Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PauloECC.pdf: 1930969 bytes, checksum: a18acd846ec916fc7e0ef038e923a6b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The knowledge management has received major attention from product designers because many of the activities within this process have to be creative and, therefore, they depend basically on the knowledge of the people who are involved in the process. Moreover, Product Development Process (PDP) is one of the activities in which knowledge management manifests in the most critical form once it had the intense application of the knowledge. As a consequence, this thesis analyzes the knowledge management aiming to improve the PDP and it also proposes a theoretical model of knowledge management. This model uses five steps (creation, maintenance, dissemination, utilization and discard) through the verification of the occurrence of four types of knowledge conversion (socialization, externalization, combination and internalization) that it will improve the knowledge management in this process. The intellectual capital in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) managed efficiently and with the participation of all employees has become the mechanism of the creation and transference processes of knowledge, supporting and, consequently, improving the PDP. The expected results are an effective and efficient application of the proposed model for the creation of the knowledge base within an organization (organizational memory) aiming a better performance of the PDP. In this way, it was carried out an extensive analysis of the knowledge management (instrument of qualitative and subjective evaluation) within the Design department of a Brazilian company (SEBRAE/RN). This analysis aimed to know the state-of-the-art of the Design department regarding the use of knowledge management. This step was important in order to evaluate in the level of the evolution of the department related to the practical use of knowledge management before implementing the proposed theoretical model and its methodology. At the end of this work, based on the results of the diagnosis, a knowledge management system is suggested to facilitate the knowledge sharing within the organization, in order words, the Design department / A gest?o do conhecimento tem recebido grande aten??o dos profissionais que atuam no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP), pois muitas das atividades deste processo t?m um car?ter criativo e, portanto, dependem fundamentalmente do conhecimento das pessoas que o realizam. Al?m disso, o PDP ? um dos processos onde a necessidade da gest?o do conhecimento se manifesta de forma mais cr?tica devido a intensa aplica??o do conhecimento. Assim, esta disserta??o analisa a gest?o do conhecimento com o objetivo da melhoria do PDP e prop?e um modelo te?rico de gest?o do conhecimento. Este modelo utiliza-se de cinco passos (cria??o, manuten??o, dissemina??o, utiliza??o e exclus?o) atrav?s da verifica??o da ocorr?ncia de quatro tipos de convers?es do conhecimento (socializa??o, externaliza??o, combina??o e internaliza??o) que poder? potencializar a gest?o do conhecimento nesse processo. O capital intelectual nas pequenas e m?dias empresas gerenciado eficientemente e com a participa??o de todos que a comp?e vem se tornando o mecanismo fomentador dos processos de cria??o e transfer?ncia de conhecimento, auxiliando e, conseq?entemente, melhorando o PDP. Os resultados esperados s?o uma efetiva e eficaz aplica??o do modelo proposto para a cria??o da base de conhecimento numa organiza??o (mem?ria organizacional) atingindo, assim, um desempenho no PDP superior ao diagnosticado anteriormente. Desse modo, foi realizado um diagn?stico de gest?o do conhecimento (instrumento de avalia??o qualitativa e subjetiva) no setor de Design do SEBRAE/RN na tentativa de saber o estado da arte do setor com rela??o ? gest?o do conhecimento. Esta etapa ? imprescind?vel para avaliar em que n?vel o setor se encontra com rela??o ?s pr?ticas de gest?o do conhecimento antes de implementar o modelo e sua metodologia. Ao final do trabalho, mediante os resultados do diagn?stico, sugere-se uma ferramenta de gest?o do conhecimento para facilitar o compartilhamento do conhecimento dentro da organiza??o, no caso, do setor

The diploma thesis deals with company culture and work engagement and it aims to explore the relationship between these two concepts in the field of psychology of work and organization. The theoretical part describes in detail the topic of company culture, its relationship with other aspects of the work environment and the possibility of measuring it with a focus on the Competitive Value Model (CVF). The next part presents work engagement, methods of its measurement, connection to work behaviour and other consequences. The empirical part presents quantitative research, in which answers were collected from 126 respondents who came from 10 different companies. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between company culture and engagement at the individual level. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was used to examine company culture, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was used to obtain information on the level of engagement. The hypotheses verified the existence of a relationship between engagement and individual types of company culture and the difference between the degree of engagement concerning the dominant type of company culture. The results were analyzed by a combination of Multiple factor analysis, Chi-square test and correlations. The results...

The master´s thesis deals with organizational culture and its effect on efficiency of Kovomont Lindovský s.r.o. The objective of this Master´s thesis was analysis of Organizational Culture in manufacturing company, detrmination of recent state and suggestion of arrangement which leads to improvement of deficiencies within company strategy and productivity. Survey about recent state of organizational culture in this company was based on written inquiry and interviews.

The pursuit of new opportunities is at the heart of entrepreneurship. Creating the organizational environment to recognize and seize such opportunities is fundamental to entrepreneurial success and yet, the relationship between organizational design and entrepreneurship has received limited attention. Drawing on extant research in the fields of corporate venturing, technology business incubation, organizational design and governance, this dissertation addresses these research gaps by presenting four studies. The first relies on abductive reasoning to develop a conceptual framework for typologizing the design of the heterogeneous accelerator phenomenon. The second study empirically develops an organizational design typology of various corporate accelerator archetypes, as a key mechanism for the process of technology business incubation and corporate venturing. It further highlights how corporate accelerator design evolved over time. The third study addresses organizational decision systems and specifically, the role of the board of directors in young, entrepreneurial ventures. The fourth study presents a case study and teaching note exploring how to design an entrepreneurial organization and sustain its flexibility, adaptability and entrepreneurial DNA over the long term. In sum, this dissertation contributes to the field of entrepreneurship by extending prevailing knowledge on the why, how, and what of corporate accelerators, new venture boards and the organizational design behind such entrepreneurial entities.

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