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This article sought to understand entrepreneurial learning and the aspects related to its occurrence based on a study carried out with university students who founded startups at a Brazilian university. Narrative research associated with the focus group technique makes up the methodological course of the investigation. The results point to five aspects that influence the occurrence of learning at the university as a socially situated phenomenon: learning and experiences, the learning context, pedagogical design, multiple identities and social interactions. Knowing that students engaged in entrepreneurship may face a number of challenges, a holistic understanding of the social learning environment by educators can help make the university a safer place for student entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the potential of interventions based on historicity for organizational learning. Intervention methodologies that include the exploration of past executions allow projecting future changes in an activity. A study of the Change Laboratory on the waste management activity was carried out with a group of 20 workers from different areas in a university hospital in Brazil. After 12 intervention sessions based on three types of historicity (history in movement, history of memory recovery and history to build the present), participants perceived that the organization of the activity had been insufficient to meet the demands of the hospital and society. The present historicity in the learning experience allowed participants to be aware of themselves and the importance of waste management. This process occurred both from a functional and a social point of view. Likewise, the study revealed the rejection of the participants towards ready recipes for waste management in their hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article informs on gender and style of action, contributing to new perspectives on organizational studies and new possibilities of understanding the subject within its work environment. The unit of analysis involves the subject, the object and the relationship between them with others subjects, both in terms of gender and style that occur in an activity. The self-confrontation method is used to analyse the practice of Food Handlers (FHs) of a confessional school. The two phases of data collection provided by the method sought to explain the genre and the style of the activities of these workers. The system of rules and regulations indicate a high degree of mechanicity of the workers and is submitted to constant surveillance. Understanding that styles renew genres enables the manager to learn that the invention practiced by individuals within the activity -- called stylistic invention -- is essential because if it does not happen the genre may be extinguished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study analyzes, through Change Laboratory (CL) interventionist methodology, how conflicts emerge in work activity in the waste management of a teaching hospital. We discuss the theoretical assumptions of expansive learning in light of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): the type of learning desired in a CL intervention, the conflicts that can occur from such organizational experience, understanding the conflict construct from a plural epistemological perspective. The research was conducted through documental analysis of film records of twelve CL sessions, in which twenty workers from different hierarchical positions participated. Analysis of the sessions raised eight different types of conflict manifestations that can potentially amplify the comprehension of waste management in the organization analyzed. Such conflicts, although reflected in situations of the present, were connected to historical contradictions that passed throughout the waste management at the teaching hospital. The practical result is the consideration that when conflict emerges in organizational practices, it can historically and transversally reflect activity, which signals the complexity that permeates management and organizational practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because of the multiplicity of approaches and the complexity of the theme, Organizational Learning could hardly be understood through single or closed concepts. A world of challenges and possibilities opens up in the study of the thematic and, to reflect on the different paths, is part of the very process of approaching the theme. Thus, the present article aims to know the learning process of outsourced cleaning servants of a public institution of higher education, and in order to reach it will seek answers to four specific questions: 1. How the servants learned their profession? 2. What are the impacts in the learning, of an outsourced service, by the surveyed? 3. What is the interference capacity of the institution's management in the learning process? 4. How to conduct the learning process to solve the problem? Through a qualitative research, made up of individual interviews, focus groups, and the use of simple self-confrontation, it was realized that the group learning comes from a strongly bound everyday practice to their life stories. A learning built collectively, through social interactions mediated by physical and symbolic artifacts and influenced by a dual organizational culture, an aesthetic judgment, by a thinking bound to do and a manufacturing capacity of their own activity by the subject. In this sense, it is understood that an appropriate alternative for a future work would be the option for interventionist methodologies, because they are capable of providing a space for reflection and participation, in which contradictions can be worked in a cyclical way, transforming those involved in active subjects and authors of their own history of changes, both in the professional and personal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical review introduce the concept and principles of Interventionist Methodologies and present three methodological approaches for Organizational Learning in Brazil. The approaches are: Clinic of Activity, Fifth Dimension and Change Laboratory, which follow the Vygotskian assumptions of Cultural Mediation and Double Stimulation. From the interventionist theoretical perspective, the harmony between these three proposals are analyzed, providing potential benefits of these theoretical and methodological approaches for the study of learning and organizational development, so that they can inspire other analyzes of the phenomenon and offer subsidies to expand the concept and fill the methodological gap explained by authors of Organizational Learning provoking new methodological discussions for research in Organizational Studies. These approaches have in its scope a theoretical and methodological composition capable of grasping an organization as a historical phenomenon, complex, concrete, and dialectical movement, breaking away from the formal, prescriptive and abstract descriptions of organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modifications in the forms of production throughout the development of the capitalism influenced the universities to reconsider its academic production. In this context, the strico-sensu courses of the universities configured from the rules proposed by the organisms that are connected on to Brazilian academic production. Concepts have been created to demonstrate the performance level between the programs of master and doctorate of the universities and, inside this scene, the professors are responsible for the necessary intellectual production to the fulfillment of the purpose of superior education, which in its turn are constantly being evaluated. Before this chart 286 professors of stricto-sensu courses from two Parana's universities have been researched to be aware of the situation of the physical and mental health of those workers in the current circumstance of the universities and, therefore in the stricto-sensu courses. The statistical tests ANOVA and Spearman enabled an analysis of 22 constituent elements of the categories Physical and Mental Health, Satisfaction, Work and Beliefs in comparison with the areas of performance and the concept of the courses. The results pointed out that the professors are unsatisfied in relation to their physical and mental health between areas and, a bigger satisfaction between the pertaining professors to the programs with bigger concept before the CAPES. Such results made an analysis possible, based on the critical theory of the organizational studies, on the situations in which the physical and mental health of the worker is related to the way of management organizations' work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The competence construct comes gaining space in the academic discussion due to its importance for the management of people and, in consequence, for the performance of the organizations, including in those companies called small. This present work, characterized as exploratory and descriptive, has a purpose to analyze the understanding of managers/administrators performing at local productive arrangement (APL) of caps of Apucarana's city (PR) in relation to the management by competencies. In this intention, beyond a revision of literature on competence construct, was done a research at the APL. The gotten results shown that the knowledge of advantages of the management based on competencies by the managers/administrators envolved in this study, however it was proven that it's far to be understood as philosophy business-oriented, the management based on competencies has been only used as managemental too aiming at the results in short term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the daily life of organizations there is a constant search for innovations, new management models and learning. Requirements and obligations are required of the human being, who must play distinct roles in the environments in which he operates. At the same time you have dull emotions, you need to expand your creative ability. In many different cultures, theater has been a facilitator in the development of learning and human creativity. In this context, in which theater plays several functions, the aim of this essay is to discuss the insertion of scenic art in the learning process and its use as a resource for Organizational Learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to understand the daily conveniences in the life of a transsexual worker. To this end, we conducted a qualitative research using the oral history method . The data collection was carried out by means of two qualitative interviews with the research participant in December 2015. The analysis of data from the assumptions of the oral history method was held according to the theoretical concept of convenience from the book "The Practice of Everyday Life vol. 2 ", Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard and Pierre Mayol. Although the life history of the transsexual researched has been marked by the possibility of access to organizational contexts of education and work, she had and has her life managed and legislated by micro-repressions of daily conveniences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]