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This study focuses on challenges faced by decentralized organizations in decision-making and geographical nature. The article investigates the main management problems of these institutions and possible contour alternatives. Narrative bibliographic research was used. The Court of Justice of Piauí (TJPI) was used as a case-type to illustrate and understand certain situations exposed in the literature, due to the fact that it is a decentralized organization in the decision-making and geographic context. The results indicated axes of analysis of possible problems, including (1) human and infrastructure resources, (2) communication, (3) coordination of activities and (4) knowledge management. It was concluded that decentralized organizations should emphasize participatory management, finding a balance between exploring existing structures and the diversity of team members. This study contributes to organizational learning and knowledge management discussions, suggesting how to improve actions aimed at these issues in dispersed organizations. It is noteworthy that this contribution extends to possible organizational solutions due to the business adaptation to telework, forced worldwide in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic, since employees stayed in geographically distant locations using technological tools to perform tasks and take care of decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The PREVENTT extension program of the Federal University of Ouro Preto was developed in 2011 by professors and students of health areas, aiming to act directly in the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases related to work. Due to the growth of the core, the increase of the number of patients and of the complexity of the organization, the development of an internal management become necessary. Because of this, the PREVENTT Management Project was created, aiming to identify, select and apply managerial and organizational practices that aid in the efficiency and effectiveness of the program. The target audience of the PREVENTT Program were the servers of UFOP and IFMG, in addition to the extension agents themselves. Practices of organizational health management were applied, such as climate research and team satisfaction; customer satisfaction survey and of process performance. The results showed the importance of the program for students, professors and community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the growth and improvement of organizations throughout decades, it is essential to invest in managers 'competence and in proactive attitudes that support human activities management in the organizational context, as a result of the significant improvement of contemporary society's typical changes. In such scenery, University Libraries (UB), viewed as knowledge organizations, have to follow up the development of products and services, grounded on innovative administration models. As a matter of fact, they are in charge of spreading of information which produces new knowledge for the academic community. The aim is, therefore, in huge rapports, to discuss about the management of UB according to the theoretical, useful and philosophical assumptions, singled out by the Five Laws of Librarianship, whose mentor is the Indian Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan. Concerning the methodological trials, the inquiry is taken as bibliographical with exploratory and descriptive nature in the fields of organizational management, specially, of the UB management in opposition to the referred Laws. Among the central study's suggestions, the focus is on the agreement that UBs need to systematically incorporate modern management practices which enhance their performance towards the academic community, leading directly to the full appliance of the Five Laws, since that they are still considered to be updated. Final considerations come next with the list of both bibliographical and electronic sources, here, surveyed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]