School leadership has significant effects on the learning, development and academic success of the pupils and on the quality of educational organisations, so, to a large extent, the effectiveness of the school depends upon the way in which leadership is carried out. It is on this basis that we...

Local development processes include a complex social dynamic where, frequently, conflicts has an important role, namely blocking the cooperation modes between social actors or institutions. Mediation can have an important role in local development processes. In this paper we analyse data from...

Notwithstanding the theoretical and empirical support for the human resource managementorganisational performance connection, authors still do not know how this association works. Bowen and Ostroff (2004) introduced the concept of the strength of the human resource system. In such systems,...

We are witnessing the need for a quick and intelligent reaction from organizations to the level and speed of change in business processes. These imperatives are very often associated to the emerging of new information systems and technologies, sometimes bursting change and other times being...

As empresas do sector Turístico e Hoteleiro Português – que, segundo a Organização Mundial do Turismo, ocupava em 2006 a décima nona posição no ranking mundial de destinos turísticos – exigem aos seus colaboradores um grau elevado de interacção com os clientes e, por isso, lamentam...

Alongside the substantial transformation of the concept of architectural heritage, the models, strategies and tools that promote their protection, have also been subject to significant changes over time. Simultaneously, and also in an inevitable way, the settings has been taking a progressive...

This paper aims at reasoning upon the development of contemporary cultural landscapes: do they exist or do only historic cultural landscapes exist? Is it possible to provide an interpretative reading of cultural landscapes through a comprehension of their structure? Does the planning process...

The information stated by Public Hospitals to the Central Administration of the Health System, concerning cases of clinical hospitalization, goes through a process of grouping Homogeneous Diagnoses. The “pathological-numeric” codification is a matter of extreme importance for the monitoring...

Ecological Inference (IE) is a set of statistical methods that estimate the cells of a contingency table when only the marginal totals are known. Based on King’s model (1997) and considering the legislative elections in Portugal between the years 2002 and 2005, we try to find the stability...

The knowledge of criminal profiles in what relates with the time of occurrence and the characteristics of suspects and victims is a valuable source of information to the police, both in a strategic and tactical perspective. In a more traditional point of view, this type of information allows for...