Few empirical studies have examined the relationship between learning organization dimensions and public sector performance. While others have argued that public organizations are important contexts to for the study of organizational learning, learning in public sector and government organizations has not been given the empirical attention that private sector learning has. The goal of this study is to assess to what degree a government bureaucracy can learn and to examine whether a relationship exists between learning (predictor variables) and performance (criterion variables) in a government organization. To evaluate this, the government department of Family Services and Consumer Affairs within the province of Manitoba, Canada was used as a case study. All non-political staff in the Department were invited to complete an online version of an adapted version of the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ). The current study addresses several gaps in the literature. This study found that a relationship indeed exists between organizational learning and performance in a Canadian public sector context. Second, a fourth variable of performance (goal performance) was added to assess the relationship between organizational learning and an organization’s stated goals. Dimensions of the learning organization were found to be predictive of goal performance. Third and finally, this study offers recommendations on if and how a public sector organization can move from a bureaucracy, with its hierarchical authority and rules and order, to a learnaucracy, based on individual empowerment and a culture of reflexivity.

This study examined temporal patterns in collective employee turnover over a 75 month interval. Time series models were fit to subgroups of functional and dysfunctional turnover. Dysfunctional turnover was defined as voluntary separation among high and average performers and functional turnover was defined as voluntary separation of low performers. Results provided support for the hypothesis that temporal patterns of functional and dysfunctional turnover differ. Patterns among high and average performers were similar, such that employee turnover across several global regions increased during or near July. In contrast, employee turnover among low performers tended to spike during or soon after October. Forecast (prediction) accuracy of turnover differed across groups based on individual performance level. Specifically, turnover among low and average performers was forecast with greater accuracy than overall aggregated turnover or turnover among high performers, the latter being the most difficult to forecast. After time-dependent variation (autocorrelation) was removed from global turnover among high, average, and low performers, these series were cross-correlated with similarly cleaned organizational performance outcomes (i.e., net sales, operating income, diluted net earnings per share). Results from these analyses indicated that organizational performance had a lagged negative relationship with turnover among high performers. The dynamic nature of the turnover and performance variables examined underscores the importance of considering employee turnover as a continuous process. As such, employee turnover should be proactively managed over time.

The purpose of this study is to develop the construct of organizational hardiness which is thought to distinguish organizations that thrive under conditions of turbulence and uncertainty from organizations that whither under these same conditions. This new construct is based on individual hardiness which is a constellation of personality dispositions that a large body of empirical work has suggested supports individual performance under conditions of turbulence and uncertainty. Paralleling the individual hardiness dispositions of challenge, commitment, and control, organizational hardiness is posited to consist of the organizational level constructs of sensemaking, organizational identification, and enactment. The development of organizational hardiness is supported by literature reviews of individual hardiness, organizational stress, sensemaking, organizational identification, and enactment. To support the theoretical development of this construct, this study includes a content analysis of the CEO letters to shareholders for the 20 largest commercial banks in the United States during the years 2000-2009. Using generalized least squares estimation techniques, the current study demonstrates a positive relationship between organizational hardiness, sensemaking, organizational identification, and enactment and multiple measures of organizational performance. Furthermore, organizations demonstrating higher levels of organizational hardiness demonstrate higher levels of organizational performance on three out of four measures. The study concludes with a discussion of theoretical and managerial implications concerning the development of this new construct.

abstract: Achieving high performance is a crucial issue in modern organizations including public, for-profit, and nonprofit even though there is no consensus about what performance means. How to obtain resources is important for boosting organizational performance. Furthermore, resource acquisition capacity is closely associated with the survival of modern nonprofit organizations. Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) notes that dependence on critical resources influences diverse actions and behavior of organizations. The study examines the relationship among Resource Dependence Patterns (RDPs), organizational behavior, and organizational performance in nonprofit organizations. This study introduces five dimensions of RDPs (the appearance of the resource inflow): resource dependency, resource diversity, resource uncertainty, resource abundance, and resource competitiveness. This research suggests that a nonprofit's RDPs affect its behavior, performance, and survival. A main research question can be phrased as: How are RDPs of nonprofit organizations related to organizational behavior and performance? Data are mainly gathered from financial officers, managers, and directors in the nonprofit sector. Multivariate data analytic techniques including factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and path analysis are used for testing the proposed hypotheses and answering the research question. The empirical findings reveal that the Resource Dependence Patterns directly or indirectly affect organizational behavior and performance in nonprofit organizations. Resource dependency (where resources come from) has substantive and wide impacts on the overall nonprofits' behavior and structures. High dependency on government funding (high resource dependency) is positively associated with organizational hierarchy and frequent goal changes; on the other hand, it has a negative effect on participatory decision making. This study suggests that goal clarity has the strongest direct impact on nonprofits' performance. Clear organizational goals increase the likelihood that nonprofits show a higher level of performance. The paths of both resource diversity and resource competitiveness also have direct impacts on organizational performance and their impacts are statistically robust. Path analysis verifies the fact that the other three RDP variables account for organizational performance via organizational behavior variables (indirect causality on performance). This study of RDPs, behavior, and performance contributes practically to the effective management of nonprofit organizations and contributes to consolidating and expanding Resource Dependence Theory (RDT). In addition, the information about resource dependence patterns will help funders including governments, foundations, and individual donors to understand the fiscal environment that an organization faces. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Public Administration 2011

Em tempos de uma cultura consumista e de corrida frenética por desenvolvimento a “qualquer custo”, o ser humano vem provocando inúmeros problemas ambientais. Nesse cenário, o turismo e a hotelaria ecologicamente responsáveis são altamente desejáveis, se estabelecendo como um segmento de mercado que pode ajudar na redução da impactação ambiental. No entanto, também pode ajudar a aumentar a sobrecarga que o ambiente natural já recebe, ao enviar turistas pouco responsáveis em destinos e hotéis ainda não planejados para trabalhar de forma mais ambientalmente sustentável. Percebe-se um interesse em sustentabilidade econômica, mas ainda pouco ambiental no segmento hoteleiro. Desta forma, o presente estudo se propõe a analisar meios de hospedagem em relação aos seus desempenhos organizacionais e suas práticas ambientais, considerando a seguinte pergunta de pesquisa: de que forma se estabelece a relação de práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria da cidade de Porto Alegre? Para tal, foi realizada uma survey com os meios de hospedagem de Porto Alegre, analisando se existe e que tipo de relação há entre práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria da cidade. As análises foram realizadas através de métodos estatísticos não-paramétricos. As práticas ambientais foram mensuradas em vinte indicadores e o desempenho organizacional foi analisado conforme embasamento nos sete critérios de excelência na performance do Baldrige National Quality Program (2009/2010). Os principais resultados apontam que existe uma relação de tendência positiva entre o uso de práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria de Porto Alegre, ou seja, os meios de hospedagem que possuem mais práticas ambientais tendem a possuir melhores desempenhos organizacionais. / In times of a consumer culture and the frantic rush for development at any cost, the human being is causing several environmental problems. In this context, tourism and hospitality industry that are ecologically responsible are highly desirable, establishing itself as a market that can help in reducing environmental impact. However, it also can help increasing the burden that the natural environment already receives when sheltering many tourists that are not responsible in destinations and hotels that are not already planned to work in an environmentally sustainable way. There is an interest in economic sustainability, but still little interest in environmental sustainability in the hospitality industry. Being that so, the present study makes an analysis of hospitality industry regarding its organizational performance and environmental practices, considering the following research question: in which way environmental practices and organizational performance are established in the hospitality industry of Porto Alegre? To answer to this question, a survey was conducted in the hospitality industry of Porto Alegre, analyzing if there was and what was the kind of relation between environmental practices and organizational performance in the hospitality industry of the city. Analyses were carried out using nonparametric statistical methods. The environmental practices were measured in twenty indicators and the organizational performance was analyzed according to seven criteria of performance excellence given by Baldrige National Quality Program (2009/2010). The main findings point out that there is a positive trend between the use of environmental practices and organizational performance in hotels in Porto Alegre, that is, the lodging facilities that have more environmental practices tend to present the best organizational performances.

O presente estudo aborda a relação entre o uso do planejamento estratégico em uma organização e seu desempenho. Para tanto, além da revisão bibliográfica e do levantamento de trabalhos realizados sobre o assunto, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa com organizações listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo para aferir o grau de associação entre as variáveis. A análise dos dados foi realizada através de análise fatorial, regressão linear e análise de cluster. O planejamento estratégico foi analisado com base na escala de formalidade de planejamento de Falshaw, Glaister e Tatoglu (2006), na escala de intensidade de planejamento de Hopkins e Hopkins (1997) e na escala de improvisação pós-planejamento de Slotegraaf e Dickson (2004). As variáveis dessas escalas foram comparadas com 4 indicadores de desempenho (desempenho geral, retorno sobre o patrimônio líquido, crescimento no lucro líquido e crescimento total das vendas), medidos com relação aos principais concorrentes das empresas estudadas e com relação à evolução nos resultados dos 3 últimos anos. Os resultados indicam que as empresas que se engajam mais profundamente em processos de planejamento obtêm melhores desempenhos do que as demais. Além disso, o processo mais formalizado também contribui, embora em menor grau, para o resultado das empresas. Por outro lado, foi verificado que a improvisação após o planejamento influencia negativamente no desempenho organizacional. / The present study focuses on the relationship between the strategic planning in an organization and its performance. For that purpose, besides the literature review, a research was developed with companies traded at Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) to verify the association degree among the selected variables. The analyses were done through the techniques of Factor Analysis, Linear Regression and Cluster Analysis. The strategic planning was analyzed with three developed and tested scales: planning formality by Falshaw, Glaister e Tatoglu (2006), strategic planning intensity by Hopkins e Hopkins (1997) and postplan improvisation by Slotegraaf e Dickson (2004). These variables were compared to 4 performance indicators (general performance, return on equity, net profit and total growth of sales), measured in two different ways: in comparison to companies’ major competitors, and relative to companies’ results in the past 3 years. The results indicate that companies which engage more deeply into the planning process attain better performance. Moreover, the formalized process also contributes, although to a lesser degree, for the companies result. On the other hand, it was found that the improvisation after the planning shows a negative influence on organizational performance.

O presente estudo aborda a relação entre o uso do planejamento estratégico em uma organização e seu desempenho. Para tanto, além da revisão bibliográfica e do levantamento de trabalhos realizados sobre o assunto, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa com organizações listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo para aferir o grau de associação entre as variáveis. A análise dos dados foi realizada através de análise fatorial, regressão linear e análise de cluster. O planejamento estratégico foi analisado com base na escala de formalidade de planejamento de Falshaw, Glaister e Tatoglu (2006), na escala de intensidade de planejamento de Hopkins e Hopkins (1997) e na escala de improvisação pós-planejamento de Slotegraaf e Dickson (2004). As variáveis dessas escalas foram comparadas com 4 indicadores de desempenho (desempenho geral, retorno sobre o patrimônio líquido, crescimento no lucro líquido e crescimento total das vendas), medidos com relação aos principais concorrentes das empresas estudadas e com relação à evolução nos resultados dos 3 últimos anos. Os resultados indicam que as empresas que se engajam mais profundamente em processos de planejamento obtêm melhores desempenhos do que as demais. Além disso, o processo mais formalizado também contribui, embora em menor grau, para o resultado das empresas. Por outro lado, foi verificado que a improvisação após o planejamento influencia negativamente no desempenho organizacional. / The present study focuses on the relationship between the strategic planning in an organization and its performance. For that purpose, besides the literature review, a research was developed with companies traded at Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) to verify the association degree among the selected variables. The analyses were done through the techniques of Factor Analysis, Linear Regression and Cluster Analysis. The strategic planning was analyzed with three developed and tested scales: planning formality by Falshaw, Glaister e Tatoglu (2006), strategic planning intensity by Hopkins e Hopkins (1997) and postplan improvisation by Slotegraaf e Dickson (2004). These variables were compared to 4 performance indicators (general performance, return on equity, net profit and total growth of sales), measured in two different ways: in comparison to companies’ major competitors, and relative to companies’ results in the past 3 years. The results indicate that companies which engage more deeply into the planning process attain better performance. Moreover, the formalized process also contributes, although to a lesser degree, for the companies result. On the other hand, it was found that the improvisation after the planning shows a negative influence on organizational performance.

Em tempos de uma cultura consumista e de corrida frenética por desenvolvimento a “qualquer custo”, o ser humano vem provocando inúmeros problemas ambientais. Nesse cenário, o turismo e a hotelaria ecologicamente responsáveis são altamente desejáveis, se estabelecendo como um segmento de mercado que pode ajudar na redução da impactação ambiental. No entanto, também pode ajudar a aumentar a sobrecarga que o ambiente natural já recebe, ao enviar turistas pouco responsáveis em destinos e hotéis ainda não planejados para trabalhar de forma mais ambientalmente sustentável. Percebe-se um interesse em sustentabilidade econômica, mas ainda pouco ambiental no segmento hoteleiro. Desta forma, o presente estudo se propõe a analisar meios de hospedagem em relação aos seus desempenhos organizacionais e suas práticas ambientais, considerando a seguinte pergunta de pesquisa: de que forma se estabelece a relação de práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria da cidade de Porto Alegre? Para tal, foi realizada uma survey com os meios de hospedagem de Porto Alegre, analisando se existe e que tipo de relação há entre práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria da cidade. As análises foram realizadas através de métodos estatísticos não-paramétricos. As práticas ambientais foram mensuradas em vinte indicadores e o desempenho organizacional foi analisado conforme embasamento nos sete critérios de excelência na performance do Baldrige National Quality Program (2009/2010). Os principais resultados apontam que existe uma relação de tendência positiva entre o uso de práticas ambientais e desempenho organizacional na hotelaria de Porto Alegre, ou seja, os meios de hospedagem que possuem mais práticas ambientais tendem a possuir melhores desempenhos organizacionais. / In times of a consumer culture and the frantic rush for development at any cost, the human being is causing several environmental problems. In this context, tourism and hospitality industry that are ecologically responsible are highly desirable, establishing itself as a market that can help in reducing environmental impact. However, it also can help increasing the burden that the natural environment already receives when sheltering many tourists that are not responsible in destinations and hotels that are not already planned to work in an environmentally sustainable way. There is an interest in economic sustainability, but still little interest in environmental sustainability in the hospitality industry. Being that so, the present study makes an analysis of hospitality industry regarding its organizational performance and environmental practices, considering the following research question: in which way environmental practices and organizational performance are established in the hospitality industry of Porto Alegre? To answer to this question, a survey was conducted in the hospitality industry of Porto Alegre, analyzing if there was and what was the kind of relation between environmental practices and organizational performance in the hospitality industry of the city. Analyses were carried out using nonparametric statistical methods. The environmental practices were measured in twenty indicators and the organizational performance was analyzed according to seven criteria of performance excellence given by Baldrige National Quality Program (2009/2010). The main findings point out that there is a positive trend between the use of environmental practices and organizational performance in hotels in Porto Alegre, that is, the lodging facilities that have more environmental practices tend to present the best organizational performances.

A proposta desta pesquisa é apresentar os sistemas organizacionais de empresas que atuam no mercado imobiliário residencial no Brasil e possuem capital aberto, com o intuito de avaliar o desempenho organizacional desses sistemas e verificar se há ou não a existência de relações entre o desempenho organizacional das empresas e seus valores de mercado. No texto, apresenta-se a contextualização do tema que envolve distintamente três grandes núcleos: Estrutura Organizacional, Desempenho Organizacional e Mercado de Real Estate. Neste último, é apresentado um breve histórico da evolução deste mercado no Brasil, com foco, principalmente, nos acontecimentos após ingresso das empresas do setor no mercado de capitais. Os objetivos centrais são os de avaliar se o desempenho organizacional das estruturas exerce alguma influência no comportamento dos preços das ações das empresas no mercado de capitais. As empresas que participaram da pesquisa tiveram suas estruturas reconhecidas por meio de questionários de reconhecimento e seus modelos de gestão avaliados segundo o questionário de diagnóstico da Fundação Nacional da Qualidade e do Índice de Eficiência Organizacional, criado para esta pesquisa, cuja base são as informações financeiras extraídas dos relatórios trimestrais das empresas. Ao final, faz-se uma avaliação dos resultados obtidos de cada empresa e as considerações gerais acerca da relação entre o desempenho organizacional e o valor de mercado. Os resultados obtidos indicam que empresas que possuem melhores desempenhos organizacionais, incluindo a evolução do Índice de Eficiência Organizacional, tendem a ter comportamento mais estável no mercado de capitais. / The proposal of this research is to demonstrate the organizational systems of companies operating in the residential property market in Brazil and have stocks in BOVESPA\'s New Market, in order to evaluate the performance of these organizational structures and check whether or not the existence of relations between the performance organization of companies and their market values. In the text, is presented the contextualization of the theme that involves three distinctly large cores: Organizational Structure, Organizational Performance and Real Estate Market. In the last core, it gave a brief history of the evolution of this market in Brazil, focusing primarily on the events after entry of such companies in the stock market. The main objectives are to evaluate the performance of organizational structures has an influence in the behavior of stock prices of companies in the stock market. Companies that participated in the study had their structures recognized by questionnaires for the recognition and management models were evaluated according to the diagnostic questionnaire of the National Quality and Organizational and Effectiveness Index, which was developed for this study and has based on financial information obtained from the quarterly reports of companies. Finally, is built an evaluation of the results of each company and the general considerations about the relationship between organizational performance and market value. The results indicate that companies with better organizational performance, including changes in the Index of Organizational Effectiveness, tend to have more stable capital market.

O objetivo principal dessa tese é propor e validar um modelo matemático que relacione a gestão do portfólio de projetos e o desempenho organizacional. Tal modelo deve permitir que se avalie o impacto de decisões tomadas na gestão do portfólio de projetos nos resultados das organizações e dos projetos. Além disso, pretende-se avaliar o impacto do tipo de estratégia e do perfil dos stakeholders das organizações na relação entre a gestão do portfólio de projetos e o desempenho organizacional. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, desenvolveu-se esta pesquisa adotando-se a abordagem metodológica caracterizada como descritiva do tipo hipotético dedutiva, em que são utilizados como procedimentos técnicos a pesquisa bibliográfica, com auxilio da técnica da bibliometria, e o levantamento do tipo survey. Para o tratamento dos dados, utilizam-se métodos estatísticos, em especial, a modelagem de equações estruturais. O universo estudado é o de organizações com unidades de negócios no Brasil, Américas e Europa, sendo o perfil dos respondentes composto por diretores; alta e média gerência funcional; gerentes e coordenadores de projetos e gerentes, coordenadores e membros de escritório de projetos. O tamanho total da amostra analisada é de 103 questionários válidos. O modelo matemático proposto é formado por onze variáveis latentes relacionadas com a gestão do portfólio de projetos e três relacionadas com o desempenho organizacional. Com base na literatura pesquisada, identificou-se como variáveis latentes que compõem a gestão do portfólio de projetos o conhecimento do contexto organizacional, a identificação de oportunidades, a definição dos critérios de decisão, a classificação dos projetos, a seleção, priorização, otimização e sequenciamento dos projetos, a avaliação do portfólio de projetos, o balanceamento dos projetos de acordo com critérios previamente definidos, a autorização para iniciar os projetos, a alocação de recursos, a formação e acompanhamento do portfólio de projetos e a existência de uma infraestrutura para a gestão do portfólio de projetos. Além disso, identificou-se na literatura pesquisada que desempenho organizacional é composto pelas variáveis latentes: eficiência do projeto, sucesso no negócio e preparação para o futuro. Parte-se da hipótese de que a gestão do portfólio de projetos tem impacto estatisticamente significante no desempenho organizacional. Esta hipótese foi testada e validada, sendo obtido como principal resultado da pesquisa, que existe uma relação forte entre a gestão do portfólio de projetos e o desempenho organizacional (R² = 38%, p-value = 0,000, t student = 9,7236). Além disso, foi possível verificar, entre outros resultados, que dispor de uma infraestrutura para a gestão do portfólio de projetos e saber identificar oportunidades de negócios, organizando uma lista única de projetos candidatos impactam o desempenho organizacional (p value = 0,0361 e p - value = 0,0612, respectivamente), especialmente no que se refere a sua preparação para o futuro (p value = 0,0171). Outro achado da pesquisa foi a verificação de que o conhecimento do contexto organizacional, a utilização de técnicas para a alocação de recursos e classificar os projetos em categorias distintas contribui para a eficiência dos projetos (p- value = 0,0358; p-value = 0,0102 e p value = 0,0391, respectivamente). No que se refere a influência do perfil dos stakeholders na relação entre a gestão do portfólio e o desempenho organizacional foi possível verificar para a amostra pesquisada que os tipos de stakeholder acionistas / investidores, diretores e gerentes de linha afetam o desempenho das organizações (p-value = 0,0054, p-value = 0,0591 e p-value = 0,001, respectivamente). Esses resultados, apesar de estarem limitados à amostra analisada, indicam que as organizações devem estruturar sua área de gestão de portfólio de projetos, visto que ela impacta fortemente no seu desempenho. Nesse sentido, dispor de uma infraestrutura para a gestão do portfólio, com equipe capacitada, infraesrutura de tecnologia da informação disponível e eficaz, escritório de projetos implantado e busca continua da maturidade na gestão de projetos são questões chave para o desempenho das organizações e, especialmente, para a sua preparação para o futuro. Como contribuições à teoria, esta pesquisa disponibilizou um modelo entre a gestão do portfólio de projetos e o desempenho organizacional validado para a amostra estudada e um instrumento de pesquisa validado nos idiomas português, espanhol e inglês que poderá ser reutilizado em pesquisas futuras. / The main objective of this thesis is to propose and to validate a mathematical model that relates the project portfolio management and the organizational performance. Such model must allow that the impact of decisions made in the process of project portfolio management on the results of organizations and their projects could be evaluated. In addition, it is intended to assess the impact of the type of strategy and the stakeholders profile of the organizations on the relationship between the project portfolio management and organizational performance. To achieve the proposed objectives, this research was developed by adopting the methodological approach characterized as descriptive which type is hypothetical-deductive, being used as technical procedures the review of the literature, with the help of bibliometric analysis, and the type survey. The data are processed using statistical methods, particularly structural equation modeling. The universe under study is that of organizations with business units in Brazil, the Americas and Europe, and the profile of the respondents comprises directors, senior and middle functional managers, project coordinators or managers, and project office coordinators or members. The total sample size analyzed comprises 103 valid questionnaires. The proposed model consists of eleven latent variables related to project portfolio management and three to organizational performance. Based on the literature, it was identified as latent variables that compose the project portfolio management: knowledge of the organizational context; the identification of opportunities; defining the decision-making criteria; the classification of projects; the selection, prioritization, sequencing and optimization of projects; the evaluation of the project portfolio; project balancing according to previously defined criteria; the authorization to start the projects; the allocation of resources; the creation and monitoring of the projects portfolio and the existence of an infrastructure for the project portfolio management. In addition, it was identified in literature that organizational performance is comprised of the following latent variables: efficiency of the projects, business success and preparing for the future. It is assumed that the management of the portfolio of projects has no statistically significant impact on organizational performance. This hypothesis has been tested and validated. The main findings of the survey indicate that there is a strong relationship between project portfolio management and organizational performance (R²=38%, p=0.000, t=9.7236). In addition, it was possible to verify, among other results, that having an infrastructure for project portfolio management and learn to identify business opportunities, organizing a single list of candidate projects, impact organizational performance (p-value = 0.0361 and p-value = 0.0612, respectively), especially with regard to their preparation for the future (p-value = 0.0171). Another finding of the survey was that the knowledge of the organizational context, the use of techniques for resource allocation and classifying projects in distinct categories contributes to the efficiency of the projects (p-value = 0.0358; p-value = 0.0102 and p-value = 0.0391, respectively). As regards the influence of stakeholders on the relationship between portfolio management and organizational performance was possible to check for sample researched the types of stakeholder shareholders / investors, directors and line managers affect the performance of the organizations (p-value = 0.0054, p-value = 0.0591 and p-value = 0.001, respectively). These findings, although they are limited to the sample analyzed, indicate that organizations should structure their portfolio management area, since it strongly impacts their performance. In this regard, the presence of an infrastructure for portfolio management, with qualified staff, an available and effective information technology infrastructure, and a properly established project office, as well as the unceasing search for maturity in project management, are key issues for the organizations performance, and especially to prepare it for the future. As contributions to the theory, this research provides a model of the relationship between project portfolio management and organizational performance validated for the sample under study and a research instrument validated in Portuguese, Spanish and English, which can be reused in future research.