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Pulse approach workshop: one way of testing the proposal of integral design pro...
Lopes, Luciana; Alvelos, Heitor; Parente, Cristina; Gomes, GonçaloThe workshop presented in this article was carried out through the testing of the integral design project management tool understood as a proposal that integrates spirituality in a systemic and contemporary vision which is grounded in 13 spirituality components of Souths communities from Portugal and Brazil, named Pulse Approach. The article details the studies regarding the tool implementation: 1) group defini...
Work time reduction: a critical analysis of the main arguments for adopting a 4...
Oliveira, Ana; Cruz, Sofia; Couto, Ana Isabel; Cerdeira, Jorge; Parente, Cristina; Goncalves, Carlos ManuelOver the past five years, the private sector, policymakers, and civil society have developed a growing interest in reduced working hours. The rapid growth of 4-day workweek pilots in multiple firms across different countries has led to considerable scholarly attention regarding this topic. However, most of this discussion is taking place outside of the academic domain. The lack of representativeness of academic...
Diversidade e gestão de pessoas no Serviço Público: o caso português
Cruz, Marcus Vinicius Gonçalves da; Parente, CristinaThe social inclusion of women and minorities in the public service has increased with human resources management strategies focused on diversity. In 2018, Portugal launched the National Strategy for Equality and Non-Discrimination - Portugal + Igual (ENIND), defining global and structural action targets to achieve this policy. The article aims to analyze the configuration of the Municipal Equality and Non-Discr...
O Marceneiro: entre o trabalho artesanal e o trabalho operacional
Cruz, Catarina Ribeiro; Parente, CristinaThe Sennet's (2009b) and Mill's (1969) model of craftsmanship applied to the manual and skilled occupations was used as theoretical grounding for the study of the cabinetmakers of the Paredes furniture industry. Through an exploratory and qualitative research, developed with the application of interviews and participant observation, we identified, among other features, the coexistence of craft skills with indus...
Work time reduction: the 4-day work week
Cruz, Sofia Alexandra; Couto, Ana Isabel; Oliveira, Ana; Cerdeira, Jorge; Parente, Cristina; Gonçalves, Carlos ManuelResearch into work time has focused on multiple themes such as social struggles to reduce it, links with technological and organisational innovation and the emergence of new ways of reorganising it in economic organisations (Epstein and Kalleberg, 2001, van den Scott, 2014). In this context, the 4-day work week (4DWW) has become a topic of growing international interest (Bird, 2010; Fitzgerald, 1996; Gomes, 202...
A co-construção de ações para a inclusão: contributos da Sociologia e do Design...
Parente, Cristina; Providencia, B; Sampaio, João; Madeira, Rita; Medon, LeonorEste capítulo visa dar a conhecer uma experiência de aprendizagem em serviço, intitulada “Oficina das Comunidades”, que decorreu no interior norte de Portugal, no âmbito de uma parceria entre uma organização local, a Associação Transmontana Pelo Desenvolvimento (ATPD) e professores/investigadores de Design de Serviços da Universidade do Minho (UM), da Universidade de Aveiro (UA) e da Universidade de São Paulo (...
Avaliação externa de projetos de investigação-ação: reflexões a partir de uma e...
Parente, Cristina; Azevedo, Natália; Madeira, Rita CorreiaOur communication concerns a set of methodological reflections on an external evaluation process within the scope of a research and intervention project: MAIs Project - Women Farmers in Interior Territories (2020-2023, Sabugal and São Pedro do Sul). Within the framework of the project execution timeline, we designed and operationalized a results evaluation model, guided upstream by process analysis and downstre...
A co-construção de ações para a inclusão: contributos da Sociologia e do Design...
Parente, Cristina; Providência, Bernardo; Sampaio, João; Madeira, Rita Correia; Medon, LeonorThis chapter aims to publicize a service-learning experience, entitled "Oficina das Comunidades" (Communities Workshop), which took place in the northern interior of Portugal, as part of a partnership between a local organization, the Associação Transmontana Pelo Desenvolvimento (ATPD), and teachers/researchers in Service Design from the University of Minho (UM), University of Aveiro (UA), University of São Pau...
A economia solidária popular, a agroecologia e a agricultura familiar: para uma...
Parente, Cristina; Madeira, Rita CorreiaThe research work we propose to present results from a qualitative approach developed since 2018 with several organizations in the agricultural sector, identified as family farming farms, located in the North of Portugal. The main objective is to analyze its functional dynamics and integration in the territory, to understand the characteristics of its work practices and operating logics, interpreting them as tr...
Interpretações sociológicas do trabalho decente na economia social e solidária:...
Vaccaro, Stefania Becattini; Pereira, José Roberto; Parente, CristinaThis text presents the thematic issue that approaches the sociological interpretations of decent work in the social and solidarity economy (SSE). The first part presents different interpretative theoretical currents about work in modernity and contextualizes the concept of decent work launched by the International Labor Organization. Subsequently, the interface between the SSE and decent work as a field of stud...