Questões de Vestibular: ACAFE

Texto 2: Quando a carne é fraca!

A polêmica e controversa operação no complexo da carne, que rendeu muita dor de cabeça às autoridades e aos envolvidos, além de muito falatório, de certa forma até desproporcional, revela um problema maior que ainda persiste nas ações de alguns gestores e entes públicos: o uso de estratagemas, amplamente questionáveis, para se alcançar os objetivos empresariais.

Desde os primórdios da administração moderna de Henry Ford, no início do século 20 na indústria automotiva americana, um arcabouço tecnológico, repleto de estratégias, práticas e técnicas de gestão está à disposição de administradores para melhorarem suas performances e, assim, galgarem posicionamentos competitivos para seus produtos e empresas. Das moderníssimas máquinas robotizadas à psicologia organizacional, o repertório é farto e facilmente acessível!

Respeitando-se as proporções dadas ao episódio, que vem à tona com o aprofundamento da análise da operação como um todo, infelizmente, e, principalmente, ao confrontar o que é fato real, passível de punição ao rigor da Lei, ao que se pode caracterizar como especulação no imaginário popular, a pergunta que vale um milhão de dólares, ou bilhões, no caso em questão é: o que leva um gestor ou empresa a procurar o caminho mais curto e rápido?

Encheria uma centena de páginas se tentasse decifrar os devaneios da mente humana ao buscar respostas para a pergunta acima. Mas tenho apenas a pretensão de chamar atenção a um aspecto: até que ponto, colocar a reputação e imagem de uma empresa e setor como um todo compensa? É realmente necessário usar estratagemas questionáveis para alcançar resultados superiores?

Na história corporativa recente, os exemplos são mais que suficientes para tomarmos consciência, em definitivo, que perpetuar o negócio de maneira sustentável não é somente uma questão de sobrevivência, mas de inteligência do executivo.

Essa mesma história tem nos mostrado que décadas de construção de uma imagem e reputação vertem rio abaixo, como uma lama, diante de práticas discutíveis, para ser leve com as palavras. É chegado o momento de as práticas corporativas sustentáveis ocuparem um lugar, na agenda dos gestores, de forma tão ou até mais essenciais que o lucro.

Práticas sustentáveis, como o uso racional dos bens de produção, de energias limpas e renováveis, manejo respeitoso e pacífico à fauna e flora, relações institucionais pautadas pela transparência e apreço às leis, dentre tantas outras, hão que fazer parte de uma agenda maior, de Educação para a Sustentabilidade Empresarial. Mais que uma postura, é um anseio da sociedade, que fica evidente pela tamanha repercussão alcançada deste episódio. Há que se refletir seriamente: não serão essas práticas que, no futuro, proporcionarão os tão almejados lucros? Há que se inverter essa ordem!

DALTO, Carlos Eduardo. Disponível em: https://www.noticiasagricolas.com.br/artigos/artigos-geral/188928-quando-a-carne-e-fraca-por-carlos-eduardo-dalto.html#.WRnux-srKM8>. Acesso em: 15 de mai. 2017. Adaptado.

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Brazil has declared an end to its public health emergency over the Zika virus, 18 months after a surge in cases drew headlines around the world.

The mosquito-borne virus was not considered a major health threat until the 2015 outbreak revealed that Zika can lead to severe birth defects. One of those defects, microcephaly, causes babies to be born with skulls much smaller than expected.

Photos of babies with the defect spread panic around the globe as the virus was reported in dozens of countries. Many would-be travellers cancelled their trips to Zika-infected places. The concern spread even more widely when health officials said it could also be transmitted through sexual contact with an infected person.

The health scare came just as Brazil, the epicentre of the outbreak, was preparing to host the 2016 Olympics, fuelling concerns the Games could help spread the virus. One athlete, a Spanish wind surfer, said she got Zika while training in Brazil ahead ofthe Games.

In response to the outbreak, Brazil launched a mosquito-eradication campaign. The health ministry said those efforts have helped to dramatically reduce cases of Zika. Between January and mid-April, 95% fewer cases were recorded than during the same period last year. The incidence of microcephaly has fallen as well.

The World Health Organization (WHO) lifted its own international emergency in November, even while saying the virus remained a threat.

“The end of the emergency doesn’t mean the end of surveillance or assistance” to affected families, said Adeilson Cavalcante, the secretary for health surveillance at Brazil’s health ministry. “The health ministry and other organisations involved in this area will maintain a policy of fighting Zika, dengue and chikungunya.”

All three diseases are carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

But the WHO has warned that Zika is “here to stay,” even when cases of it fall off, and that fighting the disease will be an ongoing battle.

(Fonte: Associated Press, Friday 12 May 2017 10.18 BST. Last modified on Friday 12 May 2017 22.00 BST)

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"Many people do not wash their hands when the behavior in which they engage would warrant it," begins a recent study from Michigan State University, and I'm sorry to say it only gets grosser from there. Researchers sneakily observed 3,749 people in public restrooms and found that nearly all of them—95 percent—didn't wash their hands long enough to kill germs.

Even scarier, 15 percent of men and 7 percent of women did not wash their hands at all. When they did bother to turn on a faucet, half of men and 22 percent of women neglected to use soap! (Or, as the researchers describe it: They "attempted to wash their hands," but failed.)

The CDC says you need to wash your hands—with soap!—for at least 20 seconds in order to kill disease-causing germs.

Alas, the people in this study only washed their hands for an average of 6 seconds (...)

This extensive study founds lots of other interesting tidbits about hand-washing habits. Here are a few:

• People were more likely to wash their hands in the morning

• People were less likely to wash their hands if the sink was dirty

• People were more likely to wash their hands if there was sign to remind them

Other hand-washing research has found that college students are disgusting, people will wash their hands if they're being watched, and antibacterial soap isn't much better than the regular kind.

The study appears in the Journal of Environmental Health.

(Source: adapted from https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/only-5-percent-people-wash-their-hands-correctly)

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"Many people do not wash their hands when the behavior in which they engage would warrant it," begins a recent study from Michigan State University, and I'm sorry to say it only gets grosser from there. Researchers sneakily observed 3,749 people in public restrooms and found that nearly all of them—95 percent—didn't wash their hands long enough to kill germs.

Even scarier, 15 percent of men and 7 percent of women did not wash their hands at all. When they did bother to turn on a faucet, half of men and 22 percent of women neglected to use soap! (Or, as the researchers describe it: They "attempted to wash their hands," but failed.)

The CDC says you need to wash your hands—with soap!—for at least 20 seconds in order to kill disease-causing germs.

Alas, the people in this study only washed their hands for an average of 6 seconds (...)

This extensive study founds lots of other interesting tidbits about hand-washing habits. Here are a few:

• People were more likely to wash their hands in the morning

• People were less likely to wash their hands if the sink was dirty

• People were more likely to wash their hands if there was sign to remind them

Other hand-washing research has found that college students are disgusting, people will wash their hands if they're being watched, and antibacterial soap isn't much better than the regular kind.

The study appears in the Journal of Environmental Health.

(Source: adapted from https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/only-5-percent-people-wash-their-hands-correctly)