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The main objective of this study was to carry out an organizational culture diagnosis in a shipyard, verifying the alignment degree between personal and organizational values. For data collection, a structured questionnaire was adopted and it was answered by 104 employees. In this questionnaire, the employees pointed out the main values cultivated by the company and by themselves. The results showed that there is a significant misalignment between organizational and personal values and an organizational culture based on values that aim at the self-interest of the organization and not the common good. The background of this article is to demonstrate the importance of the diagnosis and management of the organizational culture. To provoke a reflection on the importance of a culture that aims at the common good and not only the financial interest for a select group; not as an altruistic thinking, but as a strategy for organizational sustainability.

This paper aims to analyse the ordering of Technology Transfer Offices' (TTO) positions regarding innovation indicators using multicriteria analysis as a tool. The purpose is to identify and analyse the TTOs' strengths and weaknesses in a specific higher education institution in order to understand their performance via ranking, for obtaining revenues from intellectual property assets possibilities developed by them. The use of a methodology for the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), using two normalizing methods, was preceded by a treatment of this qualitative data with the Measuring Attractiveness by a Category Based Evaluation Technique (MACBETH). It is based on an applied questionnaire on TTO's for recognizing the status of the technology transfer condition to developing nations, focusing on an approach to the institutionalization of TTO's within a national context. The results of these technical applications bring together novel approaches to the processing of data using both methods to support multicultural decisions (using qualitative and quantitative data). These are initially arranged in different ways and present better analytical conditions in respect to the presented technological development. The first combination between TOPSIS and MACBETHS, with two normalized methods, and associated with a Pearson analysis between the criteria.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to observe how to invest in upper-middle income countries via an innovation perspective following global innovation index (GII) by multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) approach, once MCDA was designed to support subjective decisions. Design/methodology/approach Pearson’s correlation was the milestone for understanding innovation indicators at upper-middle income countries profiles. In a MCDA first step, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to obtain the criteria weight. In this step, the judgments or evaluations inputted in AHP were collected from a sample composed by five experts in GII. After getting the criteria weights compose to GII, Borda and Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMÉTHÉE) methods were applied to obtain an MCDA-based GII. The inputs for this second step were: the weights come from AHP output; and the countries performance came from GII data. Findings As a result, it was found out the upper-middle countries’ rank to invest and groups with countries acting like “hubs” or “bridges” for economic sectors in near countries; when they are grouped according to their maximum and minimum scores profiles, observing not only a particular region but also similar profiles at diverse world areas. Originality/value Pearson-AHP-PROMÉTHÉE works as a supportive decision tool for several and complex investment perspectives from criteria and alternatives analysis regarding innovation indicators for upper-middle income countries. This combination also demonstrates grouping possibilities, aligning profiles and not only ranking countries for investment and eliminating others but also grouping countries with similar profiles via innovation indicators MCDA combined application.

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Goal: This paper analyses how European countries of Global Innovation Indicators (GII) present in the ranking by multicriteria support aid analysis.

This research intends to examine some practices in project management applied to organizational culture typologies developed by Charles Handy. The literature review was made through the Capes databases, Scientific Electronic Library Online -SciELO, Scopus and ISI Web of Science to understand through scientific academy building the thought of applicability of the research already observed in the professional field. As a result, this work analyzes the results across the existing organizational culture in organizations with project management practices commonly used in the Brazilian market. The sample was composed of 12 respondents to the questionnaire: the data collected indicated that the object of this study is aligned with the project management market. Therefore, the results also showed that the speed of evolution in project management area may require more study of pragmatic alignment of the academy in the humanistic area.