The present study deals with the Swedish Save the Children Fund’s, Rädda Barnen’s expansion during 1938-1956. During this period, Rädda Barnen developed into anorganization of both national and international importance. What factors enabled this advanceand how this affected Rädda Barnen’s performance and outlining of relief work will beanalysed. Swedish politics and interactions with the Swedish government, but also with otherrelief organizations, shaped the territory within which Rädda Barnen developed. For thisreason, these interactions will be investigated too. In the interactions that took place on boththe national and international level, struggles seemed to surfaced between the differentorganizations, and what was at stake in these struggles will also be examined. How Rädda Barnen carried out its relief work both within the country and on theinternational arena will be discussed in the last part of the study. Some examples of activitiesarranged for different groups of children will be presented. How Rädda Barnen carried out itsrelief both within the country and on the international arena will be discussed in the last partof the study. Some examples of activities arranged for different groups of children will bepresented. How the decisions were made concerning where and to which children relief wouldbe provided will also be analysed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:23:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 munhoz_gs_dr_prud.pdf: 497873 bytes, checksum: 4dc8770b310693f8fdfa8650aeaa792c (MD5) / Este é um estudo de caráter exploratório-descritivo, sobre as trajetórias vivenciadas por um grupo de egressos, ex-funcionários, do Banco do Brasil. O recorte empírico foi a cidade de Maringá (PR). Tais desligamentos foram frutos da implementação de um instrumento gerencial conhecido por Programa de Desligamento Voluntário (PDV) em julho de 1995. Buscou-se compreender o espaço anterior ao PDV, com suas implicações e imbricações incorporadas, combinando uma contextualização do avanço neoliberal, com o intuito de auxiliar no entendimento desse processo de desligamento, com as trajetórias pessoais vivenciadas por seis funcionários durante e após o processo de adesão ao referido programa. Diante disso, nossa tese se propõe a identificar e analisar o quanto à construção do novo espaço contém de negação e de continuidade em relação à atividade exercida no Banco, bem como as possíveis contradições inerentes aos mesmos, levando em conta o papel da cultura organizacional e sua ruptura, representada por seu poder e ideologia, ensejando no passado à construção de uma identidade coletiva dos funcionários do Banco do Brasil, e após a indicação dos elegíveis ao PDV, uma (des)construção desta mesma identidade. Concluímos que o desaparecimento dessa identidade coletiva afetou a auto-estima de alguns e, a outros possibilitou, após o espaço ceifado, emergir o reconstruído, evidenciando que os egressos pesquisados souberam ou aprenderam a alterar suas histórias, deixando a condição de vítimas e passando a sujeitos participantes e efetivos em um novo espaço. / This is an exploratory and descriptive study about the experience lived by a group of six former employees of the Bank of Brazil in Maringá (PR), result of the implementation of a management instrument known as Voluntary Dismissal Program (VDP) in July, 1995. This paper tried to understand the organizational space before the VDP with its implications and inter-relations, combined with the contextualization of the neoliberal advance, with the auxiliary purpose of understanding this dismissal process through the personal experiences lived by these employees during the program and after joining it. Before that, our thesis aims to identify and analyze how much negation and continuity exist in the construction of a new space in relation to the work done in the bank, as well the possible contradictions related to this space. It was taken into account the role of the organizational culture and its rupture represented by its power and ideology which, in the past, produced the construction of a collective identity of employees of the Bank of Brazil and, after the indication of the eligible ones for the VDP, produced a (dis) construction of this same identity. We conclude that the disappearance of this collective identity affected the self-esteem of some employees and allowed others to emerge the reconstructed, which shows that the former employees analyzed knew or learned how to change their histories, by giving up their conditions of victims to become participant and effective subjects in a new space. So, we tried to contribute to the comprehension of the multiple consequences lived by men and women due to the lack of a stable and formal job and maybe to stimulate managers to reflect on the pertinent actions of the space where they are, as well as to offer the geographers others visions on the space in organizations.

Orientador: Eda Maria Góes / Banca: Raul Borges Guimarães / Banca: Eliseu Savério Sposito / Banca: Lea Carvalho Rodrigues / Banca: Jones Dari Goettert / Resumo: Este é um estudo de caráter exploratório-descritivo, sobre as trajetórias vivenciadas por um grupo de egressos, ex-funcionários, do Banco do Brasil. O recorte empírico foi a cidade de Maringá (PR). Tais desligamentos foram frutos da implementação de um instrumento gerencial conhecido por Programa de Desligamento Voluntário (PDV) em julho de 1995. Buscou-se compreender o espaço anterior ao PDV, com suas implicações e imbricações incorporadas, combinando uma contextualização do avanço neoliberal, com o intuito de auxiliar no entendimento desse processo de desligamento, com as trajetórias pessoais vivenciadas por seis funcionários durante e após o processo de adesão ao referido programa. Diante disso, nossa tese se propõe a identificar e analisar o quanto à construção do novo espaço contém de negação e de continuidade em relação à atividade exercida no Banco, bem como as possíveis contradições inerentes aos mesmos, levando em conta o papel da cultura organizacional e sua ruptura, representada por seu poder e ideologia, ensejando no passado à construção de uma identidade coletiva dos funcionários do Banco do Brasil, e após a indicação dos elegíveis ao PDV, uma (des)construção desta mesma identidade. Concluímos que o desaparecimento dessa identidade coletiva afetou a auto-estima de alguns e, a outros possibilitou, após o espaço ceifado, emergir o reconstruído, evidenciando que os egressos pesquisados souberam ou aprenderam a alterar suas histórias, deixando a condição de vítimas e passando a sujeitos participantes e efetivos em um novo espaço. / Abstract: This is an exploratory and descriptive study about the experience lived by a group of six former employees of the Bank of Brazil in Maringá (PR), result of the implementation of a management instrument known as Voluntary Dismissal Program (VDP) in July, 1995. This paper tried to understand the organizational space before the VDP with its implications and inter-relations, combined with the contextualization of the neoliberal advance, with the auxiliary purpose of understanding this dismissal process through the personal experiences lived by these employees during the program and after joining it. Before that, our thesis aims to identify and analyze how much negation and continuity exist in the construction of a new space in relation to the work done in the bank, as well the possible contradictions related to this space. It was taken into account the role of the organizational culture and its rupture represented by its power and ideology which, in the past, produced the construction of a collective identity of employees of the Bank of Brazil and, after the indication of the eligible ones for the VDP, produced a (dis) construction of this same identity. We conclude that the disappearance of this collective identity affected the self-esteem of some employees and allowed others to emerge the reconstructed, which shows that the former employees analyzed knew or learned how to change their histories, by giving up their conditions of victims to become participant and effective subjects in a new space. So, we tried to contribute to the comprehension of the multiple consequences lived by men and women due to the lack of a stable and formal job and maybe to stimulate managers to reflect on the pertinent actions of the space where they are, as well as to offer the geographers others visions on the space in organizations. / Doutor

Les organisations, tentées par la perspective de transformer un poste de dépense considérable en véritable ressource organisationnelle, envisagent généralement leur espace comme un potentiel outil de management, mais de l'espace conçu à l'espace vécu, on observe souvent un décalage remarquable. Cette thèse pose la question de ce que peut révéler un espace organisationnel du management pratiqué en son sein : au-delà des déclarations d'intention, que peut-on comprendre de l'espace? De la façon dont il est administré? Notre terrain d'observation est le siège social d'une grande banque internationale, de son projet architectural initial (rédigé en 1989) jusqu'à nos jours, soit six ans de construction (livraison des tours en 1995), et dix-neuf années de pratique spatiale. Ce cas emblématique a retenu notre attention car le projet consistait à faciliter la mise en place d'un "New Model Worker" par un aménagement spatial particulier, propice à la communication informelle. L'analyse de nos données nous a finalement permis de mettre au point une grille de lecture - regroupant la territorialisation, la valorisation et la localisation - pour mieux appréhender l'espace des organisations. / Willing to turn a tremendous item of expenditure into a real organizational resource, organizations usually perceive their spaces as potential management tools, but from conceived spaces to lived ones, a noticeable gap is often to be found. This thesis aims at understanding what an organizational space can reveal about the ongoing management practices: what can we understand from the way space is organized, beyond official discourses? Our research is focused on a case: an international bank's headquarter, from its original architectural project document (written in 1989) to 2014, that is to say: six years of construction (as the towers were delivered in 1995) and nineteen years of spatial practice. This is particularly interesting for those towers were supposed to help implement a "New Model Worker" through a particular spatial setting, favorable to informal communication. From our collected data, we've been able to build up a fresh perspective - an analysis grid gathering space, place, and artefacts - to better understand organizational spaces.

Cette thèse questionne l’idée, aujourd’hui largement partagée, d’une compression de l’espace dû aux TIC. Ceci est dû au peu d’attention que les recherches en Systèmes d’Information ont porté à la question de l’espace organisationnel, ainsi qu’au déterminisme technologique. Cette étude cherche à comprendre la relation entre espace organisationnel et TIC en partant de la théorie de l’affordance, fondée sur les travaux de J.J. Gibson. Une étude de cas multiple portant sur deux écoles de management, au Canada et en Angleterre, a été menée. Les pratiques spatiales des chercheurs ont été analysées à partir d’un modèle fondé sur la théorie de l’affordance, afin de vérifier le rôle des TIC dans la formation de ces pratiques. Les résultats montrent que cette approche théorique n’est en réalité pas pertinente pour l’étude des TIC de manière générale.Nous proposons une perspective alternative reposant sur la phénoménologie de la perception de Merleau-Ponty. Au regard des 2 cas étudiés, cette approche suggère que les TIC ont un double effet : elles compriment et étendent l’espace simultanément. Les TIC constituent un point focal où les espaces proches et éloignés convergent pour produire une unique sphère d’expérience. Notre étude développe les concepts merleau-pontiens d’intentionnalité, de schéma corporel, d’habitus, de corps-connaissant et corps habituel dans le contexte des pratiques spatiales des chercheurs. Nous proposons d’abandonner la théorie de l’affordance au profit d’une approche expérientielle pour comprendre la relation entre espace organisationnel et TIC. / The dominant narrative of the collapsing of space due to ICT in organizations is challenged by this study. It is argued that this is due to a general lack of interest in organizational space in IS scholarship combined with technological determinism. This study seeks to understand the relationship between ICT and organizational space by mobilizing affordance theory based on J.J. Gibson’s work. A qualitative multiple-case study covering two business schools, in Canada and the UK, was undertaken. The spatial practices of academics were scrutinized using a model based on affordance theory to ascertain the role of ICT, as part of the wider environment, in the shaping of these practices. The results clearly demonstrate the inadequacy of affordance theory for the study of ICT in general. An alternative perspective based on the phenomenology of perception of Merleau-Ponty is proposed and successfully tested against the data. This alternative perspective suggests that, based on the experience of academics, ICT simultaneously collapses and expands space. ICT acts as a point of singularity where proximate and remote spaces converge to produce a singular sphere of experience. The study further develops Merleau-Ponty’s concepts of intentionality, body schema, habitus, knowing body, and habitual body in the context of the spatial practices of academics. I propose abandoning affordance theory in favour of an experiential approach to understand the relationship between organizational space and ICT.