Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar nas trajetórias profissionais – as experiências e as formações continuadas, mais especificadamente, os caminhos trilhados por bibliotecários em cargos de gestores de bibliotecas na UFRGS. Com o intuito de atender a esse objetivo, são caracterizados o perfil sócio-profissional e as políticas de carreira e desenvolvimento dos bibliotecários da UFRGS, identificados os caminhos trilhados nas experiências profissionais dos bibliotecários no exercício da gestão e verificados os percursos de formações continuadas realizadas pelos bibliotecários gestores, e se identificaram contribuições para o exercício das atividades pertinentes ao cargo. Contextualiza a instituição e os sujeitos da pesquisa. Apresenta conceitos referentes a trajetórias profissionais (FRANZOI, 2006), (DUBAR, 2005), competências (BRANDÃO; BORGES-ANDRADE, 2007), (FLEURY; FLEURY, 2001) e competências gerenciais (MINTZBERG 1973 apud ROBBINS, c2000), (FAGUNDES; SEMINOTTI, 2009) especialmente de bibliotecários (VALENTIM, 2002), (MACIEL; MENDONÇA, 2006) A pesquisa tem caráter descritivo com abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa e estudo de caso como método adotado. Como técnica de coleta de dados utilizou-se a base dados da UFRGS, documentos, currículo lattes e entrevistas com bibliotecárias-chefe submetidas à análise de conteúdo. Como resultados, percebeu-se que há uma valorização do Mestrado para exercer a chefia. As bibliotecárias construíram sua carreira trazendo a bagagem de conhecimentos e experiências profissionais anteriores, agregando os conhecimentos de Biblioteconomia e das formações continuadas. As lacunas que percebem no currículo, especialmente em gestão e gestão de pessoas e as contribuições voltadas à parte técnica da profissão. Revelam também quais características são necessárias ao bibliotecário-chefe para o bom exercício da gestão e por isso justifica a busca pela formação continuada a fim de suprir as falhas detectadas na formação, seja por cursos de qualificação, seja por cursos de capacitação oferecidos pela própria Universidade.As gestoras têm expectativas à continuação ou não dos estudos. Como sugestões, a revisão do currículo da Graduação e o oferecimento de cursos de extensão e de pósgraduação, latu e strictu sensu na área de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação pela UFRGS a fim de que as bibliotecárias possam se aperfeiçoar na carreira sem terem que se deslocar do seu estado de origem ou ter que cursar áreas afins. Outra sugestão é a criação de um programa de desenvolvimento de gestores dentro da Universidade. / This work has the objective of analyzing,within professional careers, the continuing experiences and graduations, more specifically the paths tracked by librarians in positions of management of libraries at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). In order to meet this objective, the socio-professional profileand career politics and development policies of UFRGS librarians are characterized, the paths taken by active manager librarians are identified, while is verified the continuing education graduation taken by manager librarians, and contributions were identified for the exercise of activities relevant to the position. Contextualizes the institution and the subjects of the research. It presents concepts related to professional trajectories (FRANZOI, 2006), (DUBAR, 2005), competencies (BRANDÃO; BORGES-ANDRADE, 2007), (FLEURY; FLEURY, 2001) and managerial competencies (MINTZBERG 1973 apud ROBBINS, c2000), (FAGUNDES; SEMINOTTI, 2009), especially of librarians (VALENTIM, 2002), (MACIEL; MENDONÇA, 2006). The research has a descriptive character with a qualitative and quantitative approach and case study as the method adopted. As data collection technique, UFRGS database, documents, curriculum lattes and interviews with chief librarians were used to analyze the content. As results, it has been noted that there is a valorization of the Master's to exercise leadership positions. The librarians in focus have built up their careers by bringing a wealth of knowledge and a load of previous experiences, bringing together the knowledge of Library Science and continuing education. The gaps that they perceive in the curriculum, especially in management and management of people as well as the contributions towards the technical side of the profession. They reveal also the characteristics that are necessary to be a chief librarian, for the good exercise of management and for that reason justifies the search for a continued education in order toovercomethe failures detected in the formation, either through qualification courses or by training courses offered by the University itself. As managers, they have expectations regarding the continuation or not of their education. As a suggestion, points to the review of the Undergraduate curriculum and the offer of extension and postgraduate courses, latu and strictusensu in the area of Librarian Studies and Information Sciences from UFRGS, so that the librarians can improve their careers without having to go out of their residential regions or to be forced to study just related courses. Another suggestion is the creation of a manager development program within the University.

nÃo hà / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central identificar, segundo a percepÃÃo de lÃderes e nÃo lÃderes, as principais mudanÃas ocorridas na gestÃo de pessoas com a implantaÃÃo da gestÃo por competÃncias em organizaÃÃo do setor industrial de Sobral/CE. A relevÃncia deste estudo està em verificar a ocorrÃncia ou nÃo de melhorias nos resultados globais dessa empresa, em termos de desenvolvimento de aÃÃes mais integradas; atuaÃÃo mais estratÃgica da empresa por meio de seus colaboradores, quanto ao alcance de resultados estratÃgicos; maior foco no desenvolvimento e valorizaÃÃo dos colaboradores; alinhamento entre as expectativas das pessoas e da empresa; maior eficÃcia em relaÃÃo Ãs pressÃes de mercado, etc. Este estudo parte, essencialmente, dos pressupostos de que a gestÃo de pessoas em organizaÃÃo industrial associada à gestÃo por competÃncias aprimora a qualidade e os resultados dos processos de recrutamento e seleÃÃo da organizaÃÃo; de que a gestÃo de pessoas em organizaÃÃo industrial associada à gestÃo por competÃncias aprimora a qualidade e os resultados dos processos de treinamento e desenvolvimento da organizaÃÃo; e de que a gestÃo de pessoas em organizaÃÃo industrial associada à gestÃo por competÃncias aprimora a qualidade e os resultados dos processos de cargos, carreiras e salÃrios da organizaÃÃo. Foi realizado para o embasamento teÃrico um levantamento sobre gestÃo de pessoas, gestÃo estratÃgica de pessoas e gestÃo por competÃncias. Na metodologia apresenta-se o estudo de caso como mÃtodo de pesquisa, no qual a coleta de dados ocorreu por meio da aplicaÃÃo de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas, nas quais foram utilizados dois roteiros e dois formulÃrios para registro dos dados das entrevistas, e como tÃcnica de anÃlise de dados foi utilizada a anÃlise de conteÃdo, e o software NVivo 10 para anÃlise dos dados. Constituem-se sujeitos dessa pesquisa a gestora da Ãrea de Recursos Humanos e 27 colaboradores da respectiva empresa. Os achados da pesquisa indicam que a gestÃo por competÃncias proporcionou mudanÃas nos subprocessos da Ãrea de gestÃo de pessoas, tornando-os mais alinhados e estratÃgicos, alÃm de ter gerado uma sÃrie de melhorias nos resultados globais da empresa

Title: From horse people to business leader Authors: Jennifer Norin, Maria Nyström and Therese Olsson Supervisor: Anders Wrenne Department: School of Management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Bachelor’s thesis in Business Administration, 15 credits Purpose: The purpose of our work is to deepen the knowledge of horse people's potential to act as successful business executives by finding out how a person can implement their practical experiences from a horse environment in a role as business leader. Method: This thesis has a qualitative approach in which we gathered the empirical material through three extensive semi-structured interviews by phone calls with managers of different riding schools. We also formed a poll with a quantitative approach to gather more overall information from a larger number of horse owners via social media. Results: This thesis shows that there are several skills that develops in the stable environment that are useful as a business leader. Skills like problem solving, time planning and budgeting and many more are introduced and developed in the life with horses and then implemented in the workplace.

The traditional procurement and contracting method within the architectural, engineering and construction industry is often criticised for its fragmented approach and its isolation of designers from contractor and Facilities Management(FM). However, adversarial relationships often occur among the project-team members due to disagreements relating to poor communication, processes, specifications, compliance, cost overruns and the extension of times. Therefore, the integration of FM’s specialists into early design development process comes with challenges, such as conflict between the design team and FM’s specialists over the specifications, local statutory compliance, commissioning method statements and the hand-over process. Furthermore, conflicts have critical effects on cost and schedule in complex projects and creates breakdown of relationships among project participants and results in project delays, claims and disputes. The Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to “to explore effective involvement of FM specialists in the early design-development process of complex building projects in South Africa is perceived to be causing conflicts between the multi-disciplinary professional design team members.” Design/methodology: Mixed methods was adopted for this study including extensive related literature review and pilot study. Purposive (8 interviews) and snowballing (102 participants) sampling techniques were used in data collection. Findings: According to descriptive analysis, participants slightly greed that FM specialists should be involved in the early stage of the design development process with mean score ranging from 3.21 (Inception stage) and 3.71 (Concept and Viability stage). Participants agreed that that FM specialists should be involved during design development stage with a mean score of 4.19 and project close out stage with a mean score of 4.29. Furthermore, from 41 causes of conflicts, 10 received mean scores ranging from 2.66 and 2.97 meaning that there is a low possibilities of causing conflicts while 31 variables received mean scores ranging from 3.00 to 3.97 meaning that there is a moderate possibilities of causing conflicts among FM specialists and design team during design development process. Research limitation/Implications: Potential participants are architects, engineers, project managers, property-development managers and facilities managers. Furthermore, the focus of the study is on medium and large complex projects with buildings systems. In addition, this Originality/Value: The high costs of maintenance during operation and non-compliance with the local statutory requirements of the building systems will affect the results and the application thereof. The integration of the design team and FM’s specialists will provide the client with the final product that is functional and safe to occupy and use for its intent. Furthermore, FM’s specialists’ involvement early in the design-development process would reduce operational and maintenance costs during the operational stage of the building; and they would further ensure that the facility complies with the local statutory requirements. / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Construction Economics / MSc / Unrestricted

Purpose – The objective of this study is to shed some light on quality improvement practices of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals Design/methodology/approach – The scope and effectiveness of several quality improvement efforts are studied for a sample of 110 hospitals. Factor analysis was utilized to analyze the data collected. Findings – The results of this study tended to suggest that for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals were more similar than different with the regard to the effective utilization of quality improvement initiatives, thus underscoring the utility of quality improvement efforts despite differences in operating characteristics, strategies and operating constraints. Research limitations/implications – The sample used in this study is limited. Thus, the results should be interpreted accordingly. Practical implications – This study offers decision-makers in healthcare operational settings empirical evidence of the operational and strategic effectiveness of different quality improvement efforts, thus justifying investments related to the initiation and implementation of such quality improvement efforts. Originality/value – This study represents an important step toward understanding the effective implementation of quality improvement initiatives in different operational settings.

Yes / Aims and Objectives The vision for the future Great Britain pharmacy workforce development has been proposed as of August 2015 and this starts/reignites discussions as to how pharmacists continue to operate as a body whilst maintaining and extending their professional acumen and experience [1]. The pharmacy sector has grown substantially and qualified pharmacists are often assumed to be managers, without having completed management modules during their degree [2]. The aim of this study was to determine how CPD supports management skills development (MSD) of pharmacists in these sectors. / The full text will be available on permission from the publisher.

Many students change their choice of secondary school programme or fail to complete their studies which results in a great cost to society or personal costs for the student. The purpose is to examine the experiences of two groups of upper secondary school students regarding their choice of upper secondary school programme. The questions we wanted answers to were: what influenced the student’s choice of study, what support did the students receive from comprehensive school and what might have caused them to choose another programme. The study was carried out in two focus groups where one of the groups was made up of students who had chosen the “right” programme and the other made up of students who had chosen the “wrong” programme. One thing that influenced the student’s choice of upper secondary school programme was whether or not the programme provided eligibility to higher studies which they had heard from primary school and parents was a choice that would give them many possibilities in the future. It appeared that there had not been much of a guidance process for developing career management skills which could have given the students support in reflecting over their transition to upper secondary school. The students’ interests and the parents and people near the students influenced the students’ choices. The study shows that students needed a longer guidance process and a clearer understanding of its purpose. Narrow and wide guidance varied depending on a student’s comprehensive school. They would have needed a better description of the consequences such as what study demands were required for the programme and what moving or commuting would mean in practice.

South Africa abandoned its apartheid system in 1994, which enabled the country to be integrated into the global economy. Due to the lack of global competitiveness, between 70 and 80% of start-ups fail within five years (Goosain, 2004:23). People lost their jobs and the unemployment rate escalated from 17% to 28% (Kingdon and Knight, 2003). Government increased its support to small businesses in order to stimulate economic growth and development as an alternative means of job creation. However, studies conducted to determine the performance of small businesses reveal that most of these businesses fail irrespective of the support they receive from government due to a lack of financial management skills. The study being reported here investigated which financial management skills owners/managers of small business have and which ones are lacking in order to recommend appropriate training interventions required to develop and improve the financial management skills of such owners/managers and ultimately the management of their businesses. A literature review was conducted regarding the small business environment, training interventions and financial management skills. Financial management skill sets relevant to small business were identified and listed for empirical research purposes. Empirical research was conducted on the target population within the indicated geographical area. The study confirmed that most small business owners/managers have limited financial skills. Recommendations will be put forward on the type of skills future training needs to focus on. / Finance and Risk Management and Banking / M. Com. (Business Management)

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Com o intuito de atender a esse objetivo, são caracterizados o perfil sócio-profissional e as políticas de carreira e desenvolvimento dos bibliotecários da UFRGS, identificados os caminhos trilhados nas experiências profissionais dos bibliotecários no exercício da gestão e verificados os percursos de formações continuadas realizadas pelos bibliotecários gestores, e se identificaram contribuições para o exercício das atividades pertinentes ao cargo. Contextualiza a instituição e os sujeitos da pesquisa. Apresenta conceitos referentes a trajetórias profissionais (FRANZOI, 2006), (DUBAR, 2005), competências (BRANDÃO; BORGES-ANDRADE, 2007), (FLEURY; FLEURY, 2001) e competências gerenciais (MINTZBERG 1973 apud ROBBINS, c2000), (FAGUNDES; SEMINOTTI, 2009) especialmente de bibliotecários (VALENTIM, 2002), (MACIEL; MENDONÇA, 2006). A pesquisa tem caráter descritivo com abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa e estudo de caso como método adotado. Como técnica de coleta de dados utilizou-se a base dados da UFRGS, documentos, currículo lattes e entrevistas com bibliotecárias-chefe submetidas à análise de conteúdo. Como resultados, percebeu-se que há uma valorização do Mestrado para exercer a chefia. As bibliotecárias construíram sua carreira trazendo a bagagem de conhecimentos e experiências profissionais anteriores, agregando os conhecimentos de Biblioteconomia e das formações continuadas. As lacunas que percebem no currículo, especialmente em gestão e gestão de pessoas e as contribuições voltadas à parte técnica da profissão. Revelam também quais características são necessárias ao bibliotecário-chefe para o bom exercício da gestão e por isso justifica a busca pela formação continuada a fim de suprir as falhas detectadas na formação, seja por cursos de qualificação, seja por cursos de capacitação oferecidos pela própria Universidade. As gestoras têm expectativas à continuação ou não dos estudos. Como sugestões, a revisão do currículo da Graduação e o oferecimento de cursos de extensão e de pós-graduação, latu e strictu sensu na área de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação pela UFRGS a fim de que as bibliotecárias possam se aperfeiçoar na carreira sem terem que se deslocar do seu estado de origem ou ter que cursar áreas afins. Outra sugestão é a criação de um programa de desenvolvimento de gestores dentro da Universidade. / This work has the objective of analyzing,within professional careers, the continuing experiences and graduations, more specifically the paths tracked by librarians in positions of management of libraries at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). In order to meet this objective, the socio-professional profileand career politics and development policies of UFRGS librarians are characterized, the paths taken by active manager librarians are identified, while is verified the continuing education graduation taken by manager librarians, and contributions were identified for the exercise of activities relevant to the position. Contextualizes the institution and the subjects of the research. It presents concepts related to professional trajectories (FRANZOI, 2006), (DUBAR, 2005), competencies (BRANDÃO; BORGES-ANDRADE, 2007), (FLEURY; FLEURY, 2001) and managerial competencies (MINTZBERG 1973 apud ROBBINS, c2000), (FAGUNDES; SEMINOTTI, 2009), especially of librarians (VALENTIM, 2002), (MACIEL; MENDONÇA, 2006). The research has a descriptive character with a qualitative and quantitative approach and case study as the method adopted. As data collection technique, UFRGS database, documents, curriculum lattes and interviews with chief librarians were used to analyze the content. As results, it has been noted that there is a valorization of the Master's to exercise leadership positions. The librarians in focus have built up their careers by bringing a wealth of knowledge and a load of previous experiences, bringing together the knowledge of Library Science and continuing education. The gaps that they perceive in the curriculum, especially in management and management of people as well as the contributions towards the technical side of the profession. They reveal also the characteristics that are necessary to be a chief librarian, for the good exercise of management and for that reason justifies the search for a continued education in order toovercomethe failures detected in the formation, either through qualification courses or by training courses offered by the University itself. As managers, they have expectations regarding the continuation or not of their education. As a suggestion, points to the review of the Undergraduate curriculum and the offer of extension and postgraduate courses, latu and strictusensu in the area of Librarian Studies and Information Sciences from UFRGS, so that the librarians can improve their careers without having to go out of their residential regions or to be forced to study just related courses. Another suggestion is the creation of a manager development program within the University.

Thesis (MPA. (Industrial Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2010 / In recent years, the South African government has put a lot of energy into the transformation of public sector departments. Effective leadership is a prerequisite in any effort to transform an organization. However, research findings indicate that there is a critical need to develop and train managers in the public sector to deal with numerous challenges in a fast changing world. They do not only need technical competencies but also soft skills to manage interpersonal relationships. This means that the public sector in South Africa needs to develop its leaders effectiveness in dealing with the human side of enterprises. Research in the first world countries on effective leadership behaviour has indicated the following: Firstly, leaders with high levels of emotional competence are more effective in interpersonal situations than those with low levels of emotional competence. Secondly, transformational leadership behaviour has a significant positive relationship with a leader s emotional competence. Lastly, a leader s conflict handling style is associated with his/her effectiveness as a leader. The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between managers transformational leadership style effectiveness, their level of emotional competence (emotional expression and constructive discontent) and their conflict management skills within the public sector in South Africa. A survey design was employed to collect data. Questionnaires were completed by 126 managers in a public sector department in the Limpopo Province. The questionnaires included items to assess transformational leadership, emotional competence and conflict management skills, and also to siphon demographic information of the managers. Frequencies for demographic information were computed, as well as correlations for transformational leadership, emotional competencies and conflict management styles in order to test out hypotheses about the relationship between the variables of interest.Findings indicated that the majority of the respondents were Black males under the age group of 41-50, on job levels 11-12, with managerial experience of 1-5 years. The main findings of the study showed the following: (a) There is a very weak,significant positive relationship between transformational leadership and emotional expression, and a negative relationship between transformational leadership style and constructive discontent; (b) There is a relatively weak but significant positive relationship between the transformational leadership style and the constrictive conflict management skills (collaborating and compromising interpersonal conflict management styles); (c) There is a weak but significant negative relationship between the compromising interpersonal conflict management style and emotional expression, and a very weak, non-significant negative relationship between collaboration interpersonal conflict management style and emotional expression; and (d) There is a weak but significant negative relationship between the compromising interpersonal conflict management style and constructive discontent, but a very weak non-significant negative relationship between collaboration interpersonal conflict management style and constructive discontent. These findings led the researcher to believe that the respondents are neither transformational leaders nor emotionally competent, and thus could not either compromise or collaborate with others when they are in an interpersonal conflict situation. It is recommended that managers should be trained to develop their leadership, as well as emotional and conflict management competencies. Even though small sample size was used in this study, there results will be generalized to the whole South African population of public service managers. Further research study with different research methodology is recommended within other public sector departments and provinces within the country.