Domingos Antônio Giroletti’s research while affiliated with Fundação Pedro Leopoldo and other places

Objective: This article aims to discuss the configuration of the competence approach in a multinational company that manufactures high-tech medical devices. It analyzes the managerial competences related to the production managers.Method: A descriptive Case Study of the company was carried out. As for data collection, it involved a semi-structured interview and document analysis. The data obtained were submitted to Content Analysis with determination of thematic categories.Originality/Relevance: The study carried out is justified by the possibility of contributing to the debate, illuminating aspects inherent to the Production area, in an innovative sector.Results: The research revealed an oxymoron. Although Valvmed is a multinational company that manufactures high-tech medical devices and operates in a dynamic sector, the competence approach is still configured in a traditional way. Although the area is characterized by its mechanistic and technical nature, it was possible to identify the demand for relational and behavioral competences that point out the relevance of the social content of the work.Social / management contributions: The research contributes to the managers who work in this field, insofar as it stimulates reflections about the complexity inherent to production management and the need for the company to make efforts to improve management competences that enhance human interaction.Theoretical/methodological contributions: Regarding the competence approach, the need to deepen the understanding of the dynamics adopted in the Production area in a high-tech medical company should be considered.

As jornadas de junho e as manifestações realizadas no Brasil em 2015 e 2016 são externalizações de desejos profundos da sociedade por mobilidade social, democratização do país e por instituições mais republicanas. Na elaboração desta pensata foram usadas informações provenientes de três fontes de pesquisa: a bibliográfica, a documental e a mídia institucional e alternativa. Foram discutidas a proposta de Anísio Teixeira para implantar a “nova escola”, uma educação pensada para todos como um processo democrático. Em um segundo momento, discutiu-se também a “democratização do acesso” ao ensino superior. Por fim, foi traçado um paralelo entre a luta pela democratização do país no passado e no presente.

Este artigo tem como objetivo avaliar o Projeto Ser Criança “Educação pelo Brinquedo”, analisando os resultados por ele produzidos na formação social de crianças e adolescentes dele participantes. O Projeto tem sido implementado por uma organização do Terceiro Setor nas cidades de Curvelo e Araçuaí, em Minas Gerais. . Este artigo fundamenta-se em pesquisa descritiva que envolveu a análise de dados quantitativos e qualitativos advindos de fontes bibliográficas, documentais e entrevistas. Adotou-se o método de avaliação ex-post com foco nos impactos e resultados gerados pelo projeto com base em Albuquerque (2006). Foram utilizados os escores dos exames dos alunos de escolas públicas de ensino fundamental, realizados pelo Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB), e dados obtidos nos relatórios técnicos elaborados pelos coordenadores e em 25 entrevistas que envolveram educadores, alunos, pais e egressos. Pelos resultados da pesquisa pode-se concluir que os alunos das escolas parceiras do Projeto apresentaram melhor desempenho escolar em comparação com aqueles obtidos pelos estudantes de outras escolas. A pesquisa revelou que o Projeto contribuiu na formação de crianças e jovens por meio de ações educativas inovadoras e de uma metodologia inclusiva.

The rationalization of the industrial production process, through the reduction of waste and the modernization of the production process, with the adoption of the Toyota Production System (Lean Production), has been adopted by an important part of the industries in the world. This article aim to describe this methodology used by the intensive phase improvement group adopted at Vallourec Tubos do Brasil S.A. As a result, the process used to implement short-term changes was the intensive week, also known as the Kaizen event in the automotive industry.

O artigo faz uma avaliação do Programa Ser Jovem destinado à inclusão social de jovens e adolescentes da RMBH em risco social. Trata-se de um estudo de caso descritivo que se propõe avaliar os resultados do Programa implementado pela Cruz Vermelha Brasileira, Seção de Minas Gerais (CVB-MG) em parceria com a Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Tem-se como referencial teórico políticas públicas coordenadas pelo Estado em atuação conjunta com instituições privadas e do terceiro setor na qualificação de jovens carentes e na sua inserção no mercado de trabalho. Na sua elaboração, usam-se dados de três fontes – pesquisa documental, entrevista qualitativa e aplicação de questionários para egressos – em sentido complementar.

The process of internationalization of enterprises in emergent-economy countries has been intensified due to the increasing relevance of these economies in the global scenario. This fact can be verified by the increase of the FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) flux coming from emerging-market enterprises. In spite of the similarities with traditional enterprises, the literature points that emerging multinational enterprises make use of differentiated strategies to plan the course of action beyond their country borders. From this perspective, this exploratory study analyses the processes of vertical integration and unbundling of companies in this scenario focusing, above all, the current shift in the innovation paradigm known as open innovation. In this sense, this study performs an analysis of the strategy of emergent multinational enterprises, as well as the role of their subsidiaries, in order to comprehend how the dispersion of R&D activities is done throughout their process of internationalization, and more particularly in Brazilian companies. The study shows, by means of comparisons of theoretical works, that open innovation constitutes a competitive advantage for the emergent multinational corporations that adopt it in the strategies of internationalization of R&D activities, but that, apparently, Brazilian enterprises are not taking the full potential out of it.

This article attempts to discuss the Brazilian development in the second decade of the XXI century, its main challenges and bow to overcome them. It is discussed the relationship between education and innovation as well as its linkage with the development process. It departs from the analysis of the world scenario after the economist crisis of 2008 and the implications for Brazil’s economy. The relationship between education and innovation is examined and special attention is given to the role of the educational system and how it can contribute to prepare more innovative people, better adjusted to the present time and to the changes that we are living. Another focus of analysis refers to the need to increase a culture of innovation among us, adopting proper strategies to improve it and to surpass some resistances against its improvement, especially among university students and professors due to the confusion between innovation and globalization and globalization and capitalistic exploration. Finally, it will be necessary to transform globalization as an economic process into a project of civilization.