The constant changes observed in the work context resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges to organizations and workers. This study examined the moderating effect of work-family conflict on the relationship between perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction. The collected sample comprised 476 Portuguese workers, of whom 223 were females (46.8%), and 253 were mal...
The world has experienced, from 2020 to the present, a widespread impact arising from a pandemic crisis, which forced supply chains to be limited or even suspended, generating important constraints from producers to sale points. This situation created challenges for organizations and consumers who were forced to look for solutions to satisfy their production and con sumption needs. The importance of this topic ...
The aim of this study is to understand, by a theoretical point of view, the potential impact of social responsibility practices in the business companies, taking in consideration several aspects and sundry approaches, by analysing the main defined strategies and policies. The concept is related with a philosophical and moral idea of corporate behaviour to the development of legally binding regulations, cultural...
Objective: Understand how the increased competitiveness encourages industries to seek solutions in order to maintain or increase their market share, promoting the manufacturing of quality products at reduce costs. Methodology: In this study, an in-company analysis regarding the Lean performance evaluation methods present in the literature as well as already implemented in the industry was performed, focusing on...
This work was initially carried out with a survey on the importance of responsibility centers in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). After some research I came across the fact that the literature is very focused on large companies, and not so much on SMEs. This fact is not directly proportional to reality, since 99.9% of companies are SMEs and only 0.01% are large companies. Having the possibility of obt...