Brazilian Public Company Research Articles

Behavioral Event Interview Through Lego Toy Models: Explaining the Socialization Process in A Public Company

This article discusses the use of behavioral event interviews and Lego® toy models in the socialization process of a Brazilian public company. The primary goal of socialization is to help new employees understand the company's values, objectives, and expectations. Successful socialization can increase job satisfaction, productivity, and team unity. By combining these two methods, this article benefits students, interviewers, academics, managers, and other professionals, stimulating the consideration of interpretive and naturalistic approaches and enhancing our understanding of in-depth interviews.

Knowledge loss risk management in a Brazilian public company: the case of AMAZUL

ABSTRACT This study’s main aim is to characterise knowledge loss risk management based on the perception of managers of a military public company that acts in the nuclear sector. This was a qualitative, single case study conducted in the company AMAZUL. For data collection ten semi-structured interviews were conducted, complemented by a documentary analysis. The data were analysed using the content analysis technique. The main findings corresponded to knowledge loss risk situations, actions at the level of managers, KM practices at the institutional level, post-knowledge loss actions, facilitators, barriers, and impacts of failures in the knowledge loss risk management. Thus, this study contributed to the emerging field of knowledge risk management, especially with regard to the understanding of aspects related to knowledge loss risk management in the context of the military and nuclear sectors organisations.

ESG strategies to deal with COVID-19 in a Brazilian public research company

Goal: The paper aims to describe and discuss some practices and strategies that have been taken place in Embrapa Soils – a public research company that develops research in soil science – in order to deal with COVID-19 effects during the year of 2020.
 
 Design / Methodology / Approach: We have chosen the ESG approach – Environmental, Social and Governance – as a theoretical background to analyze the strategies and practice we bring up on this paper. Information we have used were collected from internal management systems.
 
 Results: Results show that the company have found many strategies to deal with COVID-19 in the three aspects of ESG. Positive results company have reached rely on leadership, processes adaptation and the strength of personal and professional connections among the employees.
 
 Limitations of the investigation: Strategies and practices we present are limited to the scope of one singular company. ESG is a methodology that we have used a posteriori to contextualize and analyze the situation.
 
 Practical implications: Learning and reinforcing the ESG approach have been an important tool for the company to think about itself beyond the boundaries of financial approaches. It has the potential to spread to other companies or public agencies that does not profit directly from its activities.
 
 Originality / Value: Sharing strategies and practices companies have used to deal with covid-19 is important as a benchmarking activity for other companies as well as it makes a remarkable narrative of management in uncertain times that can be useful for present and future generations.

Well-being and Ill-being at Work: Employee’s Representations in a Brazilian Public Company

Abstract The present work aims to identify the thematic cores concerning employees’ representations of well-being and ill-being at work in a Brazilian public company. Data were collected using open-ended questions from the Quality of Work Life Assessment Questionnaire. 5,833 workers participated in the study and were predominantly male (62%), with a mean age of 46.7 (SD = 11.61), married (58.7%), and with higher education (37.17%). We used the software Alceste for data treatment. The results revealed that the main sources of ill-being at work was bureaucratic labor organization (25%) and of well-being at work was importance and meaningfulness of work (24%). Organizational management is at the origin of ill-being at work and must be the object of corporate changes.

Controllership as an instrument to reduce information asymmetry in public companies: a Brazilian public company case study in the port sector

This study identifies the characteristics and activities performed in the controllership area of a Brazilian public company in the port sector. The theme is based on the theory of informational asymmetry addressing controllership in the management of internal control and information systems. The methodology uses a qualitative approach, including both an analysis of the literature on the topic and data extracted from documentary analysis of the company's public reports issued by Companhia Docas do Estado de Sao Paulo (CODESP). The proposed arrangement for a customised structure for the controllership at CODESP adds new responsibilities to the current ones to allow the area to act institutionally, to contribute effectively, and to improve the company's financial management. This study contributes scientifically to the debate on controllership as an instrument in the reduction of fraud risks in the port sector. In an applied way, it has the potential for replicability within the sector. The work presents an interventionist option for the company in the fight against fraud.

A imparcialidade nas notícias do governo federal brasileiro

O artigo enfoca o jornalismo praticado no âmbito da comunicação governamental no Brasil, especificamente o programa de rádio Voz do Brasil – Notícias do Poder Executivo. A partir da compreensão de McQuail (2012) a respeito dos parâmetros de atuação da mídia de massa, o trabalho avalia o critério da imparcialidade em 79 unidades noticiosas radiofônicas, utilizando técnicas da análise de conteúdo. No trabalho, a imparcialidade é compreendida a partir dos componentes de equilíbrio e neutralidade, avaliados através do acesso de fontes ao radiojornal e da classificação de asserções avaliativas. Apesar de ter como missão oficial levar informações de interesse público do governo federal aos cidadãos, o programa de rádio analisado atua reforçando uma imagem positiva para o governo e os governantes, reiterando vozes oficiais e colocando o cidadão como mero beneficiário dos serviços públicos. A prática profissional do jornalismo no contexto do veículo é problematizada a partir de suas relações com a empresa pública de comunicação brasileira (EBC) e a Secretaria Especial de Comunicação da Presidência da República (Secom).

Measuring and Improving Project Management Governance: A Case Study in a Brazilian Public Company

In a recent scenario of corporate breakdown, fiscal scandals and lack of integrity ofmultinationals, the governance theme has been receiving great repercussion and prominence.Thus, stakeholders have increasingly assumed the role of charging for transparency andcorporate performance. A great ally to achieve its strategic objectives has been governance inproject management, still incipient and with improvements to be achieved. Thus, this paperproposed to present a model for analysis, measurement and continuous improvement in thissubject. Through a case study at a government fiscal public company, issues were raisedunder four project perspectives (portfolio management, project sponsorship, projectmanagement capability and disclosure and reporting), drawing a real profile of the companyand creating an action plan to develop its governance in projects. The relevance of this studywas justified by the use of an easily applicable tool, adaptable to any sector in which theinstitution is inserted.

Comparability of accounting choices in the statement of cash flow: Evidence from Brazil

Our objective was to determine comparability levels among the accounting choices in the Statements of Cash Flows (SCF) of Brazilian public companies and to discover factors that could explain these choices. Accounting choices were analyzed for the disclosure of the following SCF items: interest expense, interest income, income tax and social contribution on net profits, dividends, interest on own capital received, dividends and interest on own capital paid. The Herfindahl index (H index) was used to calculate comparability and logistic regression to identify variables that could affect the classification of SCF items. We found high levels of comparability for the classification of interest income, moderate for dividends and interest on own capital paid and low for the interest expense, income tax and social contribution, dividends and interest on own capital received. The H index was low in 2010 but increased gradually over time, suggesting improvements in the quality of accounting information. We also found evidence that the size of the Brazilian public company, indebtedness, profitability, book-to-market, and negative operating cash flows affected the choice of item classification in SCF. These results may be useful for accounting choice theory since they suggest that Brazilian listed companies use accounting choices to manage cash flows.

Qualidade do serviço prestado aos clientes da MGS: um estudo de caso com aplicação do SERVPERF

O setor de serviços recebe cada vez mais destaque na economia global, com participação nos produtos internos brutos acima da produção de bens em grandes países industrializados, como EUA e Reino Unido. Os serviços relacionados à manutenção das instalações, em especial, representam sempre um grande dispêndio de recursos para as organizações, já que são atividades de natureza indispensáveis para o desenvolvimento de qualquer organização. Nesse segmento, enquadra-se a MGS, empresa pública do Estado de Minas Gerais, a qual a medição da qualidade dos serviços prestados aos clientes através do instrumento SERVPERF é o objetivo desse artigo. Aferir a qualidade de serviços é um grande desafio para as empresas, certamente mais difícil do que realizar a mesma aferição na produção de bens. Diante dos resultados, foi possível verificar que os serviços da MGS apresentam um nível de qualidade aceitável sendo possível inferir que, se não há satisfação plena, os clientes também não estão insatisfeitos com a qualidade dos serviços. Além disso, destaca-se que a confiabilidade do questionário aplicado foi atestada, considerando os resultados alcançados pelo alfa de Cronbach. A medição e acompanhamento da qualidade são passos fundamentais para a busca de melhoria contínua, e consequentemente o alcance da satisfação por parte dos clientes e devem ser tomados como desafios por qualquer organização que busque o sucesso.

Solving a Large Real-world Bus Driver Scheduling Problem with a Multi-assignment based Heuristic Algorithm

The bus driver scheduling problem (BDSP) under study consists in finding a set of duties that covers the bus schedule from a Brazilian public transportation bus company with the objective of minimizing the total cost. A deterministic 2-phase heuristic algorithm is proposed using multiple assignment problems that arise from a model based on a weighted multipartite graph. In the first phase, the algorithm constructs an initial feasible solution by solving a number of assignment problems. In the second phase, the algorithm attempts to improve the solution by two different procedures. One procedure takes the whole set of duties and divides them in a set of partial duties which are recombined. The other procedure seeks to improve single long duties by eliminating the overtime time and inserting it into another duty. Computational tests are performed using large-scale real-world data with more than 2,300 tasks and random instances extracted from real data. Three different objective functions are analyzed. The overall results indicate that the proposed approach is competitive to solve large BDSP.

Fatores que influenciam o uso e a seleção de um software de gerenciamento de projetos: aplicando o modelo de Liberatore e Pollack-Johnson em uma empresa pública brasileira de desenvolvimento de software

Liberatore and Pollack-Johnson (2003) made a survey to analyze and assess factors that influence the extent of usage, type of usage, and selection of project management (PM) software by professionals in the field. This study aims to verify whether the results found by the authors apply to the reality of a Brazilian software development public company. Liberatore and Pollack-Johnson’s questionnaire was translated and applied to a group of project managers. In addition, we conducted semi structured interviews and observations to gather data used in the analyses. Differences were found when comparing the survey results to those of Liberatore and Pollack-Johnson (2003). The main finding of this research relates to the identification of a specific need that had not been mentioned in the Liberatore and Pollack-Johnson’s research: "usage for control only".