011 to streng then the Union´s economic governance, saw the Commission´s role as formal agenda setter- the key feature of the Community method-being challenged by the set up of a Task Force presided by the President of the European Council Van Rompuy. Other responses, found through intergovernmental agreements, are perceived to ascribe a much more central role to supranational institutions like the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, strengthening this way the Community method. The focus on a qualitative case study of economic governance reform highlights the role of the European Parliament in the ‘SixaPack’ legislative process and builds on a novel conceptualization of the Principal-Agent model. Theanalysis covers not only the ‘SixaPack’ agenda setting phase, but also the formal and informal policy-making stage, where most of the decisions were found in the so called ‘trialogues’.No início de 2010, tanto a fragilidade do desenho da União Económica e Monetária como os instrumentos de governação económica previstos no Tratado de Lisboa, mostraram não ser aptos em prevenir ou resolver a crise Europeia da dívida soberana. Até Dezembro 2011, a resposta Europeia compreendeu um conjunto de dossiers legislativos com vista a reformar a governação económica e o estabelecimento de mecanismos de supervisão financeira e de estabilização.Tendoporbaseasteoriasdo novo institucionalismo, nomeadamente o institucionalismo da escolha racional e o institucionalismo histórico, o principal objectivo desta investigação é analisar o método Comunitário nas respostas à crise da União Europeia. Em algumas dessas respostas, dentro do enquadramento legal Europeu, tal como o ‘SixaPack’ adotado em 2011 para fortalecer a governação económica, a Comissão Europeia viu o seu poder formal de iniciar legislação a principal característica do método Comunitário a ser confrontado com a constituição de um grupo de trabalho presidido pelo Presidente do Conselho Europeu Van Rompuy. Outras respostas, no âmbito de acordos intergovernamentais, terão atribuído um papel central às instituições Europeias como a Comissão e o Tribunal Europeu de Justiça, o que se traduziu num fortalecimento do método Comunitário. A escolha de um caso de estudo qualitativo sobre a reforma da governação económica, pretende sublinhar o papel desempenhado pelo Parlamento Europeu no processo legislativo do ‘SixaPack’. Para o efeito, foi desenvolvida uma nova conceptualização teórica do modelo do Principal-Agente. A análise cobre não somente a fase da iniciação legislativa do ‘SixaPack’, mas também Os processos formais e informais de tomada de decisão, nos chamados ‘trílogos’

Parceria de Cuidados : Experiência dos pais num hospital pediátrico

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências de Enfermagem apresentada ao Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar da Universidade do Port

FleXml: Plataforma de Ensino a Distância para Promover Flexibilidade Cognitiva

Esta comunicação apresenta a plataforma Web FleXml para ensino a distância, desenvolvida na Universidade do Minho, em Portugal, e estruturada segundo os princípios da Teoria de Flexibilidade Cognitiva. Começamos por caracterizar a referida teoria, passando de seguida a descrever a plataforma Web FleXml em termos da sua arquitectura e funcionamento nos módulos autor e leitor. Por fim, apresentamos as suas particularidades na implementação de um assunto a distância.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - POCTI/ 33691/CED/2000

Accounting history: a bibliometric literature review

Accounting is much more than a science, is a branch of our heritage history. Since the dawn of primitive era, it has been a part of us and kept developing. Given its importance, the literature in accounting history has grown but much remains to be unravelled. In this sense, this research is a literature review on the evolution of accounting. The aim is to highlight the accounting timelessness in humanity and to analyse the scientific production in accounting history. A quantitative bibliometric analysis was conducted using VOSviewer and R Bibliometrix software. A total of 236 publications were selected from the Web of Science database, between 1975 and 2021. In this research, we found that the main subtopics in accounting history research are: (1) accounting history and its relevance, (2) the roles of accounting in society, (3) accounting and religion and (3) schools of thought in accounting history. Australia, England, America, and Italy are the countries with most published articles. “Accounting History”, “Accounting Organizations and Society” and “Accounting Historians Journal” have been among the top journals, Garry Carnegie, Delfina Gomes and Christopher Napier are the most influential authors and the institutions, like Rmit University, the University of Minho and Cardiff University, stand out on accounting history research, considering the number of publications. The research trend and the progress in accounting history were discussed

Characterization of Microbial Communities Associated with Ceramic Raw Materials as Potential Contributors for the Improvement of Ceramic Rheological Properties

Technical ceramics are being widely employed in the electric power, medical and engineering industries because of their thermal and mechanical properties, as well as their high resistance qualities. The manufacture of technical ceramic components involves complex processes, including milling and stirring of raw materials in aqueous solutions, spray drying and dry pressing. In general, the spray-dried powders exhibit an important degree of variability in their performance when subjected to dry-pressing, which affects the efficiency of the manufacturing process. Commercial additives, such as deflocculants, biocides, antifoam agents, binders, lubricants and plasticizers are thus applied to ceramic slips. Several bacterial and fungal species naturally occurring in ceramic raw materials, such as Sphingomonas, Aspergillus and Aureobasidium, are known to produce exopolysaccharides. These extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) may confer unique and potentially interesting properties on ceramic slips, including viscosity control, gelation, and flocculation. In this study, the microbial communities present in clay raw materials were identified by both culture methods and DNA-based analyses to select potential EPS producers based on the scientific literature for further assays based on the use of EPS for enhancing the performance of technical ceramics. Potential exopolysaccharide producers were identified in all samples, such as Sphingomonas sp., Pseudomonas xanthomarina, P. stutzeri, P. koreensis, Acinetobacter lwoffi, Bacillus altitudinis and Micrococcus luteus, among bacteria. Five fungi (Penicillium citrinum, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum, Acremonium persicinum and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa) were also identified as potential EPS producers.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia-EXPL/CTM-CER/0637/201

Convergence insufficiency and accommodative insufficiency in children

Purpose: Convergence and accommodative insufficiency represent the main cause of complaints during close visual work and can reduce visual performance and comfort. Knowing their prevalence among schoolchildren is fundamental to define strategies for action. The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency of these conditions in children in 5th and 6th school years in inland Portugal and to assess the impact that each visual condition has on their quality of life, based on the level of visual symptoms. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with children enrolled in the 5th and 6th school years. 372 children (192 girls) were assessed, with average ages of 10.9 ± 0.9 years. Refractive error and binocular vision assessment, integrating accommodative parameters, were used to analyse the visual condition. Symptoms were quantified using the Portuguese version of the CISS (Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey). Results: The prevalence of definite Convergence Insufficiency (CI) in the children assessed was 2%. A prevalence of 6,8% could be considered if clinically significant CI (high suspect and definite categories) cases are accounted. In relation to Accommodative Insufficiency (AI), a frequency rate of 10% was recorded, with 3% of the evaluated children presenting AI and CI simultaneously. The symptoms score was higher in AI than in CI. Conclusions: A frequency of approximately 10% was found for each one of the visual syndromes, and it was verified that visual discomfort is common among teenagers who carry these conditions. In cases of asthenopia, such as headaches and loss of concentration, associated with near vision activities, there is a requirement to evaluate the quality of binocular vision.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Desenvolvimento de Flexibilidade Cognitiva através de Plataforma Web FLEXML

Esta comunicação apresenta a plataforma web de ensino à distância FleXml, inspirada na Teoria da Flexibilidade Cognitiva e nos estudos realizados com base na mesma. A referida plataforma, desenvolvida na Universidade do Minho, em Portugal, integra um módulo autor e um módulo leitor, cujas funcionalidades vamos apresentar