Como contribuição à tecnologia de produção mais limpa este artigo apresenta uma discussão sobre a legislação ambiental brasileira, referente à coleta e destinação de óleos usados/contaminados, comentando sobre as responsabilidades que foram atribuídas aos setores envolvidos no ciclo de vida dos óleos lubrificantes acabados, durante todo o período analisado. Além dos aspectos legais, o artigo discorre, resumidamente, sobre o ciclo de vida dos óleos lubrificantes, o que culmina na geração dos óleos usados, abordando desta forma a questão técnica do tema. Palavras-chaves: óleo usado, rerrefino, coleta, destinação, legislação ambiental
O presente artigo faz uma abordagem panorâmica de um elemento abstrato do ambiente organizacional e que, talvez em função desta característica, é freqüentemente negligenciado no contexto da gestão: a motivação dos recursos humanos. Apresenta uma breve visão da teoria motivacional, em que trata do conceito de motivação sob a ótica das teorias behaviorista, da motivação consciente (enfoques da teoria da expectância, da atribuição causal, da eqüidade, do cálculo motivacional e do contrato psicológico), da motivação intrínseca, da motivação-higiene e da hierarquia das necessidades humanas. Discorre sobre a motivação no ambiente organizacional e sobre o seu entendimento como uma conseqüência de fatores tais como a coerção e o controle, as recompensas e incentivos financeiros, o relacionamento interpessoal e a influência do grupo, o nível de satisfação das necessidades pessoais, as condições do ambiente de trabalho, os aspectos inerentes à natureza própria das atividades, entre outros. Em sua conclusão, o artigo destaca a necessidade e a importância prática do conhecimento, por parte dos gerentes das organizações, quanto à temática da motivação, seja para evitar custos desnecessários e contraproducentes, seja para assegurar a competitividade da empresa e a lucratividade do negócio. Palavras-chave: Motivação, recursos humanos, gestão organizacional.
Este trabalho propõe identificar a gestão de pessoas como um facilitador para a gestão de riscos, através de análises de APRs (analise preliminar de risco) em atividades significantes, considerando os acidentes de trabalho, na indústria da construção civil. A relevância deste segmento implica na necessidade de criação e desenvolvimento de novas práticas de gestão objetivando minimizar os riscos relacionados à segurança e a saúde do trabalhador. Os autores apresentam as atividades com o maior índice de acidentes, e consolidam a importância da metodologia utilizada, estimulando as partes interessadas, principalmente a alta direção e os colaboradores, a perceberem e assumirem a responsabilidade frente aos problemas de segurança e saúde ocupacional e conscientizarem-se da necessidade de mudança na filosofia da produção. A partir da compreensão desses conceitos os autores apresentam estudo de caso em 02 atividades da construção civil, que historicamente apresentam o maior número de acidentes de trabalho, com o objetivo de evidenciar a importância desta pesquisa.
In: Knowledge and process management: the journal of corporate transformation ; the official journal of the Institute of Business Process Re-engineering, Volume 25, Issue 1, p. 54-63
In organizational management, operational performance and the maturity level of processes should be considered for improving quality and productivity. The present research has the overall objective of analyzing the level of maturity of the purchasing process of bibliographic material, developed in the university libraries of a Federal University. Based on the overall objective, we aim to identify maturity models used in process management in the scientific literature, as well as proposing a way of collecting and treating the perception of maturity of the purchasing process of bibliographic material. To achieve these objectives, we adopted as methodological procedures the bibliographic research in the SciELO, SCOPUS, and DOAJ bases and the case study on the perception of maturity of the purchasing process of books from the university libraries, using the interview and closed questionnaire. The questionnaire was applied to 40 staff members of the system of university libraries. The results indicate that the majority of activities carried out for the purchase of books present levels of maturity above Level 1. This shows that the processes performed in libraries for the purchase of books are defined, planned, and controlled, although there is a considerable number of aspects that can be improved. In terms of relevance for library management, the research intends to provide subsidies for the planning and management of the purchasing process of bibliographic material and the optimization of resources, as well as understanding and assessing the process carried out, identifying its maturity levels.
Tendo em vista a competição acirrada presente na economia nos dias atuais e a necessidade crescente de conquistar clientes e mantê-los fiéis, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo aplicar a consagrada Teoria das Filas em uma agência bancária com a finalidade de apontar oportunidades de melhorias no tempo de espera dos clientes, a partir do pressuposto de que as filas analisadas seguem a distribuição de Poisson. Tal pressuposto é decorrente da comparação realizada entre a referida distribuição com os dados de chegada dos clientes em todas as filas analisadas. Constatou-se também a existência de filas com sazonalidade na demanda, enquanto outras apresentaram uma demanda regular. A partir do estudo realizado, melhorias no gerenciamento desta agência bancária poderão ser realizadas como, por exemplo, a realocação de funcionários em determinados períodos para funções com maior demanda. Concluiu-se, portanto, que a aplicação da teoria é viável e que pode auxiliar no aumento das vantagens competitivas da agência
A Defesa Civil do Estado do Rio de Janeiro elaborou um Plano de Ações onde uma das bases é a Estratégia Internacional para a Redução de Desastres-EIRD da Organização das Nações Unidas- ONU. Este Plano visa minimizar os grandes impactos ocasionados pelos desastres. No Rio de Janeiro as chuvas torrenciais que geralmente assolam o município no verão ocasionam grandes enchentes e deslizamentos. Este problema agregado às características do relevo e a ocupação desordenada da cidade afeta principalmente aos moradores das áreas de risco. Este artigo baseia-se na revisão da literatura com foco no referencial teórico do Plano de Contingência da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro – PEM-Rio.
PurposeConsidering the requirements of sustainable development regarding professionals training and the challenges evidenced during Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, this study aims to contribute to the debates regarding the need to insert sustainability into engineering education in the current context.Design/methodology/approachFor this, the literature about sustainability in engineering education was considered, and the need for sustainability insertion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was debated. It is important to emphasize that this debate was based on the authors' experience regarding sustainability research and teaching.FindingsThe current moment unveiled companies' financial management problems, constantly evidenced by media. In this sense, the interest of engineering students in business management may lead them to believe that companies' survival depends only on financial aspects, neglecting environmental and social aspects. This study is characterized as a reminder to academic staff in the field of engineering to continue valuing the principles of sustainable development with their students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Originality/valueThe need to make engineering students understand the importance of social projects in the current period is emphasized. The training of professionals to consider all the sustainability aspects even during crisis moments is evidenced now and should be used as a learning lesson for the future.
PurposeJunior enterprises have been gaining increasing attention in the Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. In addition, these companies are contributing to enhance the training of future professionals. Improvements in future professionals' training must consider education for sustainability. In this context, this paper aims to critically analyze the role of junior enterprises in the training of undergraduate students in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachTo discuss the ways for junior enterprises to contribute to students' training with a higher alignment with sustainable development, it is necessary to know the routine of their activities well. Therefore, the strategy used in this research was to use the Delphi process with students who participated/participate in this kind of extracurricular activity in their institutions and are familiar with the SDGs disseminated by the United Nations.FindingsFrom the rounds of Delphi method debates, eight items were listed and presented an agreement greater than 50% of the participants. Illustratively, three of them are cited here: most participants understand that some current metrics used by junior enterprises require greater alignment with the SDGs; most participants agree that junior enterprises need to better monitor the results of their postexecution projects because in general beneficial impacts on sustainability are observed in the long term; and most of the participants understand that the actions developed by junior enterprises are aligned with corporate sustainability and conscious capitalism.Originality/valueThe contribution of junior enterprises to the promotion of sustainability education is practically not addressed in the literature. The findings presented here, resulting from the Delphi process, can greatly contribute for junior enterprises to rethink their actions to better prepare future professionals to act toward sustainable development.
PurposeThis study aims to analyse how the materials selection courses of engineering undergraduate programmes can be better aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachInitially, a content analysis was performed in 39 materials selection course descriptions from 40 engineering undergraduate programmes of Brazilian higher education institutions, and subsequently, Delphi method procedures were conducted with professors that teach or have taught the course and are knowledgeable in the subject of sustainability.FindingsConsidering the analysed course descriptions, it was shown that most of the materials selection courses do not consider or present little emphasis on sustainability aspects. Regarding the Delphi method, eight items were evidenced to consider sustainability aspects in the analysed courses.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the debates about sustainability insertion in engineering undergraduate programmes. More specifically, the findings presented consolidated information that professors and coordinators can use to align materials selection courses with the SDGs better.
Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the adoption of sustainable procurement practices adopted by Brazilian manufacturing companies in supplier selection; additionally, it is aimed to understand which of these practices enable a better differentiation of the analysed companies.
Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was performed to compose the theoretical base of this research. In addition, a detailed study of ISO 20400 standard was conducted. The guidelines of ISO 20400 were used as a base to structure a questionnaire used in a survey with professionals working in procurement sphere of manufacturing companies in Brazil. The data were analysed via frequency and CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) method.
Findings A moderate dispersion in the adoption level of sustainable procurement practices in supplier selection process of the manufacturing companies was observed; in practices associated with social aspects, the dispersion is greater. A negative issue to be highlighted is that almost 20% of analysed companies did not even considered in their supplier selection process if their candidates accomplish philanthropic activities, generate jobs in local community and fulfill the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of United Nations (UN). Those two last practices are the ones with the best capacity to differ the companies in the sample.
Originality/value There are few studies that focuses on understanding the adoption of sustainable procurement practices in manufacturing companies' supplier selection process. The main contribution of this study to the literature is to evidence that social requirements in supplier selection process are considered in a clear and well-structured form only by few Brazilian manufacturing companies. Despite the sample size, companies analysed in this research are prominent organisations in manufacturing sector. Thus, if this situation occurs in these companies, a more critical scenario will be evidenced in other organisations. This study has implication for practice and academy. For companies' managers, information present here can be used to debate the theme in the organisational context and the nine practices and scale can be used to perform a critical analysis of company's practices. For researchers, the information present here can be used as starting point for futures studies.
PurposeThe Mechanical Engineering course at the University of Campinas is composed of different disciplines in the areas of materials, mechanical design, manufacturing (production and manufacturing), computational systems, thermal and fluids. In the manufacturing area, in particular, there is a discipline entitled Productive Systems whose main objective is to offer to the student a global vision about operations management. In the field of operations management, sustainability is gaining more and more importance; thus, it is important to develop in the students a critical sense about social and environmental aspects. Thus, this paper aims to present the main initiatives developed in the discipline to promote sustainability in engineering students.Design/methodology/approachSince 2015, the professors responsible for the Productive Systems discipline, assisted by post-graduate students and professors from other universities, have begun to redesign the discipline, including debates, lectures, projects and other initiatives to provide a critical view concerning the traditional concepts taught. The discipline has been performed three times with this new conception. The methodology to structure this research was literature review, documental analyses of the discipline records and meetings with professors that participated in the initiatives. An Action Research approach was performed by two professors and a graduate student. The authors of this paper also compared the results with those obtained by initiatives performed at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden).FindingsThis study allowed to reinforce some results from initiatives performed at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden); however, some differences were identified. For example, similar to the initiatives mentioned, the professors of University of Campinas had problems with didactic books, as they loosely integrate the basic operations management concepts with sustainable development fundamentals. On the other hand, debates related to social sustainability were considered positive from the point of view of the professors and students, differing from initiatives performed at Chalmers University of Technology.Research limitations/implicationsResults come from one field study (University of Campinas) when professors of the Mechanical Engineering course try to integrate operations management concepts and sustainable development. Different results may be observed by other higher education institutions.Practical implicationsThe authors of this paper believe that the diffusion of these initiatives can stimulate other professors and researchers in the field to broaden the academic debate about the insertion of sustainability into engineering courses.Originality/valueThere are few papers presenting didactic experiences and empirical results about the integration of operations management concepts and sustainable development. Results of this paper reinforce some good practices and they also present other ones, in a way that extend the debate about educational engineering.
